#it's the nurses who do everything
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how do you not know what doctors do??
I mean I know what they do in general, but specifically ER physicians, no I have genuinely no idea what they do when they're not performing a specific procedure on a patient lmao
#I've done a few shifts at an er but I'm a tech#so basically just ekgs and restocking things and helping the nurses sometimes#it's the nurses who do everything#like literally everything#idk if it's this hospital in particular#but i never see the doctors#the other techs and nurses say you're lucky if you can track one down#one of the nurses i was following around said we really just do everything without them#and that there's usually only two of them on shift at a time#so that's. nice#but tldr apart from procedures yeah no i don't know what they do#the one time i saw a doctor she was doing one of said procedures then dipped immediately after#never saw her again#not snz
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This is going to sound so stupid but I only today realised that a significant number of people like....look down on retail & service industry work.
#Nothing like happened i'm just listening to Debt by David Graeber & thinking about things#Remembering when my coworkers wife was working in a cafe while she finished her masters#And I was like - ah I like that cafe! Does she like the work?#& he scathingly said#'well. its cafe work'#I feel stupid! This should be obvious!! I know people treat service industry workers like shit!#I guess my mammy - who raised me on her wages from 5 jobs at a time including everything from#Cross border peace development work to cleaning bedrooms in a b&b -#Simply did too good a job teaching me that any job worth doing is worth doing well. Has inherent dignity. Etc.#Also I have many friends who prefer being baristas to like. High paid lab work#Also i'm from a rural area where farm work is considered the Real Work& everything else is just filling in the gaps#And I grew up surrounded by teachers & civil servants & nurses who would pull a few shifts at a bar or hotel to make ends meet#So. I never really computed that some of this work is considered lesser.#tthat the people who do it are consdjered lesser by some.#And not just by outrageous snobs. By like. Average ppl with jobs that they can sit down in#This is blowing my mind I need a minute#Me Fein
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Nurse Mituna?! Do you trust her....
#homestuck#mituna captor#transfem mituna#ok imagine an earth C AU and all the dancestors are there and everything is great and mituna is transgender and a nurse but of course#still a gamer and a skater and shes doing her best#she skates home after work every day#actually she would probably work the night shift i think she would thrive in that sort of environment#everyone is like youre fucking insane and shes like 1 KN40W#H3H3H3H3H3#i wonder if hospitals on earth C would be like. separated by trolls/humans?#that might be a lot for the doctors and nurses to memorize if theyre looking at caring for two entirely different species.#like maybe you can pick your specialty like a human who is a troll surgeon or a troll who is a human NP#God thats so amusing to me. actually#Maybe some hospitals are co-ed in more sparsely populated areas to save funds but in cities you can afford to have different facilities#anyway mituna loves the craziness shes being pulled in all directions and getting hit and yelled at but shes dealt with cronus for an etern#ty so its nothing new to her#bossy highbloods.. she knows not to take their vitriol personally. they are trolls just like everyone else#luckily she enjoys being needed and constantly on her feet#and when things slow down she likes to entertain her patients!
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so, you're telling me....
( tw for unc nina med trauma/its-on-para-siGHT-bitch! )
***update:
that the past 2-3 weeks of hell i spent fighting for my goddamn fucking life alone in my room, tearing my body apart to try and keep it together, those abrasions and tears creating openings for worse things to burrow in along side the original things, thinking i figured out what i have only to realize the parasite was not done forming, new stuff forming while that was happening like i was a goddamn petri dish, having to spend every hour of every day doing research to find out what was wrong with me bc my family wouldnt believe me
and thought i was a psychotic basket-case and that even after four traumatic trips to the er, the doctors were still not fucking listening to me, told me i was sunburned and needed to be sedated, to take my chill pills, taking antibiotic after antibiotic, my hair coming out, my skin turning red and yellow, that shit not curing me, that shit actually making me worse??? that shit literally chemical burning me, that shit making me weaker than i was when i was a 14 year old freshman in high school, that fucking evil mystery diagnosis hive mind about to send a ectoparasites into my fucking heart and lungs and shit,
with me literally ready to FUCKING DIE...
could all have been over in one hour, after i promised myself i would not do any more research and just let it happen, happened to stumble upon the right parasite that presents identically to the one that i was told ( loose term, they didn't test me ) / thought i had...
but when smothered with VasoFUCKINGLine...
IS KILLED INSTANTANEOUSLY.
