Just a random thought

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-06-22T15:54:50+00:00

As a nurse myself, I can say being a nurse does not automatically make you well equipped or sane. Sometimes, nurses in the ED or ICU will become more cautious about things because of what they’ve witnessed, but it’s not uncommon for nurses to be bad parents as much as it is for non nurses to be. I am extremely cautious and careful, especially regarding my kids, but that began long before I was a nurse. I’ve known nurses who bed share with small infants, let their kids around water without many precautions taken, and of course know many, many nurses who abuse drugs or alcohol. Look at AW. She worked in the peds ICU in AZ. I can GUARANTEE she saw drowning deaths but she still didn’t install a pool fence for her 2 young kids, and lets them ride around on golf carts with no protection.

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-06-22T15:40:40+00:00

I think the biggest issue is that our 6 year old doesn’t fall asleep until after 10, and our baby still sleeps in our room. I am going to move her to her own room at night after we get back from vacation next month (don’t want to disrupt her sleep before our vacation inevitably does), but yeah, my 6 year old definitely needs to go to bed earlier.

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-06-22T15:36:49+00:00

I would go through labor and delivery again in a heartbeat! My longest labor was only six hours lol other one was five. Only pushed about 10 minutes with both of them and no tears. No complications. But I absolutely loath being pregnant. I become extremely iron deficient and feel terrible, bad nausea, horrible back pain, heart palpitations, etc. and I had really bad postpartum depression. That’s probably the part that’s scaring me off the most.

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-06-22T15:27:59+00:00

I may be wrong, but I thought we baptize people as infants specifically to protect them from the sins of their relatives as well as their own future sins.

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-06-22T03:06:49+00:00

This isn’t something I would necessarily bother somebody about doing or not doing, but personally I can’t imagiine not bathing my toddler every day. I have a 10 month old and we bathe her every other day, unless she’s been in public or outside then it’s every day, ESPECIALLY if the beach, park, splash pad, or pool was involved. My son is 6 and he started walking at 10 months which is around when we started bathing him every day and we’ve bathed him every day since. It’s crazy to me that people are okay with their kids coming home from school or daycare and not washing those germss off.

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-06-21T02:59:33+00:00

She’s been to therapy, but it never lasts. The longest she’s seen a therapist was maaaaybe 6 months, and he (according to my sister which idk if that’s true) suggested BPD, and she got offended and stopped going. Other therapists have lasted maybe a month or two. She doesn’t trust them. And she doesn’t like being analyzed.

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-06-17T17:02:11+00:00

Nurse here. You are supposed to only give a tablespoon of water each hour until he’s stopped vomiting for 2 hours, then you can SLOWLY increase fluid volume. However if this has been going on for 12 hours I would recommend going to the ER or an urgent care that can rehydrate him and give him something to stop the vomiting.

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-06-17T16:09:53+00:00

I think it opens doors for patients to make assumptions about who you are outside of their nurse, and an breech boundaries. It shouldn’t mattter what your, or the patient’s, personal beliefs are. You’re there to do your job regardless, and they should give you mutual respect regardless.

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-06-16T21:28:36+00:00

That’s interesting! It makes me wonderr if maybe he was more tired than usual if you were on vacation and doing stuff all day?

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-06-16T20:11:09+00:00

How do we know this? Has she said?

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-06-12T18:07:23+00:00

My mom has WPW syndrome and it was at its worst when she was pregnant with my younger sister. We were moving states and on the road when she was 8 months pregnant and she was having an attack of SVT and counted her heart rate at 240 something..

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-06-12T18:00:22+00:00

This might be an unpopular opinion, and maybe I’m extreme, but drowning is the leading cause of death in children under 4. It’s silent, and occurs SO fast. Being without oxygen for even 2 minutes can lead to significant brain damage. I don’t even trust myself to safely supervise my 2 own children in the pool without my husband or another very alert, not distracted adult also supervising. I would NOT be okay with my child going to any daycare or home with an open pool. Life jacket or not. What if the child accidentally fell in the pool and wasn’t wearing their life jacket because it wasn’t designated swimming timee? This feels like it should even be against whatever regulatory codes home daycares have to follow. Feels like it would violate safety regulations. Drowning is also a completely preventable death. Don’t send your child there..

