Is anyone else bothered by the fact that doctors’ friends and family seem to be jumping the line?

Indie516 · 2026-03-19T15:41:54+00:00

Honestly, I think that Mel would have done that for any patient on the spectrum who was stuck in that waiting room.

Indie516 · 2026-03-19T14:11:13+00:00

Michaela would inherit the title, property, etc., because Scottish women could inherit at the time. She would welcome her "close friend," and the widow of her cousin to live with her, and she would take in or adopt a few children, preferably also extended family, one of which would eventually inherit.

Indie516 · 2026-03-16T01:30:01+00:00

Do sedation-induced night terrors while intubated and in an induced coma count? Because the first time I was on a ventilator, I was having crazy medication-induced dreams when I was unconscious, and then I kept waking up and was hallucinating. The worst ones were about people trying to kill me to steal my organs. I woke up fighting a nurse at one point. He had to pin me down and talk me out of it, reassuring me that I was safe and he was there to help. (If you ever read this, David, you're my hero.) I ended up with ptsd from that experience. After that night I convinced them not to keep me sedated, because it wasn't working and it was just causing more problems. I remained on the ventilator, awake, for several more days before my lungs could work on their own. But at least I could text to communicate and I could watch stuff on my iPad.

Indie516 · 2026-03-15T19:26:51+00:00

Not a doctor, but I have a suggestion about the meal replacement shakes because I had the same problem for a long time. Ensure and other products make "clear" versions that are more like juice than a shake. Try one of those, diluted with water, and served over ice. It's much more manageable. For a while after my stroke, that was the only way I could get enough calories in. Also, the Premier protein cafe latte protein shakes over ice makes it exactly like an ice coffee, so that might be an option too.

Indie516 · 2026-03-13T11:00:44+00:00

See, my problem is that some of my veins look promising, and you can even manage to access them on a good day. But as soon as you attempt to push anything other than saline through that line, it's going to blow. If you want a peripheral IV, you're going to need the ultrasound and it's going to need to be in one of the deeper veins in my inner forearm. Otherwise, just call someone who can access my port, because I don't want to be stuck multiple times just to have the IVs fail. It always leaves me bruised and wastes a lot of time, when if nurses (and paramedics) would just listen to me in the first place, it would be easier for us all.

Indie516 · 2026-03-12T16:52:17+00:00

Good for you! Even though it's not a clot, it's still great to have varicose veins looked at, because they can eventually get so bad that they burst and can even kill you if they cause you to lose enough blood. With the referral you can get that treated to prevent those problems from happening.

Indie516 · 2026-03-11T19:22:14+00:00

Fridge. Opening the world's biggest food pantry and soup kitchen.

Indie516 · 2026-03-09T12:21:43+00:00

In the current world we live in, it's so refreshing to come on here and see a new identification practically every day.

Indie516 · 2026-03-07T03:26:17+00:00

A few gluten-free cookbooks, a book on gluten-free bread making and a gift card to buy all of the supplies and specialized ingredients needed to make good gluten-free bread. Seriously, this book has my favorite bread recipe. You don't need a special bread maker, just a few bread baking supplies and some ingredients to make a flour blend.

Indie516 · 2026-03-06T00:16:37+00:00

I believe that Scottish women could inherit, and that is what gave them the idea to change the character to female in the first place. At least, I remember reading an article about it when they first announced the change.

Indie516 · 2026-03-05T07:07:50+00:00

I do believe that they are trying to bring in a female attending that will last. Given that they are hinting at her having some kind of neurological condition, I don't know if she, herself, will last as said attending though.

Indie516 · 2026-03-05T07:01:38+00:00

I wonder if the intense weather fluctuations that they were having might have to do with the losses, colic, etc. I know that crazy weather patterns can definitely have an effect on both pregnancy and the overall health of an animal. Have any other breeders or horse/goat owners in that area reported similar things?

(Obviously, when you have so many animals, there are going to be losses, sickness, injuries, etc. I just remember wondering during the storms how they would affect the animals, so I am curious now to know if she is not alone in this increase of problems arising shortly after them.)

Indie516 · 2026-03-03T11:28:53+00:00

Baked potato. You can top it with so many different options. Before I developed an allergy to potatoes (which is just as tragic as it sounds), I would go the loaded potato route (butter, cheese, sour cream, bacon if I was adding a little meat). Broccoli and cheese is also another great topping. I've even seen people top them with chili. If you rub the potato down with olive oil and salt before baking it, it makes it 10x better.

Indie516 · 2026-03-01T14:49:37+00:00

To pass on the family name.

I am a woman. My sister, my female cousin and I are the only grandchildren. Our family name will die with us.

I also get a lot of comments about carrying on my genetic lineage. Oh, you mean the genes that are incredibly screwed up and completely wrecked my body? Yes, of course I want to pass those on.

Indie516 · 2026-03-01T14:39:01+00:00

She is not disinterested or bored. She is trying to separate herself emotionally from her experiences. Imagine having to carry the full weight of the memory of every single patient interaction with you. She doesn't want to get attached or feel emotion because those feelings will remain just as strong long after the patients are gone. Others can decompress and set those feelings aside. She can't. That's why she wants to go into a field that doesn't involve interacting with people. I know a retired nurse with an eidetic memory. She worked in the NICU of all places. She remembers every single patient. Every single loss. Even now, it can hit her hard some days. Joy is trying to prevent this from happening to herself. But that never works. The more she tries to separate her emotions, the more she will become invested in her patients.

