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Thinking of getting plastic surgery? Do your research first

May 12, 2007 by Tricia

As many of my readers know I’m a nurse. I’ve worked taking care of people in their homes, people recovering from orthopedic surgeries in a special orthopedic hospital, worked in a pain clinic for 10 years, and then when I changed jobs and started working in the ER where I’m currently employed but off due to illness, I also worked for a plastic surgeon for about a year, at the same time as I worked in the ER.

Having worked in a plastic surgery clinic, I know that there are many reasons why people chose to have work done. I think most people believe that people get cosmetic work done due to vanity, but having worked in the field and directly with patients who’ve had various forms of work done I can tell you that the majority of cosmetic surgery that I’ve helped people with has been to correct true physical problems. Problems such as breasts of two different sizes, breast reduction, drooping eyelid, crooked nose or deviated septum, bad scars, and sagging skin due to massive weight loss just to name a few.

If you’ve ever considered having plastic surgery you might be interested in visiting Plastic Surgery 101. It’s a resource guide for plastic surgery. The guide was created by a prominent Los Angeles plastic surgery doctor.

Within the pages of the Plastic Surgery 101 site you’ll find detailed information on many types of Plastic surgery procedures that are commonly performed. Procedures like facelifts, eyelifts, browlifts, Rhinoplasty, Breast augmentation, Breast lift, Breast reduction, liposuction, tummy tuck, plastic surgery for men, gynecomastia, skin resurfacing and laser, Botox, Restylane, Sculptra and other Injectible Fillers as well as many other common treatments.

The Rhinoplasty information page discusses some of the innovative procedures being done at the Beverly Hills rhinoplasty clinic. You’ll also find photo galleries with a number of before and after photos, news and trends, and a FAQ section on the site.

The information pages about the various types of procedures discuss exactly what the surgery is meant to correct, who the surgery is meant for – as in are you a good candidate fro the surgery?, the risks of the procedure, how to prepare for the surgery as well as what will happen on the day of your surgery, and what to expect after the procedure and the healing process your body will go through. Photos and diagrams accompany many of the articles which I think makes them all that much easier to understand.

As a nurse I would recommend that you do some research if you are considering a plastic surgery procedure. Plasticsurgery101.net certainly seems like a great place to start your research.

Clearing the clutter

May 3, 2007 by Tricia

I keep thinking about work more and more. I really miss working in the ER. I still have no idea if or when I might be going back. I want to – at least on a part time basis if I can’t handle full time anymore, but I don’t know if that will happen or not.

I guess I’ve been thinking about work because it’s Spring time and I’ve been doing a lot of spring cleaning. My closet is full of nursing uniforms and I don’t know what to do with them. They’re taking up a lot of space. I think I might just fold them up and store them away in one of those clothes storage boxes.

I’m just so sick of this Crohn’s disease that it’s not funny. I know it won’t go away, but of course I can wish that all I want can’t I? If it would at least settle down and allow me to get some of my life back I’d appreciate it.

Anyone else spring cleaning these days and finding things you should put away or get rid of?

Once a blogger always a blogger?

April 2, 2007 by Tricia

They say that when people first start blogging they sometimes hit a wall. Often new bloggers blog about blogging. If that wall stays up too long sometimes that’s all they blog about.

Well I’m certainly not a new blogger, but I am going to blog about blogging.

I’ve been thinking about how blogging has changed my life in so many ways since I started my first blog 14 months ago. I started blogging as an outlet, something to take up my time since I was starting to get bored with being stuck at home. Remember I’m only home because I have Crohn’s and haven’t improved enough yet to return to work.

Well, regular visitors to my sites know the rest of the story. One blog expanded into another, and then another and so on. At this point I probably have too many blogs! Oh well, it’s fun and it keeps me busy. It’s also turned out to be a great way to earn a living since I can’t earn a living any other way right now.

I’m not making as much each month as I did at my nursing job. Not yet anyway, but I can see it coming, probably within the next month.

I often wonder what would have happened if I’d started my first blog and then gone back to work a month or two later. Would I have kept blogging? Yes I think I would have.

Would I write seven blogs? No, probably not.