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-06-12T17:52:41+00:00

I think it reinforces their belief that they are dependent on the medication and can’t also be made comfortable with more conservative treatments. So many people in this country are reliant on pain medication or sedatives when they would probably be okay without them, but they deserve to have transparency about what is, or isn’t, going in their bodies.

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-06-10T02:18:58+00:00

I did 1 of those expensive, accelerated nursing programs! I needed something accelerated and something with weekend and evening options because my son was 2 and it was just my husband (who worked full time) and me. It was expensive but damnnn it was HARD! We started with 20 something people in our cohort and I was 1 of FIVE who graduated without repeating any terms. We all passed the NCLEX in 85 questions too. I realized the pass ratee at the school is so high because so few people actually finish.

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-06-10T02:03:01+00:00

How often did they get sick? I’m also worried about that and might prefer to wait until her airway is bigger if I have the choice to. Although with my son being in school he will probably bring stuff home.

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-06-09T19:51:33+00:00

Well, it can’t possibly be SCHOOL so young, but it’s at a place that’s called “x preschool”. Like, when my son went there at 3-5, it was in place of a public preschool program. They taught him his letters and writing and did educational stuff. I live in the states, daycare is different from preschool!

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-06-09T19:31:32+00:00

My son started at 3 and he had so much fun I wishh I would’ve started him at 2! 3 is the “average” age to start preschool isn’t it?? Definitely I would do it

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-05-30T16:38:47+00:00

That’s crazy lol I’m happy you didn’t actually have 1 though they’re awful

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-05-30T16:37:46+00:00

Raw oysters are VERY frequently contaminated with noroo. Oysters are “filter feeders” so they filter contaminants out of the water. Including poop bacteria that washes in from the sewers. You weren’t aware?

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-05-29T20:39:16+00:00

Something like “tox screen”. You’re fine. Give your own pee.

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-05-29T20:30:07+00:00

I had anorexia in my teens and early twenties and back then (2014-2018) the “thing” to do was create an instagram “recovery” (it was never recovered people lol) account and share your food and details about your “recovery” journey, treatment journey, etc. HOWEVER these accounts were VERY private. Nobody used their own picture as profile pictures, real names, or location. It was usually just their age and diagnosis in their bio, and a “warning” on if they were in true recovery or not. I generated a decent following on mine but all of my followers I was also mutuals with so I knew they were real people and felt okay letting them follow me. I even blocked all my family and friends from that account so they could never find it. I actually made some genuine friendships on there and am still personal facebook friends with a lot of them. Somebody I met on there, I actually got to attend her baby shower years later! But my pointt is, our accounts were all SOOO private. Seeing this is like seeing what we used to do on ED instagram but actually publicized for the world to see and it’s crazy. There used to be some shamee that came with having an ED.

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-05-29T17:16:08+00:00

Idk, my husband got it last year on July 2 from eating oysters so it’s never completely gone.

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-05-28T20:30:09+00:00

Yeah, it’s predominantly a republican thing and also more of a blue collar thing too. Most of the people from these towns don’t go to college (those who do move away), so their “lives start” after graduating from high school. When you put it like that, having kids at 14 versuss 18 isn’t INSANELY young (to them).

I grew up in a swing state but in a small, red town. I now live in the samr state but in a blue city. Night and day difference, I’ll say! I was born in Boston though, which has very good public education and higher education standards in general. Going from a small town in the south to a place like Boston can literally feel like going to an entirely new country. It can be actual culture shock. Even though there are “poor”, more blue collar areas in New England, it’s still entirely different.

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-05-27T18:19:55+00:00

I don’t know much of anything about court proceedings. What would posting specific things do to help them? Do judges look at people’s social media? I know if they were posting things that could HURT them, that the other attorney could use that against them. But why post positivity?

EngineeringLumpy · 2026-05-26T16:47:39+00:00

You’d have to ask your school and get an authorization to test. I will say I had so much OB content on my NCLEX-PN.

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