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My mantra lately: "Wash your HANDS, go back to CLASS and cover your COUGH!"

Scary dream last night that a busy day at work turned in to a full bloody ICU with kids and adults.

I kept taking out this one woman's IV's for discharge and there was always one more. I couldn't find the dressings as she was bleeding a lot and it was a school/ICU. The ICU nurses were being snotty, the per diem school nurses who were called in to help me were amazing.

I left work at 9pm, and even though my school is in my town I ended up driving west the LIE toward my mom's house. Guess I needed a hug.

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Scary dream last night that a busy day at work turned in to a full bloody ICU with kids and adults.

I kept taking out this one woman's IV's for discharge and there was always one more. I couldn't find the dressings as she was bleeding a lot and it was a school/ICU. The ICU nurses were being snotty, the per diem school nurses who were called in to help me were amazing.

I left work at 9pm, and even though my school is in my town I ended up driving west the LIE toward my mom's house. Guess I needed a hug.

Sounds like an anxiety dream! No fun!

I used to have them all the time when I worked as a waitress-- it would be that I would keep getting new tables, food not coming out from the kitchen, and not being able to get to everything.

I think the common theme for anxiety dreams is a feeling of being overwhelmed and out of control.

ETA- Thanks Wikipedia! See below....

Anxiety dreams are characterized by the feelings of unease, distress, or apprehension in the dreamer upon waking. Anxiety dreams occur in rapid eye movement sleep,[1] and usual themes involve incomplete tasks, embarrassment, falling, or pursuit.[2] Anxiety dreams may be caused by childhood trauma, or an adult dealing with conflict. Though they create anxiety in the dreamer, anxiety dreams also serve as a way for a person's ego to re-set.

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Scary dream last night that a busy day at work turned in to a full bloody ICU with kids and adults.

I kept taking out this one woman's IV's for discharge and there was always one more. I couldn't find the dressings as she was bleeding a lot and it was a school/ICU. The ICU nurses were being snotty, the per diem school nurses who were called in to help me were amazing.

I left work at 9pm, and even though my school is in my town I ended up driving west the LIE toward my mom's house. Guess I needed a hug.

I love dreams! Especially ones like this! Back when I worked as a nurse manager, I used to dream all the time that we were shorthanded so I took patients (which actually happened a lot) and got so behind on passing meds that I just took them all myself so I could be done with them. Either that or it would be time to report off and I would realize that I hadn't given anyone their meds all day!

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Asthmatic student just came in, struggling to catch his breath after running 55 in the pacer in PE. I ask him "WHY OH WHY DID YOU NOT COME IN BEFORE RUNNING???????"

BTW- he's fine.

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Asthmatic student just came in, struggling to catch his breath after running 55 in the pacer in PE. I ask him "WHY OH WHY DID YOU NOT COME IN BEFORE RUNNING???????"

BTW- he's fine.

LOL because he's a kid. But also maybe he doesn't always need the inhaler for exercise? My asthmatic cross country/track runner always takes his rescue inhaler to meets, but rarely uses it, and only if he feels something after running. He is on a maintenance med every day which has made a real difference for him, so I don't know if your running asthmatic has that in place or not. Oddly enough, my son has never had any asthmatic symptoms when playing soccer, even before the maintenance med. Maybe the difference is that soccer running comes in bursts, while in track/cc he's doing distance? I've learned that asthma is weird and symptomology is very individualized, and can even be unpredictable in a kid who thinks he knows his condition well.

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LOL because he's a kid. But also maybe he doesn't always need the inhaler for exercise?

Haha! I know he's a kid... I was joking with him, but he is an avid sports player and knows that he should use it before sprinting... I know he didn't come to use it because he probably did not know they would be doing the pacer until they got to PE and then they won't hold up the whole class so a few students could take 5 minutes to travel to my office, use inhalers, and get back to the gym. I was thinking I'd email the PE teachers and ask them if (in the future) they could announce in the locker room that any student who may need to use an inhaler should go now. `

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I was thinking I'd email the PE teachers and ask them if (in the future) they could announce in the locker room that any student who may need to use an inhaler should go now. `

That's a good idea.

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WHY OR WHY do these kids NEVER tell their parents about the bug bite, bruise, etc. but love sharing that info with us????????????????

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WHY OR WHY do these kids NEVER tell their parents about the bug bite, bruise, etc. but love sharing that info with us????????????????

THIS. Today I had a student with a pretty large splinter impended in his fingernail. He told me it happened on Friday (almost 5 days ago) and it was really starting to hurt. I asked him if he'd showed to his parents all weekend and he said no. Kid was almost 13.

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15 year old boy comes in for "cold cream". The girls got bored in Art class and experimented by applying makeup to the kid. It went well with his beard.

You don't have cold cream? Get your chiz together, Farawyn!

Although I did get chastised by an 8th grader last week for not having concealer. Her undereye bags were intolerable. Intolerable, I say!!

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You don't have cold cream? Get your chiz together, Farawyn!

Although I did get chastised by an 8th grader last week for not having concealer. Her undereye bags were intolerable. Intolerable, I say!!

NanaPoo is very silly today!

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NanaPoo is very silly today!

If NanaPoo has eye concealer that really conceals eye circles without looking all pasty and fake . . . . . she can send some to me!

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