"I am a travel nurse who needed to have pre-employment testing and have to say this is by far my best experience to date. The facility is very clean and well maintained." Nicole A. "My mom and I have come here on several occasions as opposed to going to our doctor or the hospital...
Interior Designer (Putting the cushions back on the sofa after they’ve been co-opted for an American Girl Doll hospital doesn’t make me an interior designer) Plumber (Yes, I’ve unclogged a toilet. No, that doesn’t make me a plumber) General Maintenance Worker (Again, I’ve screwed ...
Carole at The Journey From Here wrote about the night before she went to the hospital to deliver the son she knew would die after birth. Her other children came into their bed and it was the last night the five were together as a family. She stayed up the whole night talking to him....
The guitarist had been in hospital with hepatitis for part of the recording of Sheer Heart Attack, and was initially uncertain about Mercury’s new piece, “I remember thinking, ‘are we sort of selling ourselves as something that’s very light?’ But every slice through that record is a ...
Big Day(fromFertility Challenged in Florida): A moving post about preregistering at the hospital where she will deliver her son. On Pins and Needles(fromDreaming of Quiet Places): As the stress of her impending divorce becomes a physical pain in her body, she turns back to acupuncture to ...
So what is the Creme de la Creme list if this is your first time here? It was started as a response to the many blogging awards that are given out each winter. I expanded the idea of presenting “the best” to include a post from every blog in the ALI (adoption/loss/infertility) ...
We never considered a midwife or doula or homebirth, even though we knew those options existed. I delivered the twins in an operating room with an emergency epidural in my back, and it not only didn’t bother me, but I thought the hospital’s protocol made perfect sense. We formula f...
Tonight, at dinner, my aunt was reminiscing that this week four years earlier, she had been in Washington and swung through the NICU to meet the ChickieNob and Wolvog. The last time the Olympics were on, we were staying in a hotel across from the hospital on mileage points that our par...
I may not have a (living) child, but I daresay I was as much an adult the day I held my stillborn daughter in my arms — and then handed her back to the nurse to be taken to the morgue — as any mother who took her baby home from the hospital. Or the day I made the decisi...
So, yeah, that job from yesterday is looking pretty damn good right now; not least of which is the job security. Do you worry about an unemployment crisis in the future? Because even ifyou’renot affected because you’ll be done working, if younger generations aren’t working and contribu...