So as these dreaded winter months approach how are we all planning to adjust...

I'm actually semi-excited (although i do hate the cold and snow) because its kinda like i get to hid myself in big bulky clothes and shrink underneath (by going to the gym everyday to waste time, nothing better to do right??) and In the spring ill hopefully have a good reasons to buy a new wardrobe!!!! :whoo:

My feeling is that I worked really hard to get down to a more normal weight and I earned the PS. I'm doing it.

My feeling is that I worked really hard to get down to a more normal weight and I earned the PS. I'm doing it.

Completely Agree!!!!

I have been missing my outdoor walks. I used to get up at 5:30 in the morning but now it is dark and I can't see to take my trek. I live out in the country so no street lights. I have gotten up to work out in the basement on my elipital once in the past week and need to get going on a routine. Today I unloaded 3000 + pounds of cement pavers...for my new patio. I'm getting a hot tub. I think that will curb with winter dulldrums and keep me from eating too much at night. At least that is the plan.

And speaking of cold...I live on the Rocky Mountain front where we have big huge winds and lots of cold. But, we get periodic chinooks and so we don't have much accumulation of snow for long. It was 37 today or so...brrr for me. Especially since the surgery...I get cold easily.

Wasa...I know you've been posting for a while, but this is the first time I've read a bit of your routine. You rock. It is quite impressive of a weight loss as well as your calorie intake and exercise. I need you to come be my drill sargeant.

I have been missing my outdoor walks. I used to get up at 5:30 in the morning but now it is dark and I can't see to take my trek. I live out in the country so no street lights. I have gotten up to work out in the basement on my elipital once in the past week and need to get going on a routine. Today I unloaded 3000 + pounds of cement pavers...for my new patio. I'm getting a hot tub. I think that will curb with winter dulldrums and keep me from eating too much at night. At least that is the plan.

And speaking of cold...I live on the Rocky Mountain front where we have big huge winds and lots of cold. But, we get periodic chinooks and so we don't have much accumulation of snow for long. It was 37 today or so...brrr for me. Especially since the surgery...I get cold easily.

Wasa...I know you've been posting for a while, but this is the first time I've read a bit of your routine. You rock. It is quite impressive of a weight loss as well as your calorie intake and exercise. I need you to come be my drill sargeant. :rose:

I agree with sula:cry

Sula & Jeni....

Ohhhh noooooooooo, did that for a weekend once. A friend of mine was banded six weeks after I was and well, she's not doing well.

So we had a BubbleButt Weekend Bootcamp of two mile uphill hikes and not a bloody carb crossed her lips the entire weekend.

Let's just say we aren't quite as good of friends as we used to be. BUT! She lost two pounds! :rose:

I like keeping my enemies at a minimum. Heh...

wasabubble bootcamp............ LOL... I wish i could get myself to do something like that.. To tell you the truth with having my externship at school and working my paying job i never have time for anything.. I have to remind myself to eat (and being rushed dot make the best choices... but the externship is almost over and then i could get back into the routine of going to the gym... and looking for one good paying job... finally being able to live again... until january when i got ack to school for nursing... Ahhhh!!!

With an externship I'm surprised the old nurses aren't running your backside off in more ways than one. That IS bootcamp!

Lock anyone in a morgue yet?

no i work in a messed up dr. office... actually things they do there... if i wrote a letter t OSHA they would be closed down... lets just say im the only one who follows OSHA rules and wash my hands in between each patient for the blood drws and injections.... It just gives me chills when i see others nt doing that.... (the other day i saw a cockaroach there i flipped out... i never saw one of them in my life, well at least in person, let alone in a dr. office...) and believe me i will write to OSHA

You would be shocked at how many medical folks do not wash their hands. People tease me and tell me washing my hands is my neurosis. I don't care, I wash 'em anyway.

Do you know the hospital infection stats are lower in Mexico than they are in the US according to the WHO? It's simple handwashing.

US nurses are verrrry lazy people sometimes. Never stop doing things the right way, just skimping once can cost someone their life.

