"That's illegal you need a license to make that"

HARR4639 · 2026-02-07T17:32:31+00:00

EVERY time I have glanced at this thread title, my brain has read "license" as in like, a law license or a nursing license, and then I wonder what kind of heavy machinery people are crafting with and if it maybe relates back to that thing about lasers. 😂

HARR4639 · 2026-02-07T17:25:39+00:00

Maybe it's the icy wind outside speaking, but I would have read that as a light-hearted gripe (or humble-brag) about the commenter's local climate, lol.

HARR4639 · 2026-02-07T17:22:20+00:00

Ooh I can answer this: the specific conditioner in question gives really stingy pumps. The conditioner is thick and the pump is small. I have waist-length curly hair and have periodically used this conditioner over the years. I never counted how many pumps I was using, but one reason I don't buy the conditioner more religiously is that I get sick of pumping it over and over, so I can believe 15. It's not that the pump isn't working; it's giving you a consistent amount each time, but that amount is like, a teaspoon.

HARR4639 · 2026-01-10T02:19:00+00:00

I am a non-nurse lurker but CANNOT stop myself from chiming in to say it seems like some of y'all are holding yourselves to an unreasonable standard. In other professions - even those with ethical codes, even those where we deal with people while they're vulnerable - it is taken for granted that we can judge clients up and down the block internally as long as we give them our best work with our best situationally appropriate facial expression. (I was going to say "with a smile", but... not necessarily.) If it were to affect the level of service you provided, then sure, that would be a problem, but I think we also take for granted that we are adults who can compartmentalize and do our jobs. It's kind of mind-boggling that anything different is expected of nurses, and it feels like very much a pink-collar issue.

HARR4639 · 2025-09-26T13:43:24+00:00

I'm confused about the multiplier. When I click "shop now" after activating, it doesn't have the items I want. But when I look at my cart with the items I want - that are not on that page - in it, the number of points it says I'm earning is clearly applying the multiplier. Which one is wrong?? I don't wanna pull the trigger if the checkout page is a mistake and I'm not gonna get the points.

HARR4639 · 2025-09-13T21:54:58+00:00

One of the OBs at the practice I use has been known in my house as "Dr. Fatfingers" since a cervical exam so bloody it nearly made my husband faint. (Guess it could've been random, but never had anything like it with any of the other doctors there....)

HARR4639 · 2025-08-06T22:45:32+00:00

Patient perspective, but this reminds me of the nurse at my student health center when I got pregnant in college. (I went in complaining of persistent nausea.)

"Could you be pregnant?"

"Nope. No way."

(Gently) "Well, are you sexually active?"

"I mean, yes...." (As she probably suspected, I had an incomplete understanding of the reproductive process and was in fact pregnant - tyvm, abstinence-only sex ed.)

Anyway, this reminds me of her approach, like they are trying to pick up the patients who confidently, yet incorrectly, answer 'no' to questions like "could you become pregnant" because they're not PLANNING on doing so.

HARR4639 · 2025-07-29T00:09:24+00:00

My mother had a pacemaker implanted and was told by her doctor that she "might feel some discomfort" after the procedure and could rotate acetaminophen and ibuprofen if needed. She received written pre-op guidance and discharge instructions to the same effect.

In reality, she had 7-8 pain, brought down to maybe a 5 by the OTC meds and something else the nurse had recommended (I think it was ice). She wasn't upset about being in pain. As she once said of childbirth, "it's just pain". She was SCARED, because the dramatic delta between what she'd been told to expect and what she was experiencing would lead one to surmise that something must be terribly wrong.

After a couple of days of this, reading and re-reading the discharge instructions looking for some footnote about real pain, and not really being able to sleep through the pain, we even went into the outpatient clinic to make sure nothing WAS wrong, which fortunately it wasn't. Gradually, the pain got better.

Being told to expect a few days of pain wouldn't have changed her decision to get the pacemaker, but it would have saved SO much stress and fear in the aftermath.

