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Good evening. My late Slowbro has frequent vomiting and would wake me up often. Some ileus/gastropersis thing. I miss being part of a book club but don't miss being rushed to finish a book. LOL Work was steady busy. They pulled a nurse to float, what else is new.

Good morning! Joe, hope you have a good day. Connecting and dealing with IV tubing and crawling under a sink to make repairs are not similar skill sets in my opinion. I would have to hire a plumber. But then again, I'm the least handy there is. I hired people to do easy things that if I were so inclined I could do myself. My away from work skillset is in the kitchen, just don't ask me to bake anything. I will be cooking stuff to meal prep the next couple of days, so I don't stop and get chicken fingers. I sent off some information to my financial advisor on my current status, goals and concerns. We have an in person meeting next week. We could do Zoom and not sure what she prefers but I prefer in person. My main concerns are inflation and the high cost of insurance here and what my healthcare costs will be as I will be paying myself for medicare and a supplement. Overall, even though I'm a late bloomer I have to give myself credit for doing okay for a nurse that's single. I've always said that I won't retire young or rich, but I might be okay and middle class still.

Nothing not to like about Avatar: Fire and Ash. It has great scenery, special effects, and great battle scenes. It can be a bit melodramatic at times but it's a great movie overall. Just don't take it too seriously. Again the theme is the earthlings destroy what they touch, but also there's a war within.

I edited my post to say I bought new scrubs and now it went from being posted to needing approval.😝 I have to check my sexism because the air conditioning maintenance person is female and I said "he" above. First time that's happened in the 26 years I've lived here.

Good morning! Joe, happy that you're getting a cat! Dianah, hope you enjoyed yourself. Hope the cellulitis is getting better. Good that you got on top of it. When I got it, it spread very quickly and I went from zero to being in Urgent Care in one day. J22, who knew you were a plumber? Very talented. I've had some pretty stressful days in med-surg land and got home late and didn't post. They pulled a nurse Saturday 30 minutes into the shift because of a no-show on another floor. What is it with the no-shows. She says they messed up her schedule and she wasn't working. Monday was an OT day and wasn't as bad because they didn't pull from us for a change (well they did pull a tech at 10AM). I'll leave it at that because I"m leaving it behind. I need to get my act together today. My kitchen is a mess. Laundry is pilled high. Stuff to do and clean. Having a routine air conditioner maintenance day sometime between 8AM and 10. It's now 9:12 but I'm not going anywhere for a while so he can be late if need be. I used my overtime money to buy five sets of scrubs. This is likely the last time I will be buying scrubs. Strange thought. I had no food and since I was getting Waffle's eye drops at the grocery store pharmacy I use I got some buffalo chicken fingers and mac and cheese. I need to do better, but it was good. LOL

Good morning! Joe, hope today is good. Dianah, so glad the Keflex is kicking in. I had a bug bite or something years ago that caused a lot of swelling and cellulitis to my arm with pitting edema. NP opened a the small area, cultured it and it was MRSA. Didn't have the itching though. Responded to oral antibiotics after two weeks. But I had to switch from the initial antibodies the urgent care gave me. I figure if I didn't get it from the bug, I got it from colonies I have in my nares and body from being a hospital nurse. I was looking at work emails on my phone from home because I wanted to follow up on something and noticed they floated two nurses and made the charge nurse take a full assignment. I've mentioned before how we're signing up working extra shifts, making sure we're well staffed and we wind up floating. I hope they don't do that to me the next three days because I hate working three days and with Monday being an extra day I didn't sign up to take a full assignment so they can float nurses. Not sure what's going on other than nurses taking Summer vacations and being already short staffed, on top of a busy steady stream of admissions. The other day we discharged 14 patients and got 13 admissions with the 14th coming on the next shift. It's exhausting. Anyway, I'll stay present and enjoy my day off. I've accomplished my big goal of going to the gym, washing sheets and going to the grocery store. Best friend is coming for lunch. Since he's low carb, I'm making chicken thighs and veggie stir fry. I'm using a jarred Jamaican green sauce for the marinade. I like to make my own stuff but no time. Again, I had the biggest paycheck of my career, beating two weeks ago by $100. It's not sustainable for me to keeping working overtime but two more weeks of my commitment to go.

