My job as a complex chronic patient
My first nursing job was on an HIV unit in 1991. We were in the 2nd wave of the med mixes, so there were some… Read More »My job as a complex chronic patient
My first nursing job was on an HIV unit in 1991. We were in the 2nd wave of the med mixes, so there were some… Read More »My job as a complex chronic patient
In the spirit of this blog’s brief as a “user manual for complex chronic spoonies”, here’s a health update after another interesting year (my personal… Read More »May 2023 on the Back 40
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