2. When meth is combined with cocaine and booze, it can destroy a 28 year old heart.
3. When you have one random patient across the unit from your other patients, and that patient is the only patient without psych issues, that poor patient is unfortunately going to be a bit neglected.
4. A discharge with EMS transport, ICU transfer and admission happening simultaneously (literally all less than 5 minutes apart from one another) 2 hours before you're supposed to be giving report means you'll be giving report before your last round of (very late) meds will be given.
5. Never been happier for vacation time. (Today is day 4/15.)
6. All play and no work makes ixchel a very happy girl. :)
That's all I got this week! Not much to learn when all I've been doing is playing! :)
1) I learned that having a little cold sore on your lip gets you lots of comments from "I think you have a little piece of food on your mouth" to "Is that a pimple", and WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR LIP!! And the worst comment was, "oh you have a coldsore...oh wait isn't that a form of herpes. It isn't is it, no actually I think it is." (thanks co-workers)
2) I learned that stressful situations can cause a coldsore.
3) I learned that Abreva is pretty expensive for such a little tube.
The only time I ever get a cold sore is when I'm stressed. First time I got one was when I sat Boards. Surprise!!
I actually have a colony on my lip-when that area goes numb, I grab the Abreva.
1) I learned that having a little cold sore on your lip gets you lots of comments from "I think you have a little piece of food on your mouth" to "Is that a pimple", and WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR LIP!! And the worst comment was, "oh you have a coldsore...oh wait isn't that a form of herpes. It isn't is it, no actually I think it is." (thanks co-workers)
2) I learned that stressful situations can cause a coldsore.
3) I learned that Abreva is pretty expensive for such a little tube.
Take L-lysine tablets as soon as you feel it coming, it'll be gone before it ever has a chance to scab over!
I take some whenever I feel my lip starting to tingle, and they usually don't even show up. I used to get a couple cold sores every month, now I might only get one a year, and that's if I'm out of pills and can't get to a drug store!!
They work much better than abreva, and they're really cheap.
I like how people freak out about cold sores. It's kind of entertaining. Never have had one myself, but did a lot of research after a best friend developed them and got teased mercilessly about them in school... and something like 90% of us have been exposed to HSV-1 by the time we die anyway. Most of us are asymptomatic carriers. I probably have it myself, as does probably every single person I've ever met, so no judgment on anyone who happens to have their stuff manifest visibly here.
It's funny what the response to that usually is, if I try to educate someone - "You just say that because you get them too!" Good try, but no. You don't have to have a particular disease/ailment to defend people who do.
I keep a prescription of valtrex on me at all times, it is truly a miracle drug for me for cold sores! If i catch it in the tingle stage it never develops and if it has developed the valtex makes it go away very very quickly without going through all the blistery weepy scabby stages. It is awesome stuff!
This week I learned that scheduling dentist appointments on the week before finals might take up study time. Also that getting four wisdom teeth out tomorrow will most likely take up even more study time.
I relearned the fact that I take up too much time on AN, but can't seem to stop!
This week I learned that scheduling dentist appointments on the week before finals might take up study time. Also that getting four wisdom teeth out tomorrow will most likely take up even more study time.
I relearned the fact that I take up too much time on AN, but can't seem to stop!
Thanks ya'll for the laughs!
Delete the app. That way you won't get sucked in when you're driving to the mall, or inserting a Foley, or what have you.
Jensmom7, BSN, RN
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The only time I ever get a cold sore is when I'm stressed. First time I got one was when I sat Boards. Surprise!!
I actually have a colony on my lip-when that area goes numb, I grab the Abreva.