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- Hey, all. I'm feeling funny asking for support about such a small thing. But usually I've been pretty automatic about getting my final semester grades figured at the end of the semester at the community college where I teach.But today I'm having...
- Hey, has anyone heard from freedom15GOD lately? It's been a while.
- This may be OT (off topic) but as I'm going up for tenure at my job I've come out of the closet at work about being a DS PTSD member. For going on five years now, I teach nursing students 5 courses of year of death and dying classes at a community...
- I feel silly saying so, but at the end of every semester teaching community college I get the blues. DS PTSD and my contact with good students who care are my two support systems. Beyond them I'm pretty much on my own.So I know it's like saying...
- I know better than to take on the worries of the world, what with my own issues to worry about. So despite how bad the news can be, I usually can go about my own business.But a detail about this week's shootings in San Bernadino, CA got past my...
- Every semester when I teach my community college nursing students my 3 death and dying classes, I show two contrasting films. One is Tuesdays with Morrie, the film about how a person can have a "good" death, meaning surrounded by loving family and...
- I just wanted to say my DS PTSD friends here are in my thoughts and prayers this Sunday night as we head into Thanksgiving week tomorrow.I am estranged from my family for my safety, so I don't have fear in store, but I do grieve some when spending...
- TGIF. I have had a good week over all, but my therapy about dysfunctional family dynamics has taught me to look at how all groups interact. Right now, two young faculty have been showing signs that something or other has made them cranky when...
- Since I went to the ER Friday for an ankle sprain, I've stayed in with my leg elevated today so it'll heal enough so as not to miss teaching classes this week. That left me more isolated than even my usual hermit self. The coverage of the Paris...
- I just told Lilly that this painful week got worse today. I got up to go to the bathroom last night and fell in the dark and twisted my ankle. I ended up with an ankle sprain when I got out of bed in the morning. I'm not nimble on my feet anyway...
- I'm just venting because I had a less than ideal day with neuropathy in my legs. My doctor says that for both of my legs to have a zone of neuropathy numbness and pain shaped as if I were wearing socks is something he's seen before. The whole feet...
- Tonight after my night psych class at the community college two older non-traditional students stayed after class to talk. Turned out one of them wanted to talk about having survived a rape and having survived a suicide attempt over it. The other...
- I have been fortunate lately, but when I got home from work tonight pretty tired as usual I took a nap and then something weird happened. Since it was my first work day after changing our clocks, it was dark out when I woke up.It suddenly affected...
- I spoke about us at DS PTSD (guarding anonymity of folks here, of course) at a church today. One of you here at DS PTSD had shared a really good joke with me that came from a website. It went over well, and so after the talk two members of the...
- Thurs night I had all 3 classes I teach meet at my community college gather and hear a guest speaker. All 3 classes are for nursing students about the care of dying patients. The speaker wrote a book about grief in 1997, but when she spoke Thurs...