:confused:thats sad it only takes a min to wash the hands..... but thats not the only things... theres girls walking around in high heels and open toe shoess.. regular clothes not scrubs.. your lucky if they wear gloves, dont clean turniquets , and the list goes on and on.... Not only is this saftey precautions for the patient but for yourself to... i dont get it :rose:

People get cocky and cop attitudes. Everything always happens to someone else.

The real problem is that when any of us are lazy we don't see the effects of the lazy behavior, it doesn't crop up for days or weeks. So we have this wrong impression that we did nothing wrong, none of our patients died the moment we screwed up.

You will get lazy someday in your career. It will happen, it's a given. Ohhh, you say it won't happen but it will. Something will change your tune and you'll go back to the right way of doing things. It's just how it is.

Every single student says they won't permit it to happen and every single student allows it to happen. Then you learn and it doesn't happen again if you are the least bit good.

It all boils down to people copping a cocky attitude and deciding they know better.

Stats show that the average medical professional kills three people in their career. Most of the time, the rest of the world just doesn't know it.

BTW, don't worry about open toe shoes. It doesn't matter, it's not a patient safety issue. Nobody cares. Scrubs vs. street clothes, is one seriously more clean than another? Get realistic. The issues that matter are patient safety issues. Cleaning equipment, that sort of thing. Don't worry about the little stuff, focus on the big issues and people will pay attention. Otherwise it will be assumed that you have an axe to grind and you'll be ignored. If someone drops a microscope on their foot.... why does that matter to you? You won't be harmed, the patient won't be harmed. Don't focus on the BS, focus on the real stuff.

I agree with sula

Ditto. Left to my own devices, I tend to sit on my ass and either play on the computer or sleep.

I took a couple of nursing-type classes in high school (at the time, I was planning to go to med school later). One of them was a clinicals class, where we'd spend part of the day in a health-care facility (we went to 3 over the course of the semester). The first rotation I had was in the cancer center at the local hospital. The third rotation was in the ER. Both of those were cool, although it was always really slow in the ER. (Except for one day, when a guy came in coding, but I had to leave right then.) The middle rotation, though, was in a nursing home. THAT opened my eyes. Most of those nurses appeared to absolutely hate what they were doing. They yelled at the patients, yanked pillows out from under them, and had no respect for their privacy. One of the patients got regular laxatives. They'd let him lie in a giant pile of shit in his bed, and then move him to a shower chair that had an open back to it. Of course, he had on a regular hospital gown, the ones that gape open in the back. They wouldn't put any other cover on him as the rolled him down the hallway, with his ass visible to anyone watching and shit dripping on the floor the entire way.

I took a couple of nursing-type classes in high school (at the time, I was planning to go to med school later). One of them was a clinicals class, where we'd spend part of the day in a health-care facility (we went to 3 over the course of the semester). The first rotation I had was in the cancer center at the local hospital. The third rotation was in the ER. Both of those were cool, although it was always really slow in the ER. (Except for one day, when a guy came in coding, but I had to leave right then.) The middle rotation, though, was in a nursing home. THAT opened my eyes. Most of those nurses appeared to absolutely hate what they were doing. They yelled at the patients, yanked pillows out from under them, and had no respect for their privacy. One of the patients got regular laxatives. They'd let him lie in a giant pile of shit in his bed, and then move him to a shower chair that had an open back to it. Of course, he had on a regular hospital gown, the ones that gape open in the back. They wouldn't put any other cover on him as the rolled him down the hallway, with his ass visible to anyone watching and shit dripping on the floor the entire way.

Working in any medical facility is a huge eye opener. A nursing home is a bloody shock to the system. I get slam dunked for a LOT of things I write on line and this one will be no different but many (NOT ALL) nurses that go into skilled nursing facilities are those that didn't cut it in the real world of hospitals. There are plenty of nurses that are really good and seriously caring that go to SNFs but not the majority. The majority were fired or quit before they were fired in quality hospitals.

I know of ONE SNF I would send anyone I care about. That's sad, eh?

Countries such as India... most states don't even HAVE SNFs. They take care of their own. That's the way to do it. I would pay money to be able to take care of my Dad but he died before I had the opportunity. But that would have been my choice without a doubt.

Some nurses are outstanding, some suck. That's how it is.