Good evening! Dianah, sorry about the cellulitis and glad you're getting it taken care of. Hope the Keflex takes care of it. Keflex does not cover MRSA which a lot of these things tend to be so be watchful and let them know if things don't improve. I already have crappy dental insurance. They even only pay 80% of cleaning. They covered about 1/4th of the cost of a crown. But if I need other crown the max benefit will be achieved. We had a retirement party for someone that's a year younger than me. I'm jealous but I'm sure she's earned but being part of a couple helps. Her younger husband still works. I'm off tomorrow and making plans to make lunch for best friend and then watch TV and have a proper day off.

Good morning. Joe, hope it's less crazy today. We're still in the "feels like" temps of over 100. I went to the grocery store and plan on going to Trader Joes for a couple of things after my haircut which is near there. Had dental cleaning this morning and it was time for X-rays and an exam from the dentist. He has been watching a couple of cracked teeth for a year or more and one is needing a crown now. He identified the other one that will be next but can wait. I appreciate he doesn't do things until they really need them rather than when they don't. Thankfully I still have some left in my Health Savings Account to pay for the crown. Although it's still my money, it feels less painful if it's not coming out of my checking or savings. Otherwise going to meal prep. In the coming six days I have only Friday off and need to do better than take out Chinese.

Ado, hope you continue to sleep well. Joe hope it's uneventful at work and you sleep well as well. Over time I've put pads down where Waffles tends to pee in the house and sometimes it makes it there, other times it doesn't. She can't tell the difference between the bath mat and a pee pad though. Worked my overtime shift today it was a busy day. At the end a family member went into another patient's room and started cursing at us that we weren't taking care of her. I told him it's not his concern as did security who gave him no wiggle worm and told him to shut up or be escorted out with the police called if necessary. I had drama while I'm in report trying to go home. Take out Chinese for dinner.

Good morning! Joe, sounds like a full day. Enjoy! Dianah, hope you slept better. Waffles would not let me sleep past 5:30 AM so I got up. I'm working tomorrow so I'll just stay up. I went to bed early enough. Will go to hot yoga today and if I do only that I will feel accomplished. Will make some pasta recipe for meal prep. It's so humid here, as is our normal for this time of year, our "feels like" is always 100 or greater. It was only 89 yesterday afternoon when I mowed and it "felt like" 100. Yes it did.

Yes Stars WiFI is how people travel with the lap tops and stay connected. Glad you could connect to their home wifi. Everything in my house is wifi including my iMac computer, my TV and tablet. When best friend lived here he connected his lap tap to my wifi. I have an eero (which I got on Amazon as my wifi so I don't pay my internet provider a monthly fee. Works great and reaches my whole house. I have it password protected. My phone uses 5G so I don't have that connected to wifi to save power. I can't imagine not having my smart phone to get around in a new city. For giggles I asked my phone "where can I get Schweppes ginger ale near me" and actually got answers. Florida thunderstorms are different than NC storms. I wish we would get some rain here. We're still a serious drought. Just heard Senator Lyndsay Graham died. Despised him as a politician but my condolences. May be rest in peace.

Is God Is is a really good and layered movie about two twins that set out on a revenge road trip to settle a score with the man who burned them and their mother deliberately. Very well acted. https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/is-god-is-film-review-2026#Google_vignette

Good morning! Joe, sounds like a good day. I love a good quiche. I've gotten used to them being without crust since my low carb best friend makes them that way. I never make them. Stars, that is indeed a good movie. Google AI just told me that it takes about two weeks for the BP med I'm on to take full effect which is why I guess I'm still getting high readings. Duh. Nothing much going on here. Best friend invited me over for lunch and I'll stop by Starbucks and bring coffee with my gift certificate. I didn't sleep the best in the early morning but got a good six hours. I only took 1/2 my sleeping med as I was real tired. I did what is almost routine for me, falling asleep with book on chest, glasses on and lights on. Woke up an hour or two later and turned off the lights.

Good evening! My late Caesar would get out of the gate in the back yard and when I had a fenced in pen built, I specified there are little dogs so they would not make spaces, they never got out. The only dog that gave me problems was when Billy would dig under the fence. Ellie and Slow Bro couldn't stand leaving the comfort of their home. Waffles escaped once but because I left the door open and a good Samaritan neighbor kept her and called the number on her tag and they got ahold of me. Caesar jumped out after another dog out of my car once but luckily he was the kind that stopped dead in his tracks when I yelled at him to stop. Anyway, I survived week 3 of 6 scheduled overtime weeks. BP is high tonight so I must be tired. They floated a nurse again. I to the staffer "fully staffed" means extra nurse to float because they did that every fully staffed day to me for weeks.

