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Always stay positive

Pageviews: 575 Quiz question: What happens if an intensive care nurse feels unwell and tests positive in their home-care ventilator patient? Of course you know the answer. I wouldn't have asked the question and implicitly given an answer that sounds so inane that it can only be true. In other words, yes, I'm about to have the next experience of a different kind...

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The €7,000 PEG

Page views: 866 Nothing but stress and trouble And there it was, the PEG. Secretly, quietly and silently. Kaboom. To be honest, it was planned a little differently, my reporting. I hadn't intended to wait over three months to do it. But it wasn't planned that I would have a lot of problems for the first eight weeks due to the...

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Tartufo for all

Page views: 845 Attention! Unpaid advertising ? Oh how I loved this sweet temptation. I'm not really the sweet and dessert type, but with this delicacy even I get weak. So I thought, if I'm no longer able to eat them myself, I'll give some to my carers. Thanks to my...

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Cold coffee poop

Page views: 927 An agonising hour of pointless attempts to explain how to put the mask on correctly... and therefore a cold coffee with disgusting-tasting medication later. 30-day countdown for „Patrick has a PEG inserted“ set to zero yesterday. If the carer had read my instructions instead of making me explain the same shit every time I sat down like some infatuated teenager... he would have...

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