tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183734.post1025981812285494577..comments2023-08-17T08:18:23.317-05:00Comments on Meow: Icky dayJanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00876294338927436538noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183734.post-5476355926150729662007-08-03T15:44:00.000-05:002007-08-03T15:44:00.000-05:00Love your cat! I've got two.Since I couldn't get y...Love your cat! I've got two.<BR/><BR/>Since I couldn't get your e-mail to work, I'm posting this question to you.<BR/><BR/>I was wondering if you'd be interested in posting any articles from the <A HREF="http://www.nursezone.com" REL="nofollow">Nursezone.com</A> website. There are lots of relevant articles for todays nurse. The great news is that using nursezone content on your site is no cost. We'd just like to have a link back to our site for those of your bloggers interested in finding a community of nurses, CE opportunities, travel nursing and other relevant nurse aids. A partial example of a nursing article is below:<BR/><BR/>Nurse Overcomes Cancer—Twice—to Provide Care to Others<BR/> <BR/>By Nancy Deutsch, RN, contributor <BR/><BR/>Many people yearn to make nursing their career, but few have to battle the odds like Valerie Bush.<BR/><BR/>The Independence, Kentucky, woman, who was a medical technician for six years and a nurse’s aide “on and off forever,” waited until her children were raised to return to nursing school. When she finally entered the Gateway Community and Technical College, it was unbelievably stressful. Not only was the single mother dealing with her course work, but her father died, and her youngest daughter was dealing with medical problems, including bipolar disease.<BR/><BR/>Bush, now 42 years old, was “disgustingly healthy when I started” school in 2004, but quite overweight, and she started to lose a lot of the extra girth.<BR/><BR/>“I lost massive amounts of weight in just a few months,” she recalled. “I was a pretty big girl. I lost 100 pounds.”<BR/><BR/>At first, Bush chalked up the weight loss and constant belching to stress, but when she shed all the weight, she found a lump in her breast. “I decided to see a doctor over break.”<BR/><BR/>Bush was diagnosed with DCIS, and beneath that, metastatic breast cancer.<BR/><BR/>“I lost everything in a week,” Bush said. The diagnosis sent her daughter off the deep end, upset her boyfriend, and meant she had to stop the classes she had waited so long to take. <BR/><BR/>“As a nurse, you think you know what a cancer diagnosis entails,” she said. “But you don’t. It affects every single thing in your life.” … (more article to come)<BR/><BR/>© 2007. AMN Healthcare, Inc. All Rights Reserved.<BR/><BR/>Let me know what you think.<BR/><BR/>Tracy (nursezoneportal@earthlink.net)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com