Good morning! Welcome to the "Free State of Florida" do you feel more free than in NC? You all the time in the world now to get organized and get settled. But yes, getting the coffee situation fixed is a must. Joe, glad you had a better day. Ado, that sounds miserable having to do that but good for you for the effort. When I travel I bring a 2 cup kettle for heating up water and instant and I'm good to go. When best friend stayed with me recouping from his broken hip he texted me when he woke up. I had a coworker that would text her kids from the living room while they were in their bedrooms..."dinner is ready"..."bring me a glass of water". These are those days. We have been extremely busy for some reason during our "slow season". The ER had 25 holds when I was leaving and was sending four of them our way. We discharged 13 patients and were doing our share to help the ER but also had post ops. Day 3 of being on BP med and it seems to be taking effect as I was 134/77 at work this afternoon. I've rarely been in the 130's this past month and never in the 70's.

Good morning! Joe, I hope you have a better day today. Ado, I hate listening to complaints which is part of my job. Many of them I can't do anything about like an MRI taking too long, or a doctor not rounding early enough. A good deal of complaints is patient's not getting their pain meds on time or in a timely manner. Patient's have such high expectations and so many can't tolerate the tiniest of inconvenience. Dianah, I hope the RV is an easy fix. Although this is only day two on the BP med, today's reading is 138/77. First time below 140/80's in a while. I will try not to obsess over it. The key ordeal and the nap threw off my day yesterday but I did manage to clean the bathrooms, grocery shop and get a load of laundry done. Today I need to mop and cook. I need to mow but will wait until the weekend. My financial advisor says it's time for my annual review to see if I can retire. In the past the answer has always been yes to my timeline of January 2028, but no to any time earlier unless I cut back. We also have to plan that I might live to past 90 like both of my parents. The way work is going I might just cut back and be more frugal. There are some things I can cut back but I'm already close to my tolerable low and I have to remodel my kitchen before I retire so squash that idea.

Good afternoon Joe, I hope you have a better day work wise. I get agitated when I fast so I only do so for procedures. Stars, I hope they can get your car road worthy and it's an easy fix and that they can squeeze you in and get the work done. I got up at 6AM for an early meeting at 7:45/ It was a good meeting but nothing much we're doing except trying to get people to do I&O and Daily Weights. As a leader I should make people more accountable. But just more stuff in an already busy overstressed staff. Dr.'s appointment for my benzo went well. She said she sent through the renewal but we didn't talk about my sleep or anxiety, she's just leaving well enough alone. Thank goodness as I do need it. I can't raw dog insomnia like Dianah since I'm working. Back when I had RSV my UA at the urgent care had hematuria and at follow up I did not. Today I was negative, so that makes two negatives so my doc so nothing to do there. Unfortunately my BP today was 166/90 and I admitted my home readings for the last month were over 140 consistently and I now have a diagnosis of essential hypertension and a prescription. She listened to my theory it's the steroids and she said when I'm off the steroids and it goes down she would take me off the medication. She agreed it could be that. Anyway somewhere at work are my keys. They disappeared from my possession and are no where to be found. I had the clerk at the doctor's check their office and the room I was in, the bathroom, nothing. No one turned it into security, as it's not in the meeting place, the bathroom or the cafeteria I stopped to get a bit to eat after the meeting before my doctor's appointment. Nada. I Ubered home and got my spare key, Ubered back and picked up my prescription and got my car. It's not in my car. This is not the first or second time keys have disappeared into thin air for me. Just up from a nice long two hour nap. Nothing else accomplished.

That's awesome Stars the kid was able to help you. I have a work committee meeting and a doctor's appointment (routine 3 month visit because I'm on a benzo for sleep) on Tuesday. Always something.

Dianah, hope your dog continues to get better. Stars, good luck with the move. I will not rant about work today but I could.

