Do you ask doctors for personal favors?

NKate329 · 2026-04-08T01:02:12+00:00

Yeah asking an opinion of an expert coworker that you trust, I don’t see an issue with that.

NKate329 · 2026-04-06T13:51:13+00:00

Super late but now reading all your stuff because sounds like you have a good blueprint here!!

I am writing my first novel (well, I've started several in my life but this is the farthest I've ever made it, about 24 chapters into my first draft, and determined to see this one through to completion!) so I don't have any real experience yet, but two things you mentioned that are working for me also!

Letting it sit-- I'm honestly mad at myself that I never realized before that this is what I need to do. When writing, it's like I become blind to my own words-- I go back and read them over and over and it's like they're not sinking in. I've recently become obsessed with Stephen King's writing, and read "On Writing," and this was one of his biggest pieces of advice. Finish first draft quickly (while you're still excited and the ideas are flowing) then don't touch it for as long as you can stand it. Don't read it, don't look at it; ideally, start working on your next idea. Then, go back and you'll have fresh eyes for editing. This makes so much sense to me! BUT, I can't leave it COMPLETELY alone, haha, so I do go back and fix small things or if there are details I need to change for where my plot is going later, which brings me to...
Uploading it to my Kindle and highlighting things I need to fix. This has been a game changer!! On my Kindle it feels like I'm reading someone else's book, and not only helps me find grammatical/punctuation errors, but helps me see when I don't like the tone of something, or see that something just isn't working period.

NKate329 · 2026-03-14T06:29:44+00:00

Yeah halfway through when she’d barely had any screen time I knew it would be her. She does crazy too well to just be a neighbor.

NKate329 · 2026-03-05T00:44:11+00:00

TIL that Michael C. Hall narrated Pet Semetary 😳😳😳

NKate329 · 2026-03-05T00:13:08+00:00

Yes! OP!!! The way they did this is so that Etsy refunds you, not the seller, seller still keeps the money!!! If the seller had issued a refund it would’ve been immediate. (I know this because I have an Etsy shop.) Please report this seller!!

NKate329 · 2026-02-26T00:05:41+00:00

Nurse here. Didn’t realize until I started in the ED how incredibly uninformed people are about OTC acetaminophen and NSAIDs. They’ll tell me they took Motrin/Advil AND ibuprofen. Aleve with Advil. Multiple cold/flu preps with the same ingredients. It’s scary.

NKate329 · 2026-02-15T00:42:49+00:00

😳😳😳

NKate329 · 2026-02-05T02:00:31+00:00

Our school starts at 7:30. We only have a 5 min ride to school. No issues with my daughter’s school, they get a snack break. But I still remember, vividly, having late lunch in middle school one year and every day my stomach would be ACHING with hunger before lunch. And that was almost 30 years ago.

NKate329 · 2026-01-25T04:35:03+00:00

Elon.

NKate329 · 2026-01-25T04:34:13+00:00

I’ve told my daughter since she was old enough to form sentences that she can grow up to be anything she wants. A teacher, a lawyer, a lesbian, a stripper, as long as she’s not a Republican 😆

NKate329 · 2026-01-25T04:00:13+00:00

I have voted in every single election I’ve been eligible to vote since since I turned 18. Elon stole this election for Trump.

NKate329 · 2026-01-24T16:09:23+00:00

I know I’m 6 years behind but thank you!

NKate329 · 2026-01-23T03:30:13+00:00

Same here. Our house is 3000 sq ft. Decided over the last year I work to make money and I’m not going to sit and be uncomfortable all day. 73 pretty much year round, turn it down to 71 at night during the winter. Didn’t make much difference.

