career woes and car crashes

[Guest guest]

So I have 4S and am dealing pretty well with it. Here's a problem

I've recently encountered that I just don't know how I'll handle.

I'm studying in the field of healthcare, and one of the things I

have to learn and will have to perform throughout my career are

physical assessments. This involves assessment of the thyroid

gland... which involves swallowing. To assess the thyroid, you have

to put your hands on a person's throat and have them swallow... you

have to look and feel for abnormalities while they are doing this.

AUGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Swallowing is my main trigger sound. How can

I do this? How can I do this every day until I retire? I hate the

sound AND sight of people chewing and swallowing. I can't even

think about how it would FEEL! UGHHHHHH! I'm tempted to just cut

that whole part out of my physical assessment routine, but, that

would be extremely negligent. Any suggestions? I don't really

expect any, but I wanted to vent about this to people who would

understand.

On another note, I had my first car crash the other day. I was in

the car with a friend who was drinking a milkshake, and I needed to

turn on the radio to mask the sound... you can probably see where

this is going. I looked down for a split second to press the scan

button, and the guy in front of me stopped... me, not so much.

Thankfully everyone's fine except my car, and thus my bank account,

which was already not fine to begin with. So, be careful folks,

don't let anyone else drink while you drive.

~

[Guest guest]

I am relatively sure that we could fill up a large volume with the

stories of people here who have literally structured their entire

working lives around 4S. And restructured, and constructed, and

arranged, accomodated, shifted, changed, quit, and simply abandoned

in the end.........due to 4S.

I am nor sure what aspect of healthcare you are going into, but if

you are examining people I would assume you are studying to be a

physician or a nurse, or PA, or medical assistant. There are many

work settings in health care where people never get near a thyroid.

I don't! Ears, only, please.

OTOH, you can also attempt to create a little gap in your thinking-

anticipating-reacting in those brief moments, where you GO into your

fingertips and OUT of your ears. Also you do not have to hear to do

this part of the exam, you could stick your stethoscope in your ears

with the listener in the pocket, which will grate and growl nicely

and distract your ears.

In the long run, this may just fade into the picture if you can

really focus on the human being sitting in front of you, allowing you

to lay your hands on their body, and worried about some aspect of

their own health and well being.

Ot it may not.

Then you can make intelligent changes (work in a urology clinic, they

don't go near the neck).

Marsha

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the advice Marsha, I like the stethescope idea... I

can't really get around the thyroid exams in my career, so I guess

I'll just have to cope! I'm still thinking seriously about your

sound therapy treatment, but I worry that having the units in my ear

will actually prevent me from being able to plug them if I need to

suddenly. Any thoughts on that?

~

>

> I am relatively sure that we could fill up a large volume with the

> stories of people here who have literally structured their entire

> working lives around 4S. And restructured, and constructed, and

> arranged, accomodated, shifted, changed, quit, and simply

abandoned

> in the end.........due to 4S.

>

> I am nor sure what aspect of healthcare you are going into, but if

> you are examining people I would assume you are studying to be a

> physician or a nurse, or PA, or medical assistant. There are many

> work settings in health care where people never get near a thyroid.

>

> I don't! Ears, only, please.

>

> OTOH, you can also attempt to create a little gap in your thinking-

> anticipating-reacting in those brief moments, where you GO into

your

> fingertips and OUT of your ears. Also you do not have to hear to

do

> this part of the exam, you could stick your stethoscope in your

ears

> with the listener in the pocket, which will grate and growl nicely

> and distract your ears.

>

> In the long run, this may just fade into the picture if you can

> really focus on the human being sitting in front of you, allowing

you

> to lay your hands on their body, and worried about some aspect of

> their own health and well being.

>

> Ot it may not.

>

> Then you can make intelligent changes (work in a urology clinic,

they

> don't go near the neck).

>

> Marsha

>

[Guest guest]

>

> Thanks for the advice Marsha, I like the stethescope idea... I

> can't really get around the thyroid exams in my career, so I guess

> I'll just have to cope! I'm still thinking seriously about your

> sound therapy treatment, but I worry that having the units in my ear

> will actually prevent me from being able to plug them if I need to

> suddenly. Any thoughts on that?

>

> ~

Yes I think that might be a real challenge to hear all those complex

heart tones with the white noise going. I have had this trouble

before when treating MDs and nurses, PA, or NPs, etc. then what we do

is more, focus on the time out of the exam room time, try to stimulate

the ears during the 'off' time and so on........we have to focus on

the ambient noise for example, and use the non working time to use

full stimulation and desensitization.

It is very challenging work, to say the least.

Marsha

[Guest guest]

I just want to say that I sympathise completely. I have been very

lucky not to crash my car so far with a husband who loves chomping

fruit while we are driving. We have the choice between slurpy

peaches or crunchy apples, or we can really push the boat out and

have slurpy cherries with the added bonus of the ptui sound as the

stones are spat out of the window.

I sing .......... very very loudly, I sing.

BB - Elise

> >

> > Thanks for the advice Marsha, I like the stethescope idea... I

> > can't really get around the thyroid exams in my career, so I

guess

> > I'll just have to cope! I'm still thinking seriously about your

> > sound therapy treatment, but I worry that having the units in my

ear

> > will actually prevent me from being able to plug them if I need

to

> > suddenly. Any thoughts on that?

> >

> > ~

> Yes I think that might be a real challenge to hear all those

complex

> heart tones with the white noise going. I have had this trouble

> before when treating MDs and nurses, PA, or NPs, etc. then what we

do

> is more, focus on the time out of the exam room time, try to

stimulate

> the ears during the 'off' time and so on........we have to focus on

> the ambient noise for example, and use the non working time to use

> full stimulation and desensitization.

>

> It is very challenging work, to say the least.

>

> Marsha

>