#nina speaks#tw for para stuff#but anyways#now i can right again i guess#i still have blood work to do thank u to my nurse#who told me to keep looking i love her she said one more time#i wont tell your mom you have to fight your fight#AND I AM SITTING HERE#WEAK AS SHIT LIKE I THOUGHT THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS WERE FINALLY GONNA GET ME#SURVIVED THE CHEM SOAK AND EVERYTHING#BUT IM COVERED IN VASOLINE I LOOK LIKE A DISGUSTING GREASY RAT#AND THESE MOTHERFUCKERS ARE DYYYYYYYYYYYYING#FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU#I LIVE I LIVE I LIIIIIIIIIIIIVE#now i can answer my memes <3
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For every rabid la squadra fan I'm there sawing melones head off and biting off formaggios fingers. Mr electric send their asses to HELL
#fugo.txt#jjba#joking I don't hate the characters I'm like. impartial to them at most lol#I do wish they would've hit prosciutto with sticks#or made him older. whichever one.#<- i want him OLD and BALDING and TUCKING HIS SHIRT INTO HIS PANTS and COMPLAINING ABOUT EVERYTHING. OR I WANT HIM DEAD!!!#confession in the tags because no one will read them I'm tryly an old man lover they lock me out of nursing homes but it won't stop me#call me grandad. who said all that whaaat
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should’ve been a roadie when i had the chance…
contract company rolled through my city last year and had an orientation at our local arena… i was going to go and then got stuck with a bunch of work at my current job
i think that will forever be the opportunity i will feel the most regret over not taking
#ramble on exie#looking at those photos of frank and wanting that haircut#and then realizing that everything i want to change about my appearance probably goes against most dress codes#like i could never look the way i want and be corporate#there’s probably dress codes for nurses here and a lot of what i want would be against it#<- i should look that up actually. won’t make me change my career goals but it is something good to know#i just. i think i would’ve been so much happier doing the grunt work for live music#i know i don’t have the skill to be the talent- but to be involved in the production? that would be fun#i really like physical labour too- i like being busy and using my muscle#hell i could’ve learned how to be a tech- moved up the ladder who knows!
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#sorry im thinking abt death again#because it's weird to think that ive been in the room. maybe a meter away from someone as they died#that someone being my mom. its just weird. the time in the hospital feels like it happened in some dark little pocket universe detached from#time. a calm room and then the soft blips of a monitor then the nurse rushing in to say she'd passed#i dont kno y ppl use that phrase: passed on. i mean i do. it softens the topic. makes it sound peaceful. ive yet to use it. i just say she#died bc thats what happened. is that insensitive? i dunno. when i was home i realized that i come off as much stranger than i think. the way#my family see me doesnt fit how i see myself. i dont kno what to do with that. i dunno. theyre all together today#for an early easter. and im halfway across the country again. nose so stuffy ive had to mouth breathe for the last 3 days#and again. everything feels the same as it did before but also profoundly different. sometimes i cry in the mornings. or when i think abt#future vacations she wont be there for. bc in the end she quickly slipped away in a way that couldn't be described as peaceful until her#last half a day. and all i can think about in that tiny room is how scary it would be to lose control like that#and how its not fair and she didnt deserve to die only halfway through a lifetime. but its not about fair and its not about deserving.#sometimes bad things just happen. that's life. and now i own a book called motherless daughters. and now im standing with the countless#others who've lost their moms too early. ive already become aware of 3 ppl in my daily life who are in the same club#i keep thinking about this moment that happened between my parents at the hospital. apparently my dad was helping her get cleaned up and her#stomach was so bloated she looked like she had a bby in there. which my dad said. and my mom apparently said: but it's a baby no one want. i#dont kno y that upsets me so much. all the things i heard abt her being in the hospital before i got there upset me. and the rest of my#family was there to see it. so i have the least traumatic version of the story. and i got almost 27 years with her. except my sisters#probably got more time with her bc i spent so much time away. or maybe not. i dunno.#i dunno. im just sad that shes gone and sad that it was drawn out even a little bit. 6 days isnt long but im sure it felt like an eternity.#again not fair. nothings fair. 53 years of unfairness culminating in a tragedy. she would hate me characterizing it like that. she lived a#full life as they say. full with an asterisk on account of length#unrelated
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so i went in blind for the dw 60th specials besides donna returning (amazing incredible stupendous) but now there's only one left and ive seen cast lists and now im like: does this mean, that donna noble, and kate stewart, might interact? in front of my eyes???
if they do im going to eat my tv screen. cronch it like humbugs.
