Scrubs in the Trenches

May 01 2024 24 ep. 33 mins
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An inside look at Healthcare from a RN with 15 years experience of Being inside the hospital. The goal is to give a Frontline Perspective of the Healthcare system to help people understand what is really going on inside these Walls. So join me as I interview people from all different backgrounds to provide a glimpse into Healthcare that you otherwise wouldn’t get. 

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The Lyme Light Part 4: My Time Lyme

May 01 2024 18 mins  
On this episode I go into the 3 different stages of Lyme and how my symptoms lined up with its progression. Early localized Lyme is the first stage and the bacteria stay within the skin.Early disseminated or stage 2 of Lyme disease is when it has spread throughout your body and more serious complications begin to emerge.Stage 3 or Late disseminated Lyme is when the Lyme Bacteria ha

The Lyme Light Part 3: Lyme and Stealth Microbes

Apr 23 2024 16 mins  
Since PhizaDerna pulled my sponsorship for the week you get to meet my Russian Reflection Ivan in the beginning of this episode and I quickly lock him back up before he gets me into Siri US trouble!!!In this episode I share my insights and how I believe the Borrelia bacteria works inside my body. I don't only have the bacteria that causes Lyme but I also have tested positive for th

The Lyme Light Part 2: My Treatment Regimen

Apr 17 2024 15 mins  
On this episode I talk about the different treatments I have used and my understanding of how they work against Lyme disease. There's no one size fits all treatment plan that cures Lyme but I have found a few different treatments that have helped me maintain a Healthy Quality of Life that allows me to enjoy my family instead of feeling like a burden to them.Follow me as I go over h

The Lyme Light

Apr 08 2024 17 mins  
In this episode I give a glimpse into how I started losing my own faith in the Western Medical Model after dealing with the confusion of being diagnosed with Lyme. I share how even as a medical professional I wasn't equipped with the knowledge to be able to shake this chronic infection which wasn't even viewed as a chronic infection by the CDC when I was attacked by 3 Ticks in 2011

The Commercial Episode

Apr 02 2024 13 mins  
This is every fake commercial from my 1st 6 episodes all located on one easy to listen to episode!!! Support the showThanks for listening! If you enjoyed my show join above and join me on my Patreon page and help support growing this show, Thanks again,Is@@c BenJamIn

Let's Enlighten Our Endings

Mar 26 2024 17 mins  
As a Scrub wearing RN with over 15 years in the Hospital Trenches, I've seen my fair share of Code Blues that have made me ask myself the question, "What Am I Doing Here?!? The practice of performing CPR on the elderly as the default setting, regardless of their physical condition makes me wonder, "How did we get Here?!? Or when a family has the "right" of revoking a DNR in order f

Ode to Pawpaw: Keep climbing that Hill

Mar 19 2024 18 mins  
This weeks episode tells the story of my Pawpaw. He was an absolutely wonderful man that was a beacon of Joy wherever he went. And even though my family and I were convinced that he would easily make it to 100 at his 90th birthday, the decline started rapidly after he broke his hip at 94.This is the last story detailing how losing an older loved one looks through the eyes of a Nurs

Ode to Mawmaw: Give us Grace

Mar 13 2024 17 mins  
Join me in the 3rd installment of how it looked from this Nurses ICU eyes as his grandparents exited this world. This episode features my Mawmaw and how she much like my Papa, faded off into the land of Pillgatory...The Average Life expectancy has increased by over a decade from when I was a child but there hasn't seemed to be a correlating increase in the Quality of Life during th

Ode to Grandma: SHOCK THEM ALL!!!

Mar 05 2024 20 mins  
This is the story of my Grandmother, Thelma Louise Smith, and how her Ending snuck up on me and my family. In the previous episode I told you about her husband and how he hung around in a land I call Pillgatory so now I'd like to share how I was able to help coordinate getting her out of the hospital so she could pass peacefully as possible at her home surrounded by loved ones. Lou

Ode to Papa: Tougher than Nails

Feb 27 2024 14 mins  
This is the beginning of a 4 part series that details each of my grandparents endings. As an ICU nurse I began seeing death of the elderly population in a whole new light and dealing with my own grandparents endings has forced me to really reflect on how we are dying these days. It's not a pretty view in some of these 12 hour shifts where we as a medical team try to prevent the unp