Greatest accomplishment
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Reading the entire DT series, and the Lord of the Rings trilogoy. Not back to back, but still I did it.
Raising children that I genuinely like as people. They're honest, kind, humans with the capacity to express themselves without being rude or crude (not always, anyway-lol). And they're interesting!
This is gonna take some thought, not due to a plethora from which to choose.
What skimom said.
From a genetic/natural standpoint, our purpose in life is to propagate before we die. In a more humanistic sense, it is to do our share to improve the world around us. I think the best way most of us do that is through successful childrearing.
So what skimom said.
From a genetic/natural standpoint, our purpose in life is to propagate before we die. In a more humanistic sense, it is to do our share to improve the world around us. I think the best way most of us do that is through successful childrearing.
So what skimom said.
My 20-year-strong relationship with the man I love and who has been my husband for the last 2 years. 
When we met, the idea of same-sex marriage was a pipedream. Heck, I really couldn't even talk about him at the office for fear of what people might think, say or do. My straight brother has had 3 divorces and 2 marriages in those 20 years... and we're the ones living an "alternative lifestyle!" Go figure.
When we met, the idea of same-sex marriage was a pipedream. Heck, I really couldn't even talk about him at the office for fear of what people might think, say or do. My straight brother has had 3 divorces and 2 marriages in those 20 years... and we're the ones living an "alternative lifestyle!" Go figure.
Learning capnography, RSI (rapid sequence intubation) and all the other forms of intubating a patient. I'm referring to the different tubes or masks that you use; LMA is different from ET insertion.
Capnography was the most hellacious subject I've ever taken and if I weren't living with a doctor at the same time I was in Paramedic School, I never WOULD have mastered it.
He was one of those geniuses who got his doctor's degree one year sooner than normal. Anyway, he found 3 errors in the book I was using and when I said they weren't going accept his corrected answers to the problem he actually talked to the dean of the school about it, because he was miffed that they wanted me to enter wrong answers about intubation procedures.
I'd also say learning to read EKG's but I honestly feel less than accomplished at it. There are too many differential assessments but when we asked this cardiologist to clarify the confusion for us, which only a doctor can do in that case, she told us were "wasting [her] time" and walked off.
Robin Cook wrote a book about cardiologists and how they all act like they think they're god. He wasn't kidding. He was also correct about surgeons and how they believe they can talk to people. He graduated from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Another reason I like his books is that he doesn't deny issues that need attention in health care.
Capnography was the most hellacious subject I've ever taken and if I weren't living with a doctor at the same time I was in Paramedic School, I never WOULD have mastered it.
He was one of those geniuses who got his doctor's degree one year sooner than normal. Anyway, he found 3 errors in the book I was using and when I said they weren't going accept his corrected answers to the problem he actually talked to the dean of the school about it, because he was miffed that they wanted me to enter wrong answers about intubation procedures.
I'd also say learning to read EKG's but I honestly feel less than accomplished at it. There are too many differential assessments but when we asked this cardiologist to clarify the confusion for us, which only a doctor can do in that case, she told us were "wasting [her] time" and walked off.
Robin Cook wrote a book about cardiologists and how they all act like they think they're god. He wasn't kidding. He was also correct about surgeons and how they believe they can talk to people. He graduated from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Another reason I like his books is that he doesn't deny issues that need attention in health care.
I love your love story!My 20-year-strong relationship with the man I love and who has been my husband for the last 2 years.
When we met, the idea of same-sex marriage was a pipedream. Heck, I really couldn't even talk about him at the office for fear of what people might think, say or do. My straight brother has had 3 divorces and 2 marriages in those 20 years... and we're the ones living an "alternative lifestyle!" Go figure.
I feel so happy that you were finally able to get married. Much happiness to you both!
Express themselves without being rude or crude? They must not use the Internet much then. I've never a met a person online who does it any other way. You can have no meaningful conversations on social networks because the opposition is always ready to jump down your throat with a flamethrower if you deviate even one centimeter away from what they think is "right."