#talk about best life right#i mean the way they're queering everything they might even mention that wife of hers lmao#i cant wait#lmao fourteen geeking out 'omg my friend kate is here!' and donna's like 'that's the office lady who files gramps's nursing home stuff.#what's she doing here?'#the possibilities are endless#doctor who for ts
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my mother is entering my cat and mule in a charity pet costume contest benefitting a doctor's without borders style group of nurses. The mule is going to be dressed up as Jesus, and the cat a cardiologist bc his name is Cardio-Vascular-Health and I think that would be funny
this is he:
the competition is primarily going to be voted on by nursing students and faculty. so folk who will not be wigged out by an anatomically correct heart, but who still might fall into a more normy aesthetic preference group.
The heart will be done in crochet either way bc I can't be fucked to spend more than 30 minutes on it.
#(to be clear: they just go out to underserved communicaties in central and south America to provide medical screening and education#to folk who dont have access to it. theres no strings attached#communities opt in and get group of nurses and students showing up to provide vaccinations pap smears and everything else#+ education on like cpr and the heimlich/ what to do to stabilize someone until they can fet to one of the larger cities for proper help#theres no religious aspect (brought by the nurses. sometimes the only building available to use for this is a church)#and its a 100% voluntary thing on both sides. and is just meant to help struggling communities out+ it doesn't cost them anything
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performed my first postmortem care like 30 minutes ago hoopla
#actually not that bad. you just get a little unnerved at first and then you’re like wait this is just someone I know#very sweet lady I was happy to do it for her#she passed like 5 minutes after I said my goodbyes#I dug up her rosary and everything#made my nurse cry because I was determined to open the window even though it was bolted shut. I ripped off the plexi glass and pulled the#AC unit out and i was like this isn’t about the window this is about what’s right and she got all teary eyed#she’s been there for me for a lot of my residents’ deaths. I’m always happy when it’s her and I who take care of them#just to clarify I didn’t break the actual window just the plexiglass. she even took the blame for me lol#but it was a very peaceful passing overall tbh. and a lady who was special to me so it was an easy process. she deserved the best care#I played Elvis for her while I cleaned her up lol. she was a wonderful woman with a great sense of humor. I’ll miss her a lot#nat20.txt
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hi im still alive and finally getting better !!!
#might actually get to go home for real tomorrow or the day after#medical#illness#i hope i can leave tomorrow bc i've just abt had it with my current roommate#complains abt everything... argues with the nurses abt everything... complains to me abt the nurses#like maam i dont care. im a patient here too im trying to rest and get better im not here to listen to ur griping abt the nurses#who are just trying to do their jobs correctly#anywayyyyyyy <3 it took longer than expected but it looks like the antibiotics finally did their job and the infection is leaving#neck is a lot less swollen and my skin is clear again too#el.txt
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More random head children musings (aside from the really sad one because that deserves better than a throwaway post):
Honestly I think it’s very fortunate that Dism’s team isn’t *entirely* comprised of lucid dreamers.
