#And i had it scheduled weeks in advance

[logorrhea5mip]

I <3 you lidocaine

I <3 you ibuprofen

I <3 you modern medicine in general

[padawansuggest]

Okay so once more, I ask of assistance. Not like… required but I’m not gonna lie, this could improve my life to such a significant degree that I’m asking anyways.

So. I have a lot of disabilities that make it hard to get around, but what I’m asking for is help with getting a bike… not really, I need a trike… I know that’s to embarrassing to say as an adult but with my instability I don’t have the ability to keep upright on a bike. I need a trike.

I live in a VERY bike friendly town. It’s small (tho I’m still limited to very small parts of the town because I can only walk for so long and in this heat that’s a very short amount of time) and we actually have dedicated bike lanes here. We even have started construction on multiple bike lanes with center dividers to keep cars out of them, that’s how much this town is friendly to bikes.

And frankly the price isn’t that high either. Like 280$ or so, and I can order one on Amazon (no I cannot buy a trike in this town) and they have them with the giant baskets in the back for groceries and I can get a personal shopping basket for the front of the cart and that would bet. Awesome.

So. Ultimately, I would like a better quality of life and being restricted to a very small part of town because of mobility is kind of sad… I will accept any help you guys wanna give and drop into my PayPal in the bio.

[theygender]

It doesn't need to be perfect it just needs to be done it doesn't need to be perfect it just needs to be done it doesn't need to be perfect it just needs to be done

[imaginariumgeographica]

Voice and Heart

A Murderbot Diaries fic (and podfic!) created for @pod-together

Written by lc2l | Read by EternalLibrary

[AO3 Link]

[battle-subway-ghost]

// okay I’m putting that post back in my pocket but now people know what’s gonna happen anyways RHTKSHD.

// enjoy the free foresight!

[visenyaism]

did you end up going to see madame web?

so i’m at the stage in my life where my entire thought process about activities is like.

1. i want to do something

2.??????????

3. wait fuck an email from last week i gotta respond to that. well

4. smash cut i am now making copies it’s been two days. shit oh yeah the thing i was going to do. announce i intend to do that thing

5. ??????????

6. it is now two and a half weeks later.

7. oooo new thing i want to do

[doriansbutt]

good god the night before last I woke up at fkin 3am and couldn’t go back to sleep bc I had some mild food poisoning, so naturally running off not enough sleep made my head hurt thru the day and overnight became a migraine and so I’ve currently been awake since 12am (it’s now just past 9am), have taken 2 very long and hot showers, and called out of work bc of the pain. My head feels a lot better but holy fucking shit my stomach is cramping so bad I can’t fkin stand up straight Jesus Christ.

[captainkingsley]

it's fine it's totally fine that I'm having this much trouble getting my t refilled it's fine

[findafight]

Saw an earnest yet completely inaccurate or misinformed take and it's like okay fine fine just ignore that even tho they're out to lunch on what happened in that scene no need to comment keep it to yourself. Or at least your own post's tags

[whentherewerebicycles]

phew I got the tutoring job! huge relief, especially as I just narrowly avoided overdrawing my bank account when my rent payment went through 🫠 I still have about $1500 in medical bills to pay off in installments but I am sloooowly getting closer to being able to put money away again. I’m not sure I can really afford this weights class in the long term but I feel like gym classes are kind of on the same level as buying healthy food—both are expensive but they feel like justifiable expenses for health/well-being reasons. I’ll try out this two-month package I bought and see how I feel at the end of it.

okay let’s think about the day. I do want to go back and add two more slides to my slide deck (one definitions slide and one sample CS project, maybe the AI ethics or psych/CS one) then just quickly run through the whole thing, but I think it’s basically done. I also want to go for a 40 min walk since I won’t be home until after dark. let’s see how about this:

7-9 coffee, lounge, work emails

9-10 walk dogs

10-10:30 shower/get ready

10:30-11:15 add two additional slides, email slide deck to the professor, make breakfast and pack a late lunch?

11:15-11:45 get dressed but also hmm think a bit about this website stuff…

11:45ish drive into work

12:15-1 prep for website mtg + librarians mtg

1-1:30 class presentation

1:30-2 prep for librarians

2-2:30 meet with librarians

2:30-3:30 do a burst of work on rec letter? or finish website planning, review annual report

3:30-4 class presentation

4-6 scholars event

6-6:30 commute home (pick up Rx??)

stir fry leftovers for dinner, do some of these setup tasks for the tutoring job, read

[worthyourweightinfanfiction]

Student schedule was the fucking best. I’d walk max. 10 mins away from my house. Get my mind blown open by smart people for an hour. Fuck around for the rest of the day letting my mind chew over what I learned. Walk into town if I feel like it go to H&M if I feel like it go to a cafe if I feel like it. Get fresh bread and eat it on the walk home if I fucking feel like it dude. Get home there are people my age with free time in my house, spend hours getting ready for a night out, immediately abandon them and have fun dancing to shit music. God damn I miss that.

