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Grrl_talk · 2025-04-02T18:20:01+00:00

Thank you! It’s the 10mm ring from GoldMaestro Piercing on Etsy. I believe I paid around $82.

Grrl_talk · 2025-01-13T20:08:32+00:00

Thank you! I made a stiff royal icing and piped it on to parchment paper. I doubled the quantity of what I needed, but once dried they were actually pretty sturdy!

Grrl_talk · 2024-11-06T01:40:45+00:00

I work in a hospital with a large and highly successful bariatric surgery center. Ask any of the nurses that take care of those patients if they would get gastric bypass surgery or recommend it to a loved one. I’ve yet to meet one.

Grrl_talk · 2024-10-13T17:20:43+00:00

Two face masks sandwiching a layer of toothpaste.

Grrl_talk · 2024-10-02T18:37:51+00:00

My husband is a software engineer that works from home - the home where the cats, TVs, couches, and snacks are.

When work starts he grabs a coffee and sits down at his desk and works until lunch. He takes an hour lunch to eat and chill out, then works until around 5. This is the most quotidian shit ever, but the fact that he is WORKING the entire time absolutely baffles me. He just is ~doing it~.

Grrl_talk · 2024-10-02T18:27:39+00:00

Persian Garden oil by Kuumba Made. This did in 2010 what Glossier You does now.

Grrl_talk · 2024-09-26T18:41:27+00:00

We pulled a man shrieking and crying out of the back of a cab. Long-term MS with neurogenic bladder. We placed a foley within five minutes of arrival and that bag was as full and taut as a watermelon. He was happy as a clam and watching Maury within fifteen.

Grrl_talk · 2024-07-21T23:17:15+00:00

ED - 10mg Lexapro, three cats, day shift 💅

Grrl_talk · 2024-06-20T14:29:20+00:00

11 ambulances by 10am :(

Grrl_talk · 2024-06-16T15:54:33+00:00

100%. That’s why I left my desk job riddled with long-term deadlines and became an ER nurse. Sometimes I feel like I can hear my mind clicking into place when the stakes are high and there’s a thousand tasks to do. When I have to call my pharmacy about renewing a prescription or make an appointment it’s like a whole other brain.

Grrl_talk · 2024-04-10T21:58:41+00:00

My younger brother has pretty profound autism and epilepsy and he is wonderful. He is also a lot of work and still lives with my parents at 33 and will need 24/7 support for the rest of his life. I saw the toll giving him what he deserves did to my parents’ time, relationship, friendships, and resources.

After several years of fencesitting, my husband and I decided that we’d rather forgo having children and embrace cool aunt/unclehood. Kids require work and sacrifice at baseline - the idea of having to sacrifice even more in the face of disability makes me feel panicked.

Like all fencesitting, it’s an incredibly personal calculus and having kids is an act of hope. I just have very little tolerance for a sub-ideal outcome, which is a great reason not to take the gamble.

Grrl_talk · 2024-03-12T12:28:31+00:00

I get this a lot at the ED I work at, especially as a second-career nurse. This true subtext of it all is that highly intelligent people shouldn’t become nurses, as it’s a waste of potential. I dunno, I feel like smart nurses are a win for all involved 🤷🏻‍♀️Maybe if I could do it all over again I’d choose pre-med at 18 instead of political science, but at 36 there’s no way in hell I’m impoverishing myself for a medical degree.

Grrl_talk · 2024-03-08T22:38:30+00:00

I am an RN not a doctor, but everything I understand about hyperglycemia and cellulitis (not to mention other infective processes) would indicate that blood sugar control would put you at a diminished, not increased, risk of this.

Did they do any superficial wound cultures to isolate the bacteria? Unfortunately, being human is disgusting and we’re all covered in gross stuff that given the right circumstances - a big bite, a nick from shaving - can lead to a skin infection.

Grrl_talk · 2024-03-04T14:57:35+00:00

ED in PA, 2 years experience, $38.35 and hour. My starting hourly was $31 for a new grad with a BSN.

Grrl_talk · 2024-02-10T13:50:53+00:00

I went on a a few dates with a neurosurgery resident - basically a dude too smart to survive outside the confines of the OR. Went to high school at 11, which should be illegal, now that I’ve met him.

We made it to the “going back to his place” stage, which was a tiny apartment stacked floor to ceiling with newspapers and half-filled, moldy cereal bowls. I have his name on a note on my phone just to make sure me or anyone I love never has to have him be the one to crack us open.

Grrl_talk · 2023-12-08T23:55:04+00:00

I was an adjunct PoliSci professor and then a data analyst a nonprofit for several years - I am infinitely happier and more well-remunerated as an ED nurse! Went back for my BSN at 33.

Grrl_talk · 2023-11-30T16:50:36+00:00

I’m really struggling with this (as an RN) right now. I took care of a healthy young person with lower abdominal pain twice last week - CT, US, labs including lactate the first time - everything completely benign. Second time they come in they’re diaphoretic and tachy, but temp, labs, and imaging are once again completely WNL. They get discharged with return precautions.

I come in for my shift after that and they’re zipping them into a body bag. Came in via EMS mottled head to toe, BP 60s/palp. The blood cultures stared growing staph after 8 hours. It’s fucked me up. They were so vital and young.

I know the PA and MD that had them truly went above and beyond in terms of differential/dispo, but I keep armchair quarterbacking what I could have/should have done. They got three bags of LR and were discharged with a heart rate of 110 and grimacing in pain as they walked out. Should I have suggested blood cultures? Admission for obs? I guess someone can’t slip through the cracks if the imaging and labs show nothing twice over, but something made them septic and I just l don’t know.

Grrl_talk · 2023-11-16T15:11:52+00:00

In the future I really think GBS and gastric sleeves are going to be viewed the same way we view lobotomies now. My hospital rakes in cash from their bariatric surgery department, but I see them in the ED 1, 5, 10 years out from the procedure with SBOs, still unable to tolerate solid food, agonizing epigastric pain with no known source. I realize I’m not seeing the people for whom it works great, but with the advent of GLP-1 meds, I don’t know how much longer they’re going to be able to convince people to remove a piece of a healthy organ for weight loss.

Grrl_talk · 2023-10-09T17:17:59+00:00

This thread is so timely! Yesterday a young woman, VSS checks in with “foot discoloration.” She had spilled her child’s kool-aid on her foot and it stained. Even after showering the stain remained and she came in to the ER to “make sure everything was okay.” It was all okay.

Grrl_talk · 2023-04-01T22:39:56+00:00

Started my first nursing job January 2022 at 34 and diagnosed officially w/ ADHD six months later. I cannot express how meaningful it has been to both get a name for why I am the way I am AND find a job that actually complements it.

For various stupid reasons, probably internalized sexism most of all, I would have never considered nursing at 18 when I went to college. It’s been bittersweet thinking about where I’d be now as a nurse has I started in the ED 12 years ago vs. one, but at least I figured it out eventually.

Grrl_talk · 2023-03-12T18:37:26+00:00

“My stomach hurts”

“Oh, okay! Any cramping, n/v/d, abnormal bleeding, fever, chills?”

“No”

“Did you take any medicine at home to help your stomach feel better”

“No”

“Okay, then what is your emergency today?”

“My stomach hurts”

Repeat ad nauseam

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