#just pav things#they’re teenagers that haven’t lived with using their powers their whole lives. they have no innate control over it#They’re FAR more likely to push themselves psychologically because of their emotional issues#And they don’t know when too far is. So they face their punishments for overtaxing themselves as a result ✨#And like. Dism wants to play hero and be the MOST useful so he overcompensates and takes on too much#Doesn’t delegate tasks/responsibility in battle to anyone else at all#And because he’s wielding that persona Inigo also overcompensates because he doesn’t want Dism to get injured#something something lingering thoughts of Archie y’know ✨#And the poor coordination that Dism and Inigo both have in Arcs 1-3.5 means Idyllia#who secretly feels she’s done a terrible job of protecting the people she cares about her whole life#then uses her healing powers to an unnecessarily high degree#because there is one borderline-suicidal not-even-dodge-tanking-as-supposed-to idiot and#trying-to-fulfill-a-misguided-social-agenda idiot 🌈#What are the ultimate results of this?#Well you have ~75% of the party who are barely holding onto this plane of existence#Dism who can barely walk or speak because he can’t *time* any movements of his body correctly#Idyllia who’s left generally shaky weak and extremely fatigued— her life and vitality disappearing into vapid traces#And Inigo who loses his senses and any bearing on reality at all. Even the most basic tasks unintuitive to him#The chances of a TPKO would be absolutely certain if not for Cynthia being able to nurse and protect them while they’re recovering 😭❤️#Honestly they are coasting by on a LOT of luck and it shows#If the end of Arc 2 was any indication…..#They do get better though <3#And that’s how they manage to pull off the successful rescue operations for Idyllia and Archie later :D We love some good teamwork :)#Now you may be thinking— how does this same concept pertain to Archie’s kids?#Theon exhibits the same symptoms as Inigo… or that’s what I would say#He’s so scared of repeating history’s mistakes that he only uses his intuition for guiding his aim and not anything like#scanning for weaknesses or seeing the future. ESPECIALLY THE LATTER#So Theon actually doesn’t tax himself much at all#Consequences for Ewan include a sheer rejection of rationality and logic and positivity#Too much light is blinding! Leaving him blind to everything but his baser impulses
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12•10•23 || I lived, bitch
Ate some pretty good toast and my doctor really tried to draw what he did to get my gallbladder out. He almost thought about sending me to another hospital bc of a tricky gallstone lodged in the bile duct.? Anyway, I’m in pain, but this time it’s for a good reason. Got a visit from my husband and he’ll be back later to hopefully bring me home if this pain is better. If not, it’s one more night of channel surfing and egg salad sandwiches. No real complaints here. I’m just glad that fucker is out.
#gallbladder#health#update#the nurses should run everything and honestly they do#mine#i lived bitch#lol#shitpost#photo journal#indestructible little fucker#I’m Izzy hands#the calm before the storm#I’m crying now bc my hormones are off kilter from being sick and the anesthesia#plus I feel like I’m bossing people around who say I’m not but I hate asking for help and being helpless#my life
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my littlest cousin is very sick with some sort of upper respiratory for like the 20th time in his very short little life. 😢 it's so hard not to mentally backseat parent in a situation like this. at least his mom is always quick with the doctor's visits, that makes me feel better at least.
#it's hard not to judge#not that i ever say anything because what use would it do#but she's a nurse who doesn't mask at work#and he's been in daycare since he was like 3 months old#he had rsv before his eyes had the light of awareness in them#she is doing a good job with him in many ways! he's vaccinated and he gets all sorts of boosters and she's got tricks & tips for everything#like his eyes used to cross a lot when he was a newborn and she would hold her hand over his eyes for like 10 seconds to unstick em#and she was putting breastmilk in his baths to help his skin#and using barrier cream to prevent diaper rash like i honestly don't know that he has ever in his life had diaper rash#idk what to think. i don't have a baby specifically because of situations like this.#he needs to stop being around tons of other children during a pandemic#he also needs socialisation and his parents need to earn money to keep him alive#like. the fuck are you supposed to do.#i guess everyone's just gonna be sick all the time now. especially babies with no immune systems. and that's that.#adam yaps
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One of the 'essential' supplies we were given in the health centre was a water gun, and I absolutely abuse the privilege of having one
#summer camp tag#listen i got 8 siblings 6 of whom are brothers i know what teenagers are like and im not doing the whole song and dance#where they try to get gatorade snacks and cough drops out of us when weve got actual kids to focus on#i will water gun you off our porch 'oh the other nurse assistants just used to give us everything' thats crazy 🔫#were not doing kid who cried wolf okay
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#hhhh#another stupid. vent post#been a while but mostly I've just been too tired to write it down#is there like. A fun quirky way to say i wanna kill myself still#....no probably not#anyway. i do.#im... im still in that day program thing#partial hospitalization. It's a good program. Lots of classes and very judgement free#sadly i cannot help but feel I'm. doomed to failure#because i need so much higher a level of care than this#i. frankly i should be put in a nursing home#that's probably the level I'm at#it all hurts. so much. everything does. my body my mind trying to think trying to talk trying to type#everything hurts either physically or mentally#I'm tired and exhausted all the time#I can barely move some days#I'm a massive financial burden on the people who love me#and i can't really do anything but play videogames to distract myself and then vent endlessly to people who reach out#....if you see this and reach out#i apologize if i don't end up replying#I'm overwhelmed lately#i just can't keep up#and can't help being lonely as fuck despite that#....but i do read it all#every message i get i read. and i cherish. And i forget because of my adhd but when i read it#i feel good for a minute#......so.....#..if you've reached out before...thank you#...if you plan to now.... I'm about to sleep so i may not reply but#....thank you
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