You should know better

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Ok, AN, it's guilty pleasure time. What do you do that you know as a nurse you shouldn't? Chain smoke? Binge drink on the weekends? Lecture a patient on a healthy lifestyle then go home and slam down a whole mac-n-cheese pizza? Ride your kick-a** donorcycle to work? Do back flips on your trampoline while juggling swords?

Out with it!

Specializes in Surgical, quality,management.

I'm good with the dentist, dr, gyn. I don't drink fizzy drinks and never smoked. Never liked coffee. However living n a different country to where I grew up I spend a fortune on imported chocolate when I fall off the healthy eating wagon. I drink gin like its going out of fashion I hate comercial french fries, but proper potato fries I.e. cut up a spud and deep fry it, yummy. Cheese of any kind, love living beside so many weeked markets, white, sweet carbs filled with chocolate, fruit or cream and jam, cycle to a friends house with the bike basket full of wine, crackers and cheese, said friend has a dog who I am allergic to but I love, load up on anti histamines and walk my bike home drunk and a little bit off from the anti histamines. My brothers mashed potatoes with cheese, dads savory mince comfort food dinner in a portion size for a man working on the farm all day.

My attempts at exercises are great however I hate running on the treadmill, as soon as I hit 1.6km (1 mile) im off........this could be in part due to my non compliance with my AU$600 orthotics that since I took a non clinical job I don't wear, hello shin splints........I have to get back to wearing them.

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

Coffee. Guinness. If I could only figure out how to make them go together! Lol.

Bad habit: I run every day. Why is that bad? Because I have a labral tear in my right hip and plantar fasciitis in my left foot, but I refuse to stop run-streaking. This was day 223! A minimum of a mile a day, but usually 3.

I am addicted to allnurses too.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

I'm addicted to sweets, pasta, bread and carbs so am a picky eater and only like a few vegetables. A kit kat chilled in the fridge is a great snack!

I speed and never wear a seat belt, nor a helmet when I bike. I've been known to fly down a hill on my bike with my arms up in the air daring fate!

Have only had two pap smears in the last 20 years, never had a mammogram.

Haven't had my labs drawn in a couple years even though the Dr ordered them not sure what I will say when I have to see him to get my meds refilled.

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Specializes in Flight, ER, Transport, ICU/Critical Care.
Severe asthmatic. Always forget to bring my inhaler with me.:whistling:

The fumes from the Jet A did you in! I'm there with ya! And I forget them too!

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Specializes in Flight, ER, Transport, ICU/Critical Care.

Never smoked, no coffee. A bit of a stress eater at times. Love a good adult beverage, but never get behind the wheel or in the car with anyone who drinks.

Don't mind the dentist - better living through chemistry (try it! a little gas or sedation is your friend — use it)!

Exercise makes more sense the older I get!

I don't sleep well. Ever.

I avoid the sun in the past 20 years. But, did not so much when I was a teen.

Regular health care within reason.

Prior to a serious auto accident late 2013 I did not take a regular medication in almost a decade. Now, I take a half-dozen regularly & have spent so much time in doctors offices I'm gaining contempt for the entire healthcare system. Really. I don't suffer fools well anyway & while most that remain involved in my care are awesome, there have been some real losers that have needed "weeded" out. Some of those idiots are flat out hazardous to anyone's health. Stupid, I tell ya!

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I do all kinds of horrible stuff, but the most dangerous is probably sun worshipping without sunscreen.

I love coffee, drink gallons of it & get a horrible headache if I don't have it. Also love anything salty/greasy, red licorice & cookie dough ice cream. My best shifts happen when I blast Rolling Stones or The Who on the way to work & I KNOW my hearing is starting to go.

Ice cold Newcastle or a few glasses of Reisling are not bad, either.

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Specializes in Emergency.
I'm only human ! Anything with bacon ... I'd build a big bacon castle and eat my way out of it if I could

Not quite a castle, but here ya go:

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I think we were separated at birth :D

Triplets.;)

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Specializes in ICU.

After having a particularly stressful night this week that had me crying in the car on the way home because I almost killed somebody, I decided fresh hot Krispy Kreme doughnuts were the way to go. I tried to only get six, but she talked me into a full dozen because it was only about a buck and a half more. Six of them were gone before I got home, and the rest were gone by the next day. There is nothing like those dang hot glazed doughnuts so hot you almost can't eat them.

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Specializes in CVSICU, Cardiac Cath Lab.

Never met a bottle of wine that I didn't like... Or finish!

And I'm a little fat since I like ice cream more than exercise!

I refuse to consider my coffee habit a bad one.

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Never met a bottle of wine that I didn't like... Or finish!

And I'm a little fat since I like ice cream more than exercise!

I refuse to consider my coffee habit a bad one.

Pinot Grigio right now. Happy Friday!

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Specializes in Emergency.

Rocca di castognoli classico '11. Unbelievably good chianti. Buy a case now. Thank me later.

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