[tijlover]

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You speak like a typical compassion-fatigued health care worker, devoid of compassion, like so many typical nurses.

We A---L---L have our addictions, addiction: something you don't think you can live without!

And I'll bet you anything you own and drive a car! Try beating that potentially self-destructive addiction some time!!!

Problem with the addicted: My addiction is safer than yours!

[Katie the heartbreaker]

Originally Posted by tijlover

Now the big test! Will you start gaining weight?

My Dad quit smoking after 50 years, but gained a great deal of weight, so did my sister when she quit smoking.

It's the potential weight gain I'm terrified of!

Normally that would be the case. Raiderman has also quit drinking which makes him lose weight. With quitting both he most likely will stay the same weight he is now.

[ScoopLV]

Originally Posted by tijlover

^^^
You speak like a typical compassion-fatigued health care worker, devoid of compassion, like so many typical nurses.

We A---L---L have our addictions, addiction: something you don't think you can live without!

And I'll bet you anything you own and drive a car! Try beating that potentially self-destructive addiction some time!!!

Problem with the addicted: My addiction is safer than yours!

1) Nurses are usually the best people in any given society. What you describe as "devoid of compassion" I describe as "keeping it real." Someone needs to tell people who are killing themselves that they are killing themselves. There's no way to put a positive spin on slow suicide. These people's quality of life diminishes with each year of poisoning themselves. They are resigning themselves to poor health as they age. And it gets worse and worse as the years progress. Nurses who see this every single day have earned the right to call people on their BS.

2) Your definition of addiction is flat-out wrong.

3) There is no "good addiction." There is no "safe addiction."

[Raiderman]

Originally Posted by Katie the heartbreaker

Normally that would be the case. Raiderman has also quit drinking which makes him lose weight. With quitting both he most likely will stay the same weight he is now.

I'm actually dieting, too LOL.. I know, you're not supposed to quit everything at once, as it makes each thing harder. But, the doctor scared me when he said "Oh, and you are not to exercise, not even a little bit, until you see the cardiologist for tests, not even a brisk walk.". So I had to make some life changes, drastically, and quickly. While not obese, I am overweight (6' tall, 265). I'm at 248 as of this morning, and hope to continue to about 220 or so. My build is such that anything less than that makes me look too skinny. Smaller portions, no Doritos for dessert Hovering at around 1500-1700 calories a day seems to be working for now. So diet, not smoking, cutting out caffeine other than my few cups in the morning, and not gorging on salt (I'd rather have a bag of chips than a candy bar), and I'll be fit as a fiddle in no time. Or I'll drop dead. Who knows..

[MAXIALE02]

Originally Posted by tijlover

^^^
You speak like a typical compassion-fatigued health care worker, devoid of compassion, like so many typical nurses.

We A---L---L have our addictions, addiction: something you don't think you can live without!

And I'll bet you anything you own and drive a car! Try beating that potentially self-destructive addiction some time!!!

Problem with the addicted: My addiction is safer than yours!

Oh no. I'm full of compassion but I've grown attuned to b.s. My patients know they can't get over on me and don't even try. I'm not fatigued at all and also am not an enabler. Your tone sounds of that of what I call a "professional patient". These type of people have an excuse for everything or like to shift the blame to something else....like me owning a car. So yes, I guess I am addicted to driving to work to help people and provide for my family.

You're right about everyone having addictions. Mine is calling myself and others to the carpet when something needs to be said or done. No one is perfect but come on, how are you going to condone the cost of smoking?
I remember when I did smoke, all of us healthcare smokers would congregate in the back of the hospital to rag about work, etc...talk about hipocracy.

[ScoopLV]

Originally Posted by Raiderman

I'll be fit as a fiddle in no time. Or I'll drop dead. Who knows..

I will be genuinely interested to hear what you think of this town in a few years after your lifestyle changes take hold and you have changed the very way your brain is wired. (Make no mistake, kicking habits and getting healthy changes your brain chemistry.)

I have a feeling you will be taking a dimmer view of watching people slowly kill themselves on the Strip. (And kill themselves in a somewhat more speedy fashion in the locals' casinos.)

I truly hope to be long gone from this town by then. But if not, I'll certainly be interested in reading the before-and-after.

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by MAXIALE02

Oh no. I'm full of compassion but I've grown attuned to b.s. My patients know they can't get over on me and don't even try. I'm not fatigued at all and also am not an enabler. Your tone sounds of that of what I call a "professional patient". These type of people have an excuse for everything or like to shift the blame to something else....like me owning a car. So yes, I guess I am addicted to driving to work to help people and provide for my family.

You're right about everyone having addictions. Mine is calling myself and others to the carpet when something needs to be said or done. No one is perfect but come on, how are you going to condone the cost of smoking?
I remember when I did smoke, all of us healthcare smokers would congregate in the back of the hospital to rag about work, etc...talk about hipocracy.

Just like I told you, we all have our addictions, and yours seem to be centered around your ego, and helping people, calling others to the carpet, and I'll be you anything, like most in the health care (it's all about money!) you're not working as an unpaid volunteer, even on your days off!

And I'll bet you another thing, you're not working really close to your patients as a nursing assistant/CNA!

Most of the nurses I work with, spend about 70-80% of their time charting, charting, charting, on the computer, and twice a night distributing meds, many of which are over-prescribed or unnecessary!

[ScoopLV]

Addicts are nothing if not predictable. That's for certain. You can spot their BS from a mile off.

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

Addicts are nothing if not predictable. That's for certain. You can spot their BS from a mile off.

One of the characteristics of most addicts is they have a one track-mind, with tunnel vision!

[Cold Warrior]

1) Nurses are usually the best people in any given society.

Obviously, you have never worked with nurses.