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My husbands job is changing

by The Diva

My husbands job at the hospital has been changing lately. For the last few years he’s worked in the Recovery room as an attendant, but the hours are changing there and the OR is in desperate need of assistants so to make up for the hours that he’ll be losing in the recovery room soon he’s been training as an O.R. Assistant for the last few months.

In fact the last few weekends he’s been finishing up his training. He does everything from setting up the O.R.s for surgeries to assisting during surgery when needed. Assisting can be anything from helping hold a patients limb or handing things to a doctor or nurse during a procedure. I suppose if his hours continue to decline at the hospital between his experience as a Recovery Room assistant and his training in the OR he’d be able to apply for Surgical Technologist Jobs at other hospitals or clinics.

Hopefully between the two departments that my husbands been working in he’ll get enough hours. As of right now he’s working 6 and 7 days a week, but that’s only because he’s training in the OR once the training is done we’ll see what happens.

Filed Under: Education, Health and Fitness, Home and family, Items to Try Tagged With: assistant, clinic, doctor, hospital, job, nurse, OR training, recovery room, surgeries, Surgery, surgical assistant, technologist, training

I can’t believe I have Arthritis in my knee

by The Diva

In the last year my knee started hurting more and more so when I saw my family doctor in March I told her about it again and she finally decided to send me for some tests.

I’ve always had problems with my knees. Ever since I was a kid. You see my legs just aren’t built right. My tibia and fibia are off to the outer sides. Yes I could explain this better, but without adding diagrams that will have to do. Lets just say that the bones just aren’t quite in the right place and that means that my kneecaps are everything else isn’t quite in the right place either so that means that I’ve had a lot of cartlige rubbing on bone for most of my life.

Needless to say, once my doctor finally sent me for tests ie an MRI of each knee, the test results came back that I had Arthritis in my right knee – the knee that had been aching so bad it felt like a tooth ache and had been giving out on me all winter. I’m sure that my left knee also has arthritis it just couldn’t be seen yet, but within a year or so there will probably be enough damage that it will be diagnosable too.

Now that summer is here my knees aren’t hurting quite as bad as they were in the winter, but I’m getting ready for next winter. I’m ordering a don joy knee brace so that when my knee is bad I can use the brace. It will give it more stabilization and I’m sure my knee will feel a little bit better in the brace as well. It’s got to help.

Certainly with the brace on I’ll feel a more confidant on the stairs. I think my right knee gave out on the stairs at least 20 times this past winter. That’s scary!

I’m also waiting for an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon. Oh I don’t expect that I’ll be having knee surgery anytime in the near future. My knee isn’t bad enough yet, but I need to see a specialist to find out what kind of arthritis I have.

Filed Under: Health and Fitness, Home and family, Items to Try Tagged With: aching, arthritis, bones, brace, doctor, give out, hurt, hurting, knee, knee brace, mri, ordering, pain, stable, surgeon, tests

Does your doctor weigh you every visit?

by The Diva



I have an appointment next week with my family / pain doctor. I see her pretty much every single month.


Considering that I have a chronic disease that causes me a lot of pain and discomfort I guess it sort of makes sense that I see her on a monthly basis, but sometimes it’s the last thing in the world I want to do.

One thing that I used to the every time I went to see this doctor was that she’d always make me jump on the scales each and every visit.

Until recently my weight hadn’t changed – not in about a year and a half … so I just didn’t understand why she was so fixated on weighing me on a monthly basis. It didn’t make sense. I guess it was just something she did each visit as part of her routine?

Now I don’t mind getting weighed each month because in the last two months I’ve lost something like 18 pounds thanks to a migraine medication that I started taking at the end of August. I don’t weight myself at home so the weigh ins at the doctors let me know how much more I’ve lost between visits. If and when the weight loss stops I’m going to tell her to stop weighing me so much though because I really do hate getting weighed every month.

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