It happened to me today. About the issue of abortion.
I have no idea why people bring such a hotly contested issue to places like Twitter. I think that's the most INappropriate place to talk about anything because you're not even allowed to post more than 140 letters. That's less than 25 average words.
Obvious answer: my babies.
Runners up: My time in the service and anything else I actually finish.
Runners up: My time in the service and anything else I actually finish.
A tough one... Since i don't have any kids (and i'm not so sure i would have been very good in raising them if i had been lucky enough to have one) so must think in another direction. But i remember a project that i was working on for three years that had to do with bringing historical knowledge to the public on the net. It was a kind of guide thing that you could use to either go out in the nature and see 3000 years old graves and at the same time read about the background in an easy to understand kind of language. To many of these guides use terms that people don't understand. I wrote, took pictures, made maps, wrote further reading tips and walked over a big part of county to see for myselfes. And it turned out really good. That time i felt that i really accomplished something. So i'm proud over that. It was all my work from start to finish and i managed to tell that countys history from the first humans arrived there til the 8 storey buildings that were built in the 70-ties were raised. In a simple way.
One runner-up for me would be the marriage. It's 40 years this month.
Ah, back to my kids. True story. We were on a family trip, and Grandma and I were sitting next to each other on the plane, and the three kids were two rows up and across the aisle. We weren't too worried, but things can always happen.
Toward the end of the flight, the flight attendant stood up straight in the aisle, pointed to the kids' row, and said loudly, "Whose kids are these?"
Oh, crap. We sorta scrunched down in our seats a little and raised our hands, wondering what inhumanities they'd engaged in and how much money and public humiliation it might cost.
She said, still loudly, "I just want you to know that they are a joy. So well-behaved and so nice. They keep saying please and thank you! I thought those were lost words! You should be proud of them!"
And we were. And are.
Runners up: My time in the service and anything else I actually finish.
Yup. Less than half of my starting platoon in Marine boot camp was there on time for graduation. I got through on time, came in first in my MOS training, and made pretty good rank in my time there. It was during peacetime, and I was happy to get out at the end of my enlistment, so I don't know about it being a huge achievement - but I'm pretty proud of it.
That is very, very cool! I'm a huge history nut, and having a guide that is complete and understandable is such a blessing. Congrats on an achievement not many will duplicate.
Yeah. it was cool. Afterwards i was asked to some schools and libraries so i could show the teachers and librarians a little about and how they could use it in their teaching and to find facts if someone asked. Even made short english versions because there, in the parts of sweden where i live, are many immigrants who are not yet very good at swedish. People still use it because it is on the net. easily available.
I think so far my greatest accomplishment is graduating from University having a degree with honors. That's something I am really proud of, as it was hard. I am sure that if I have kids in future, I would certainly call them my greatest accomplishment, but so far...
my greatest accomplisment is not getting an 'A' at 7. but something that i more closely intested When i was in school, i did a 48 hour fast Just soup. 6 of us did it only 2 lasted i was one. That in my view raised some much need funded for Africa. I aslo raised a lot of money for this charity. My other accomplistment is organising an inter-rail trip with 5 dudes, i was on the Dole(labour) my 21 was coming up, i saved for 18 months and when the time came i was ready. We were in Paris, brussels, copenhagen, amsterdam, prague, budapest, innsbruck(beautiful, beautiful city) Vienna, Munich, berlin. On a budget of 25 punt a day. my other accomplisment is i gave up the smokes for 5 years, now i am trying again. I am getting into debt numbet1 and they are literally killing me.
...then there is a community like this one-where stupid crap(from a drama standpoint)rarely happens...
...greatest accomplishment?....having the sense to marry my beloved....
Realizing I was in a bad relationship, and removing my daughter and me from it. Then 5 years later meeting the man I should have met in the first place.