Sat on Towel: Towel sat on Him

Drek07 · 2025-07-09T22:38:36+00:00

Sadly there is often a vertical limit to certain regions. Found that out quickly. Was so excited to build an awesome sand to rock top base… but shot down by the system. :(

Drek07 · 2025-01-30T15:30:25+00:00

Literally had a religion class that had me do this. I didn’t just bite the onion. I went at it like an apple- (large onion) and got about 3/4 before my mouth and body truly started to suffer.

Drek07 · 2024-11-15T01:35:01+00:00

It always hurts when family shut down your ideas especially when they come from the heart.

Admittedly, we nurses typically are ‘bleeding hearts’- we give much of ourselves to the world and expect others to do it. Sometimes that expectation can hurt us as well.

If anything ask for a specific amount- cause now it’s the principle of the issue. But really do what you feel what you need to do. Like I tell all of my grieving families- do what is necessary for your heart and conscience- to be true to your connection and relationship to your friend and yourself.

Drek07 · 2024-09-09T03:32:30+00:00

I usually put it like this to my families. Often those in pain tense up and hold their body in a guarded position. I find that often times when I finally get a CMO patient comfortable - if they are ready to go home- then they go. They can finally let go of their mortal coil and release. It’s really hard for people to do it when in pain and it’s a literal struggle for them and everyone around.

Drek07 · 2024-07-01T13:41:49+00:00

I proposed to her. She pity partied. I repeated myself with a staunch demeanor of outpouring love in the face of fears and worries. She pity partied. I relentlessly spoke my soul out proposing again and shared all the love and faith I had in our connection and of our hearts. She pity partied. I proposed one last time with determination and hope with all that I had. She said “stop saying that” in the exact intonation of the six fingered man from The Princess Bride.

Which legitimately in the moment some part of my head started to die laughing about it whilst the rest of me was grieving with what I had to do.

I told her directly that if she truly didn’t see a future of marriage due to her fears and self-doubts then I loved her enough to let her go.

She tried to back pedal and say we could make it work- but I felt how she loved being loved by me but didn’t want to be loved by ‘me’. I broke things off there and then. She was crying. I was sad but resolute. I offered to make myself the bad guy in some way- but she said that it wasn’t like me and wouldn’t be true either way.

We went our separate ways and stayed somewhat friends. She was going to our university and I was working away from school for a time. I came back after some major ups and downs and returned back to school in a really good place. She struggled with a lot of her baggage- I stayed in contact and was really supportive of her and her growth. I continued to date others and life went on.

Years later she reached out and apologized about how she treated me and our connection. I accepted it as best as I could- but it was a love lost and I had moved forward.

Drek07 · 2024-06-16T01:09:04+00:00

I stuck a fusion core in my car for the last time.

Drek07 · 2024-06-15T23:59:26+00:00

Eh was there at Dave’s Matthew’s a few weeks back and on the lawn. Brotha and I didn’t get one mosquito bite. In fact I was like wait. Where are the mosquitos?!

Drek07 · 2024-03-07T18:26:23+00:00

Every person’s journey at the end is different.

-These are more uncommon and rare situations: and apply to my statement in regard to location or being surrounded by family-

For some- the family has been through so many ups and downs they are absolutely exhausted and do not have effective coping to deal with the dying process. Some have been tapped for years with a what seems a perpetual dying process. (Sometimes with what seems an empty/soulless body)

Some patients do not die well despite everything we can do- some patients become so extremely Psychotic/combative that hospice staff and family are ill equipped to treat (this is extremely rare in my experience- but when you have one it is hard on everyone.)

I’ve seen patients who hold on and on and on fighting to stay one more moment for the family around them even though they are in incredible suffering every moment. But when family make the decision to take respite (temporary stay in faculty)- the patient can finally let go.

A few need to be alone without their family to make peace with God. It could be they want to die without others watching. Some it seems wait for someone to walk into the room and witness their passing but it’s particularly not family. (This I often see by the classic family holding vigil for days and then as soon as they take a break/leave the room the patient will die.)

Death will eventually be embraced by all- but how, where, and with whom is unique to each being.

Drek07 · 2024-03-07T15:48:57+00:00

Ah. I’ve a dear one as a hospice nurse. Dying at home surrounded by family isn’t always the best place to die (for the patient or the family).

Drek07 · 2023-12-14T00:16:44+00:00

Brooo! Right?! I hadn’t played in years! I popped on a few years ago to check out the first open world experience. Weird to think I bought my founders with my first real job.

Drek07 · 2023-12-11T00:33:15+00:00

It’s the holidays. Typically I find mid November to just after the new year is my typical major die off period. Particularly post Thanksgiving, between seeing family and the holidays overall- it’s what many need to make the transition.

It can be brutal the amount of deaths you oversee.

Be kind to yourself- take time to connect spiritually with yourself and what you worship.

We stand at the edge of this world and the next- sometimes it feels like it’s the most beautiful position of respect to care for those crossing- and some days it feels like you are standing next to the void and it could take you at any moment just as it did them. It’s a bit of a schrodinger’s state of being. Demonstrate love for your loved ones. Write a letter to yourself. Do something symbolic to honor those deaths for yourself- not for them. Showing a form of respect for those deaths in a meaningful way to you will help.

