Sleep, Needs, and The Phantoms That Disturb The Cycle
I first learned about Phantom Limb Pain [ http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/phantom-pain/DS00444 ] in Nursing School. It's one thing to read about it in a text-book; it's another thing to walk into a room and see a person screaming about the pain in a leg that was no longer there due to an accident or surgical procedure. "Scary" is an understatement.
As a nurse, it was my job to calm the frantic person, and then administer the doctor prescribed pain medication, which was usually in needle-form.
Often times, this was done on a three to four hour cycle, around the clock. Funny thing about pain medication: it doesn't "take away" the pain, it simply alters a person's perception of it, as a means of coping with the stress pain often induces in people.
It was this "removal and replace with medication" that got me thinking about the treatment of Foster Kids and Adoptees seeking support from paraprofessionals that made me think -- "Why aren't doctors taking the removal of a child from the natural mother more like a serious injury to the brain, and not like a simple adaptation that will require a brief period of readjustment?"
Why are children being amputated from their families, then medicated to relieve the symptoms of loss and grief? Can't better managed-care be arranged for families, so the selling or aborting of a child does not have to be the easy-option or solution? After all, if a mother is not well enough to care for her baby, logic dictates that baby will be in danger of abuse or neglect. Preventative measures need to be taken in to account to make sure health-care is provided by a next-of-kin, (a guardian), so social services is not needed in the future!
How long will it take for the medical community to put the mother and child relationship FIRST, and the effects of long-term use of chemical agents on the body and brain to realize Child Placement and injury caused by subsequent trauma and abuse is causing a myriad of long-term side effects that should keep many presidents and CEO's awake at night, because these "new" problems and complications could have and SHOULD have been prevented.
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Experience, experienced, and experimentation
Based on my own personal and professional experience, I have met people who aren't afraid to talk to me about their own life-experiences, and how it has affected their sleep-patterns... or lack of it.
It seems when darkness comes, that's when The Phantoms like to visit. Even in the hospital, there would be a "A Witching Hour". (3:00am). Yep. Things would get cookey and crazy then, and it couldn't always be easily explained... just that's when some patients got restless or scared and combative, or went into labor... or cardiac arrest. It was the nature of Health Care, at least how it was when I worked on the floors of a hospital.
As much as I loved to tell my stupid stories to my listening bed-side audience, since I left the hospital work-side, I've learned to love reading the incoming anecdotes written or spoken to me over the years, even more. People are far more interesting than me, that's for damn sure!!! What others have endured or experienced has often made me feel pale and small in comparison, and I have always found that to be a beautiful experience. I love witnessing rich bold bravery in another person. I like sitting in awe listening or reading how survival is possible, when I myself would have shriveled and shuddered eons ago, never imagining myself nearly as strong as the story-teller.
What still amazes me most is how quick a person wants to share a secret... and how fast that secret must be covered by another so it must never be exposed. Triangulation. Marketing brilliance.
Any who...
For those interested in a small sample of what type of what Phantoms Visit a Foster-Adoptee, visit Joel's Blog:
With a little help from Lori Carangelo, we're trying to let others see how Separation from Family affects facts from fiction, and experience with a stranger (or two) can lead to experimentation in lethal doses.
Walk into the web with me...
allow me to introduce what's being done to unsuspecting innocents not being protected from the greedy hands of strangers.