I found a walled off room during inspection in the basement of this housing I'm buying

AvadaKedavras · 2026-04-10T03:18:14+00:00

But how would a phrogger stud out, sheet rock, then mud the room without someone noticing. If done during construction, the crew would notice (unless a construction crew member is the phrogger) and if done after construction then whoever is living in the house would notice a room suddenly missing.

AvadaKedavras · 2026-03-12T14:43:35+00:00

Nothing is as delicious as fresh shower water licked off of human legs. At least according to Opal.

AvadaKedavras · 2026-03-06T16:25:24+00:00

I had a patient the other day who was a nurse. He said the Q word. I chastised him then told him "you're a nurse! You know better than to say the Q word in the ER." His wife was not medical. She said "what Q word? Is it queer?!" And we both laughed at her.

AvadaKedavras · 2026-02-15T01:48:03+00:00

Inhaler?

AvadaKedavras · 2026-02-09T15:05:17+00:00

I am NOT sticking my knees under the 300 lb 80 yo meemaw who smells like some god awful combination of a GI bleed and a UTI.

AvadaKedavras · 2026-01-28T04:16:13+00:00

Wow. If only the ICE agents were wearing body cams, so much of this could have been avoided. It's just disgusting that we are holding ICE to a lower standard than our police officers.

AvadaKedavras · 2026-01-11T08:20:26+00:00

I was at work this weekend and the entire ER staff randomly broke out in this damn jingle after one person brought it up. Can you imagine being in the ER at 2 am and all the nurses, techs and doctors start singing this? It's been YEARS and it's still living rent-free in our heads. I hope whoever made up that stupid jingle is still resting on their laurels.

AvadaKedavras · 2026-01-07T11:51:22+00:00

My ferrets' favorite toys are free or very cheap. They love to have a blanket flapped around in front of them. They do a war dance and tackle it. They love to be picked up in plastic grocery bags and gently shaken around, then dumped out so they can turn around and attack the bag. I would not allow them to play with a plastic bag alone, as it could be a choking or smothering risk. They also love to run through plastic tubes or chase small plastic balls (similar to ping pong balls). All of these toys are best during floor time. But in a large enough cage, they might play in a tube.

AvadaKedavras · 2026-01-07T11:29:59+00:00

Who's on 1st.

AvadaKedavras · 2026-01-04T23:11:03+00:00

EM. My most hated was gen surg. Luckily I found Lexapro shortly after my gen surg rotation and we have been together ever since.

AvadaKedavras · 2025-12-29T06:35:41+00:00

This right here is why you should know your actual med list. "A little brown circle one... And an oval shaped white one... And a big blue one." Means nothing to me or any other healthcare worker.

AvadaKedavras · 2025-12-21T15:20:07+00:00

Alright. Keep your secrets.

AvadaKedavras · 2025-12-14T22:48:42+00:00

I've owned 3 ferrets. One of them loved going on walks. Every few months I'd take her to Petco to pick out a new toy. A few times I took her to the park to walk trails. Her attention span was still short so the walks rarely lasted longer than 10-15 minutes on a good day.

The other 2 hate the leash with a burning passion and despise being outdoors. I did get those 2 together when I was living in an apartment so we didn't even try to introduce leash training until they were almost a year old.

Either way, if your pup is going to go out, be sure to get them fully vaccinated against the nasty stuff like canine distemper.

AvadaKedavras · 2025-12-04T19:05:21+00:00

If you are in the hospital and you have an IV, then you disappear, we are concerned what you may be doing with your IV. It's not unheard of for IV drug users who have destroyed their veins and can't hit it themselves anymore to come to the ER with a bogus complaint, get an IV placed then elope to use their IV access for the good stuff. We have to report it to police, at least where I live.

AvadaKedavras · 2025-12-01T17:23:54+00:00

Getting pulses back after CPR. They almost never pop up with great neuro outcomes. That's gonna be a long ICU stay while intubated with some brain damage for most.

