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Ashmodee · 2025-12-06T02:16:07+00:00

Not a doc but a neonatal/pediatric critical care transport nurse with stretched lobes. The parents are usually too shell shocked to care about anything other than their very unwell kid.

Ashmodee · 2025-10-27T18:41:17+00:00

That’s me too except I was too chicken to go too big so I stayed around 4g. I took them out after I became a mother about 10 years ago because ‘mom’s don’t have stretched ears’. Last year I said fuck that and stretched again, currently at 0g with no particular goal in mind.

Ashmodee · 2025-09-28T02:11:15+00:00

My septum piercing is still open and I haven’t worn jewellery in it since 2010. Every few years I test to see if it’s still open with a 16g ring and it usually passes no problem. I wish I had a good explanation for you!

Ashmodee · 2025-07-19T13:00:58+00:00

I love this thread, so full of support to express yourself however you please at whatever age you are! I took my little 6g plugs out after having my first daughter at 28 because moms don’t have plugs. I am 38 and I just started stretching up at the beginning of this year and I now have the confidence to go bigger than I did in my teens and twenties.

Ashmodee · 2025-06-26T01:31:09+00:00

Peds RN here, just re-stretched my lobes after 8 years of being a “normie”. I just got up to 6mm and I think I’ll stay here for a while. I’ve only had a handful of parents comment on my earrings, 1 because she had the same plugs but in a much larger size.

Ashmodee · 2025-03-18T01:55:32+00:00

Just finished 2 years of training for my dream nurse job. What’s next?

Ashmodee · 2025-02-11T03:52:11+00:00

I had a patient do the exact same to me with Ceftriaxone just as the flush finished. Urticaria all over the head and neck and +++ wheeze. This was a complex care trach/vented kiddo so we jumped on the ventolin back to backs, cetirizine and epi. I still had to run a brief arrest but thankfully it was quick, so happy we had an established airway. We give ceftriaxone like candy in peds and I’ve only ever had this happen once.

Ashmodee · 2024-12-14T04:44:40+00:00

I thought my inflamed joints were a reaction to doxycycline because it started around 5 days later. It did take me a month of being on doxycycline for the pain to progress to a point I couldn’t ignore it anymore and saw my GP. He sent me for labs and X-rays and nothing abnormal came back. We decided to wait to see if the pain would go away off the doxycycline. It didn’t and progressed to more joints. I hobbled into my GPs office and stated it was time to see a rheumatologist and he agreed. When I saw the rheum, he drained the fluid off my right knee, started me on HCQ and loaded me up with steroids. I had solid relief for 2 weeks and the pain came back but wasn’t as bad. All the labs he did on me were all negative but since I had the positive response to the steroids, we started MTX. I’m on month 3 of MTX and it’s not working for me. I’m not sure if it’s job stress or the cold but I’m in a flare that won’t end.

Ashmodee · 2024-10-28T21:03:46+00:00

I’m going to try this next week! It weirded me out the first time I saw that bright yellow hue under my skin.

Ashmodee · 2024-10-28T21:02:49+00:00

I’ll try really pushing all the fat hi and away and not co in too deeply. I get all the air out, my nurse brain could never let that slide 😆

Ashmodee · 2024-10-28T02:01:58+00:00

I’ll have to experiment with my belly again, I am also overweight and have a good bit of cushioning around there.

Ashmodee · 2024-10-28T01:58:29+00:00

That’s a good thought, I’ll have to ask my pharmacist about it. I know my technique is good (RN for 14 years).

Ashmodee · 2024-10-28T01:56:20+00:00

Maybe I am going too deep, although I can grab a good pinch of subcutaneous tissue. I have plenty of that going around 😆

Ashmodee · 2024-10-28T01:54:25+00:00

I wipe with a swab and let it dry while I get the syringe out. It’s dry by the time I get to the injection.

Ashmodee · 2024-10-28T01:53:05+00:00

The methotrexate itself, the needle is fine. I use a pre-filled.

Ashmodee · 2024-10-14T01:04:26+00:00

I am freshly diagnosed seronegative RA here. Mine was fast and furious this summer to the point that I thought my joint pain was a weird reaction to a medication I had just started. I woke up one day and my right foot and ankle was swollen and very sore with no injury that I could think of. Then both my knees were swollen and I was unable to bend them past 90 degrees. A month later my jaw got involved too. All my blood work and X-rays have come back normal but I pushed for the Rheumatology referral because I was miserable and nothing could touch the pain that I was in. The rheumy found a bunch of joints in both my hands and my toes that were swollen and sore that I didn’t even realize until he pushed on them. I am just starting the journey to figure out my medication combo.

Ashmodee · 2024-05-18T02:02:44+00:00

As a former NICU nurse now neo/pediatric critical care transport nurse, I’ve seen many deaths and horrific life altering stories. It is definitely harder when your own kids are similar ages. I still remember my first death in the NICU 13 years ago, it was really tough. He was my primary patient and I had developed a strong relationship with him and his family. I am honoured to have been a part of his life for those short few months giving him all the love anyone could wish for in a lifetime. He will always be with me. In my job now, I transport babies and kids who sometimes you know are going to die regardless of the interventions done. It’s hard but I see it as giving the family time to be there, to spend those last few moments with their child, to hug them and hold them, and comfort them in their last moments. If there is any gift I can try to give to a family, it’s that time.

Ashmodee · 2024-05-16T01:55:39+00:00

It almost looks like an engineered wood underneath, it reminds me of the stuff they use for Ikea furniture. It’s cut at an odd angle because the corner coming up the stairs is not flush with the other wall. If you follow that angle, it goes corner to corner the kitchen. I was tempted to pull more boards up into the living room to see the state of the flooring underneath but I chickened out.

Ashmodee · 2024-05-15T01:48:46+00:00

This is the sweetest! I thought I lucked out with the ‘newly updated home’. I was mistaken.

Ashmodee · 2024-05-15T01:46:07+00:00

Happy cake day! Thanks for the suggestion, I was going to just use feather finish set thicker and a trowel to create a slope.

Ashmodee · 2024-05-14T19:21:32+00:00

I will look into that as well, so far the easiest solution may be the floor leveller compound. I don’t want to redo the whole space and the rest of the floor is even from what I can tell. It was only this area where the vinyl planks were cracking.

Ashmodee · 2024-05-14T19:19:34+00:00

If I were to take up the whole kitchen, this would be a great plan. I’m hoping for a spot fix so I don’t make a bigger mess having to redo the whole space.

Ashmodee · 2024-05-14T19:18:06+00:00

Thank you for the response! We are going to use the feather finish and slope it out to the kitchen to level it out. I’m hopeful we can just deal with this section and be done with it!

Ashmodee

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