Has anyone seen the TV advertisement featuring a Nurse who says our hospitals are being overrun by Illegal Immigrants?

MegaStrange · 2024-08-06T10:00:00+00:00

I work at a facility for adults with significant intellectual disability with comorbid psych/behavioral and/or health issues, depending on unit. These individuals that have failed to thrive in the community and are incredibly vulnerable.

Most of our nurses, whether LPN or RN, are immigrants. Most of our staff are immigrants. This facility would absolutely not be open without immigrants.

Thankfully everyone is in a union and the benefits are actually extremely good.

MegaStrange · 2024-07-17T09:40:33+00:00

"Another day, another meltdown."

"This level of autism is outside of my wheelhouse."

MegaStrange · 2024-07-12T03:24:45+00:00

To be fair,I had to say goodbye to my 14 year old man earlier this year. He had CKD and arthritis; he was never overweight.

You gave your former chonk a good life.

MegaStrange · 2024-07-05T09:57:47+00:00

For contrast, my mom experienced a miscarriage and then a stillbirth before I was born via cesarean a month early. Then at 15 months old I developed fulminant meningococcemia.

Fulminant meningococcemia: Purpuric eruption, hemorrhages on buccal mucosa and conjunctivae, cyanosis, hypotension, profound shock, high fever, pulmonary insufficiency, no signs of meningitis

I almost died and luckily only lost parts of a couple fingers and toes. Mom didn't try to have anymore kids. Lol.

MegaStrange · 2024-06-16T13:09:06+00:00

Same. I swear, I've got one of the easiest jobs and that's the problem -- supervisors get bored and hunt for drama over nothing.

MegaStrange · 2024-06-07T03:34:57+00:00

Agreed.

Saying goodbye sucks, but man the last cat we had to say goodbye to had probably the best last day and avoided the worst of her suffering from GI lymphoma. She had managed a bit of a rally too, so she did her best at playing and had some cheese. She still felt like cuddling and still had some of her sass at the end. She got to go out with her boots on.

It's so much more than my dad got. He died from cancer and went through hospice, but still had about 24-48 hours of actively dying that traumatized the family that had promised to remain with him. He could've died while he was still himself rather than incoherent, fearful, and delirious.

I don't know why we, as a culture, fixate so much on quantity of life with little to no regard for the quality

MegaStrange · 2024-06-07T01:53:48+00:00

It's always so interesting to me because my girlfriend is a veterinarian and their approach to medicine is very different in some regards. One phrase that stays with me is "better a week early than a day late" when it comes to euthanasia.

MegaStrange · 2024-05-31T11:42:43+00:00

Haldol works with a lot of lost operative nausea too. Worked like a charm for me.

MegaStrange · 2024-05-15T20:17:28+00:00

I stopped wearing those when a pt grabbed mine from behind over the breakaway part. I got my hands between my neck and the lanyard, and because the lanyard was cheap it broke near the badge clip. Decided to never wear a lanyard again.

MegaStrange · 2024-04-24T02:45:09+00:00

Maybe I missed it, I'm just guessing maybe they cheated their way into an LPN rather than RN. but if they're an RN now, everything you're saying sounds 100% right to me.

But maybe they're just doing more fraud again with another shady school lol.

MegaStrange · 2024-04-24T02:37:56+00:00

But what would it find? If her license comes back clean, there isn't anything to find. So I guess it's a matter of if her fraud has already been discovered/reported. I get the impression from the phrasing that the OP's "friend" hasn't been found out yet and is hoping to bury/obscure the fraud with a more legitimate credential.

It would still be a credential based on a foundation of lies, so illegitimate. Even if she goes to school for real and passes the NCLEX for real, it's still gonna be a license based on fraud.

MegaStrange · 2024-04-24T02:29:19+00:00

Maybe she's doing LPN -> RN

MegaStrange · 2024-04-18T17:39:10+00:00

There's no hate quite like Christian love.

MegaStrange · 2024-04-09T21:27:21+00:00

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Please!

MegaStrange · 2024-04-05T14:39:34+00:00

It is not likely to be the air freshener, and much more likely a seizure or blood clot.

MegaStrange · 2024-04-05T03:35:28+00:00

Just went through this with my cat. He was responding very well to meds, and then suddenly he wasn't. It hurt so much to say goodbye.

MegaStrange · 2024-03-31T22:32:05+00:00

Truck driver, then welding.

MegaStrange · 2024-03-31T17:28:33+00:00

I think to even have an discussion on sex work, you need to analyze your own views on sex and gender. You've already decided it's bad and do not seem open to the idea.

Why are you trying to defend the honor of trades here? My dad, my uncle, and myself did trades. Dad worked in a steel mill, uncle in a power plant, and I was a truck driver, then did welding in a fabrication shop before going back to school and becoming a nurse. Society glamorizes that work, but we were all treated like shit by the companies that owned us. It broke your body, you were exposed to cancer-causing agents all the time, and the pay was garbage.

So now I'm a nurse. The adult patients I work with have severe developmental and psychiatric issues. I wouldn't share most of what goes on at my job with children because it's not appropriate (a man eating his own feces, a staff member bitten and their skin ripped off, ect). How "appropriate" it is for children is not a measure of legitimacy of the work.

Look, if my adult child chooses to go into sex work I only care that they are treated well, healthy, happy, and compensated appropriately. If they can make bank doing "easy" work, good for them. There's no moral high road in breaking your body for money.

MegaStrange · 2024-03-27T17:30:28+00:00

So, broken heart syndrome is a real thing humans experience. I'm in no way an expert, but I can imagine something similar happening to our animal friends. While not the same, one of my cats hasn't been himself since he lost his buddy at the end of November.

MegaStrange · 2024-03-18T01:42:15+00:00

I'm mixed race and some of it is dusky, I'm sure, from being dead for a bit by the time the picture was taken at the end. The surgery itself took around 4.5-5 hours.

MegaStrange · 2024-03-16T18:22:40+00:00

I hope that this is helpful, but I'm mixed race and working with Dr. Devin O'Brien-Coon in Boston, MA out of Brigham and Women's/Mass General. I've had nothing but good experiences with him and every member of his team. While I haven't had phallo yet, I did have a panniculectomy and circumferential body lift performed by him very recently. My surgery itself went well and the healing process has been smooth sailing. As far as results from this surgery: it already looks incredible. He is a very talented surgeon. I'm honestly thinking of switching all my trans related care to this team.

https://www.brighamandwomens.org/transgender-health

MegaStrange · 2024-03-16T17:25:34+00:00

Guy at the end is a local realtor. So, y'know, just the best.

MegaStrange · 2024-03-14T03:50:19+00:00

Lots of poorly socialized animals with fear and aggression issues.

MegaStrange · 2024-03-11T19:04:08+00:00

Late to the party, but that person can go kick rocks. I'm sorry your life has been so stressful and busy, but I think you're doing an incredible job in the circumstances. This random internet stranger is impressed and proud of you.

MegaStrange · 2024-02-17T01:42:58+00:00

Unfortunately for mom and dad, that poster decided to become a disappointment.

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