[fatnutswizard]

Its my birthday! You know what that means!! I have to the dmv because my id expired!!

[sansevierias]

our bosses are like "don't be afraid to stay home sick! we value our workers and it's important to rest when you need it" and i do appreciate the thought, i think it's important that bosses truly believe that. but when you are sick and off from work, there is no one doing your job. so when you come back, you have all of last week's projects unfinished and then some new ones too, that someone decided to assign to you while you were away. fun! and if you are not new and are familiar with this practise, you might just spend your sick leave stressing about returning to work. which is obviously super relaxing and healing.

[sapphicmarauding]

prompt: feb. 20 — feb. 26

this week's prompt is: fingertips

[2024skin]

Missed work again because apparently I can't trust my managers to tell me my schedule I need to continuously check for updates throughout the week 🙄

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

wait, Derin how did your leaving make the hospital shut down?

I used to work as a live-in nanny for a pediatrician.

Now, the thing about hospitals in my country is that they are massively understaffed and massively underfunded. This is especially true outside the major cities. The staff are worked to the bone and receive little to no help in things like finding accommodation or childcare, making working in rural areas a very uninviting prospect; staff come out here, get lumped with the work of three people (because there's nobody else to do it), burn out under the workload and leave, meaning that those remaining have even more work because that person is gone. It's unsustainable and the medical staff are doing their best to sustain it, because people die if they don't, so to the higher-ups it looks like everything's getting done and therefore everything is fine.

My friend (and boss) worked one week on, one week off, swapping out with another pediatrician. This was necessary because it would not be physically possible for one person to handle the workload for longer periods of time. The one single pediatrician had to hold up the entire pediatrics ward, which was not only the only public hospital pediatrics ward in our town, but also the one that served all the towns around us for a few hours' drive in all directions. I regularly saw her go to work sick, aching, tired, or with a debilitating 'I can barely make words or see' level migraine, because if she took a day off, twenty children didn't get healthcare that day, and some of these kids' appointments were scheduled weeks in advance. She'd work long hours in the day and then be called in a couple of times overnight for an hour or two at a time (she was on-call at night too, because somebody had to be), and then go in the next day. Sometimes she would be forced to take a day off because she physically could not stay awake for longer than a few minutes at a time, meaning she couldn't drive to work.

Cue my niece's second birthday coming up in Melbourne. I'd been working for her for about 3 years, and she (and the hospital) had plenty of advance warning that I (and therefore she) needed one (1) Friday off. That's fine, we'll find someone to work that Friday, the hospital said. Right up until the last week where they're like "oh, we can't find a replacement; you can come in, can't you?"

No, she tells them; I don't have anyone to watch my kid that day.

Oh, surely you can hire a babysitter for this one day, they say. Think of the children! We really really need you to work that day. I know we said it'd be fine but we need you now, there's no one else to do it.

There are no other babysitters, she told them. Unless you can find one?

That's not our responsibility, they said.

But I'm not changing my plans, she's got plans by now as well, the hospital knew about this one day weeks in advance, and with absolutely no reserve staff they're forced to reschedule all pediatrics appointments for that Friday. Not a huge deal, it happens on the 'physically too overworked to get out of bed' days too. I go to Melbourne, she goes back to her home in Adelaide for her recovery week, all should be on track.

My niece gives me Covid.

This was way back in the first wave of the pandemic, and there were no Covid vaccines yet. The rules were isolate, mask up, hope. I had Covid in the house, and it would've been madness for my friend and her toddler to come back into the Covid house instead of staying in Adelaide. There was absolutely no way that a pediatrician could live with someone in quarantine due to Covid and go to work in the hospital with sick children every day. And no support existed for finding another babysitter, or temporary accommodation, so the hospital was down a pediatrician.

The other pediatrician wasn't available to do a three-week stint. They were also trapped in Adelaide on their well-earned week off.

Meaning that the only major pediatrics ward within a several-hour radius had no pediatricians. They had to shut down and send all urgent cases to Adelaide for the week. To the complete absence of surprise of any of the doctors or nurses; of course this would happen, this was bound to happen, it presumably keeps happening. But probably to the surprise of the higher-ups. After all, the hospital was doing fine, right? Of course all the staff were complaining of overwork and a lack of resources in every meeting, but they could always be fobbed off with the promise of more help sometime in the future; the work was mostly getting done, so the issue couldn't be too urgent.

It's not like some nanny who doesn't even work for the hospital could go out of town for a weekend for the first time in three years, and get the only public pediatrics ward in the area shut down for a week.