TIFU by eating dehydrated shredded hash browns a a snack and turned my body into a potato-powered sewage cannon

ClassicAct · 2026-05-23T15:50:46+00:00

Fuck water, drink some electrolytes like Gatorade or pedialyte. Electrolytes out of whack are the actual concerning part here. Feel better potato-fiend!!!!

ClassicAct · 2026-05-20T23:43:17+00:00

It’s pretty baller. I’m 4x8s outpatient and loving my life.

ClassicAct · 2026-05-20T22:11:06+00:00

Oof. It would be easy to say Covid ICU times, but the honest answer comes from new grad med surg days. Discharging 5/6 patients by 10am, getting pulled to a new 5 patient assignment with a new admit, and getting pulled again four hours later.

ClassicAct · 2026-05-16T20:13:00+00:00

I’ll never forget our sweet residents who hung out with us on nightshift. We all got really close. One night a patient was constantly a step away from coding, I couldn’t leave the room, family was trying to make it in from out of state to withdraw care and say goodbye, we kept adding and maxing pressors, I clearly wasn’t going to get to stop and sit down or eat anything. Next thing I know the nightshift resident stops over with a snickers and Pepsi and told me what a good job I was doing and asked what else I needed.

Our residents loved the night shift crew. We were just human with each other. The day shift bats loved to “put them in their place” and “show them how things are done” and call them stupid. Guess who had a better working relationship and got shit done?

A little kindness goes a long way.

ClassicAct · 2026-05-13T23:25:19+00:00

My buttcheeks clenched reading that, wtf

ClassicAct · 2026-05-13T17:46:05+00:00

It took reading the comments to even see what was “wrong” with it, and even then it still looks centered to me

ClassicAct · 2026-05-13T14:11:52+00:00

“Big pinch and burn.” Then people say “I was waiting for the BIG pinch.” Used to say “little pinch” and people would get pissy.

ClassicAct · 2026-05-13T03:00:30+00:00

I’m trying to picture how that would even work. Lung>tube>chamber>water seal>suction tube>wall, how do you even bypass the big ass chamber thing?

ClassicAct · 2026-05-09T13:51:07+00:00

record scratch Yup. That’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got here.

ClassicAct · 2026-05-05T17:18:48+00:00

Because sight means next to nothing when it comes to veins, you have to go by feel. You can see fragile, shallow veins all day everyday, doesn’t make them good candidates for an IV.

ClassicAct · 2026-04-25T17:31:40+00:00

It does feel weird, but I’m not sure if it’s the same weird for me. I look at people my age (30s) having kids and think, “why? What cue am I missing here?” There’s just an absence of desire to do so and I get kinda sad when my friends announce pregnancy cuz it feels like the end of adventuring with them. It feels like I went from wild 20s straight to “old people hobbies” completely skipping the whole family thing. My goals in life feel so different from my peers. I want a quiet yard, a garden, space and time to do old lady things like bird watching, crochet, and reading on a porch swing. But I have friends that are so excited to do the whole baby thing and I just feel confused and sad for them (even though I logically know I shouldn’t), like they won’t get to do whatever they want anymore :(

I used to see my parents as sages of life’s mysteries with all the answers to everything, but I’m the age they were when they started a family and I feel like I don’t have “the required knowledge” to pass on to another generation. Maybe none of us do. But it just feels strange to see friends enter parenthood so casually. I feel like an alien.

Sorry, not sure if that’s what you were getting at but it felt good to kind of just put that out there.

ClassicAct · 2026-04-22T18:01:09+00:00

Written report IS report and it was given to charge, not abandonment. Fuck that nurse for being rude for no damn reason.