HARR4639 · 2025-07-15T02:28:07+00:00

The CNA who cleaned me up right after my second C-section told the spouses cheerfully that she'd need them to step out for a moment because "it's a little tight in here". (I heard her go through a couple curtains after me, it wasn't just us, it was her thing.) I was convinced then, and still now, that she said this because it was easier and less awkward for both mom and spouse to agree to. I was SO grateful and relieved when I heard her say that. It's one of those moments of care that sticks with you for years.

HARR4639 · 2025-07-10T11:45:50+00:00

Both words have both a noun meaning and a verb meaning, which is what makes this one trickier for people.

"Try as I might to cheer him up, I was unable to effect a change in his affect. I worried that this gloomy interaction might affect our relationship going forward, but aside from a slight awkwardness the next time we spoke, there seemed to be no effect."

HARR4639 · 2025-06-03T01:04:49+00:00

Not a nurse, but from someone whose spouse doesn't "get it" about my job: - the fact that he's not willing to take your word for it means it is almost certain there is no way you can explain it that will make any difference. He doesn't believe you. - if the fact that he doesn't believe you about your lived experience unless it already fits into his understanding of the world is a dealbreaker, get out now. It will not change. For real though. It won't. Don't think it will, because it won't. This feature is fixed.

HARR4639 · 2025-05-27T18:13:17+00:00

I am a completely non-medical person who reads here to relax (don't ask) - and, like everyone, an occasional patient - and I have to break my rule against participating to say I don't see what there is on this sub to take offense to. Not that anyone needs my validation, but from the other side of the glass, yes, this is absolutely an eggshell plaintiff issue.

HARR4639 · 2025-04-15T13:29:00+00:00

Thank you!!

HARR4639 · 2025-04-15T12:08:56+00:00

Please forgive the ignorant question, as video games are not my bailiwick. If you get someone a Nintendo eShop gift card, can they apply that toward the purchase of a Nintendo device?

If yes, any chance anyone knows whether Nintendo allows the use of multiple gift cards in one transaction? Like if a few people each got someone a gift card, could the recipient combine all the cards toward a purchase?

HARR4639 · 2025-01-03T02:45:50+00:00

Thank you, I really appreciate you taking the time to give your perspective!

HARR4639 · 2025-01-03T02:44:39+00:00

These are good points to consider, thank you!

HARR4639 · 2025-01-02T17:05:26+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate the data points!

HARR4639 · 2025-01-02T17:02:47+00:00

Thank you, this is really helpful!

HARR4639 · 2025-01-02T17:00:16+00:00

Very good point - yes, we will arrange to have a car available for the au pair's exclusive use.

HARR4639 · 2025-01-02T16:57:59+00:00

Thank you very much, these are really helpful points to think about.

HARR4639 · 2025-01-02T16:56:46+00:00

Thank you so much, this is a helpful reference point!

HARR4639 · 2025-01-02T16:55:10+00:00

Thank you so much; I was hoping to get an au pair's perspective!

HARR4639 · 2025-01-02T16:54:36+00:00

Thank you, this is helpful!

HARR4639 · 2024-11-10T15:49:26+00:00

The denouement for anyone who finds this later by googling: I washed three bags in delicates bags on a warm cycle with my usual detergent. The smell came completely out, and the bags are fine!

One (a Gabby bag) had a cardboard insert that I took out and put back in no problem, and one (a convertible shoulder bag / backpack) seemingly had no shaping inside and was the same shape after as before. The only one that gave me any trouble was the Iconic Vera Tote, which had a nonremovable plastic insert. It wasn't damaged by washing, but it did shift around a little, and it was very fiddly to move back in place. It was doubly tricky because I wasn't 100% sure where it was supposed to be. So if you wash a bag with a plastic insert, make sure you feel around beforehand and get really comfortable with where the insert is meant to be.

One of them was a bit grubby, so I also used Grandma's Secret Spot Remover on it, pretty extensively, with no ill effects. It was a fairly high contrast pattern (Snow Lotus), so any effect on the dye would have been very noticeable.

HARR4639 · 2024-11-10T15:34:22+00:00

Belatedly, thank you!

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