1. Camming is way more fun than $120,000 in student loans for nursing school.
2. Smoking pot before a job interview is totally acceptable.
3. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.... (...that gives you renal failure, heart failure and cardiomegaly)
4. If you tell someone you need to get deer ticks off of testicles, you will have an audience.
5. Night shift. Glorious, glorious night shift. I haven't slept in days, but I got to actually do a good, thorough job changing a bandage and OMG.... I taught people actual STUFF. I miss night shift.
6. I keep forgetting I'm old enough now that doctors can and will be younger than me. It's okay, though, because I look younger than them.
7. Literally every person could end every post with "wait 24 hours before you do the PVT, and people will still brag about their good pop up and offer advice on how to pass.
8. People are actually able to spend $120,000 on nursing school. This girl said $20,000 per semester. I'm pretty sure she says BSN. I'm not sure if she realizes her math is off. But still.... It's crazy.
9. I'm nearing a breaking point on some personal life stuff and confess I've secretly been glad to escape it to go to work.
- I learned, for the hundredth time, that if I have a hell of a shift I can leave some stuff not done and night shift will either A) totally understand and tell me not to worry about it in report, or B) bite me.
- The nouveau answer to the pharmacology exam is gabapentin.
- If the methadone clinic, the other methadone clinic, and the alternative medicine clinic have all told a patient to stop coming... they will​ end up at my Tuesday night clinic and expect me to cure them. So I sprinkle gabapentin on them.
I have learned to never, ever explain to a patient's family what the numbers on the BIPAP mean--because they will Watch. It. Like. A. Hawk. and call in a panic when something is "amiss".
That when I attend a family function (directly after working my third night shift in a row) so as to prevent family drama; I become the creator of the aforementioned drama by being snippy with everyone and falling asleep in a recliner.
1. I like the way the word camming looks in print.
6. Caitlyn Jenner is a pretty good looking woman.
"Camming" . . . . ..
#6 - I watched part of the video related to the transformation. Bruce (aka Caitlyn - by the way, that's my daughter's name and it is spelled Caitlin) was in a golf cart tooling around and a camera was focused on his/her face and folks, there are lots of normal wrinkles! The photos are majorly airbrushed. I'd look that good with airbrushing!
What did I personally learn this week? That trying to buy airline tickets to another state in order to visit your granddaughter is difficult. There are few non-stop flights and most of the flights are 2-stop with changing planes and 3.5 hour layovers.
One thing I miss about being married to someone who works for an airline is cheap standby tickets. But that's all I miss.
#6 - I watched part of the video related to the transformation. Bruce (aka Caitlyn - by the way that's my daughter's name and it is spelled Caitlin) was in a golf cart tooling around and a camera was focused on his/her face and folks, there are lots of normal wrinkles! The photos are majorly airbrushed. I'd look that good with airbrushing! [/quote']
I'm just going to throw this out there, but as a general rule of thumb when talking about people who are transgendered, it's considered respectful to use their preferred name and pronoun. I mess it up all the time myself, so I'm not hating, just thought you might like to know. :)
One thing I miss about being married to someone who works for an airline is cheap standby tickets. But that's all I miss.
I was driving from northern WA to Portland alone one time, a drive my ex and I used to make regularly together, and I found myself regretting breaking it off because I wasn't able to use the carpool lane. It's so much faster...
I'm just going to throw this out there, but as a general rule of thumb when talking about people who are transgendered, it's considered respectful to use their preferred name and pronoun. I mess it up all the time myself, so I'm not hating, just thought you might like to know. :)
I was driving from northern WA to Portland alone one time, a drive my ex and I used to make regularly together, and I found myself regretting breaking it off because I wasn't able to use the carpool lane. It's so much faster...
I gotchu, and I agree, but at the time of the show Caitlyn was still Bruce. He wouldn't tell his name even, and wasn't making "the reveal" yet. I think a little pronoun forgiveness is okay at that point.
I gotchu, and I agree, but at the time of the show Caitlyn was still Bruce. He wouldn't tell his name even, and wasn't making "the reveal" yet. I think a little pronoun forgiveness is okay at that point.
I learned that taking four days off in a row is awesome, and it's okay to not answer the phone when your job calls asking you to work extra for the twelmillioneth time. I learned that I started to feel normal again, instead of super nurse/corporate drone. I learned that the chocolate and peanut butter cookie recipe that I finally had the time to try tastes amazing.
I've learned that being at home recovering from surgery is very boring. You can only watch so many shows on Netflix. I actually miss the business of work.
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- I learned, for the hundredth time, that if I have a hell of a shift I can leave some stuff not done and night shift will either A) totally understand and tell me not to worry about it in report, or B) bite me.
- The nouveau answer to the pharmacology exam is gabapentin.
- If the methadone clinic, the other methadone clinic, and the alternative medicine clinic have all told a patient to stop coming... they will​ end up at my Tuesday night clinic and expect me to cure them. So I sprinkle gabapentin on them.