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[Homburg]

I have no words to describe the sheer disbelief at reading this article.

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DENVER — Hundreds of patients who had surgery at a Denver hospital have been tested for hepatitis C following the arrest of a surgery technician accused of swapping out her dirty syringes for ones filled with painkiller meant for patients.

Twenty-six-year-old Kristen Diane Parker is scheduled to be in federal court Thursday where a judge will determine whether she will be released on bond.

Parker has tested positive for hepatitis C. She worked at Rose Medical Center in Denver and at Colorado Springs Audubon Ambulatory Surgery Center between October and June 29. Up to 6,000 people may have been exposed to the blood-borne liver disease. State health officials say 10 hepatitis C cases in former Rose patients may be linked to Parker.

Apparently she was stealing needles loaded with painkillers heading for surgery, injecting said painkillers into herself, and then filling the needles with saline solution. The Hep-exposed needles were then replaced in the tray and used on surgery patients.

Dear god.

 

[Kajira Callista]

I have no words to describe the sheer disbelief at reading this article.

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Apparently she was stealing needles loaded with painkillers heading for surgery, injecting said painkillers into herself, and then filling the needles with saline solution. The Hep-exposed needles were then replaced in the tray and used on surgery patients.

Dear god.

Wasnt there recently surgical tools improprely sterilized in a veterans hospital that also spread hep c and hiv?

people who do that kinda shit just piss me off. grrrr

 

[Gil_T2]

I have no words to describe the sheer disbelief at reading this article.

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Apparently she was stealing needles loaded with painkillers heading for surgery, injecting said painkillers into herself, and then filling the needles with saline solution. The Hep-exposed needles were then replaced in the tray and used on surgery patients.

Dear god.

My thoughts are she should be treated like known AID/HIV ppl who knowingly infect others & charged with attempted murder because to many Hep is a death sentence, revoke her refused bond too. Where is the regular blood testing for hospital nursing staff & especially they operating room staff as they are regularly in blodd areas?

 

[Kajira Callista]

My thoughts are she should be treated like known AID/HIV ppl who knowingly infect others & charged with attempted murder because to many Hep is a death sentence, revoke her refused bond too. Where is the regular blood testing for hospital nursing staff & especially they operating room staff as they are regularly in blodd areas?

In my world there is no regular blood testing (which i found odd) and the only time there is blood testing paid for buy the company you work for is if you stick YOU by accident after sticking someone else. And imagine this one...you aren't even allowed to ask if they have hep c or anything else. You can try to tell from the type of blood testing being done but I, as a phlebotomist, have no right to know what disease anyone I stick has.

 

[nh23]

In my world there is no regular blood testing (which i found odd) and the only time there is blood testing paid for buy the company you work for is if you stick YOU by accident after sticking someone else. And imagine this one...you aren't even allowed to ask if they have hep c or anything else. You can try to tell from the type of blood testing being done but I, as a phlebotomist, have no right to know what disease anyone I stick has.

That's the good thing about being a nurse. We have access to those records. I've always made it a point to tell anyone directly working with someone infected to be extra careful. I don't break hippa by saying anything directly. I just say be sure to use your gloves with so and so.

 

[graceanne]

My thoughts are she should be treated like known AID/HIV ppl who knowingly infect others & charged with attempted murder because to many Hep is a death sentence, revoke her refused bond too. Where is the regular blood testing for hospital nursing staff & especially they operating room staff as they are regularly in blodd areas?

Two words for you - civil rights.

That said, I got tested for TB when I started working with the elderly. I don't know how getting tested for TB is any different than being tested for hepatitis.

That said, hep would be a death sentence for me. I sincerely hope that she gets tried for attempted murder, and for murder on the people for whom it's a death sentence.

 

[ultramarineblue]

I give up trying.

 

[CutieMouse]

I wish I could fall asleep.

 

[rida]

I give up trying.

Don't.

Just take a break.

hugs

 

[midwestyankee]

This is not a good time to be eroticizing women's tears.

 

[HoHoBomb]

I know your secret!

P.S.
you will never live in that house he is renovating
never
ever​

 

[ultramarineblue]

Don't.

Just take a break.

hugs

Thanks.

 

[ultramarineblue]

It figures that the things that I don't take seriously are the things that everyone wants to buy. Besides, now that I've figured out how to make them that way, I'm ready to move onto something else. I've even been offered a place to show them when they aren't taking any other people this year. I just can't find the motivation to make any right now. You would think the money I would make from them would be enough motivation but it isn't. It almost makes me want to not make them.

 

[Homburg]

It figures that the things that I don't take seriously are the things that everyone wants to buy. Besides, now that I've figured out how to make them that way, I'm ready to move onto something else. I've even been offered a place to show them when they aren't taking any other people this year. I just can't find the motivation to make any right now. You would think the money I would make from them would be enough motivation but it isn't. It almost makes me want to not make them.

I used to have times when I felt bad that all my time spent with brush in hand was for commission. Then one day I decided that I'm not some sort of starving artist, and that I was okay with the money. The downside of this is that I rarely pick up the brush for the hell of it these days. When I do it, it is work.

