Friday, February 15, 2008
Nurse practicioner
Well, it's been an interesting few days, with a couple of highlights that I will relate here. Earlier this week, I scheduled myself an OSHA physcal for the fire department. Everyone has to have one, but there are different amounts of time when you need to redo them depending on how old you are. They came to the fire station a few weeks ago and did a bunch of people there, but I had to work that day and couldn't make it. There is a fairly long personal history page that you have to fill out ahead time, that I had them send to me so I could mull over the answers at home and not in a waiting room. I didn't answer a few questions because I wasn't exactly sure what to put down,ie;"have you ever had a seisure?" They said I had one shortly after I hit the ground, but just one and I wanted to talk to someone about my answer. The person who did the physcial was a nurse practicioner who was a middle aged man. I passed the physcal part just fine and during so, we were just talking and he asked me how I felt. I said "fine", well he said I would feel better than today in a year+ from now. I asked him what he meant and he related a college experience to me. He said that while in college he was on the boxing team and ended up in the hospital from numerious head shots. I think he said that he was out for part of a day. He said that one day after a period of time, he just noticed that some things were not bothering him any more. He hadn't noticed, but they just weren't. It was nice to talk to someone else that had a positive experience. I guess the brain is just one part of your body and it might get injuried, like any other part. I know, it just so happens that it controls all the rest of the parts. I was thinking, my tag line should be "don't hit your head".
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