Head Nurse

People think about their reactions in 2D but live in 3D. What that means is this: if somebody came to you saying, "I want to write a...

Loose ends God Only Knows What Woman went home yesterday, beautiful smile and all. She's lost fifty pounds in the last few months, s...

Insomnia This is the second time in two weeks I've awakened, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, at two o'freakin' clock in the mo...

Random nibblets from the last week: I got an email from Man A. and was surprised at how visceral my reaction was. It's a shock when ...

As if two cases of CJD in six weeks weren't enough, today I had a patient who has something. We don't really know what it is. Curren...

There is nothing worse (okay, there is something worse) than having someone pass on your blog address to another person by way of introducti...

Most decidedly not about work. Yes, yes, I know this is my third entry in one day. My friend E, one of those online friends that I...

In honor of Nasty, Brutish, and Short Day (that being my temper at the moment), here is a list of things nobody tells you, but really ought ...

Here's a new one for the Life's Little Ironies column: A soldier goes to a combat zone for a year. He returns unscathed. Two mont...

Irony is feeling wide-awake and looking forward to going to work, then getting a call that you're cancelled until 11 a.m. We (the ful...

Summer is here. It's supposed to be 87* here tomorrow, which, given the humidity of the past few days, will feel ten degrees warmer....

Yesterday I bought summer clothes in sizes that I can actually wear. (Here beginneth the requisite Female Blogger's Ruminations On Weigh...

Go on, piss me off. I was hauling a patient around yesterday who outweighed me by a good fifty pounds. After I'd repositioned him an...

It seems a good time to mention that I ditched Man A. I was becoming fond of him, and my head wasn't as together as I thought it was. ...

I think I might have PTSD. Seriously. On Memorial Day last year, I came home from work sick. I found my husband and my best friend be-bat...

Because the hospital where I work is in a big city, we occasionally get famous people in, either as patients or as visitors. And no, I'm...

Friday was One of Those Days at work. My sweet, angelic man with the brain tumor went to hospice. The funny, cheerful guy with the cerebrosp...

I can now say with pride that I have made it through an entire decade of "Friends" without ever having once seen an episode of the...

So I took an early cancel today. So what? So what if I'd been off for four days? I wonder sometimes why brain tumors seem to hit the ...

Stiff (The curious lives of human cadavers) , by Mary Roach An Anthropologist on Mars , Oliver Sacks War for the Oaks , Emma Bull S...