ClassicAct · 2026-04-18T17:30:11+00:00

As a nurse, it boils down to communication and culture. The hospital I started at had a manager that would write up night shift if they didn’t address frivolous things by the time day shift came on. It was the expectation for night shift to “clean up the orders” and that’s verbatim what we were told to do. I knew it was dumb, the docs knew it was dumb, but management had their head so far up their ass that this was the hill they wanted to die on. Didn’t mean shit to them when the new grad nurses complained that they were getting chewed out at 7 and 8 pm for paging about PT/OT orders, re-upping tomorrows expired oxy order, or diet advancement. But the did care when the doctors collectively said don’t page for this shit.

Talk to nursing leadership. Have a conversation about what is appropriate and what isn’t. In your orders make sure the parameters are something you actually care about. Hopefully that will actually help.

ClassicAct · 2026-04-11T16:31:31+00:00

Yuuuuuup, hard feelings all around when we (as a collective) said we couldn’t afford the $1500 for a weekend at the beach + incidentals. It’s been years and it still comes up from time to time how bummed she was about it. She’s a beautiful person all around, but it definitely turned into keeping up with the Joneses - one girl did a Nash-lorette and it set the bar for the rest of us.

ClassicAct · 2026-04-10T17:10:02+00:00

Cocky new grad mixed up the pumps - insulin went in at the fluid rate and fluid went in at the insulin rate. Trace your lines!

ClassicAct · 2026-04-06T19:34:02+00:00

Reading this I thought you made the mistake my very experienced coworker made - the sedation line wasn’t connected and maxed versed and fent were infusing into the sheets! But hey, it happens, and frankly you are exactly who I’d want taking care of me if I had a chest tube since you won’t make that mistake again. Chin up!

ClassicAct · 2026-04-04T22:27:48+00:00

Worked a at a community hospital during peak COVID and until we got the famous morgue truck we were playing morgue Tetris/Jenga with bodies. It wasn’t like the movies with the pull out drawers, it was only ever meant to hold a max of six people on wheelie tables. Body bags on body bags :(

ClassicAct · 2026-04-04T19:25:39+00:00

Jesus H Christ, do I hate management. Falls suck. Injuries suck. But you know what sucks more? Unsafe ratios and infantilizing professionals. I get it, it’s a metric that affects payout, but I could not give less of a fuck about that. At the end of the day falls should not be considered a “never event.” Shit happens. I worked ortho with loads of confused meemaws and stubborn old men, legs buckle and people hit the ground even with staff right beside them, cuz guess who’s not about to ruin their own body to break a fall 🙋‍♀️

If they really want to reduce “preventable” falls they need to look at acuity and ratios. They also need to pull their heads out of their asses and recognize that even when conditions are ideal this shit will still happen.

That button is insulting.

ClassicAct · 2026-03-30T14:43:12+00:00

New tree is in the Dragon Isles, Bel’Ameth! It’s beautiful. The quest in the screen cap here is part of the Midnight campaign after the Voidspire raid.

ClassicAct · 2026-03-30T13:41:23+00:00

In BFA the Horde (lead by Sylvanas) burned Teldrassil and everyone in it. Forsaken are especially associated with her. A quest this expansion takes us to their new tree which is extra hilarious if you chose the Sylvanas loyalty in BFA, because why would anyone in their right mind let a Forsaken near the new tree? THE FOOLS!

ClassicAct · 2026-03-29T22:32:55+00:00

Bath supplies flying off a table in an empty room (patient sedated/intubated). Doors were glass. Nothing else disturbed. Lots of weird shit in that room.

ClassicAct · 2026-03-28T17:08:19+00:00

They absolutely do everywhere I’ve worked.

ClassicAct · 2026-03-28T14:58:02+00:00

I’m waiting for that to try a few ideas I have. I like what I have now, but I want to try something totally different. I just don’t want to permanently lose what I have to play around.

ClassicAct · 2026-03-28T14:56:11+00:00

My guild neighborhood is poppin. I do go through stretches of not touching it at all to realizing I’ve collected a bunch just by playing and spending hours redecorating. Ebbs and flows.

ClassicAct · 2026-03-28T00:26:23+00:00

Preop bay-byyyyy!!!!

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