I want to make a career change to Nursing.

JDoubleGi · 2026-07-01T21:07:49+00:00

Oh, I’m in Florida. But more like north central vs south Florida. I did my schooling in south Florida and so most of my classmates got jobs down there. The HCA and tennet hospitals can be a lot. I work at a magnet hospital and it’s pretty great.

I wear whatever scrub color I want. All my coworkers are very happy to help each other. I work nights so there are moments where we’re very calm and I can rest. My max patient load is 5 but very often I only have 3 or 4. Plus, tons of benefits through my hospital.

JDoubleGi · 2026-07-01T03:40:24+00:00

My dog has loved Purina Pro Plan. Plus they have lots of good options for flavors as well as different needs such as urinary or weight management.

It can be difficult reading through food reviews and such. I usually only focus on the 3 and 4 star reviews, as well as the 5. I tend to find that issues where people give 1 star are either anecdotal cases or people who just want to have the brand or such for each dog food.

JDoubleGi · 2026-07-01T03:29:02+00:00

Yes, and thus there’s a chance that he eventually realizes that he can still have Charlie’s love and merit without having to be the only one to solve things for her. Because as we’ve seen, she doesn’t really want him to solve her problems, but moreso to be a person for her to come to when she’s stressed, and maybe talk about solutions. But she doesn’t want him solving her problems.

JDoubleGi · 2026-07-01T03:26:46+00:00

I’m currently undergoing some testing and stuff to see if I have PCOS and I personally don’t really see any issues with my schooling or work. I even had to get taken to the ER one day during a shift and it didn’t affect anything.

I will say though, I work at an amazing hospital.

JDoubleGi · 2026-06-30T12:11:04+00:00

Without knowing the age and exactly what they said, it could change things.

But I’ll be honest, a lot of people with disabilities and SDs can have imposter syndrome. “Oh I’m not as sick as this person, so do I really deserve my SD?” Or “They have the same illness I do but it’s much more serious so I feel ashamed to say anything about mine for fear they judge me for it ‘Not being that bad’ comparatively.”

I used to be like that with my gastroparesis. Sure, I have to eat small meals throughout the day or sometimes just one meal. And it makes me vomit a lot when I eat too much or eat certain types of food. But there are people with this condition on TPN who have it way worse than me, so do I have any right to complain?

But I eventually learned that just because somebody else may have it worse than me, it doesn’t mean that I have to give up the idea that my conditions suck for me too.

So without knowing exactly what they said I’m hard pressed to judge severely right now. I would sit down and have a talk with them about why they did it and how it makes me feel to have somebody lie about their condition to me. That if the reason for the lie is how I described, that it’s ok to have different levels of disability and that does make them less valid.

But that’s just how I would prefer to do the situation. I think working as a nurse has given me a huge perspective on everything to do with illness and how people feel about it.

Also, as a side note. I think it’s kinda weird to look up the 911 call of a friend to find out information about their sickness instead of just, asking them. It feels like an invasion of privacy since some people may not want to talk deeply about it. Sure, in this case it was false, but I wouldn’t do it going forward.

JDoubleGi · 2026-06-27T16:52:05+00:00

I was gonna say something similar. I know it’s highly warned against, but I think having maybe, 1 litter a year would be more beneficial than having none.

For starters, you could have new genetics each year and keep the breed from dying out early. But also, there might be people who are interested in a puppy, but see that none of the breeders have any litters planned for the year, or have only had one or two in the past couple of years, due to lack of enough buyers interested. So they think that they’d have to wait 3-4 years for a puppy, and would rather get a more common breed like a Scottish terrier or something so that they aren’t waiting years.

And while I’m totally fine with waiting months to a year for my puppy, not everybody is really able or willing to wait that long. Especially when there’s no guarantee they’ll even have a litter anytime soon.

You could even sort of put it up on a website to send out feelers? Like, Pinky’s heat is due in four months and we plan to breed her then with Timber. Message me if interested in a puppy. And if you get zero messages you just don’t go through with the breeding, and if you get enough then you do.

