Headaches - Wow!
OK, it’s been 2 days now that I’ve been suffering from these blasted headaches again. They have been going on since the Spring. But my neurosurgical team has been dismissing them as being related to my ” being overworked in the ICU “, ” possible depression “, and ” electromagnetic interference when working in the ICU “. I came home after working 13.5 hours in the ICU. It was a dreadful night : six admissions and not enough nurses. But that is the reality of nursing today. I cant change it; no one can. You just carry on. But my head was pounding again. Sizzling at the top of my head where my 2 burr holes were located. Once home I collapsed on my bed waking up 5 hours later with some heavy-duty nausea. This was getting to be a bit ridiculous - the headaches and the reasoning behind them. I was not convinced that the reasons I had been hearing for weeks were 100 % true. They had never been concretely proven to be true. I felt that I needed a CT-Scan of the head. I called my mother long distance, she had enough of these reoccuring symptoms and the dismissal of symptoms as well. My own intuition as a nurse said that there might be possibly something else going on in my head. But no one was listening - except for my family. What was I supposed to do ??? Live with it ? I’ve heard that explanation for 18 years. May be a second opinion was warranted ???
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