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Patient Quality of Care Success!

National Kidney Foundation and American Nephrology Nurses had our annual symposium today. We had 145 people there, and about 75 were nurses and dialysis technicians. The whole thing was incredible but tiring.

My favorite speaker was Bob Hanisch. He has a degree in exercise phys and is a certified diabetes educator. He has competed in Ironman triathlons also and runs Peak Performance out of Brookfield. I want his job. We talked about training plans and implementing them for patients, along with some specifics for renal and diabetes. Funny, last year we had Shad Ireland. He was the first dialysis patient to ever finish the Ironman. Great speaker, but I bought his book and that wasn't so much. Yes, I can make my job about the Ironman...We are already looking to next year to figure out what to have our talks on.

On the lighter side of things, this weekend was my cousin's wedding and then off to my brother in law's for the annual Packer/Lions Party. It was an awful lot of fun and we came back late exhausted. Too much drinking not enough sleep. Packers rule!

My sister in law was telling me an icky story about my brother. Seems he grows attached to his pillows and has a tendency to drool on them. He will not allow her to throw them away because none of the others meet his stringent standards. She calls his favorite "the pillow of stink".

Mike has the same issue to some extent. Not a drooler, but he sweats. Also won't let me replace the sacred pillow. The girls and I have tried twice in the past 12 months to buy a replacement, but he tries them and no-go. Back to the pillow that is literally falling out of the case.

Before we left for the wedding, Chey took out the pillow and was going to put it in the car. It didn't make it. She set it on the table and off we went. Sunday night, we came home to find the dogs had pulled it appart and had pieces all over the living room. Mike was having a fit. I could hear him outside, and I had to stay there until I could stop laughing. I did tell him that I was sorry about his pillow, but he said I must have dipped it in bacon grease. NO! The damn thing smelled dead. I just know they rolled around on it before they pulled it appart. My sister in law has a corgie dog. Just a little suggestion could go a long way!

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Unknown said…
Funny. my Mike (at a little heavier) used to "sweat the bed" and his pillows...there was a sweaty ring on his side of the bed and when he had sweated up his pillows he would try to steal my pillows once he had flipped his over and sweated up both sides.
Glad those days are over for the most part.....
September 16, 2008 at 8:19 PM
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