#we're gonna get into the feels soon

[anomalyaly]

Secrets of the Silent Stars Chapter 34: Ranrok is posted. AO3/Wattpad

[insomnya777]

i genuinely do not think im mentally prepared for another life series rn omfg

[kissingarthurclaus]

Hey guys!! Sorry for being gone for a while, but I really needed a little break and my vacation was super refreshing, I had an awesome time with my partner and visiting my best friend.

Still not sure how high my engagement will be here but I'll probably be around a little bit more!

[pseudophan]

gonna be so sad when tonight is the first preshow space with good audio and i'm asleep because i have a psych appointment tomorrow

[prince-liest]

I didn't understand what people meant when they said that the patients where I've done medical school and am doing residency are "very sick," and I'm starting to realize that this is because I haven't actually had context for practicing medicine in a location where patients are less sick, and it is not in fact all that average to think, "It's a good day when I have a patient with a functioning liver and kidneys!" or be pleasantly surprised when I don't have to list "type 2 diabetes mellitis, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, chronic kidney disease stage X, heart failure (of some sort)" on the chart's problem list just, like, at default baseline, with a side of chronic opioid use and/or intravenous drug abuse.

On the other hand, those same people were correct: it's making me better at treating all of those things and handling comorbidities really quick!

One of the big things I keep running into is pain management, because three common things for me to see are liver disease and kidney failure. To simplify it a lot, liver disease precludes the use of acetamniphen/Tylenol, and kidney failure precludes the use of ibuprofen/NSAIDs. There are other pain treatment medications, but I have less experience with them, and they tend to either be for more specific/adjuvant uses (like lidocaine, the gabas, antidepressants, steroids) or opioids... and I've literally seen two patients in the past week who had to get Narcan for opioid overuse.

On the other hand, obviously people in the hospital often have very legitimate reasons to be in pain and we don't want to leave them that way. But it's a hard line to walk when the family is asking questions like "Why is dad not getting enough pain medication?" and "Why is dad talking to the walls about his days in the war?" or when you get people pulling shenanigans like, "I'm allergic to Tylenol, give me Norco instead!" (Hint: Look up what the main ingredient in Norco is.)

Thank you, on-call pharmacy. :'))))

Another thing I'm quickly becoming relieved about is patients who are...not jerks, I guess? It feels not great to put it that way because generally being in the hospital is an extremely poor time for anyone, but also, it sucks when a solid 1/3 of my patients are actively ornery to everyone who tries to work with them for whatever reason (altered mental status, depression, being in pain, general anger issues, drug withdrawal). Shoutout to the folks actively working together with me to help them get better.

Anyway, the hospital is very tiring. Surely the emergency department I'm going to next will - nah, I can't even pretend to finish that joke.

YOLO! I am really enjoying how much and how quickly I'm learning! Despite the crazy hours this is definitely a drastic improvement on medical school in terms of actually enjoying the work.

[coollyinterferes]

The unmistakable sound of footsteps approaching begins to fill the air. Whoever is coming seems to have brought some company along…

They are getting closer… and closer… and closer…

…and closer…

……until..................

"Goooooood evenin'!!" Comes the loud greeting from a certain blond man. A big smile on his face and all.

"We beg your pardon for our prolonged absence. It was completely beyond our control..." Then adds the gentleman standing by his side, apologizing on behalf of both, offering a genuine smile along with the apology.

"...BUT! We're back!" And hopefully for good this time…

[radarsteddybear]

Ok, Hogan's Heroes fandom, I've got a question for you: if you were introducing someone to the show for the very first time, which episode would you start with? For bonus points, also tell me WHY you choose that episode.

[natjennie]

my mom got out of some scary chest surgery a little bit ago and we've just been updated that everything's good, she's breathing on her own, no intubation or respirator or oxygen or anything so that's really good. we're not 100% out of the woods but it's looking good. my family needed a fucking win.

