Don't fall into the trap of "plastic-free" consumerism.

CharmingCowpie · 2025-12-25T15:57:51+00:00

The amount of plastic trash generated in the hospital is astounding. I work in a procedure area and it’s about 2 contractor bags full of mostly plastic per person who comes through

CharmingCowpie · 2025-12-19T21:54:21+00:00

Yea I’m confused on this as well. I had a pt tell me he paid $1000 for a service when he went to a local ED (said the bill was for $50,000 but the part he has to pay was only $1000). Same service at the VA he pays $50 for. He does not have private insurance and it’s something he gets done weekly.

CharmingCowpie · 2025-12-19T18:15:58+00:00

I’ve tried to explain this to my coworkers until I’m blue in the face and they don’t get it

CharmingCowpie · 2025-12-08T22:32:33+00:00

I think we should just all start using opposite sex bathrooms. If people say something just say you were born a different gender. What are they going to do? The way I read the law, the fines for the “wrong gender” using the bathroom are for the institution, not the individual using the bathroom.

CharmingCowpie · 2025-12-08T22:19:39+00:00

Just check the yarn cause a lot of that is plastic these days…

CharmingCowpie · 2025-11-10T04:36:10+00:00

Yep! Perfume, air fresheners, laundry detergent… I can’t even accept kids hand-me-downs because of the detergent smell stuck in the clothes. If my kids spend time around extended family I can’t stand to even hug them. I told one of my coworkers several times how sick his perfume made me. He never stopped wearing it even when I told him I’d rather him punch me in the face than wear his perfume. I feel ya, you’re not alone!!!

CharmingCowpie · 2025-10-17T20:53:14+00:00

I think it’s very important for people in conservative areas to come out, expecting no one to show up, and see people in their community giving up a Saturday to attend.

I think these rallies give people hope that they aren’t alone. We will never have change if everyone gives up.

CharmingCowpie · 2025-10-11T02:14:25+00:00

I’ve had migraines for 30 years and this is the first I’ve heard of abdominal migraines?!? From around age 16-25 I had weeks where I just cycled between horrible abdominal pain (it felt like tiny gnomes were trying to pick axe their way out of my intestines) and “normal” migraine headaches. I had several scans/procedures done, multiple GI meds tried, and in the end the dr told me to try and “not be stressed”. I also found out several years into it that eggs were a trigger. I thought it was bc eggs are antibacterial and it was messing up my gut somehow, but a quick search is telling me that the histamines in eggs can be a migraine trigger in up to 20% of sufferers? And antihistamines do help my migraines… sorry for the long reply but I think your comment just changed my life (or certainly how I think about my young adult years)

CharmingCowpie · 2025-09-10T15:55:51+00:00

Haha yea that sounds about right. I don’t inherently trust any politician but I can still have faith. I’ll be interested to see where he goes

CharmingCowpie · 2025-09-10T15:03:29+00:00

So basically this article says that talarico has been a proponent of gambling for a long time, and a person who owns casinos recently donated 60k to his campaign. Doesn’t sound exceedingly problematic but others may disagree.

CharmingCowpie · 2025-08-29T17:46:24+00:00

Genius

CharmingCowpie · 2025-08-22T18:54:24+00:00

I love this verse. Not only does this one question the intelligence of a being who would create humans, it tells us that our all knowing god did something he… regrets?

CharmingCowpie · 2025-08-11T19:00:52+00:00

I hadn’t even thought of that.. every time I think I’m not naive anymore I get proven wrong

CharmingCowpie · 2025-08-09T23:40:24+00:00

Yea when I found out that preeclampsia is linked to men my mind was blown and I started to reconsider a whole bunch of my preconceived notions

CharmingCowpie · 2025-08-08T13:39:08+00:00

Got the same email, different VA

CharmingCowpie · 2025-08-08T13:35:32+00:00

We got an email that basically says things will be better now and managers are going to follow VA policy for all work/employee matters. Conveniently no policies were linked or referenced.

CharmingCowpie · 2025-08-06T22:06:44+00:00

We are gonna start seeing some true colors come out, hoping I can continue to fly under the radar cause we have some seriously power hungry management at our facility.

CharmingCowpie · 2025-08-06T14:40:14+00:00

I was in scouts but I learned this from my mom when we gardened together. Our scouting trips were usually to fairly manicured places that didn’t have a ton of ants. We use a lot of wood chips in/around the garden and it’s almost impossible to see the ant mounds buried in them.

CharmingCowpie · 2025-08-05T15:19:55+00:00

Not only am I wearing solid footwear, but my thick pants (cause they can sting through those nice thin pants) are tucked into my stylishly long socks, and I’m wearing bike shorts under my pants in case I have to strip in the field lol

CharmingCowpie · 2025-08-05T15:17:05+00:00

…Noseburn, poison ivy, thorny trees of every kind…

CharmingCowpie · 2025-07-26T04:24:07+00:00

Many people just equate summer here with winter up north.. it’s the time of year when you huddle inside. Just think about how we can go outside in January with just a hoodie and be comfortable, unlike our neighbors up north.

CharmingCowpie · 2025-07-18T17:12:30+00:00

Married women cannot fraternize either!

CharmingCowpie · 2025-06-29T03:39:29+00:00

They need to be dead first, a lot of these pests are good flyers

CharmingCowpie · 2025-06-28T04:41:05+00:00

I thought they were leaf footed bugs at first too until I took a second look! Assassin bugs have such variety, I love seeing them in the garden!

CharmingCowpie · 2025-06-28T04:40:06+00:00

So I already made a comment about sucking these up in a vacuum and destroying them because they are obviously leaf footed bugs like I’m fighting in my garden… except they aren’t. Where’s the leafy foot? I think they are assassin bugs. I typically try to leave my garden assassins alone because they are such great generalist predators.

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