Bonnie Koeppe
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Hi Joel,
Interesting topic.
I think shift work is problematic for balanced health in general. I worked as an RN and did 12+ hr shifts. No breaks or regular scheduled mealtimes almost every shift, always dehydrated plus stress and lack of sleep is a huge career-long theme. The stress is immense with constant interruptions that are usually adrenaline-inducing. Colleagues that are always stressed. Your days off entail guilt-tripping phone calls to pick up more shifts. Im sure I picked the most punishing places to work… But sleep is such a huge obsession and at most on nights I would get around 4 -5 hrs…by the time you start to adjust into the nights routine, you need to flip to days. Honestly, I feel like sleep plays such a huge regulatory factor. I think of sleep deprivation as almost ‘sub-clinically’ truncating the follicular phase even if the timing is right for ovulation — the intricacies of what tasks get done in the follicular phase is probably just crappy ‘quality’ because daily yin/yang and autonomic system cycling being forced haywire.
And with the pandemic, I found that everything amplified, and wearing N95s for 12 hrs up to 60-70 hrs a week made me personally more yin xu and more qi xu than ever before. Having said that, I did work with chemo-agents regularly throughout my reproductive days, and I had no fertility challenges. However, Im sure I’ll pay for all this one way or another!
Bonnie
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Hi Constanza, I believe it was called Puerarin from Panaxea. I had to figure this out too because I didn’t watch the live lecture.
Bonnie
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Hi Everyone! My name is Bonnie Koeppe. I am very excited to join this amazing group! I am a newly registered TCM practitioner since 2020 but I have been an RN since 2001. Because of covid, I haven’t started my practice yet, but plan to this summer. My healthcare experience has been a little bit of everything to say the least. I started off in palliative care in people’s homes and oncology, pain & symptom management. Around 2010 I certified in High Risk Obstetrics and worked in labour&delivery/surgery/lactation and ambulance transfers of neonates/mom’s. I did 2 years of a Midwifery degree at Uni in Toronto but had to stop because one of my kids was sick and life just got busy and I never went back : )
I am very much interested in women’s health and gynaecology in general and this course is a wonderful starting point for me. My goal is to not have a busy practice but live a more peaceful existence where quality of care and working more slowly is a priority.
Right now I am working 12 hr nights in a remote area of Ontario at the tail-end of the recent covid surge and so I hope to do the live classes starting next week once my brain starts to function again and I get regular sleep. I had a patient to work with along this mentorship but gasp! she got pregnant!! hahaha… Anyway, it is a pleasure to meet and work with everyone!