Rambling, Dont Pay Much Attention to This...
Another Life Lesson Learned Today.
Pain is only real to those experiencing it. Im talking both physical and emmotional pain. I can tell you that on a 0-10 scale where my pain is, but I cannot make you understand what kind of pain my body is enduring.
My patient today sudendly had "the worst pain in her entire life" in her back. My role as her nurse was to make her feel comfortable again. 0ne problem... my jack ass teacher. Students arnt allowed to get narcotics out of the bins at my hospital so I spent 5 whole minutes of my patients time, explaining to my teacher that "no, she wasnt just trying to get narcotics, I really think she is in pain." Who is my teacher to say that? There is no way of proving it either way. and my patient said she was in pain, and since pain is very personal, I had no right to think of her pain as anything different than she said it was.
Pain of the heart is much the same...
I tried explaining my effed up relationship with Joe to a few friends today. A couple just thought I was crazy, and then another girl started totalk about her ex. But, there is no way that I could tell these girls the real emmotional pan state that I am. They could react like my teacher in my privious senerio where they would write me off as being a drama queen, or immature...maybe because they themselfs have never experienced pain like this. Then they could react like me and understand my pain because they have had a similar situation... but its still frusterating to me because there is no way that I could describe the magnitute of my pain to anybody.
Pain is a frusterating thing because so many times we are just looking for someone whoknows what we are feeling even though there is no possible way. So pain leaves us feeling more hurt then when we even started feeling the pain.
Sorry if that made no sense but its been kicking around in my head all day and I had totype it out.
Pain is only real to those experiencing it. Im talking both physical and emmotional pain. I can tell you that on a 0-10 scale where my pain is, but I cannot make you understand what kind of pain my body is enduring.
My patient today sudendly had "the worst pain in her entire life" in her back. My role as her nurse was to make her feel comfortable again. 0ne problem... my jack ass teacher. Students arnt allowed to get narcotics out of the bins at my hospital so I spent 5 whole minutes of my patients time, explaining to my teacher that "no, she wasnt just trying to get narcotics, I really think she is in pain." Who is my teacher to say that? There is no way of proving it either way. and my patient said she was in pain, and since pain is very personal, I had no right to think of her pain as anything different than she said it was.
Pain of the heart is much the same...
I tried explaining my effed up relationship with Joe to a few friends today. A couple just thought I was crazy, and then another girl started totalk about her ex. But, there is no way that I could tell these girls the real emmotional pan state that I am. They could react like my teacher in my privious senerio where they would write me off as being a drama queen, or immature...maybe because they themselfs have never experienced pain like this. Then they could react like me and understand my pain because they have had a similar situation... but its still frusterating to me because there is no way that I could describe the magnitute of my pain to anybody.
Pain is a frusterating thing because so many times we are just looking for someone whoknows what we are feeling even though there is no possible way. So pain leaves us feeling more hurt then when we even started feeling the pain.
Sorry if that made no sense but its been kicking around in my head all day and I had totype it out.