Re: Nurses

[Guest guest]

Dear Lamar,

How right you are about nursing not just being " baths and pills " , but sadly

that was one of the bits that I liked best :-(( I really have tried not to

miss it. I even went to University for 11 years part time to obtain tertiary

qualifications to enable me to teach nursing. I reasoned that this was one

way to conserve energy when I realised that I was not coping as well in the

clinical setting. I think even then I knew I was not well, but it was all so

vague. Anyway, I had just finished my Masters degree when I became too sick

to work for 18 months. Managed part time for 3 years until even that was too

much and I had to retire. The reason I mention this is that I did my major

in Aboriginal studies and, you mentioned being interested in Anthropology.

Me too! The people I met were so kind to me and once they knew that I was

" fair dinkum " , (and had been OK'd by their elders,) they could not help me

enough in my wish to document their responses to health care. I had a really

wonderful rapport with several groups. If you want to discuss this more,

please contact me privately. I am so glad that you like Australia, it really

is a beautiful and fascinating country. You must be sure to visit my area of

Australia if you ever make it over here. We live in the heart of the gold

mining area and there is so much history here, though much colder at the

moment than the area Gretchen loves.

Thank you for your words of wisdom. Maybe I can help others in some of the

ways you mentioned. Thanks also for the web sites which you attached to your

last email. I had not visited the Australian CMT site. I will contact them

very soon.

Best wishes

Selina