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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Shameless!
Hope your interview went well!
Well, I’m back.
I have to take a test online. If I pass that and if I pass my drug screen, which of course I will, I could be working this weekend.
$20 an hour, 12 hour shifts.
Woo hoo! Congrats!
That was it.
Heh...
It’s agency, working with hospice patients in their homes or in nursing homes. It’s not glorious nursing and doesn’t take much skill, but it will do to get me back into the swing of things.
I better get that test taken.
~munching Oreos~
Not bad. Congratulations.
One test done, six to go.
But wow. May the Lord bless you in that work.
Given a choice, I'd vote the whole team off the island.
I don't know if it is covered in normal autopsy associated lab tests, but they can find it if they specifically look for it. It is harder if the victim is a heart patient and would normally have digoxin in the blood, then they have to look for a short term overdose.
Hospice work can be very hard, since there is no hope for survival and the patients need tremendous emotional support, which sometimes they don’t get from family and friends (who often are already deceased or infirm). God will five you the strength if you need it.
Hospice work can be very hard, since there is no hope for survival and the patients need tremendous emotional support, which sometimes they don’t get from family and friends (who often are already deceased or infirm). God will five you the strength if you need it.
This character wouldn’t have been a heart patient, so that complication is removed. And they’ll find the bottle, so know to look for it. Hm.
Is there a liquid form? Or a capsule that could be opened?
Oh, 2J, it may not take that much skill, but it is SO necessary, and having someone as empathetic as you will be a wonderful thing for your patients!
Yes and not sure. In my experience most folks take it in a small tablet, which of course dissolve in water. I have seen it used in murder mysteries at least as far back as Columbo.
More recently there have been cases and fictional depictions of a truly horrible drug (the name escapes me), almost impossible to detect. It is used in operating rooms to paralyze the patient's muscles, I think to make operating easier in certain cases. When they give a patient this drug they also give medication to make the patient unconscious, and keep them on a respirator, since the respiratory muscles are paralyzed too. If used to murder someone, the victim would die of asphyxiation, while fully conscious, and unable to move a single muscle.
*shudder*
OK, I’ll file that one away for future reference. Not suitable for this particular murder, but it sounds horrible yet intriguing.
My writing room is complete: I stopped at the bookstore on the way home today and picked up a good dictionary, a copy of “Fowler’s Modern English Usage,” and a notebook for any notes or quotes or references I want to scribble down for NaNo purposes. I already own “Elements of Style,” which I’d very, very highly recommend to anyone who doesn’t already own it. It’s a wonderful little reference.
Is it November yet?
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