I'm an engineer, artist, mom, wife, and registered nurse. I work on an inpatient psych unit and live in Vancouver, WA with my husband Jeff and our menagerie of dog, parrots, cats, and a couple of corn snakes.
Archive for October, 2005
My Attempt at Play Therapy
One of my classes this term is therapeutic communication. Since I’ve been too busy to post any new blog entries lately, I thought instead that I would share a recent assignment with you. (Names have been changed, just because.)
I “borrowed” my friend Lisa’s two boys for this assignment. Andrew is six years old, and his [...]
Posted: October 27th, 2005 under My Life.
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Forty Eight Hours
I don’t think I’ve ever stayed awake for 48 hours before. I also think it will be a while before I attempt it again. But I had fun.
Friday morning, I woke up as usual (after about 87 “snoozes” and 20 minutes of frantic pomeranian “would you WAKE UP ALREADY, you silly human!?!?!” hair-digging and ear-licking) [...]
Posted: October 24th, 2005 under My Life.
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