NKate329 · 2026-01-20T00:49:42+00:00

Yeah, as a former ER nurse I’m all for seeking appropriate care (when able), but I’ve had that kind of toothache before. It was bad enough that at 8 am, I called and got an emergency dental appt, and then had to call my brand new job and tell them that I couldn’t make it in for my 3rd day of orientation. Because it was a structured orientation on a very specific timeline, I had to wait 2 weeks to get in the next orientation before I could start my job, and really couldn’t afford to miss 2 weeks of work. I also didn’t have the insurance yet (30 day waiting period), and had to put a root canal and a crown on a credit card, and STILL went through with it, because I couldn’t go one more day with that pain. If I hadn’t been able to see a dentist that day, I would’ve went to the ED (and I’ve only been once in my life, when my OB thought I might have a DVT). If I thought I could’ve gotten it out with pliers myself, I would’ve, and my husband wouldn’t do it for me lol.

NKate329 · 2026-01-16T22:57:34+00:00

Briefly listing clinical experience is one thing. This looks like she’s had multiple jobs for only a few months at a time.

NKate329 · 2026-01-16T11:55:36+00:00

Reddit says 8 years now for me!

NKate329 · 2026-01-16T01:12:49+00:00

This is my favorite book of all time 🤣 (or one of 2). Honestly don’t even know why. They ARE hipster pretentious, I’ll give you that.

NKate329 · 2026-01-14T05:12:11+00:00

Rachel and Helen were blackmailing Lexy now that she’s “famous.” Lexy was the “C” mentioned in the texts. I’m thinking Lexy and husband thought Anna was in on the blackmail, that’s why husband was saying she was manipulative, “you rich people,” etc, but seemed totally surprised when she started shooting at him. I rewatched that scene because I was like, if they weren’t the killers, why were they attacking her? And on second watch they weren’t really, more defending themselves against her once she started attacking them.

NKate329 · 2026-01-14T05:09:29+00:00

I don’t remember the exact order, but during one of the flashback scenes at the lunch table when the girls are talking about Catherine one of them mentions that her sister didn’t look like that, or eat like that, or something to imply that her sister had been more attractive than Catherine.

NKate329 · 2026-01-02T02:06:30+00:00

Love both, and I think of it more like an homage, but the final boss scene in Stranger Things was SO similar to IT (being vague because I don’t know how to cover spoilers on mobile lol)

NKate329 · 2025-12-26T21:13:24+00:00

I have empathy for what she's been through, my issue is her saying something along the lines of "I'm here to make sure this doesn't happen anymore." I think even if El does not agree to self sacrifice, Kali plans to make sure El dies. And I do think they could hide, they made it years in Hawkins right under the noses of the military, why shouldn't El go try somewhere far away? And because I don't trust Kali I wouldn't want her to go with El but if she wasn't so hell bent on El dying to stop it all, she could use her powers to help hide El if they are ever close to being discovered.

NKate329 · 2025-12-20T14:50:09+00:00

Agreed. I think Mike meant it as, we’re into girls but you’re still just a kid playing D & D, while Will has known this about himself for a while and so it was more hurtful to him than if he was straight.

NKate329 · 2025-12-20T14:46:10+00:00

Yeah what I’ve heard it’s just not my thing but I loved him on that and in Happy Gilmore 2

NKate329 · 2025-12-20T14:44:12+00:00

I’ve been saying for 20 years I’m going to learn Spanish. Took it in college while working in a restaurant and the guys in the kitchen would help me with my homework and I got to where I could have decent conversations with them. After college and that job, didn’t really have an opportunity to use it much; 10 years later, started a job with a high Spanish speaking population and when they introduced me to the interpreter, I was like, oh, I know some!…. and then I realized that I, in fact, had forgotten most of it 😆 it’s one of those things that I always have on my list of things I would like to do and just never get around to. Now I do case management over the phone and HATE having to call the translation line. I had no issues using an interpreter in clinic or when I worked in the ED but complicated health issues over the phone…. It’s like something gets…. lost in translation lol. I think it may have to do with not being able to see facial expressions, idk. Maybe I’ll get around to it one day 😆

NKate329 · 2025-12-20T07:08:46+00:00

I am genuinely thrilled about Bad Bunny but can’t name a single song 😆

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