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Today at work I saw two young medical students, eagerly waiting outside a patients room. As part of a class, they were required to do focused examinations on a number of patients in our ED. I was not happy when I heard about this ...one more thing to delay our patients length of stay. Something about their blond, scrubbed faced eagerness, and their new stiff white lab coats, maybe being worn for the first time, made me stop and inquire "Are you the med students who are here to do some patient assessments?" I tried not to sound like a bitchy old nurse. They nodded and seemed happy to have someone friendly and non-threatening to talk to. They hadn't gotten to the class yet that seems to teach arrogance. "We're first years" one said apologetically. They told me their names and that they were from Idaho. I told them who I was and about my son Dan, who is in medical school in Illinois - freshly scrubbed but yet to get that lab coat. We talked a bit about anatomy ...

Having a daughter is a great thing. Having a grown daughter is like having a friend who is part of your soul. My mom, pictured to the left with Kseniya, also thought having a grand daughter was the best. This is probably the last picture of my mom and her favorite grand daughter. My mom is somewhere now, maybe in Venice with those people who kidnapped her from the hospital because they needed a grandma, wishing her grand daughter, my baby girl, a happy birthday. Sorry sis, I was my mom's baby girl till the day she died (or got kidnapped), as you will be mine even when you are 65. Being 31 is pretty prime. You still have that nice pretty skin with no wrinkles, and no hint of an apron in site -and those cute running legs that you inherited from me, of course, although your dad has nice legs too. I know it can never be that we appreciate how good we look when we look that good - we just can't because we are more programmed, unfortunately to notice that which is wrong with us rath...

I never went on trips with my mom or my dad for that matter. My family was too poor when I was a kid to go to Disneyland or places like that. I don't think I ever realized that a lot of families took vacations so I didn't feel too bad about it. Besides, I did some pretty fun things with my mom that I bet a lot of daughters never got to do. I didn't even know I was poor till I grew up. I worked in three different restaurants with my mom - we were waitresses. At one time my sister worked with us too. I got fired from the first restaurant because I asked for a raise from the 75 cents per hour I was making to a dollar/hour. "You are just like your mother", Anna, the owner told me. I went on to get a job in the kitchen of a hospital where I made $1.60. After a while, Anna begged me to come back but I never did. I remember one time in the third restaurant, mom and I were working midnights. We went to the bar next door and bought beer and then had to close early. Yes we ...