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4/22/07 I just got home, it's 0800 am EST, night shift is getting to me again, last night 5 of my 6 pt.s had HIV/AIDS all in various forms and stages. I hate that disease - I hate that virus, not even the most sick and deranged of us all deserve that fate. How do I just walk away in the morning, healthy, happy, back to my little world???? Working on my floor feels completely surreal sometimes, these things that should get to you you become immune to on some levels - but when it hits it hits hard. I can't even begin to list of the acronyms we use to describe someone's health status, their whole life gets chopped down into 3 and four letter codes for death or their own personal destruction through substance abuse. Chop chop chop, HTN, CVA, PVC, ETOH, IVDA, DM I, DMII, TMA, AKA, BKA, HL, PICC, SPB...just goes on and on. Some day, someone with describe me with a bunch of acronyms...and then I'll know it's time to go.
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MH2 [deleted] says:
Painful to watch and read.
Posted 17 months ago.
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Yep, nobody said life had to be fair, and it
certainly isn't....hang on in there girl,
great image.
Posted 17 months ago.
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well doneSeen in my contacts' photos. (? )
Posted 17 months ago.
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hang on honey. I don't like it when they use
terminology to describe a patient...ie. here
is an AIDS or HIV patient, other than Ms.
Smith who needs our help to be as comfortable
as possible while she's here.
Posted 17 months ago.
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Your image and your words put so much in
perspective.
Posted 17 months ago.
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Good shot.
Posted 17 months ago.
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I know how you feel. I'm a night-shift nurse
and it's hard separating your work world from
non-work world. You can try talk to
family/friends about it, but unless they've
been there, 99% of the time they can't really
understand.
Posted 17 months ago.
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yup.
Posted 17 months ago.
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creepy.
Posted 17 months ago.
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Very impressive image. We live in sad
world...
Posted 17 months ago.
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Sometimes in life we end up laughing at its
insanities rather than reacting to them in a
sad or angry manner. Not that we find them
funny, but the incomprehensibility of some
events makes it that way.
Posted 17 months ago.
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So poignant and so incredibly haunting, Liz.
I love your work because it feels so
personal, and so obviously contains a great
deal of yourself.
Posted 17 months ago.
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Geez, Liz. Sad. But you are ORGC (one
really groovy chick). (Sorry. Best I can do
to make you chuckle for a second.)
Posted 17 months ago.
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The term "Macabre" would seem to be
very applicable to this disturbing image.
Posted 17 months ago.
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thanks for all your kind words guys - going
back to school is going to be hard but I
think it will really help with my mental
status!
Posted 17 months ago.
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ouuuuuch... no wonder your images are so
full.. full of something, i don't know, only
you know that. full of your.. experiences.
sometimes i only write about it, but you live
next door to it, see its ravages daily.
Posted 16 months ago.
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