I know I haven't written in a while.  I've been busy working the steps though!  This morning, I remembered a patient I saw in the ER many years ago.  He had an accident that lacerated his arm pretty bad.  What he did next is what was interesting.  He had been a corpsman in the military, and he sewed-up the wound with needle and thread.  His anesthesia had been Jack Daniels, both on the outside and on the inside.  It had been a couple of hours when he showed-up at ER.  I had to take-out the old, put-in the new, and protect against further infection.  I guess I was thinking that I've acted in a similar method.  In the past I've taken immediate action to prevent profuse bleeding emotionally, now I have to take-out the old self-placed stitches, yeh it hurts, and allow my HP to put-in the new ones and protect me from further infection.  Just a thought...

Tags: Self-medication Pain