As a nurse I was working four 12 hour shifts in a row – two day shifts, one 11:30 to 11:30 and then a night shift. I’d have five days off but the first one I’d spend sleeping since I’d have just gotten off my night shift. So that left me four days to ~~recover~~ go from being a night owl to an early riser, get house work and other things done, maintain the garden, socialize, and do all my internet work – maintaining at least two large websites, moderating a reptile related forum, and running four mailing lists.

It’s possible that the gardening and photography blogs might have been in the picture by now had I gone back to work. I mean gardening, and the photography that goes hand in hand with it, has become a big part of my life in the last 6 years. I’m sure those sites would have arrived on the scene by now. Perhaps one of the tech blogs that I write as well since I do so much tech and design work.

I’m certain that I wouldn’t have had enough time in a day to have created the other blogs that I now write.

I guess now that I think about it, once I started blogging it just became something that I do. It would have evolved to some degree even if I had gone back to work before now.

How about you? How did you start blogging? Now that you have at least one blog do you think you’d ever stop blogging? Has it changed your life in anyway?

Obviously blogging has become a major source of income for me. It saved us! If I hadn’t found a way to earn a decent income from my blogs we could have been facing losing our house by now.

A week of appointments

March 9, 2007 by Tricia

In a short while I’ll be leaving for my third doctors appointment this week! Three in one week is just too much.

The first was with my pain doctor. She finally prescribed a pain medication that I’ve alluded to in the past. I’m going to try it for the first time later this evening when my husbands home. I would have tried it earlier, but I have strange reactions to drugs – often in the form of allergic reactions, so it’s better that my husband is around, not sleeping and available to take me to the ER if necessary when I try it! I’ll write more about this new medication tomorrow after I’ve taken my first dose.

The next appointment was on Wednesday with my Gastrointernologist. Remember I swallowed that camera pill? The results were inconclusive because they still couldn’t see all of my small bowel! I have to go for even more tests! God I just wish I’d start feeling better and not have to go through all these tests etc.

Todays appointment is with the Occupational health doctor at the hospital where I work. I say work with a grain of salt because I haven’t actually done a shift there for 14+ months now due to this illness. There’s been no change for the better in my health so there isn’t much I can tell him. I might be coming down to the wire though were he might tell me that he can’t keep me off work indefinitely for much longer. I’m starting to face up to the fact that if I don’t start to get better soon I may end up losing a job that I love.

I’ll tell you how this last appointment went later today or sometime tomorrow.

Will Meridith on Greys Anatomy die?

February 19, 2007 by Tricia

Wasn’t that a great episode of Grey’s Anatomy last Thursday? I can’t wait to see the third part of their little series of episodes.

Ok, so how many of you that watched last weeks show and think that Meridith is going to die? It’s one thing after another on that show isn’t it?

Personally I don’t think she’ll die.

You see I’m a nurse. Beginning with last weeks episode when she fell into the water I had a feeling that she’d end up drowning. However it’s winter time on the show and the water is cold which means that she became hypothermic in the water.

Evidence of this is of course when they were arriving her they first said her body temperature was only 80 F, and then it reached 81 near the end of the show.

I work in the ER. We’ve treated people who’ve drowned or passed out in the cold and seem dead when they are brought in. On those people you sometimes have to do CPR for HOURS until their body warms enough that all of your efforts begin to work (or not). I think the longest we’ve ever done CPR on a drowning victim found in the winter time was about 16 hours. You need a lot of staff to work at resuscitating a patient for that many hours because it’s exhausting work.

I’m sure people watching Greys Anatomy last night were probably wondering why they didn’t warm her fast. I actually wondered why they didn’t have a warm air bubble type blanket (warming blanket) on her like they did on the pregnant woman with the severely damaged face and chest that had just come out of surgery. The warming blanket would help warm Meridith up – but it works slowly. You can’t warm up a person with hypothermia too fast. It has to be gradual.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see how they play this out in next weeks show- part three of three.

What do you think will happen?

Thinking of getting plastic surgery? Do your research first

Clearing the clutter

Once a blogger always a blogger?

A week of appointments

Will Meridith on Greys Anatomy die?

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