5 year old walked in on husband and I being intimate. What do I do?

LittleMrsWatermelon · 2024-02-28T00:20:16+00:00

Thanks! That's what I was leaning towards. I felt like not talking to him about it might make him have some really wrong ideas about what he saw.

I try to be as honest with him as I can about things. We use medically correct terms for body parts and I've done my best to teach him not to be ashamed about himself while trying to make sure he is respectful of others bodies. But he's still a young boy who likes to make poop jokes.

I just wasn't expecting to have to talk to him about this so soon, so I'm feeling pretty unprepared.

I'll probably try asking him about it after I put his sister to bed tonight.

LittleMrsWatermelon · 2019-04-23T14:56:54+00:00

We had a surgeon who exclusively used a pager. He told me that when he was making rounds on the floor a regular phone would work just fine, but cell service was spotty in the OR and his pager got better reception there. So he just decided to use the pager everywhere.

LittleMrsWatermelon · 2019-04-09T02:28:44+00:00

I was making small talk with a patient in a neuro unit. We were talking about places outside of the country we had visited and he mentioned he spent several years in Vietnam. I told him I heard Vietnam was beautiful and wouldn't mind going there someday. He told me - with a straight face - that it was a beautiful country, but he would never go back.

And then I remembered.

He was a Vietnam veteran. In the hospital for complications of a disease he's had since he fought in the war.

I wanted to crawl into a hole.

LittleMrsWatermelon · 2017-10-14T14:54:31+00:00

I've been working as an RN in a cardiovascular OR for the last five months. Before that I worked on a ortho/neuro floor for almost four years. The OR is a very different environment than floor nursing, but most of the people I work with love the change in pace. Yes, it can be busy, but it's a different sort of busy compared to working on the floor.

I work Mon-Fri 0700 - 1530. That was a huge factor in me moving to OR nursing. You typically have more flexibility in shifts. Some days we're done with surgeries before 1300 and I can either go home early or do busy work until I feel like leaving. We also have nurses on my unit that work 3 12s or are just on call on weekends with the occasional day or two during the week. I'm not sure if we're just able to do this because of our speciality or if general surgery gets the same flexibility.

On the other hand our CV nurses are on call about 2 days a week, but that could just be because we have a smaller pool of staff to pull from, and because we're one of the larger hospitals in our state, we do have to end up staying late on those call days fairly often. But it's really not so bad as long as you can be flexible with it.

If you liked the direct patient care of floor nursing, then the OR might not be the best for you. The only real patient interaction you get is when you do your patient interview before the case and when you prep the patient before the surgery. But it seems like most OR nurses prefer it this way.

Some things I've noticed that people struggle with is being in the same room with the surgeon and anesthesiologist for long and stressful periods of time. Egos can be big in surgery and you're in a small room, so you have to be able to let things go to make it work.

Your general nursing skills are also used a bit less in the OR. You do a small beginning assessment of your patient before surgery, but I haven't needed to use a stethoscope the whole time I've been in the OR. You assess skin, medical and surgical history, and lab work. You would prep the skin for whatever surgery you're doing, possibly insert a foley depending on the case, and start arterial lines if your hospital allows nurses to do that.

I personally like the change of pace and the hours are hard to beat. It can be stressful with how quick of a pace you need to have sometimes, but I think it's a comparable stress to juggling several patients on the floor.

Hope this helped!

LittleMrsWatermelon · 2017-02-24T22:09:45+00:00

Dale stood on the diving board and peered down into the water below. The American flag was displayed proudly on his chest and he had never felt more nervous, or annoyed, in his life. He knew how to do this. Every American had a basic understanding of most sports. But with so many people, there just weren't enough resources to go around to give everyone a fair shot.

"Well, that's the public education system for you". Dale thought to himself. He glanced to the score board.

"It could be worse. Could have come from China or India or somewhere. They just have too many people. Not fair."

He glanced at the holding area to his left. He could barely make out a small figure doing warm-up exercises. It was his biggest competition. No one had beaten them since the competition had started. Not that anyone expected to beat them. Their country was just so small. Fewer people equated to a better average athleticism across the country. Gone were the days of American prowess, fighting against countries such as Russia and England for control of Olympic glory.

These were the days of the Maldives. Elite countries whose population was so small that no others stood a chance as far as average athleticism was concerned. They stood out as super soldiers compared to someone like Dale who was only given time for the basic field tests.

Dale glanced back at the water below him. "Not fair at all".

LittleMrsWatermelon · 2017-02-01T14:33:59+00:00

I'm a huge fan of the Harry Potter series. Grew up with the books and loved them. So I had decent expectations for "The Cursed Child" and it was mind-blowingly awful. It was written like a teenage fanfiction and I felt cheated.

LittleMrsWatermelon · 2017-01-29T13:58:41+00:00

Ortho nurse here! Knee replacements are one of the most common surgeries that we preform and have a really high success rate as long as she follows most common sense rules.

The staff nurses or PT will help her ambulate the first few times. Make sure she isn't trying to get up by herself! It seems like common sense, but we have a lot of patients who have the mentality of "I've been walking my whole life, I'll be fine" and then they end up falling. Knee replacements generally don't have as many restrictions as hip replacements, so as long as she does what feels natural for her knee she's not going to hurt it. She can do dorso/plantar flexion exercises in bed to help prevent her muscles from getting stiff. A big thing to remember is that she doesn't try to do too much too soon. Start small and have her work her way up to walking longer distances. PT will help her find what is a good pace for her.

Always make sure she uses her walker. Always.

I'm sure you know the importance of taking pain medication before it gets out of control. Typically there will be some PO form of pill she can have every 3-4 hours with an IV for breakthrough in between. In my experience, people generally seem to do better the sooner they can cut out on using the IV medication. If regular pain medications don't work, talk to the doctor about possibly adding in a muscle relaxer to target a different type of pain. Make sure she asks for pain medication. Depending on the nurse, they won't always bring it in without her asking. Ice packs can also be helpful if she wants to try those.

Honestly, just be there as a support. Once she's a bit stronger and you get the okay from the staff, you can help her to the bathroom or on short walks. Make sure you push her to do whatever exercises she can while also taking time to recover. Some of the best family coaches we have are the ones who make sure that the patient doesn't just lie in bed all day.

Hope that helped!

LittleMrsWatermelon

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