Wow! It seems like as the weeks go on in this semester, the busier and busier I seem to get. This week we are doing our final simulation. We have to pretend that we have HIV and follow a medication regime throughout the whole week. We are in Day 4 right now and I do not know how someone with HIV actually follows their daily medication intake. I work 3rd shift at the hospital and try to sleep during the day between caring for three children. I've missed several doses of my meds and feel a bit overwhelmed. My schedule does not work with this schedule, but I have to make it all work!
My topic of interest is how mothers deal with children who are HIV positive. It happens that our QOTW last week (the one about your child biting someone) was actually a true incident. It happened to our professor's child. This brings it more home to me that someone "close" to me has experienced something like this. I respect Teach for handling it the way she did. I answered the QOTW with an opposite reaction, but one really never knows what they will do when placed in a tough situation where their child can be potentially at trisk for humiliation and ridicule.
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Girl I agree with you this medication simulation is a hard to do. I work in a laboratory so we are busy from open til close. I don't have time to snack or take medication,sometimes I only get half a lunch. So I have had to make it work this week. I try to take those M&Ms so fast I think they are going to get stuck in my throat. I did not know that that situation had happen to teach. Well I know she handled it well.
ReplyDeleteThis week has been a trying week in dealing with this medication simulation. I haven't had much of a problem remembering to take the pills or eat at certain times but my problem is I hate taking pills. I'm afraid they will get stuck in my throat and the thought of me doing something I hate everyday for the rest of my life is something I can not get used to.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to taking the medication this past week, I think I've been doing pretty good. Although I feel my success is due mainly to the fact that I have really been sick and have been prescribed pills to take on a daily basis. This has proven to be a good way to remember to take my M&Ms... boy does my head hurt.
ReplyDeleteI had to work 3rd shift and do the meds for real with the original toxic cocktail meds. It was a challenge. I had a watch with multiple alarms to remind me to take pills. It was "okay" during the work week, but weekends were tricky.
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