Tag Archives: Nurse

Do Surgeons Understand Pain?

My most recent sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dure has proven to have a bit more resid­ual pain than I expected. Or per­haps; my tol­er­ance for pain is declin­ing with each addi­tional pro­ce­dure. Or even per­haps; my mind has cho­sen to not remem­ber what … Con­tinue read­ing

Posted in Society | Tagged , , , , , , |

2 Comments

Accompanying Your Partner to Medical Appointments — Revisited

This is a follow-up to a recent post on our prac­tice of accom­pa­ny­ing each other when­ever pos­si­ble to our med­ical appoint­ments. I had another sched­uled med­ical pro­ce­dure. One that involved male gen­i­talia, née­dles, some rather exotic med­ica­tion (it would be … Con­tinue read­ing

Posted in Partnership | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

2 Comments

Accompanying Your Partner to Medical Appointments

Through our expe­ri­ences with var­i­ous med­ical chal­lenges, we have devel­oped a habit, which has become a gen­eral prac­tice that we wish we had prac­ticed from the very begin­ning of our rela­tion­ship. When­ever pos­si­ble, we accom­pany each other to our med­ical … Con­tinue read­ing

Posted in Partnership | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Please leave a comment

Medical Fuck Ups

Being the recep­ta­cle of a fair num­ber of un-fried neu­rons and a sig­nif­i­cant num­ber of prop­erly trained synap­tic path­ways, yours truly is rea­son­able capa­ble of fol­low­ing the descrip­tion of tests that a physi­cian would like to per­form on the bio­log­i­cal … Con­tinue read­ing

Posted in Society | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Please leave a comment

Sex Education: Beyond NO Agreement! Revisited

Please note: This is a com­bined post by Is Still Here of Sur­viv­ing Sur­vival and The Cura­tor of the Sex­hi­bi­tion A research study regard­ing the pos­i­tive mer­its of “abstinence-only” sex edu­ca­tion has been bogged down in blogged down mis­re­port­ing so … Con­tinue read­ing

Posted in Society | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Please leave a comment