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[timgrounds]

Apparently, is still a nurse.  I made Katie mad earlier, well the other day actually, by saying she wasn't a nurse.  I contested that a nurse is someone not arbitrarily in the medical field with a nursing degree, but rather someone that deals specifically with patient care.  The dictionary simply defines it as "a person formally educated and

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[angst_fairy]

I'm sorry. I did over react tonight. I know that you were just making a joke about Robert, and that is what you do. I do want to insert that Robert didn't in any way make fun of you. I don't want you to think that he poked fun at your stature at all. Someone, one of the neighbors I think, had made a comment about how 'different' he was compared to the other people I had been out with. Namely you and Richard... I elaborated for him that you were a very small guy... I said that. When he met you he said to me afterward that I had said you were small, but he really hadn't thought about what that meant, given that I was with *him*... he was just suprised. His comment was in no way degrading. I only want to clarify that, because it was ME that joked to YOU about YOU being scrawny.

My time with you wasn't miserable, and when I make comments like "he is nice to me, and after having been with you for 8 years, it is a nice change" I don't mean to imply that my time was miserable. Of course, that is easy enough to say after the fact, I do realize how it sounded. It is just that he is so completely different then you are. You aren't (weren't with me) romantic and 'sweet'. I'm sure you are with Ally, and I am really happy that you have found someone that brings that out in you. But it is a very enjoyable change for me to be involved with someone that says such incredibly sweet things, and does random acts of kindness just to let me know he is thinking about me. My time with you was good. Up until the point that you and Ally started seeing each other I thought I would be with you forever and would have been happy to do so... my time was good, but it wasn't 'sweet' or 'romantic'... that isn't a fault of yours and it isn't a fault of mine, we just weren't that for each other. Just like with the sex. I am a hypocrite... I did and do make fun of you for being a prude, when in reality it is my own insecurity for knowing that you are sexually happy now and weren't with me. Is that an excuse? No... when I feel insecure I shouldn't belittle you because of it. Just because you are a stronger person then me and can chuckle it off doesn't mean I have the right to do it. Especially to the point of joking to Ally that you are a prude and making her feel like she has to defend you to your ex wife- I'm certain things like that probably make her feel uncomfortable.

As far as the nursing thing... I do believe I am a nurse. I even interact with patients on certain levels. I do patient education for various health states and patient assessments and triage. Granted, my time with the patients is limited, because I only do it enough to demonstrate to my users HOW to incorporate a clinical process into an electronic process. I get defensive about it, because it is a hard role to explain to people. I have a hard time telling the people at the clinic that I *can* relate to them, that I *do* understand what the do... and that I *can* teach them. A techie can't walk in a do what I do, because they can't triage a patient AND demonstrate the software... but I am a little overly sensative to it, and I need to get over that.

[timgrounds]

That was my point, you do more stuff than a nurse. You did nurse stuff, and now you do stuff a nurse can't do. So I would think you wouldn't want to simply say "I'm a nurse", when you can make up a name for your new job. People would probably be more impressed by it anyway.