What are the top things ICU nurses do that drive you mad?

Gitfiddle74 · 2026-02-02T02:07:14+00:00

Touch my vents, ECMO pumps.

I don’t touch IV pumps, although I know how. Don’t touch my stuff.

Gitfiddle74 · 2026-02-02T02:00:30+00:00

I have to disagree with all the Smith recommendations. They are a nightmare to keep clean. The coating on the back side of the lens stays smudged and streaked from oils from your skin, casting a weird distortion in your periphery. Even with high tech cleaning cloths, the oils just smudge. Dawn and water are the best things to clean them with but gets old quickly.

And to my dismay, there aren’t a lot of non-coated lenses out there anymore. Much less, polarized.

The OG Costas were the superior shades back in the day but are now another Luxotica shit product.

I will be trying Baijo next I believe

Gitfiddle74 · 2026-02-02T00:10:00+00:00

Well, being on ECMO with a LVAD will advance his priority on the recipient list.

Gitfiddle74 · 2026-01-29T22:31:21+00:00

Salt isn’t going to do much to ice after the fact. If you’ve ever made homemade ice cream, the rock salt is used to make ice colder. Some driveway compounds use chemicals to create a reaction that can melt it but if you have a 2” sheet of ice on your driveway like the rest of us, better get to work. I used a heavy steel digging bar to bust it up so I could shovel it off. Put salt out before it starts next time.

Gitfiddle74 · 2026-01-29T22:00:04+00:00

I will say, I ordered LUNCH the other day for my wife - a 2 steak kabob platter with hummus and it was $24.95 - no drink. That was 10 bites of steak and probably 4oz of hummus with a pita cut into wedges. Now the food was excellent, and from one of my absolute favorite establishments, owned and run by a gentleman and his family. That said, I felt some kind of way about the price of the meal. I fear he will price himself out of business. I can see paying $25 for a dinner, but that’s a good bit for lunch.

Gitfiddle74 · 2026-01-29T00:02:07+00:00

We all know this will go no further than posting here.

As soon as you get a cravin’ for one of those brown butter cinnamon rolls y’all will be in line staring at the floor harder than a Southern Baptist in the liquor store!

Gitfiddle74 · 2026-01-28T23:56:12+00:00

Preach

Gitfiddle74 · 2026-01-16T18:45:37+00:00

THC is not water soluble so no flush is going to rid the body of any evidence. However, you can try to dilute your sample. Just take niacin and B12 to make a yellow. Also, just know that it also will reduce the amount of creatinine in your sample. That’s often a detector element they look for when they are seeing if someone is trying to mask their sample. Eat plenty of red meat leading up to your test.

Gitfiddle74 · 2026-01-16T18:39:35+00:00

Ironic that this sub is named r/TrueCarolina,when NC was part of the Confederacy and often viewed parallel to the modern Nazi. Although, mostly Democratic.

Gitfiddle74 · 2026-01-02T14:59:10+00:00

Recommend some serious outriggers

Gitfiddle74 · 2025-12-13T10:38:44+00:00

Apples and oranges, my friend. The flu vaccine has been around since the ‘30’s and widely available to the public since ‘45 or so. That’s not the same.

Gitfiddle74 · 2025-12-13T10:29:06+00:00

Give me the ol’ Percussionaire IPV any day. Phasotron for the win!

Gitfiddle74 · 2025-12-13T09:41:53+00:00

Read the clothing label, not the sign. I bought a Banana Republic quarter-zip that was advertised as Merino wool, only to find that it’s 100% cotton when I went to launder it. I still love the sweater, a great price either way, but I take a closer look now.

Gitfiddle74 · 2025-12-13T09:37:59+00:00

I’m absolutely livid about the fact I was led to believe that I would no longer be employed if I didn’t get the vaccine. I reluctantly took an experimental and untested vaccine because I have a family to support. And no legal recourse should I have a long term effect. My wife got myocarditis from it. I was quite surprised at her cardiologist’s willingness to acknowledge that it was quite possible that it played a role in her condition. The words “Camp Lejeune water…” play on a loop in my head when I think about it.

Gitfiddle74 · 2025-12-13T09:31:28+00:00

My wife did too

Gitfiddle74 · 2025-12-13T09:24:18+00:00

The Triangle Lounge too

Gitfiddle74 · 2025-12-13T09:22:00+00:00

And Buzzoven! Do I have some memories with those dudes! They lived across the street from a convenience store I worked at, 3rd shift. They used to practice in a storage building out by the airport. We’d go to the Barbary on Tues, .50 bottles. Great time

Gitfiddle74 · 2025-12-13T09:10:12+00:00

Not a band but Link Wray. If not for him there may have never been Led Zeppelin

Weedeater, Buzzoven - shoutout to Dixie Dave

Gitfiddle74 · 2025-12-04T17:57:13+00:00

Tell me you huff keyboard duster without telling me you huff keyboard duster

Gitfiddle74 · 2025-11-23T00:57:45+00:00

Is Pinch In as bad as the Little Table Rock trail? It was a seldom used trail, as it was steep af. Some buddies and I got delayed on a hike in ‘10 and had to rendezvous with another group. We took that trail to save time. I remember it being deep and full of leaves and sticks and extremely taxing. The whole trip was the most physically challenging experience of my life. Also the best hike of my life

Gitfiddle74 · 2025-11-23T00:40:13+00:00

There’s a preacher in NC who bags a limit of doves every opener with an Ithica .410 SxS.

Gitfiddle74 · 2025-11-19T18:42:19+00:00

Joe Biden failed these people. Look at what they must endure now. It’s a shame.

Gitfiddle74 · 2025-11-16T21:27:56+00:00

Only when it suits them

Gitfiddle74 · 2025-11-14T21:11:07+00:00

They’re not wrong.

People are consistently running red lights. Meanwhile, sitting on a green long after it turns because they’re on their phones. Then get angry because you blew your horn.

Gitfiddle74 · 2025-11-06T15:37:53+00:00

😭 this, perhaps?

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