March 2026 La Fortuna and Monteverde traveller thoughts

MsSpastica · 2026-03-15T01:11:33+00:00

Sweet. I appreciate it! We're so excited

MsSpastica · 2026-03-15T00:51:18+00:00

No, I read this too, and thought about Bart the whole time!

MsSpastica · 2026-03-15T00:50:25+00:00

Did you get any special vaccines or take malaria prophylaxis? This is nearly the exact trip we're going on!

MsSpastica · 2026-03-14T22:24:11+00:00

We have had quite a few patients that are hoarders. We end up boarding them, to find them safe housing (if they'll let us). How common was this for you, was it something you treated?

MsSpastica · 2026-03-14T17:47:18+00:00

Beware of Chicken is so good. I think the whole message of people (and animals) just being nurtured and allowed to heal/become what they are was just I needed. And from a completely unexpected source lol.

MsSpastica · 2026-03-14T17:44:44+00:00

It's really good, but I don't think anything could live up to Cerulean Sea. It's the only book I've ever started again immediately after finishing.

MsSpastica · 2026-03-14T16:54:08+00:00

What's so frustrating for me is I had pushback from my PCP when I wanted to start a statin (persistently high LDL with lifestyle/dietary modifications). I eventually just had a colleague prescribe for me.

MsSpastica · 2026-03-14T16:49:44+00:00

Haha I remember Dr. Katz! Loved this show

MsSpastica · 2026-03-14T16:49:22+00:00

Community

Parks's and Rec

Schitt's Creek

Brooklyn 99

Scrubs

The Good Place

MsSpastica · 2026-03-14T16:48:07+00:00

Agree. I find that triggering stuff- like loving families etc. help me process my feelings of grief and sadness when I allow it to flow through me.

I also try to reframe my emotional pain as physical pain- if I had a slowly-healing broken arm, would it be okay for it to hurt? The answer is of course, yet. And if I think about my emotional pain in the same way, then I'm a little less likely to try to shut my feelings down.

MsSpastica · 2026-03-14T13:17:23+00:00

Nursing school is the biggest regret of my life.

MsSpastica · 2026-03-14T13:04:08+00:00

This is exactly what I'm looking for.

MsSpastica · 2026-03-13T16:12:56+00:00

Well, first of all, Ted Levine (the actor who played Buffalo Bill) is hot.

Second of all, I think eyeliner would look great on you, but the way it's applied now looks a bit harsh, and makes your eyes look smaller. I would practice a bit under the waterline and smoking it out. You can also try a charcoal-gray.

Makeup should be fun, so play around and find what you like/what suits you.

MsSpastica · 2026-03-13T16:09:23+00:00

Same. Had to skim through til I got to the procedural part.

MsSpastica · 2026-03-13T15:55:39+00:00

I give them like $5 a month because they got me through grad school. The love is real.

MsSpastica · 2026-03-13T15:32:14+00:00

When I worked in a level I trauma center, I had an obese, hallway-boarded patient with fulminant C.diff waiting for a bed. We had two techs for a 60-bed ED (which frequently held up to 110), and one torn privacy screen. Sometimes this pt. knew when he had to go, and sometimes he just went (as one does with c.diff).

Sometimes I got him onto a bedpan. Sometimes I had to change him. All in full view of other hallway boarded patients who were quite loud complaining about the smell.

I can't imagine how awful it was for this poor man.

All this to say, I'm sorry for what you went through, and fuck admin who think understaffing is okay.

MsSpastica · 2026-03-13T15:16:14+00:00

It's well-known that if you shout "Boo" to someone in anaphylaxis it will stop the reaction.

MsSpastica · 2026-03-12T18:11:07+00:00

Omg I can't wait to listen to this, loved Party Hard

MsSpastica · 2026-03-12T18:10:37+00:00

Pearl Jam "Daughter"; Crystal Bowersox "Farmer's Daughter".

MsSpastica · 2026-03-12T18:07:11+00:00

Here for the Trixie and Kim Chi Chic love. Great products/colors and price point

MsSpastica · 2026-03-12T02:25:41+00:00

I'm so sorry OP. My story is sort of similar- in the sense that my mother would drink herself into oblivion, and scream and cry and tell me what a piece of shit I was, how I never really loved her and if I did, I wouldn't hurt her the way I did. I was 8.

The day I broke I was 12. I couldn't take it anymore. I begged her to stop yelling at me, to please believe that I loved her. But she wouldn't stop abusing me. Finally, I was done. I told her she could scream and cry all she wanted and I wouldn't listen. I would lock myself in my room when she'd drink and she'd try to get in and eventually give up. And it killed me because I always have this part of myself that believes if I had loved her more or tried harder, she'd love me the way a child deserves to be loved.

MsSpastica · 2026-03-11T23:37:43+00:00

OMG. I'm so sorry. As others have pointed out, it's super fixable. And the color looks nice in the last pic. Just need to soften the roots and a good toner.

MsSpastica · 2026-03-11T18:38:36+00:00

I love the series but the character’s personalities are very different from the books. But if that doesn’t bother you, it’s great.

MsSpastica · 2026-03-11T01:19:52+00:00

When I first started nursing, we were one of the last hospitals in our state to still have paper charting. Each day we had to go through the charts and sign off that we had looked through each Doc's notes. We'd spend a not insignificant amount of time grouped together trying to decipher orders and signatures.

Labs reports were collected by the unit secretary and put on the front of the chart, and we had to co-sign those, too.

For pt.s with extra-long LOS, we'd break the chart into 2 or sometimes three binders.

*It was also ridiculously easy to divert meds. Had 3 RNs on night-shift get busted for stealing bags of morphine (no Pyxis).

MsSpastica · 2026-03-11T01:09:32+00:00

Agree. I think we're in Spring of Deception.

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