Hello darlings, Do you like my spiffy new signature? I saw it and totally fell in love with it. Bonjour from the beautiful city of Toronto…I had such a blast and I can’t wait to go back. The trip was lovely—no sickness whatsoever, the people are great and it’s truly a city of multiculturism. I […]
Wow, it’s been 10 days since my last post. Part of the reason is that I’ve been out of town chilling with my family in Indiana. The flight’s were long but I had no problem. No crises and very minimal pain to speak of. Another thing happening is that I’ve been revving up for my
This article is from the medical journal ED Nursing printed July 1st, 2007. I’m putting it on here so that more medical professionals can see that it’s not wrong to treat sickle cell patients properly. The most pertinent parts for me will be in bold. Hola at Dr. Tanabe for hitting the nail on the
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One thing that I’ve learned with having this ailment is that I can’t let it scare me or change anything about the way I want to live my life. I’m very determined and want to achieve all my dreams, goals and aspirations. I won’t let anything stop me from attaining my full potential—and schooling was
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I got this from Our Voice, a new sickle cell blog that just launched in the blogosphere. Go over there and say hi! According to the Washington Post, May 29,2008, Johns Hopkins Instituteresearchers developed a human stem cell line containing the mutation associatedwith sickle cell anemia. They say, “One challenge to studying blood diseases like
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Check this out—this is my first week ever since I hit puberty that I haven’t had to take any narcotics. That’s intense! I haven’t had any L3’s at all and barely any L2’s. In fact, the only thing I’ve taken this whole week since Monday last was 600mg of Motrin a few times. Now I
In July I have 2 trips planned, one to visit my family in Indiana and another to see my friend in Canada. I’m really excited and can’t wait, but you know I’m still filled with the trepidation that every sickle cell warrior goes through when the holiday time comes around—Am I Going to Fall Sick?
My, my, my that was a hot topic. I didn’t even know that many people read the blog. I would like to thank Anon RN and Anon Parent for stepping up to the plate and bringing this up. Personally I hate it when people assume that just because we are on narcs we must be
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I’m a nurse in a NYC public hospital and we have a cohort of patients w/SC who I see in the ED at least everyday or every other day. The hospital has a SC clinic but when it closes the patients come to the ED. They don’t have to wait and everyone knows them. So
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Okay, I just took my last pill from my first bottle, so I guess I’ve officially been on Nicosan for 30 days now. I haven’t really noticed much difference besides the fact that I don’t have as many L2s as I used to, and when I do, usually just one dose of pain meds sends
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