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Originally Posted by pooh_ac
I want to thank those of you that have reached out and or replied to me. I live in a very rural area. Other then nursing homes and hospitals there are very limited openings at this time for RN's. Most clinics employee med techs or LPN's. There is one clinic that did hire RN's but they have cut their staff and no longer offer health insurance. Part of the reason I work the hours that I do is for health insurance. AS many of you know insurance can be quiet difficult. The insurance we have at this point is reasonably prices with coverage for neurostimulator, my never ablations and all the "regular" coverage's. What I have been told by friends in similar situations that have taken some of the lovely insurance that has been mandated that they cannot afford some of the policies that will cover their healthcare needs. Or if it is affordable the deductible is so high the cannot afford it. So I will do what I do and pray that I do not harm any of my patients, and suffer as my pain spreads
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Dear Pooh,
How frustrating! So you have made a “choice” of sorts, what I’d call “a Sophie’s choice” . A term phrased from a famous film where Meryl Streep (Sophie) had to choose between saving her son or daughter from the nazi’s. So often people with chronic illness are asked to make a choice which is like a Sophie’s choice, that is a choice between two difficult things, and that to me is a great loss. Rather than worrying, for now I think it would be far more helpful to focus on how to minimise risk through good self-care, pain management, and energy conservation particularly before and after work shifts.
I was faced with a similarly difficult decision when I was pregnant with my son, and needed to go back on medications which were potentially harmful to him. My medical team and I used a risk minimisation approach. Thankfully despite lots of pregnancy complications our son was delivered safely by emergency caesarean with only a minor abnormality in his little finger.
So lower the housework standards, have lovely Epson salt baths, ban ironing, freeze meals, co-opt willing helpers at home and a terrific medical team
Remember take care of yourself first,
booklover