Good evening. No Stars, you won't need heavy northern coats. I usually get away with a late jacket and wear my heavy Winter jacket maybe once in a blue moon. I had a coworker once after moving hear had to buy a jacket because she left them all up north because "I thought Florida didn't get cold". As I eat my plate of whole wheat spaghetti I'm sorry carbs are an issue with some of you. I'm not liking the new crop of coworkers we got. One called in saying she's not coming in for three days because she's out of the country, apparently she said it was arranged with management. If it was, then why are you calling off an hour before your shift? And no, management made no such agreement. Another CNA in her first few weeks off of orientation called off FOR THE THIRD TIME. Another tech today was a no show FOR THE SECOND time in the two weeks she's been off orientation. Well actually she called at 11:30 so say she wasn't coming in. Thanks for the news flash. In the meantime those of us in the trenches taking the heat for being understaffed are getting tired. Morale is low. Especially when administration doesn't understand the downstream effects on us for their poor decisions. Sorry for the vent. I'm back for an overtime shift tomorrow. If everyone shows up we'll be staffed as three of us signed up to do overtime. Most likely it will be a big green flag to administration to float some of us because God forgive we sign up extra and staff our unit. On that happy note. I'll shut off the computer, finish dinner and go to bed and try to find my gratitude and zen.

It's amazing how much stuff there is. Stars, don't pack up all you Winter clothes. People are surprised to find out we get "cold" here too. But being from New England you're pretty hardy. I'm reading about all the recommendations to keep air conditioning at 78 so as to not overpower the grid and how people can't handle that kind of heat. I'm sitting in my 80 degree cool house. :) Had a busy day but I've had worse. We had a nice pot luck and plenty of good food and sweets.

Stars, sounds like things are coming together for the big move and you have a plan set in motion. I remember Hee Haw. Doubtful Gen Z would put up with such stereotypes about country folk these days. My parents loved and we watched it as a family when I was a kid. My Bavarian mother loves country music as does my Texas raised father. Saturday is Day 1 of 3 in a row which I hate. But we're having a pot luck. I showed up at the wrong store to get my chicken wings but when I went to the other store they had them ready. I have two Publix grocery stores within two minutes of each other because they bought out the one close to me. EVERYONE was out and traffic was bad and the store crowded at lunch hour.

Good morning! Joe, glad the knee is better. Hope you have a good day. I sometimes out of the blue get aches and pains like knee or like last year when my hip joint was really bothering me. Right now it's my left hand which is better but I think from holding my phone a lot and using my left hand on my computer mouse. Always something. I'm off one day and work three with Monday being an overtime shift. Bleh. Going to just to try to keep my act together and practice what I preach by doing one thing at time. I've already made the bed with new sheets and the sheets are in the laundry, and I've mopped my Florida room. Going to meal prep so I can eat health for a couple of days other than tomorrow the 4th. We're having a 4th of July potluck and I ordered a chicken wing platter and demanded no coworkers bring chicken. Last year I signed up for the same platter on someone else had the nerve to bring chicken wings as well. LOL I was a bit stunned at my paycheck today as it was probably the largest two-week paycheck in my life. I worked 25 hours of overtime and got $800 in bonus money for picking up the two shifts. I spent it on my car insurance and Amazon Prime bills which are coming in. The good news is the money I set aside for the car insurance can say out of site in my online savings account and make some interest until the next cycle and my Amazon Prime credit is down to zero. I know many people struggle and while no one can say I didn't earn it and it didn't come at a physical and emotional cost, I'm very thankful for the blessing of work. I'm doing an okay job staying off of my social media. I have watched a couple of YouTubers I follow but haven't doom scrolled, but spent that time reading (and falling asleep with book in hand and lights on). Have a great day!

I'm always barefoot indoors. Best friend is always in shoes due to his ortho issues. I would hate it. Stars, get something done. You already have won the "do nothing" prize but you took it from me. Joe wins most productive. Moving day will come whether you like it or not so getting little things done one at a time will help you in the long run. Today was a "meh" busy kind of day. I had two patients and the nurses had 6 apiece. Turns out one of the administrators that I shot that email last night about an issue, checked her email while in house visiting her father in the hospital and addressed the situation and stopped to see me today. I guess being outspoken can sometimes help. But I'm only outspoken when I need be and am mostly compliant doing what I'm told as I'm a worker not a boss. So nice to know they take me seriously when I do speak up.

Good evening. We're used to the humidity here but there are some days it gets really stickily. Nice photos J22 Glad the eye exam went well Ado. Stars I've found in my interactions with companies they don't care how they treat people anymore. They no show, don't call you back. Bleh Worked sucked. No secretary, but at least I was a "free charge". Tomorrow they say I will have a full patient assignment. I don't mind, but I hope there's a secretary,. One secretary is out sick, two are quitting (and one was at her grandmother's funeral today). I see a lot of days ahead without a secretary. There are techs cross trained but we never had enough techs. Bleh..... Have a good evening.