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Erica P. Registered Nurse

Colorado Springs, Colorado
I'm an ER nurse, a single mom, a writer, an editor, and the poster child for ADD. I drink too... Full Bio
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Happy Birthday to the Best Husband in the World by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing When I first knew Scott, he was just the funny bald paramedic who could captivate an entire nurses' station full of staff with his latest stories from the street ... Read on »
Nurses: The Good, the Bad, and the Clueless by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing It's National Nurses' Week. I have worked with some great nurses, and some shitty ones. Some I'd trust to take care of my family, and some I'd just as soon punch ... Read on »
Important: Please Read by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing I know, I don't usually beg you to read posts.  But this is really important.  Why, you ask? Because we nearly got killed last weekend.  Really.  On the bike, we got c ... Read on »
Eastbound and down... by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing ...somewhere over the rainbow... Trudging toward Oklahoma for the funeral of a dear friend we never got to tell goodbye. But still in Kansas, Toto, for at leas ... Read on »
Gone Too Soon by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Nine days from diagnosis to death.  Nine days.  (Fuck you, pancreatic cancer.) We love you, Ben, and you will be missed more than you can imagine. Read on »
Yes. by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Like those of grammar. Friggin' idiots. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone Read on »
Maybe it's just us... by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing ...and our dirty minds... But we wondered what advertising genius thought this was a good image of a product that might very well be a useful cold-weather acces ... Read on »
Monday Messiah Merriment by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing So it seems as if he's found Jesus. A good friend of mine from Soda Springs had this picture posted on his Facebook page yesterday - and it's been giving me endless fit ... Read on »
Tuesday Late-Night Miscellany by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Okay, Wednesday early-morning miscellany.  But it's still "night," until I've gone to bed. So I saw something in the paper here yesterday which I found truly cool.  App ... Read on »
My week in pictures by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Spurred by body fat test results at the work-sponsored biometric screening, I started the week with some exercise. Boys' Pinewood Derby cars checked in... Gabe's ... Read on »
Facebook Parenting: "Like" by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing I imagine everybody's seen this by now, or at least heard of it - But I just watched it for the first time and now I'm gonna share it.  Because I think this guy is right o ... Read on »
Yer Killin' Me, Val... by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Oh, kids.  This is just too horrifying not to pass along. I like Val Kilmer.  Have been a fan ever since Real Genius.  (Yeah, I know, that dates me.)  I dug him in Top G ... Read on »
And it begins. by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing It started innocently enough. Fluffy flakes drifting lazily to the bare ground. Then, a few began to stick. Now, the wind has picked up, and it's ... Read on »
All that's missing... by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing ...is the little white stick picket fence. Good grief. I'm proud of my family, and most days wouldn't trade a single one of the kids for a million ... Read on »
New Tires for Work - and a day of earning 'em by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing So this morning, after rolling grudgingly out of bed and rousing my troops, and feeding said chilluns breakfast, and making sure said chilluns had lunches and snacks and sig ... Read on »
A Sobering Thought by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing It occurred to me today that a lot of folks probably don't have any idea of how many people care about them. What a shame that you can't see, while you're alive, ... Read on »
Here I Am... by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing ...the one that you love... Sorry, bad Air Supply flashback (thanks, mom)... Wide awake. Having planned on being at work, helping to heal Colorado Springs one malingerer ... Read on »
Daily Dose of Dumbassitude by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Wow, ladies.  Has it really come to this? Everybody's got their own idea of personal grooming and...uh...genital aesthetics (or something).  Apparently, good old fashio ... Read on »
Crafty by Erica P. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing So here's how I spent a chunk of my Tuesday night Kind of hard to tell, on him, what it is - because it's the first thing I've ever crocheted from a pattern, so ... Read on »