1. Sometimes it's simply better to ignore the haters.

That's the lesson

that Tom's dad had been trying to teach him, but Tom still couldn't
let it go. He latched onto them and their hate and couldn't let it go,
but he also realized that this wasn't healthy. That's when he came
up with his devious plan.

The drug seekers would come into the emergency room and
2.
scream about how much pain they were in. When you told them
that you would start elevating their pain with Tylenol or Advil
instead of a narcotic they became nasty and combative. They
would start telling you what drug and dose they had to have to
make their pain tolerable. After dealing with the same drug seekers
several times a month it gets old. Some of the doctors would give
in and give them a dose of morphine and send them away. Sure
that was faster, but ethically she still couldn’t do it. Perhaps that’s
why she had longer care times than the other doctors.

3. It was the best compliment that he'd ever received although the
person who gave it likely never knew. It had been an off-hand
observation on his ability to hold a conversation and actually add
pertinent information to it on practically any topic. Although he
hadn't consciously strived to be able to do so, he'd started to
voraciously read the news when he couldn't keep up on topics his
friends discussed because their conversations went above his head.
The fact that someone had noticed enough to compliment him that
he could talk intelligently about many topics meant that he had
succeeded in his quest to be better informed.
 4. I'm going to hire professional help tomorrow. I can't handle this
anymore. She fell over the coffee table and now there is blood in
her catheter. This is much more than I ever signed up to do.

5. Patricia's friend who was here hardly had any issues at all, but she
wasn't telling the truth. Yesterday, before she left to go home, she
heard that her husband is in the hospital and pretended to be
surprised. It later came out that she was the person who had put
him there