How you feel about the money marks the difference between an artist and an artisan.

 

[nh23]

I have a question about copyrights. I have a contract that isn't entirely clear to me. Would anyone who knows something about this please PM me?

 

[HoHoBomb]

my brand has followers on twitter but i've never posted anything

 

[ultramarineblue]

I used to have times when I felt bad that all my time spent with brush in hand was for commission. Then one day I decided that I'm not some sort of starving artist, and that I was okay with the money. The downside of this is that I rarely pick up the brush for the hell of it these days. When I do it, it is work.

How you feel about the money marks the difference between an artist and an artisan.

I think part of what I don't like about commissions is that there is an expectation I place on myself to make sure it is good. After all, I am getting paid for it. However, with that expectation, I tend to lose my willingness to experiment. I don't lose that so much now but I just dread the expectation part of it. When I do it for myself and myself alone, it doesn't matter if it doesn't work out.

The reason I chose to work at a regular job was so that I wouldn't have to depend on my art to make money. However, my art making money sure does make my life easier. It helps pay for me to keep making art. I know I should just suck it up and make more of them. They do amuse me. I just don't want to become to mechanical in it or I will lose all interest.

 

[Homburg]

I think part of what I don't like about commissions is that there is an expectation I place on myself to make sure it is good. After all, I am getting paid for it. However, with that expectation, I tend to lose my willingness to experiment. I don't lose that so much now but I just dread the expectation part of it. When I do it for myself and myself alone, it doesn't matter if it doesn't work out.

The reason I chose to work at a regular job was so that I wouldn't have to depend on my art to make money. However, my art making money sure does make my life easier. It helps pay for me to keep making art. I know I should just suck it up and make more of them. They do amuse me. I just don't want to become to mechanical in it or I will lose all interest.

I did nothing but paint for about a year. Well, okay, paint and go to college. Still, my job, 40-50 hours a week or more, was painting. It burned me out so badly that I didn't touch a brush for a couple of years after I graduated. I did pick it back up, so it didn't go away.

My own expectations weren't that bad. I tend to always work to my own expectations. What irritated me was unrealistic expectations on the part of my clients. And, worse, when a client specified a completely awful colour scheme. Then I got to tell them, gently, that it would not work. Sometimes they listened, often they didn't. And, inevitably, they bitched when it did not look good, and I got the joy of reminding them that I said it would not work well.

Buuuut that was because I do custom work to order. If you are making pieces for sale in a set environment and the customer buys it because they like what they see, you might not have that particular joy.

Now,a ll those horror stories aside, there was something deeply fulfilling about being able to pay my bills with my brush. There was something very affirming about it, as it showed that I really could do something with my silly little hobby. I just let it get too big, and got buried in it. Nowadays, I cherry-pick my clients, and do the same with the commissions I take. I don't mind telling someone that I don't want a given job. Most of my clients nowadays don't mind, and have other work they want me to do.

 

[ultramarineblue]

I did nothing but paint for about a year. Well, okay, paint and go to college. Still, my job, 40-50 hours a week or more, was painting. It burned me out so badly that I didn't touch a brush for a couple of years after I graduated. I did pick it back up, so it didn't go away.

My own expectations weren't that bad. I tend to always work to my own expectations. What irritated me was unrealistic expectations on the part of my clients. And, worse, when a client specified a completely awful colour scheme. Then I got to tell them, gently, that it would not work. Sometimes they listened, often they didn't. And, inevitably, they bitched when it did not look good, and I got the joy of reminding them that I said it would not work well.

Buuuut that was because I do custom work to order. If you are making pieces for sale in a set environment and the customer buys it because they like what they see, you might not have that particular joy.

Now,a ll those horror stories aside, there was something deeply fulfilling about being able to pay my bills with my brush. There was something very affirming about it, as it showed that I really could do something with my silly little hobby. I just let it get too big, and got buried in it. Nowadays, I cherry-pick my clients, and do the same with the commissions I take. I don't mind telling someone that I don't want a given job. Most of my clients nowadays don't mind, and have other work they want me to do.

I don't know that I could make a living by painting. I'm in the process of trying to find gallery representation and have just received my first rejection. I know that I'm going to get a lot more, but I can't help but wonder what my work lacks to them.

 

[graceanne]

My sculpture teacher keeps trying to talk me into doing art, but I won't. I don't want to spend that much time in college to be a starving artists, and I don't want to teach. Oddly enough, I want to get to a point in my life where I am not raising kids. LOL

 

[graceanne]

There's a moth on my computer screen and I was just wiggling my mouse over that area, trying to get it to move.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

my brand has followers on twitter but i've never posted anything

Perhaps they're lifelong optimists, and are just waiting for the wonderful pearls of wisdom and erotica that they just *know* you're going to turn out someday.

 

[minx1]

mmmm......malt loaf

 

[BiaTcHiNFiRe]

Without you here my dayz are just "Saddy, Moanday,Tearsday, Wasteday, Thirstday, Frightday, Shatterday".

 

[CurlyKat]

Getting ready to move sucks.