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In-Side-Out and Up-Side-Down

In-Side-Out and Up-Side-Down

07/26/2010

  It has been just about a month since I last made an entry and announced that I was making a major move. I’m in the process of settling-in: [...]

  It has been just about a month since I last made an entry and announced that I was making a major move. I’m in the process of settling-in: not settled. I have learned a lot about myself in this process, and bits and pieces about a whole lot of other “things.” For instance, there are “things” in life that are pretty absolute. “Things” that don’t co-exist: night and day, up and down, in and out, front and back, life and death... Play with that for awhile and you will realize that you cannot mix and match, you must choose. So, here is my new dilemma: IN-patient and OUT-patient! Hello brain-freeze! Hello melt-down! Hello, Alice! Am I in-side-out or up-side-down? And, where is that Walrus when you need to “talk of many things!”

Comfort zones are wonderful places. That zone might exist in the midst of chaos but it is what one knows and it is OK. Somehow you make it work almost to the point of discomfort. Since man landed on the moon, I have been an IN-patient, multi-specialties nurse except for a clinic stint somewhere in the 70’s. When I abruptly moved, I went all OUT and entered the OUT-patient zone: initially, a new type of chaos for me. I think after comparing IN and OUT to the point of driving my preceptor totally daft, we have settled on this as the trigger point: “Dorothy, you are not in Kansas anymore!”

In reality, this has been a whirlwind month. I have been challenged. I am learning something new every day. (A word to new grads: We survive! We are resilient.) I am having fun. I enjoy the people I have met and I have embraced a wonderful new patient population. Synergy is alive and well on my radar. Out-patient Synergy! WOW! And, I used to think I knew something about blood... merely a drop in the bucket! It is exciting OUT here. The challenge for me is that I’m not IN there.
 
So, I have moved my cheese. Literally. During this change, I decided I would try new cheese with my new move. I have discovered a magnificent stout Stilton-blue from Britain and a fabulous slice of nursing in a remote corner of the basement in Methodist Hospital.
 
Sherry
 
Sherry Holden, BSN, RN
Associate Partner, 4South, IU Hospital
 
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The Walrus Said

The Walrus Said

06/28/2010

Regardless of the “sense and non-sense” and endless interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s writings, I have always enjoyed a certai

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Regardless of the “sense and non-sense” and endless interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s writings, I have always enjoyed a certain segment of the poem The Walrus and the Carpenter which is tucked away somewhere in the adventures of Alice Through The Looking Glass. The poem has been around since the 1870’s and I learned it from my grandmother and passed it on to my children. My grandchildren will not be spared. I have not done any great in-depth analysis of the poem, as many have, but often repeat these lines:
   The time has come, the Walrus said,
   To talk of many things:
   Of shoes..and ships..and sealing wax..
   Of cabbages and kings..
   And why the sea is boiling hot
   And whether pigs have wings.

We could have a great talk about sealing-wax. In my mind, I would love to see it make a comeback. However, the time has come to talk of many other things:
   Of early mornings that become endless days..
   Hallways that are racetracks..
   Opportunities, timing, choices.
   Bundles and sets
   Of Policies, Protocols, Politics & Patient Care
   Fear of falling; Fear of not falling; Fear of Failing; Fear of Succeeding; Fear of You
   Anagrams: ITYK
   Input, output, opinions, ideas, place
   Of crossroads, decisions, direction, self-evaluation
Oh, we could talk of many things! But, someone has to listen! Is that me or you?

And, we could talk of life. Of times when roads diverge and we are compelled to stop
and carefully analyze the complex maze of direction choices on the map before us. And, we could talk about what Alice really saw in the Looking Glass! Well, this is what I see: the cheese is moving, pigs are flying, the oysters are dead and after 17 years on 4-medicine, I’m moving to the Mother Ship. Why? Because the Walrus said, “The time has come”!

What is in your Looking Glass?

Sherry

Sherry Holden, BSN, RN
Associate Partner, 4South, IU Hospital

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