[skitskatdacat63]

Un-Follow Me Now, This Is Gonna Be the Only Thing I Blog About For The Next Week. Ive Wanted This For Years Fuck. What The Fuck.

[tetedurfarm]

well i was busy for a couple days but. gretchen kindled, one dead kit and one live one, which i culled because i didn't have a foster. she won't rebreed (and honestly i realised that if i did rebreed they'd be due in the middle of convention so...no.) molly didn't take despite force-breeding her for a week straight. i have gotten one entire litter out of her and it was in july, and i'm pretty sure i had to force her repeatedly to get that one too. i know the weather is against me now but i'm so tired.

i can't deal with the satins anymore. i don't know what i'm doing wrong. i culled my sts satin doe on wednesday and she looked perfect inside. no visceral fat, great musculature. she was over a year old and never not ONCE offered to breed. i don't know. i don't know. i'm so fucking tired and worn down by these stupid rabbits and i don't know why i can't get them to breed. i have been focusing so much energy in the barn towards getting my fucking satins bred that i am gaslighting myself into believing that NONE of my rabbits breed anymore despite every other breed being pretty damn prolific this year.

it's not my feed. it's not the weather. it's not sunlight. i don't know what it is. but i'm so, so done.

[piratespencil]

Man this episode also gave us FCG's secret past name/title being Faithful Care Giver... And we got a Fashion Montage ft. FCG and FRIDA getting matching coats and the girls getting matching corsets... And we got Fearne's ultimatum to Chet about going after Deanna... AND FCG's quantum tongue.

Fantastic episode all around.

[agnesandhilda]

while I'm talking about jjk: twenty episodes in and the state of powerscaling in this series already does not bode well for the future

[chronurgy]

I'm starting to dread (ha) Dreadwolf, partly because Solas is the main antagonist and I have...... Absolutely no feelings about him at all, actually. The best I can summon is a big old "meh". And if they center him (which it seems like they plan to) and make a big deal about whether you want to kill him or redeem him or stop him or join him... Well frankly I just won't care and I'm worried that means I won't have a damn thing to care about in the game's main plot

I'm also worried that his success or failure at taking down the veil will be preordained since that's too big of a plot line to leave up to the player - there just wouldn't be any way to structure future games to account for that player choice. This is obviously a less well founded worry, but it makes it really hard for me to care about the stakes of the game

Idk I'm not trying to shit on people who are excited for this game (I am too, despite the bitching and moaning) but it's really hard to get excited for a game when the one thing you know about it is so completely uninteresting to you

[izunias-meme-hole]

Honestly glad that I resumed the Umineko binge (for tonight) because I got welcomed to these...

Which soon led into this...

Take the W Battler, you've earned it (With Virgilia's help, but the win was still earned).

[fennthetalkingdog]

Okay, so I saw a thing mentioning how you could wag your butt as if you have a tail to kinda mimic the feeling and that's so smart!! For me, unless I'm super super super happy, wagging my butt is usually just a shaking-water-off-my-fur motion T-T Like, I've been feeling a tail behind me pretty consistently for years now, and when I'm really happy it wags and the feeling gets stronger, but wagging for me is an exclusively tail motion. There's no physical signs because just it's moving (and that's part of why wearing a tail feels weird for me, cause mine will be wagging but since I don't move my butt the tail doesn't move with me T-T ). But I might try that sometime to let my friends know my tail is wagging :3

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

it's like. everything happens so much. it's all happening right now but at the same time nothing is happening whatsoever. it's a liminal space of an existence. it's slowly crushing me under the weight but when I look up there's nothing actually bearing down on me. there shouldn't be any weight. something is wrong but nothing has happened. I'm simultaneously overwhelmed and utterly bored. nothing is happening and maybe that's the everything that's happening. maybe the everything is the nothing. we aren't there yet but it's all so imminent. either everything is going to crash down or nothing is. I'm just waiting to figure out which.