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"The amazing thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools" ..... Doug Lauer

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Portraiture A'la Downey V.A. Style

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Neuro was not one of my favorite courses in nursing school, but one lesson stayed with me throughout my approach to unresponsive patients an...
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Monday, September 16, 2024

Student Nurse Uniforms-Rules and Regulations (Circa 1969)

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  . . On a recent glance through some old nursing school papers a peculiar document jumped out at me. It was a signed copy of our school...
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Thursday, September 12, 2024

Portrait of Oldfoolrn As a Young Man

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A few recent emails inquiring about my dearth of recent posts with concerns about my health really warmed the cockles of my arteriosclerotic...
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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Gastric Freeze-A Cold Hearted Idea

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A stomach freezing machine. That eggplant size balloon in the MDs hand was inserted transesophageally and zero Degree F. ethyl alcohol circu...
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Saturday, May 20, 2023

Happy Armed Forces Day!

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 To all those amazing folks on active duty and veterans, you are deeply appreciated and there is really no way to thank-you for the sacrific...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

On Tenterhooks with Atrial Fibrillation!

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 Despite the pledge I made to myself to refrain from personal health related complaints, here I go with more foolishness about my recent hos...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

WHAT...Trauma Surgery Cancelled? It's Time for a Fable

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 Every long time nurse is acutely aware that nursing can be a leading cause of "fun" deficit. After so many hours standing behind ...
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My name says it all. I'm old, foolish, and a long ago retired RN. I graduated from an old school 3 year diploma nursing program in Chicago and was a lifelong bedside nurse; no office sitting for me! We were trained-not educated by cranky old instructors who left me with a twisted sense of humor and a host of unhealthy coping mechanisms I worked as a scrub nurse when ORs were tiled temples and big open surgeries the norm. I also worked in a neuro ICU and a very brief stint on a forensic psych unit. Hopefully, bright young whippersnapperns will enjoy some of my memories and experiences. If you would like to learn how to fold and care for a nursing cap or cook a turkey in an autoclave this is your blog. I communicate with the outside world at Oldfoolrn@gmail.com
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