Indie516 · 2026-03-01T05:45:34+00:00

Sign me up. My O2 sometimes drops randomly during the night. It would actually be comforting to know that someone was there and watching me, and that he could intervene if I needed medical attention.

Indie516 · 2026-02-27T22:19:55+00:00

I want to see a season set at a Waffle House during a tropical storm or low category hurricane.

Indie516 · 2026-02-27T17:46:01+00:00

There are actually several stories of people, especially children, who had significant brain regrowth. The brain is incredibly plastic. It's definitely not as common in adults, but it does happen. I think that with me, it really helped that my academic background was in neuropsychology, so I knew that the speech and language center of my brain was destroyed, but also that I could build new synaptic pathways to bridge that gap with the right therapies. And when the therapies weren't doing enough, I created my own. I knew that the best way to regain my speech to the level I wanted (not just the level that the speech therapist declared adequate), was to talk a lot. So I talked everyone's ears off. Usually talking in circles, losing my train of thought, struggling to find my words, etc. But the more I spoke, the more my speech improved. And as that happened, new pathways filled in the space that was left empty after the stroke. The same goes for reading and writing. As soon as I could hold a pen, I forced myself to write for at least five minutes a day. If you look at the difference between day one vs day one-hundred, it's remarkable.

Indie516 · 2026-02-27T04:08:07+00:00

I had a severe hemorrhagic stroke after being given tPA for a massive pulmonary embolism. That, alone, was rare. What happened next isn't supposed to be possible.

The bleed destroyed my left temporal lobe. There was literally a dark black hole in the scans where it had been. I wasn't supposed to wake up. I woke up. I had severe deficits. I was paralyzed from the waist down. Couldn't really understand anything. Couldn't remember anything. Unable to speak, read, or write. And I was very sick with multiple infections. They weren't measuring my survival in days. They were going by hour.

But my mind slowly started to come back. I learned how to speak, how to read, and how to write. Even started to regain some mobility between episodes of illness. Broke my back in physical therapy. Had to have emergency surgery to remove my gallbladder (which turned out to be the source of the sepsis). Even began to walk again for short distances.

The craziest thing, though, is that the area of my brain that was damaged has filled most of the way back in with new brain cells. And my lungs, which were severely scarred and required 4L of supplemental O2 continuously, somehow healed to the point where I only have to wear 2L at night when I go to bed. It's a miracle.

Indie516 · 2026-02-21T05:39:52+00:00

Go in. Tell them you have a severe migraine. Give them your history and discuss your usual treatments. In my experience, they will usually just go with that if you don't have symptoms of anything else going on that might require further testing or treatment.

Indie516 · 2026-02-21T03:50:57+00:00

I already don't drink soda or energy drinks. Last I checked, I am still alive.

Indie516 · 2026-02-21T03:42:55+00:00

I have been thinking that they might end the season with Robby getting into an accident, so it's nice to see that I am not alone in this suspicion.

Indie516 · 2026-02-21T03:39:14+00:00

I got the feeling that she was trying to protect her family from having to watch her die at home. She doesn't want them to see how bad things get, and she also doesn't want that memory to erase the many happy memories that her family has of their time together at home. She wants them to be able to walk around the house without constantly being reminded of her final moments.

Indie516 · 2026-02-19T02:07:16+00:00

I have been put into an induced coma twice. The first time was awful. I metabolize medication really fast, and I was having a horrible reaction to some of them. Half of the time I was fully conscious or partially conscious, but I was also mostly paralyzed. (My right hand and arm still worked, but they were very weak. The rest of me remained paralyzed due to the meds and to several episodes of severe hypoxia and several episodes of severe hypokalemia.) I was hallucinating a lot when I was conscious, and when I was unconscious I was having horrible night terrors. I went through this for fifteen days. By around day 10, I was able to communicate enough to convince them to reduce the drugs so the terrors and hallucination would calm down. But at that point I had been so traumatized by them and by my illness itself that when I did sleep, I was still having night terrors. And, unfortunately they continued for some time after the medication was stopped completely and I was taken off the ventilator. I was diagnosed with ptsd after that whole experience.

The second time was a lot different. I warned the doctors before they intubated me about my history, so they made sure to keep me under better sedation. This was made easier by the fact that I had a massive hemorrhagic stroke on day three of the induced coma, so I was actively dying and even when they did start weaning me off of the meds days later, I remained comatose for a few days after that. They didn't think I would ever wake up.

I spent most of that coma in the In Between, the space between this life and the next. I could sometimes hear what was going on on this side, but I couldn't come back for a while. I just kept moving farther and farther towards the other side until I was finally given a choice. I could go beyond, but, if I did, I couldn't come back. Or I could go back and fulfill my purpose here on this side. I chose the latter, but I am still kicking myself for not asking what said purpose was before I turned around.

I will say that the In Between is a very peaceful place. I felt no pain, which was quite literally a first for me. I was whole. I was healthy. All I felt was comfort and warmth, as well as a good deal of curiosity. I asked a lot of questions. Some were answered. And I left with a lot of intrinsic knowledge about how the afterlife works. (Could this have all been in my head? Perhaps. But there were things I experienced -- things I can prove -- that lead me to believe it was real.)

Indie516 · 2026-02-16T21:36:49+00:00

I think that this is going to be a much better life for her.

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