Well, I'll be ...2026
Interesting start to the New Year, Things seemed to be going smoothly, and then it didn't. My response? "Nurse save us all!" "Nurse save us all!" is the description coined by a friend working at Eastern State Hospital in the 1990's about a nurse who goes into overdrive and over-reaching to resolve a crisis, generally making it worse. And yes, that was me the first two weeks of this month. From mid-December through the holidays, our youngest daughter had been complaining of intense back and foot pain. I took her the Dr, sought an evaluation for planter fasciitis, and helped her get new shoes and inserts, pain medication, and hot/cold compresses. The pain (unbearable by her standards) wasn't diminishing. I took her to urgent care, where they ran tests. Since we were in process of changing medical insurance, she could not follow up with her pcp before the change took effect, and a new pcp had yet to be identified and scheduled. So, her staff and I were...