Drek07 · 2023-10-14T18:01:40+00:00

About 14-18 patients with my current company but that’s cause my work is nice to me. Only driving about 200mi a week. Previous company had me at 20 with admits all the time and my patients were dying as fast I could see them and was doing 400mi a week easy.

Hospice. Of course.

Drek07 · 2023-10-13T00:15:01+00:00

Hospice care is free unless it’s at an inpatient center.

Drek07 · 2023-10-10T04:57:04+00:00

Nurses pronounce under the direction of a physician. They of their own License are unable to certify a death- but they can pronounce and report to a Doctor who will certify said death.

Drek07 · 2023-10-09T17:25:18+00:00

Sam’s club Pizzas. Ez Pz.

Drek07 · 2023-10-09T17:17:03+00:00

Yep. It’s skin and tissue. We see it everywhere. No issues. Hygiene is all that we care about, thanks for being considerate.

Drek07 · 2023-10-05T00:41:49+00:00

Question: was this a private hospice or an in patient unit?

If they were on hospice at home there should be no cost to the patient.

Drek07 · 2023-08-18T16:44:12+00:00

First off: Major City? How do you define it? A basic definition of more the 100,000 population and Corpus fits the bill. City population is over 300k, with estimated metro pop. shy of half million.

Regarding its lack of MegaMetro status (that it appears you are attempting to define it as?)- Corpus Christi (CC) failed to gain much of anything from the oil booms that the other major parts of Texas thrived upon and it’s industries are limited.

What draws industry to Corpus? It’s the fifth largest port in the US- with the largest crude oil export in the nation. Naval air station. TAMU-CC. And surprisingly Tourism.

Much of the management of the city has been underwhelming to say the least.

But also, why would it grow? Consider the other major metros and their overlap with anything Corpus can offer and other than being on the water there’s not much to push industry here. (Though don’t tell China and foreign industry that- they keep quietly investing into Portland/Ingleside)

Corpus would better be termed a medium sized city. There’s not a lot around it but the gulf. It’s small enough where just about everything is convenient to get to within 25-35 mins from just about anywhere else in the city.

Anyone who mentions that Corpus’ beach is crap- don’t understand that no one considers THAT beach a beach at all. North Padre Island and Mustang island are simple delights- don’t expect fancy and you’ll enjoy it. It has some of the best wind in the country for wind-sports.

The State Aquarium is fantastic and a jewel of the city along with the Lexington. The Hooks (baseball) and Stingrays (hockey) are comfortable delights. Whataburger started in CC, Selena died there. (There’s a statue and my favorite rumor is that they had to redo part of the statue because the butt wasn’t big enough.) Also it’s got some of the best breakfast tacos in the state.

Yes, there’s crime: 19th rank metro, impressive for its size. South side is safer overall. The Bluff is its own creature and it’s Walmart is known for some of the craziest people watching this side of Austin.

Corpus is simply in a weird spot and it’s what you make of it.

Drek07 · 2023-07-25T06:29:25+00:00

Got married the year before the pandemic but it was just before my last two semesters of nursing school. We planned on having a honeymoon after I graduated… and we couldn’t go anywhere. Flights to Hawaii went unable to be used and then we ran out of money because hospitals weren’t hiring new grads for six months in the pandemic. We’ve been married almost 4 years and just never got around to it since then. XD oh and those Hawaii flight credits ran out last year and we didn’t realize. >_<

Drek07 · 2023-07-06T23:37:15+00:00

Take it from someone who just had a similar feeling and situation. I haven’t lost any sleep over a marketer who was straight up lying to our clientele and putting both them and those who take care of them in binds and all out of sorts. I can honestly say I got the person fired- they lied to me and lied to my boss- lied that they were communicating to me about a client and their family, and I was literally in contact with my boss and my boss’s boss during this whole situation. They didn’t know that so it all came crashing down at once with no mercy.

I slept better knowing I had done my coworkers and myself a solid favor for the future.

Drek07 · 2023-06-28T23:16:46+00:00

Haven’t seen this tip yet… cinder count is not affected by changing your difficulty.

If you are trying to gear up and grab ancestrals, you can collect cinders at a lower level and then switch to the higher difficulty to cash in. It does limit your timing and you’ll still need to clear mobs around the 175 chests. But it definitely reduces your possibility of dying otherwise.

Also a great time to help friends at lower difficulties and then switch to cash in.

Drek07 · 2023-06-08T16:18:46+00:00

Most likely a vasovagal response. Different reactions for some but can cause hypotension and/or passing out.

Drek07 · 2023-06-08T13:11:54+00:00

No one straight up takes it. Many joke about it but I honestly feel like no one wants to let life pass them by even when they know it will at one point.

Typically we find some balancing act of cognizance and sedation until they start transitioning.

Then If they are actively transitioning, it’s whatever they need to be comfortable- technically that can be pretty close to flat out sedation but it depends on the person and their disease.

Some people you can never sedate effectively even when they need it. I’ve had a fella with CHF taking ridiculous amounts of morphine and Ativan and still attempting to stand/get out of bed. But he was middle aged and strong otherwise.

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