JaniceNW
wants
a week off to sleep and read fiction!!
butterflylitgirl
says
will you get it?
butterflylitgirl
says
what would you read first?
no I won't get time off for 7 weeks
Well, sooner or later.
I would read several books I have yet to get to on my pile. I finished Tess Gerritsen's newest today! GREAT read!
I'd read anything not to do with nursing process 
tomorrow back to the 8am class grind....
butterflylitgirl
says
I have never heard of this Tess person
butterflylitgirl
says
I am reading Frankenstein
I read Frankenstein in college by Mary Woostonecraft
wollstonecraft
Gerritisen writes police/medical thrillers set in Boston
I'm actually reading a book about a brain scientist who had a stroke.
Not quite as much fun as yours, but just amazing insights.
Oh the one you told me about! That's on my list for break
You really need to read that.
When I'm writing, I don't read enough...
reading is not only for fun, just lighter is nice after I've memorized morphone and sedative/hypnotics
I would imagine, yes...
or morphine and demorol
It's like after I finish doing my blogging for dollars gig...
I just want to write something *interesting*!
the range, the dosages, timing of effectiveness, checking for low resp rates yadda yadda
barbituates were thrilling BTW
I would imaging that goes on for some effective forever.
some barbs have very long half lifes
Thats a lot to keep in your head with accuracy...
my kid was on phenobarb
butterflylitgirl
says
I have never read Frankenstein before, looking at it as an early piece of science fiction
it is early sci fi butterfly
very early
Yes. Yes, it is.
I know all about diazapams
That must have been one hell of a vacation they were on...
hypnotics
I'm dying to get to mood disorder drugs.........woohoo
You are not expected to know all of that forever, are you?
LOL!
no but it tends to linger in my head
Some of the ones already mentioned would disorder one's mood....
I can tell you all meds son got in 1995-96
butterflylitgirl
says
I am just recently exploring the genre and I am bit of a classicalist in that I like to see where genres and forms come from
This one apparently sprang full-grown from her head. I think there may hveben drugs there, too.
anti-depressants, mood stabilizers, antopsychotics, atypical antopsychotics
tricyclics, MAO inhibitors
and on and on
Hospitals have all the good drugs. --Wookie, 1981
I've researched these before, on my own, for my own knowledge
not true
I have mainly looked at those that were possibilities for me, and for close friends.
yeah you know my history
I think Floyd was mainly talking about anesthesia...
and my brother
versed=good drug
fast acting amnesiac
You might be surprised what sorts of drugs neurologists are willing to try on sort of a random basis.
No actually nothing neuros do surprise me says cynical nusring student
You are a walking reference...
in so many ways
Me either, any more.
< smile >
I kinda dislike neuros, with a passion
esp. those who pretend children are cases not humans
I'm not too thrilled with them, either. 
bunch a quckos
< nod, nod >
LOL!
egos get in way of common sense
You have an interesting edge.
just cynical from experience and the knowledge I can learn as much as they can
When you have an incurable neurological disease, you ca't expect a lot of logical treatment.
when you're treating a 5, 6, 7 month I expect dececy
and a modicum of respect
You may or may not get it.
any age really
I would demand it
That, either.
or move on
I have wound up getting the latter, just by living.
we went through 3 of them
I would have to move to move on.
JaniceNW
was
cancer your incurable disease?
I'm on my fourth. He does what I tell him to, so I think I'll keep him.
I get kinda annoyed when folks treat me as stupid.................
That seems to have been cured.
Multiple sclerosis is my incurable disease, althogh I think I have managed despite them.
I did not know you have MS
that's rough on a marriage
Once I figured out stress was my trigger, it stopped getting worse.
still walking?
And I am patiently retraining my nerve pathways.
the NW has more cases of MS than anywhere else
Lots of fols there from close to Viking lands.
folks
what types of meds help you?
Hell yeah.
None do.
might be lack of vitamin D as well
What helps me is not accepting stress.
in fact they're leaning towards the vot D3 theory
not as cure but preventive
no meds help you?
Stress triggers my immune system, which manufactures little fellas that think my nerve sheathing is an invader.
that sucks the big weenie!
MS attacks myelin sheaths?
The cancer surgery and subsequent infection really did a number on it.
That's what the scleroses are.
or whatever they're called in brain?
The agent is the u=immine system.
how long have you had this?
That;s what they are called. Sometimes also in the spine.
autoimmune issue
They figure sunce about 30. It was not diagnosed until 1993.
another name in brain neurolemmas?
You pretty much need to find the scleroses via MRI to get a definitive diagnisis nowl.
damn. you were 30 a loooong time ago
neurolemmas?
yeah I know at least they consider it a real disease now
LOL!. I was.
I have gone through and exhausted relapsing / remitting.
And now live in the secondary progressive stage.
4 types of brain cells, one works same as myelin sheath but with doff name
Oh, ok.
which means you get worse
MS can chew up the sheathing from any of the four tyoes.
It's pretty random.
to be honest I am not very familiar with MS
we have major research going on at UW
Since I began managing my head better, I have not gotten any worse.
good for you. solve it your way.
And doing a lot of repetitive movement work on my own, I'm getting soe new alternate pathways.
I have reclaimed four inches of my lower right thigh!
repotive motion works for many brain issues
My neuro is sort of astonished.
that's like winning a war!
Yeah, it does. That;s where I got the idea.
great stick your tongue out at hos prognosis
I noticed that when i needed to do something that I should not be able to do, I could.
get your treatment at KU?
I walked off the floor level of my kitchen in the last house, which was three feet above the garage floor.
just kept walking over and over?
Walked straight off, ofloaded the package I was carrying, did a midair flip, landed on my back and rolled.
owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
how irritating
I rode rodeo and did a lot of skydiving , plus football, of course.
I'm a real good faller.
skydiving? nutball
I needed the skill and my body just auromatically did it.
The pathways are there in an emergency.
I'm a klutz myself
I just need to get them to work the rest of the time.
Skydiving is a piece of cake compared to rodeo.
So, I'm getting better all the time.
Walked three blocks to get a mocha today, then walked three blocks back.
refusual to acknowledge danger
Three years ago, I could not walk a half block.'
I just sort of check off the fear box and keep going. Always have.
male thing
That's why the neuro is surprised. This is not supposed to be possible.
neuros have very limited minds
Might be. Fear is noce as a wrning, but it's highly overrated. It mainly just freezes you.
That's a bad thing when you have to do soomething, like shoot back.'
My current guy sure doesn;t.
maybe they're learning
Sharon Lynch at KU is very good. I iknow her. I was on the board of the JMS society here for a long time.
But she has too many patients and too little time. We have had soe interesting conversations at meetings. :
you're an activist too?
Oops MS. National Muliple Sclerosis Society.
What, you're surprised?
I am pretty much irrepressible.
not surprised
I need to hot the hay. 6am comes early and I wake all cranky
hit
I'm really bad at taking no for an answer.
Sheesh!
I guess! Sdcoot!
I'm so shocked
NOT
About what?
LOL!
good night, sleep well.
You, too.
Good night, Janice.