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Hi !

I got your email and I am planning on getting back to you to

further explain what I am asking. I am thinking that maybe I will

send sentence in which those phrases were used so you can

see how they are used in the context of the articles. I am thinking

that this is a type of assessment that pain psychs use in

conjunction with the patient QoL surveys or those generalized

Pain Surveys that alot of clinics use (the Pain Index Scale, the

MGill Pain survey, etc). I am very, very wary of these types of

surveys as I have been totally burned on them - it was solely

because of these type of scales that my endoscopist opted to

discontinue treatment on me. He used responses to these

somewhat vague, ambiguous surveys instead of talking to the

patient. So I guess I am being extra careful and extra sensitive

and trying to learn all I can about them so I can be aware of how

they can be used to hurt me.

As far as your resume, I would be happy to take a look at it for

you! I love to do stuff like that. I always figure that I will be a writer

when I grow up. Technical writer - that is what I love to do. Just

email it to me and let me know exactly how you see me helping

out. My philosophy when doing projects like this is to not stifle

the voice of the person who wrote it (because I think the style in

which it is written says alot about the person) but to rather

suggests ways that the information could be made more clear or

less ambigous. Stuff like that.

Thanks too for the nice things that you wrote again. I hope that

you are not mistaken my silence as being miffed about those

things from few weeks ago. My feelings really weren't hurt....it just

made me realize where I needed to make some changes. I also

feel bad that I couldn't offer you any wise words when you were

feeling blue a last week. I meant to, I had sat down to do so and

either I was interrupted or what I wrote sounded so lame and not

me that I never hit " send " . I am not very good at expressing those

touchy-feely things that you mentioned....so you are right, maybe

with you being the other half of a working team, you could

complement my weaknesses and emphasize my

strengths....and me, you! Oh and it is ironic that you said that

about being instrumental in my job...I just had my annual review

today (the first one in 10 or 15 years so I guess I should call it the

decade review? and it went well, no surprises there. I have my

" boss " so bamboozled. I often think of myself as radar to my

bosses Cl Blake (or Sherman) from the MASH shows!)

I wouldn't get too despondent over the lack of a response. You

just gotta get the right one. Too bad you are not in our area as we

are looking for two nurses at the time and it is very, very hard to

fill positions in this city. It takes on average 6 months to a year to

find a nurse. I know the patients would just love you and be

tickled pink (I orginally wrote pickled tink!) with your " sugs " and

y'alls (did I get the accent right?). But seriously, I firmly believe

that God has the right place for you and that it will show up when

the time is right. Maybe he is telling you that you are just not

ready yet, that you need a little more healing. I also think that the

pain clinic position that you mentioned could be perfect - for just

the reasons that you mentioned. Although, depending on the

clinc, there could be lots of heavy lifting involved (a friend of mine

is needing to leave a nursing position at our pain clinic because

of the lifting toil that she cannot tolerate since her accident. I am

hoping to convince her to come work in our clinic). But send that

resume to me if / when you can. I am back on-line again on

Monday and I will be happy to look at it. Just remove any

personal information that you do not want known (address, age,

stuff like that). Although I will handle it as if it is confidential

patient information. I have learned that it is easier to treat

everything as HIPAA to reduce the risk of saying something I

shouldn't - even inadvertantly

I hope you have a good weekend. We got snow over night and

they are saying T-storms for tonight and cold and rainy tomorrow.

So no signs of spring yet. Everyone is getting a little depressed

about the slow arrival of spring. Thank goodness I have my

greenhouse in the basement to play in. It is petunia weekend for

me - getting all my petunia seeds planted. I know it is getting

close to spring once the petunias seeds are planted. And then,

when the zinnias and marigolds and alyssum go in the

greenhouse...spring has already sprung (they don't need so

much time to develop in the greenhouse before planting outside

so they are one of the last seeds to be started in the basement).

Other than that I am planning on sleeping until the cows come

home tomorrow (literally) to shed this ickky feeling that I have

today. I am wondering if it is the new, generic version of

neurontin. That is the only thing that I can think of that I changed

in my drug regimen in the last two days.......

Laurie