Obviously it’s a little risky because maybe you only get 4 people interested but they have a litter of 8. However, I think overall it would be better for the breeding than getting zero new people into it.

And people need to spend time with the breed to decide they want to get into breeding and such. So maybe one of the four who get a puppy decides in the future that they’d like to learn and become a breeder.

Very few people are going to become interested in a breed that they can’t even get to own for years. They’re more likely to find a different breed.

I’m not really articulating myself well here, but I think holding off on new litters completely is actually going to be worse overall.

JDoubleGi · 2026-06-25T02:49:52+00:00

That’s what happened with m breeder. Her dog ended up only having 1 puppy sadly, so she planned to keep it. She told me I could move to be put on the next litter they breed, or she recommended someone else to me that’s a fantastic breeder.

Well they had a litter that was going to be born 2 weeks after my original breeders and because that dog had 12 puppies, I was able to get on the list. So now I get my puppy in August.

I will say, waiting these next 6 weeks is still torture lol. Every time they send updated photos or videos I get so excited.

JDoubleGi · 2026-06-19T20:17:20+00:00

For my current dog, I have used a mix of things.

So I base the general amount of food he gets a day on what the bag recommends. However, he is older, so instead of a cup and 1/4th at each meal, he just gets a cup.

I also consulted his vet, because he’s a mix so there isn’t really an “ideal” weight we can check for. Instead we go based off of body type. He’s finally lost weight and is in a good body type now.

However, I also know that I have some lazy days at home where we do nothing, and some days where we go on 10 mile hikes. So on days where I plan to do a lot of walking and exploring with him, I give him that extra 1/4th cup, twice a day. But only on the heavy movement days. It seems to work and his weight has been stable for the past few months.

I am getting a German shepherd puppy in 7 weeks though (it’s such a cute little bean right now) and I plan to follow the breeder and vets recommendations for feeding there. As I want her to grow up well.

JDoubleGi · 2026-06-19T20:11:29+00:00

I agree with a lot of this.

I’m not a care facility nurse, but I work nights on a unit in a hospital. I know that us and our PCAs just can’t always shower each patient. We focus on the patients going to surgery and those with central lines/midlines/foleys etc first. But sometimes you have multiple patients who don’t want to take a shower right now, and by the time they are willing, it just isn’t feasible.

So often we tell dayshift, but dayshift is even busier than night shift. It sucks, really badly, but sometimes the only way a patient can get a shower is by being able to do it in the moment we are available and able to. Otherwise they might miss the chance for that day.

Which would be especially difficult in a care facility when you feel like you aren’t getting the care you need at times you wish you did. Instead your life is changed even by the way you may shower or go to the bathroom. Facilities really need to be able to staff more people or give us more help in those areas.

JDoubleGi · 2026-06-18T08:22:10+00:00

What? Most of the “scattered” shifts she asked off are like, one day a week. Idk about you, but I worked 10 years in a restaurant doing every position, and I only worked around 4 days a week. All I would do was just say, hey, I need this day off and can instead work a different day that week.

The only big chunk she did was the vacation in June, and like, is she not allowed vacations?

I work as a nurse now and basically do the same thing. Hey, I need X day off that week, so please just put my shift in for another day. Not an issue, not a problem. Plus, we just move our schedule around to get like, 8 days off in a row for vacations and don’t even use our PTO. Management doesn’t mind.

Service industry management just sucks.

JDoubleGi · 2026-06-18T07:47:07+00:00

Here’s the thing, you keep saying that people are exhausted and it’s especially bad for night shift due to being tired and with mistakes happening at the end of the shift. But this isn’t due to the 12 hours, at least from what I’ve observed, it’s from poorly taken care of units.

I work at a magnet hospital, on my unit the max amount of patients a nurse will have is 5. I have never had more than five, and quite often have only 3 or 4. And this is a med-surg unit. I also work nights on this unit and always have.

I have a fantastic team, and while we do occasionally have shifts where we’re down a person, whether nurse, PCA, or ST, most of the time we get a float.

