I write this blog for a number of reasons: my own amusement, to educate, to share various random thoughts, to tell stories, to stimulate discussion on topics important to nursing, to provoke thought beyond the superficial, to challenge assumptions, and lastly, to rant. Today I am going to rant. Those of you with delicate sensibilities may want […]
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Those Emergency Blues: Five Feet of Fabulous!
Your colon, of course. What else? A funny, retro animation produced by the Canadian Cancer Society to start a colonversation on colon health. Also features a few fart gags and uses the word “poop”, in case you’re a delicate flower. (And who doesn’t like fart jokes? My mother-in-law does, anyway. Don’t ask.) Filed under: Advertising […]
Those Emergency Blues: Favourite Poems XXXVIII
Because everyone, even nurses, deserve poetry. Silent Noon Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass,– The finger-points look through like rosy blooms: Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms ‘Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass. All round our nest, far as the eye can pass, Are golden kingcup-fields with silver […]
Those Emergency Blues: Don’t Tell Your Patient This. Or That.
Jo over at Head Nurse had an interesting question about a month ago. She was prepping for an interview for a Reader’s Digest article called “50 Things Your Nurse Won’t Tell”. It’s a common format for RD, I soon learned after checking their website, and features such articles as “50 Things Your Flight attendant Won’t […]
Those Emergency Blues: Saving the World from Terrorist Breastfeeding Toddlers [UPDATED]
An Atlanta, Georgia suburb is fighting one of the most pressing causes of our era — children who breastfeed past twenty-four months. Because breastfeeding after the age of two will damage human society beyond repair: On Monday night, Forest Park passed a public indecency ordinance to prevent public nudity. Previously, the city only had a […]
Those Emergency Blues: A Poem for Victoria Day
By a poet hostile to her reign. “Good, you were good, we say,” he writes. “You had no wit to be evil.” Probably worth remembering on the commemoration of her birthday Victoria herself was not immune from controversy, and that debate on the value of monarchy is very old indeed. (No nursy or any other blog posts […]
Those Emergency Blues: How to Eat in the Most Obese County in the United States
Let’s start with an appetizer: One thing you need to know before going to the Mississippi Delta is what a Kool-Aid pickle is — and how to make it. 1. Pour pickle juice from a jar of pickles into a bowl. 2. Add Kool-Aid to pickle juice. 3. Pour pickle juice back over pickles. 4. […]
Those Emergency Blues: Favourite Poems XXXVII
The Apocalypse having been postponed yet again — well, I tend to think sometimes we’re living it anyway. The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere […]
Those Emergency Blues: Friday Night Flicks
Very cute and funny and features some non-visual gratuitous boobery.
So go watch it already. If you’re reading me, you’re hardly busy.
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Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: More on Meera Bai, Faith and Nursing
I realized after I wrote yesterday about Meera Bai and her work at Insite, the Vancouver safe drug injection site, that she has both a blog called Strong Hands and a Twitter feed — @senoritabai. When I spoke to her on Twitter last night, she pointed me to an article she wrote describing her experiences […]