Creative Spanko Wench Blog

Yeah I’ve been scarce.

I’m trying to find inspiration to write spanking content, but so close on the heels of saying a spanking good by to my buddy, I’ve been less than motivated. I’m guessing that most of you friends understand that life changes impact all aspects of being including blogging. I’m working on (but not happy with) new chapters of three of the stories you guys want more of (WW, Spitfire & Spankford wives). Staying focused and motivated has been a challenge because I’m being distracted by feeling lonely and some thing I didn’t expect.

I’m battling with whether I’m supposed to walk away from the great connection I had with my buddy and dare seek someone new and a deeper sense that that would be a betrayal. I’m also missing the constant contact I had with him. I don’t miss the hours/day long calls with twenty or more interruptions because he got another call or drove through a cell reception dead zone, but I do miss the interspersed long, uninterrupted and fun talks we had that wandered all over creation and the stuff we had in common. I don’t miss the arguments we had where he one upped and had to best my every accomplishment, but I do miss him telling me he thought that I’m smart and how much he respected and depended on my smarts.

So, beyond these things that have me down … is something that has me re-directing some of my energies. I’ve drafted a precursor to a fictionalized (though based on my real experiences) novel about my life as a hospital Critical Care nurse Educator, and Quality/Risk Management Director. It’s attracted some attention and interest from two publishing houses. We’re not talking 2 - 3 hundred bucks a chapter that spanking pay sites pay, or the 25 to 100 dollar commissions I get for drawings; we’re talking, get some potentially publishable work done and we’ll pay you $XXX,XXX as an advance. Thing is I’m struggling with the ethics of writing a tell all book about what I know about healthcare and patient safety. I know both sides. I have secret knowledge of what the healthcare industry and more pointedly doctors & their hospital committees fight tooth and nail to keep hidden …

AOL published this today in an article about whether or not people could be scared to death for real. One slide stated, “you are most likely to die in an accident … car crash…” I’ve studied the reality and actually reviewed and drilled down into the statistics. Nope AOL’s claim is simply NOT true. How you got to hospital not factored in, every hour in the US, 11 people will die in hospital as a result of medical errors. The converse statistic [both published by the CDC] is that every hour in the US 5 people will die as a result of a car accident (regardless of cause).

It is more than twice as dangerous to be a hospital patient in the hands of conscientious healthcare workers, for any reason, than it is to drive the highways with the drunks, speeders and distracted teen drivers. Unbelievable, but true.

I know why healthcare is so deadly … I’ve lived it from 5 sides for almost 3 decades. I’ve been a patient, family member, nurse, analyst and leader of problem solving/practice reform teams. I must say that, in my experience, it is the rare exception to the rule that deliberate malfeasance caused any medical errors that caused serious injury, permanent disability or death, but I can say without hesitation that staff/physician lack of awareness, respect for patient safety science, and understanding and respect for the clear evidence about human factors science about the causes of error are factors in how bad outcomes occur almost 100 % of the time.

Kgwack! I hear ya ok. Get back to the fun stuff already… OK I will try.

So when will y’all get to read some substantial spanking content here? I’m workin on it … still… a week maybe more before you get an Eamon and Sheila update…. hope you’ll hang in with me… or nominate someone to spank me for being so negligent and too easily distracted as a blogger.

:) patty

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