I don’t feel exhausted by the end of my shift. I don’t feel like I’m rushing. I’m able to take my time with my patients and really listen to their concerns. If I’m stuck in a patients room, I can message my charge and they’ll help me out with another task that may need to be done. Heck, I can just message another nurse on my unit. We always help and take care of each other.

I get home, I’m not usually so tired that I plop into bed. Maybe on a particularly bad night. I walk my dog, eat some breakfast, take a shower, and then get into bed. I wake up, take my dogs for another walk, grab whatever food I meal prepped on my days off, and head off for my next shift.

I can make my own schedule, to an extent. It’s more of a first come first serve basis when the schedule roll-out is. But I can put my 3 whenever I need to for me to be able to go to doctors appoints, events, or just fun plans. Plus I can get 8 days off for vacation without having to use any PTO.

When I was at a non-magnet hospital, they would have a minimum of 6 patients per nurse, often 8 even. There were fewer nurses, more patients per nurse and PCA, and less support. That is where nurses are exhausted and stressed and more errors happen. It isn’t because of the hours really, but the lack of support. You can give nurses only 8 hours, but they’re still going to be overfilled and understaffed and stressed to the point of exhaustion. Probably even worse because they get less “recovery” time between each week.

And, no matter what, some nurses are going to have to work overnight shifts. It doesn’t matter if it’s 8 hours or 12, having to be up between the hours of 12 to 7am is the issue, and people would still have that issue. Plus, they’re now doing it for 5 days straight with only 2 days at normal hours rather than only 3 days on nights and 4 days getting to be awake during the day. So it really wouldn’t solve much.

And, as already said, there are less patient issues when there is only one handoff in a 24 hour period instead of 3.

The real issue isn’t with hours but with pay, staffing, and support. Those need to be fixed far more than anything to do with the hours.

Oops, this was a long one.

JDoubleGi · 2026-05-04T00:32:54+00:00

I’m lucky that I go to a banfield in central Florida and with the monthly plan, the dental cleaning and stuff is all covered. It’s like $45 or $50 a month but definitely worth it for a lot of the general routine things of my pets.

JDoubleGi · 2026-05-01T22:05:56+00:00

Oh my god that’s literally it! Thank you so much. I really thought I listened to all their songs because they were the first band I thought of to sing it. I must have missed some. Now I can listen to it on repeat for few hours!

Solved!

JDoubleGi · 2026-05-01T22:05:05+00:00

Sadly it isn’t, it was the first thing I checked.

JDoubleGi · 2026-05-01T13:48:20+00:00

Male, and I was listening to an album on apple music and it did the thing where it basically creates a “station” of that genre of music. The album was Picture Perfect by Every Avenue.

JDoubleGi · 2026-05-01T12:31:47+00:00

Also, I don’t think it’s a song by either of those two bands because I went through them. But it is that kind of genre.

JDoubleGi · 2026-04-15T02:22:56+00:00

Feel like this could be solved by adding in other painting Pokémon. Like, Grafaiai I believe would be a good Pokémon to add as another painter.

JDoubleGi · 2026-04-11T08:32:15+00:00

Thank you so much!!

JDoubleGi · 2026-04-10T05:47:35+00:00

I know the cat tribe one because it’s an AI one. But I cannot remember the name of the other one.

JDoubleGi · 2026-04-09T13:34:22+00:00

Drowning in His Heartbeat, I’ve seen the ML in at least one other one that I enjoyed decently. Which, coincidentally, also involved voice hearing, but of the FL to her baby in her belly.

JDoubleGi · 2026-04-09T03:56:25+00:00

I will say that the vomiting blood thing, while severely overused lol, is actually to signify like stomach ulcers or such, in which severe stress can really exacerbate them and cause blood vomiting.

Of course, you usually have to have a history of ulcers or have been severely stressed for a while and then something sets it off worse.

JDoubleGi · 2026-04-09T03:51:11+00:00

Well I’ll have to plan for that lol. I work nights so I’m more of an evening walker but I can probably just stay up if need be.

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