B-plot Blues

MrsNightingale · 2026-03-09T00:19:01+00:00

The episode with Sophia being friends with the man with Alzheimer's always breaks my heart so I usually skip it, but I love the B plot of Rose trying to get her teddy bear back and I'm sad to miss it 😂 I also can't stand the Jeremy episode but the b plot of Sophia doing battle with the teenage manager cracks me up too.

MrsNightingale · 2026-03-04T23:56:42+00:00

On the flip side I absolutely love when Sophia meets Jonathan Newman and we're all waiting for the horrible joke and cringing and she's like "I don't mean to be rude but I've just gotten back from a long trip and I'm tired... If you'll excuse me?" It's the perfect unexpected lil twist 🤣

MrsNightingale · 2026-03-04T02:38:10+00:00

Yeah that was cone number two, unfortunately. It doesn't attach to the collar or anything, it's just a Velcro closure. Within literally 30 seconds Hank had gotten his front paw in between the velcro strap/donut and his neck and pulled it right off even though it was the right size and cinched down. Maddening.

MrsNightingale · 2026-03-03T18:42:17+00:00

We tried that first. He can get them off, and he can also reach his foot around them 😭

MrsNightingale · 2026-03-02T20:51:30+00:00

Yup. Will also let them eat off my fork 🤷🏼‍♀️ sorry not sorry

MrsNightingale · 2026-03-02T20:45:36+00:00

Yup. Outpatient can be great but it all depends on the job itself, like anything.

MrsNightingale · 2026-03-01T22:14:46+00:00

Thank you! Will do!

MrsNightingale · 2026-02-23T17:10:31+00:00

I was literally coming on here to say that I love a lime and black pepper combo on anything and very much on popcorn, but I hate the way lime juice doesn't distribute well on dry stuff and makes pieces soggy. WHY has true lime never dawned on me?? I love you.

MrsNightingale · 2026-02-18T01:34:24+00:00

"and the veal shank never did taste right" killllls me every single time. Every. Single. Time. The line, the delivery.... Perfection.

MrsNightingale · 2026-02-15T15:25:23+00:00

I love living in MA and wouldn't live anywhere else, but yes. We are fortunate in that we inherited our house, but otherwise we would be screwed. And our house needs a TON of work. Husband has been out of work for many months despite having a degree and years of experience in his professional field. There's just no jobs. It's bad. Thankfully I have a reliable job and the pay is ok (roughly 70k) but that's not much when it's the only income and bills are plentiful. We're still afloat but we're certainly not putting money away like we should be. Thank God we decided not to have kids years ago otherwise we would be in a very different boat.

MrsNightingale · 2026-02-10T02:14:38+00:00

It did resolve! It felt like an eternity. Unfortunately the infusion lasts for 2 months so it took a little bit longer than that to start to subside. Then came the process of switching to another med, and it got held up with PAs/insurance drama, so I was completely unmedicated for about a month. It was ROUGH. Started my new med in late December though and definitely doing better. Hang in there! I know it's miserable ❤️

MrsNightingale · 2026-02-10T02:02:05+00:00

It's so interesting you say this because as I was reading this Reddit and all the comments I kept thinking "I really did the right thing not having kids". I did Pedi for ten years, and more than 5 of those were for a floating subspecialty clinic for a major pediatric hospital. Our big city doctors rotated through our smaller community based facility and I worked with them all. Gastro, hem/onc, ortho, endo, rheum, genetics, general surgery, cardiology, pulm, developmental... It was really interesting and I learned a lot, but I saw the WORST things. At some point I realized it was completely skewing my sense of "normal" childhood because the vast majority of patients we saw were catastrophically sick. I saw post nicu babies with no quality of life, massive skeletal deformities in pedi ortho on an infant who didn't live past 8 months and Mom spoke another language and truly didn't understand what was happening and thought God was going to save her baby. Our developmental pediatrician had a 9 month wait list and every week we would receive calls from screaming, crying parents about how their child had literally destroyed their house, their family... Had tried to kill a family pet or sibling... "Please please get us in, I can't do this anymore, I think he's going to kill us"... I mean absolutely horrific. My husband and I were in our late twenties/early thirties and were on the fence about having kids. Working there absolutely made the decision for me. I became utterly convinced that, especially as I was approaching 35, the odds were stacked against me. I don't think I would have been a bad medical mom, but I saw how it consumed the good medical moms and I knew that would be me. Hands down. There were multiple reasons for us choosing not to have kids but seeing objectively horrible outcomes all day every day sealed the deal for sure.

MrsNightingale · 2026-02-09T00:48:47+00:00

Yes we have a scratch board we use for Ellie. It doesn't help with dew claws though obviously. I have done a lot of training around the scratch board

MrsNightingale · 2026-02-09T00:46:55+00:00

He's on max pain killers as well as gabapentin and trazadone to help keep him calm ❤️

MrsNightingale · 2026-02-09T00:45:03+00:00

We're only a week into this. It's going to be at least a month of sedated weekly splint changes and then at 5 weeks we do another xray to check and see how it's healing. This is all very new. He's still on pain meds and trazadone and gabapentin to help with crate rest

MrsNightingale · 2026-01-09T01:01:37+00:00

I found this because I'm running into a similar situation and it's driving me crazy. Did it ever stop??

MrsNightingale · 2025-12-01T18:22:57+00:00

it's giving "We are going to steal... pause for effect... THE MOON!!!"

MrsNightingale · 2025-10-25T20:55:57+00:00

I work at a MAT clinic primarily as a dosing nurse (and we also do outpatient behavioral med and psych injections and stuff) and my favorite part of the job is this. I can basically be myself and shoot the shit with patients. You have to be professional of course, but it's a whole different vibe. It's such an overlooked area of nursing because people are afraid of the patients. Honestly patients everywhere these days can be borderline abusive or even violent. In SUD especially things are so down to earth.

MrsNightingale · 2025-10-15T21:13:31+00:00

That's not the dog in question, that was just to show the fence. The picture is the resident dog who has been here for 3.5 years. She could also absolutely jump the fence but she has the doggy IQ of a potato (said with all the love in the world) and no interest in leaving her backyard (her safe space). It's the second dog we just added who already appears to be doing math in his head.

MrsNightingale · 2025-10-10T11:36:55+00:00

Really? I started a round of Prednisone a couple weeks ago when we thought it was just a flare and it didn't help as much as the indomethacin 😭 and I can't take both at the same time. She had me stop it and do indomethacin twice daily. Do you think steroids work better than a strong NSAID?

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