I worked at a couple hospitals in Dallas, TX working in the OR, Burn Unit and Ortho Trauma Units for a few years. When I moved back to Ohio I went to work at UH and spent 21-1/2 years there before leaving hospital based nursing earlier this year. I spent the last 18 of those years in the OR and the last 15 of them as the ACN (advanced clinical nurse) Service Manager for the Total Joint Replacement Service and manager for the Total Joint Team. My life was in a "spacesuit" and would not have had it any other way. My mainstay was powertools and a 2lb mallet. I miss the people there, but not the long hours on my feet anymore.

For those of you just dying to know - these are some of the parts of the body I used to work on daily. The pictures on the left are of a normal hip and knee joint, and the ones on the right shows you the arthritic changes that cause us to have to replace them.

I even got to be a patient of my own team in 2002 when I had both my knees replaced 3 months apart. I wish my knee films were as "good" as these "bad" ones are on the right. These look normal compared to what mine looked like before replacing. It's been 8 years and they are wonderful!

I've taken a career change. I am now a member of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants. I'm taking my over 24 years of nursing experience and my years of business experience and doing something different for the rest of my career.

Here are two interesting photographs I found. The one on the left is an old-time picture of nurses. Geesh, I sure am glad that we don't dress that way any more!! The one one the right is a portrait of Florence Nightengale and her sister.

    

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I thought these rather appropriate given nurses service
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