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Hi I admire you and your nursing career. Thirty years! Wow. My guess is this is something you never can really retire from. I am working to complete my LVN so I can finally get certified to do what I did in the Army as a Medic. Orriginally I wanted t challenge the Exam, but I only have 9 months of consecutive hands on care experience instead of the 12 required....so, I've been completing my pre-requiste classes, soon will challenge (I qualify for that, thank God!) the CNA exam and THEN I can appy for an over filled and taxed LVN program at our City College....Whew!
If I am lucky I can get a job at the age of 53, an age when MOST people are looking to retire!
Anyway, I guess I can make this comment to you a blog entry and I will, meanwhile, I would love to get to know you and ask yoi questions along the way on this journey I've enbarked.
I've put you on my 'Favorites List" and will be visiting againg, soon!
Thanks Again for your wonderfully written and informative posts!
jj mermaid,aka ferretlover,aka Ukie
posted by
QuailNest
on August 10, 2009 at 3:56 PM
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Doctors have become very clever at prolonging life. My family have just been through the agony of standing by whilst doctors attempted over and over again to save my ex-husband; it was all in vain and he finally died a week ago. If he had recovered he would have faced at least a year's rehabilitation. The poor man was nearly 80. It really is a dilemma; obviously it is good to save lives, but as you so rightly say sometimes the result is sheer punishment and misery.
posted by
elinjo
on August 1, 2009 at 11:20 AM
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