It was very difficult for me personally because I had lost huge portions of my life both professionally BAY 87-2243? and personally and that’s been really, really hard.��Theme 2 (Coping and Positive Steps Toward Improvement) ��The second major theme was Coping and Positive Steps Toward Improvement. This theme involved five subthemes for the faculty and staff: Coping, School, Gaining Control, Connected Community, and Change.Subtheme 2.1 [Coping] ��The subtheme of Coping does not fit clearly into any of K��bler-Ross’ grief stages. It involves both positive and negative means to cope in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Among the educators, coping mechanisms varied. There was positive coping among discussions (i.e., physical exercise and rebuilding the schools and homes). This category also involved introspection.

At least three participants mentioned their own and others’ ��self-medicating�� to cope with the hurricane effects. A few teachers discussed other unhealthy coping habits after the disaster, including smoking, overeating, oversleeping, and using alcohol ��Self-medicating, pretty good down here you know. I’ll never forget to when I was in Houston and I called some of my family that lived on the North Shore. And I said look, I’m in, I’m coming back, I’m just a week later, I’m leaving Houston. What do you need? Generators, shovels, axes, chainsaws, what do you need? The response was a case of vodka, case of gin, two cases of wine ������I drank more �� I mean I was never drunk �� I would go home and have a drink every single night and you kind of needed it to chill out and that lasted quite a while and if you talked to people �� all kinds of people were doing the same thing.

����I used an old prescription of Vicodin.��Subtheme 2.2 [School] ��The school subtheme relates to the needs of the faculty and staff, as well as those of students. Since this subtheme is twofold (faculty/staff and students), we first considered how rebuilding the school met the needs of the faculty and staff, followed by how rebuilding the school met the needs of the students.Faculty and Staff Needs Met with School ��Based on numerous conversations, getting the schools opened and in order after Hurricane Katrina was a positive goal for many of the faculty and staff in this study and a step toward overall improvement in the quality of life.

In fact, many Dacomitinib educators set out to get the school back in order as soon as they could return safely. The following comment illustrates the priority and importance of school in the lives of the teachers: ��I was in the school as soon as I could get my boots through without touching the [flood] water �� I felt like I was doing something.��While some classroom teachers longed to get back with the children in the classroom to ��feel back to normal,�� other faculty and staff described a preference for ��physical labor.