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The Trench is Now on Facebook!

Seeing as I'm on a forced hiatus from Facebook , I thought I might do a bit of an experiment. I registered my blogging self on Facebook. Say you: Why? Say me: It was a compulsive moment. My blog will continue as it always has: mostly personal accounts...

Published 31 Jul 2009 11:00 AM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: blogging, music
Stupid Social Worker Tricks, Episode 16

You know that you're the very essence of a professional when you've arrived at the ER, spoken to the nurse and doc invovled with your patient, completed initial paperwork, gone in to see the patient, conducted a full assessment to the tune of...

Published 30 Jul 2009 5:08 PM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: Stupid social worker tricks
Crisis! Consumer Moans! PSA!

I have somehow managed to lock myself out of my Facebook account. This, my friends, is a travesity. Plain and simple. What's more, if current "friends" look for me on their FB friend list, I'm simply not there. In fact, I don't turn...

Published 28 Jul 2009 7:15 PM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: children, flat-out bitching, life, odds n ends, rants
Manic Tuesday

OK, look, here's the thing: I understand that when you have a mental illness, having to take medication permanently is not ideal. I get that. It's expensive and there are side effects and, granted, a bit of a stigma that goes along with a diagnosis...

Published 23 Jul 2009 5:55 PM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: mental health, RX meds
No Jo!

So. When you're sitting with one of the admissions clinicians (yes, we're called that. Pretentious, isn't it?) and going through the process of getting your kid admitted to the psych ward, said clinician is going to observe behaviors. Yours...

Published 22 Jul 2009 5:28 PM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: children, domestic issues, mental health
The Office: Reality, as Opposed to Slick Comedic Writing for Beautiful People to Perform on TV

I got called into the office last night to help out since they're one short this week. As I was getting settled in, I happened to glance down and see a huge three-ringed binder, completely full of all kinds of paper. With my name in 100 point font...

Published 21 Jul 2009 4:09 PM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: mundane office drivel, paperwork, the job
RIP Frank McCourt

A few years ago, I read one of the most powerful books that I've read in years...powerful enough for me to proselitize to anyone who would listen: A newly converted me back then: Have you read Angela's Ashes ? Got get it. RIGHT NOW. It was one...

Published 20 Jul 2009 4:07 AM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: life
Cease Fire....

Activity in the trench on hold until Monday as I left town suddenly for the funeral. Perhaps some reflections when I'm not quite so tired. -> Read More...

Published 16 Jul 2009 7:51 AM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: life
Dude? Seriously?

So. I'm a social worker. As opposed to a doctor. And when I'm told to fax over the labs from point A to point B, well then, I do that. I don't READ the labs, because they're absolutely meaningless to me. Cuz I'm a social worker. As...

Published 13 Jul 2009 10:08 PM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: medical professionals
Personal Tales

Life has an interesting way of throwing you curve balls. As I noted on Friday, my in-laws celebrated their 50th anniversary this past weekend. Family and friends surrounded the happy pair on this day, some who traveled half the country to be here. It's...

Published 13 Jul 2009 11:00 AM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: life
Madness This Weekend!

I'm selling my pottery at a fair, decorating for my in-laws' 50th, and of course, celebrating the same event. Still working on my inventory sheet for said fair, T-minus 130 minutes and counting. So, it's music for you, fair readers. Enjoy...

Published 10 Jul 2009 9:49 PM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: life, music
Stupid Social Worker Tricks, Episode 15

Hospital social worker 101: Read the chart before going in the room to visit the patient. Because as I mentioned this week, people lie to you. Oh, yes. They do. They lie, lie, LIE about how much they drink. About how much they pop pills. About how many...

Published 9 Jul 2009 3:04 PM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: drug addiction, overdose, Stupid social worker tricks
Not One of My Finest Moments....

The other night in the ER. I had to interview a man who overdosed. After talking to him extensively, I concluded it was accidental and that he had a prescription pill problem (he thought the opposite, of course. Needs meds for his pain, la la la.) He...

Published 7 Jul 2009 6:05 PM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: domestic issues, drug addiction, overdose, RX meds, suicide
The Appalling State of the US Health System, Take Two: More Anecdotes

OK, so I'm sitting in this required meeting.... As a side note, if you knew me in person, you would totally catch the full on sarcasm I would have used with those last two words. I HATE meetings. Hate. Them. And this meeting had a good representation...

Published 6 Jul 2009 6:19 PM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: health insurance
OMG!!

The depths of my technological ignorance never cease to amaze me. The "error" that's been plaguing me all week was no more than some wierd HTML code that somehow ended up in my posting template. For the life of me, I have no idea how that...

Published 2 Jul 2009 4:23 PM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: blogging
IN Reas's trench. Awkward phone... Read More...

Published 1 Jul 2009 5:41 PM by Trench Warfare
Technical difficulties persist on Reas's trench. Please stand by. Read More...

Published 1 Jul 2009 5:40 PM by Trench Warfare

July 2009 - Trench Warfare

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The Trench is Now on Facebook!

Stupid Social Worker Tricks, Episode 16

Crisis! Consumer Moans! PSA!

Manic Tuesday

No Jo!

The Office: Reality, as Opposed to Slick Comedic Writing for Beautiful People to Perform on TV

RIP Frank McCourt

Cease Fire....

Dude? Seriously?

Personal Tales

Madness This Weekend!

Stupid Social Worker Tricks, Episode 15

Not One of My Finest Moments....

The Appalling State of the US Health System, Take Two: More Anecdotes

OMG!!