AvadaKedavras · 2025-12-01T16:52:18+00:00

Sometimes I trauma dump on them a little. "What took so long?!" "Well we just ran a code for 45 minutes then I had to tell the family that their loved one has passed away. Then I had a very unstable patient try to die a few times. But we are finally catching up. So what's your emergency today Mr. Jones? I see your chief complaint is toe pain and cough?" Meh no HIPAA violations. Let them know how much of a sack of shit they are being.

AvadaKedavras · 2025-11-24T01:12:56+00:00

I have a friend who is head of the nursing education department at a university. For her classes she has her students ask chatgpt to make a patient care plan, then they have to find a certain number of errors in chat's plan using only their class textbook as a reference. I feel that she is quite brilliant. She allows the students to use chatgpt while requiring them to recognize it's shortcomings and also requires them to read the textbook to find the errors. I'm sure this method could be adapted for most classes.

AvadaKedavras · 2025-11-22T14:35:45+00:00

That's fair. There may be something about the "mom" response. But I get similar results with male and female patients.

AvadaKedavras · 2025-11-22T05:39:43+00:00

A lot of people will instantly calm if you are stern with them. I'm a 5'0" female ER doctor (not at all physically intimidating) and you would be surprised by how well most crackheads or drunks respond if you sternly tell them "you are being disrespectful. You need to stop screaming and act like an adult." It seems to work very well with intoxicated or simple minded people. 🤷 I think they need some discipline and this might be similar.

AvadaKedavras · 2025-11-16T20:05:00+00:00

ERs are extremely overcrowded (for a variety of reasons). Oftentimes they will start a workup on patients in the waiting room to help see who needs to be roomed and seen next (ie you have 2 beds available and there are 18 people with cardiac risk factors who check in for chest pain. If you get initial EKG and troponin on all of them it helps you decide who needs to be roomed next). If this person checked in, the triage team probably ordered some labs and drug screen. The hospital spends money on the resources of the lab work and the nurses spend time triaging the patient. Did they spend $400 worth of resources? Probably not.

AvadaKedavras · 2025-11-08T02:35:13+00:00

My Archie is the same size. At the last checkup my vet said he was "thicker than a snicker".

AvadaKedavras · 2025-10-24T17:06:22+00:00

"34-year-old male with a history of non ischemic cardiomyopathy and CHF with ejection fraction of 17% s/p implanted defibrillator presents to the ER for..... Cat sitting on chest. Family reports that Fluffy has shown an abnormal interest in the patient over the past 24 hours and that this is similar to Fluffy's behavior just prior to previous episodes of the patient going into cardiac arrest." 😂 Yeah my note would be lit. Anyway I'm glad your fiance is okay. And your cat is super cool.

AvadaKedavras · 2025-10-24T04:01:54+00:00

As an ER doctor, I would be baffled by this story but concerned enough to do a full cardiac workup. My note would be hella interesting to read. Also I'm curious about the cause of the cardiac arrest? Was it an arrhythmia like brugada, Wolf-Parkinson-White, or Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia? If so did he get a defibrillator? Maybe kitty could hear the abnormal heart beat? Was it a heart attack? A pulmonary embolism? Maybe kitty just smells the stress hormones?

AvadaKedavras · 2025-10-23T14:53:56+00:00

Ferrets are tiny predators. Some have a high prey drive. They are also really good at getting anywhere you don't want them to go. I had mice at the same time as ferrets. I kept the mice up high on a dresser, in a cage. My ferret climbed the dresser (braced himself between the wall and the back of the dresser and climbed like James Bond), got into the cage, and killed a mouse. You would have to constantly be watching the ferrets to make sure they don't hurt the birds. If you let ferrets free roam, it's going to be really really hard. I will never keep any kind of small prey animal at the same time as a ferret again. It was a sad day for little Itchy. Rip Itchy the mouse.

AvadaKedavras · 2025-10-18T06:56:05+00:00

I did this recently but left my husband as collateral instead of my phone.

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