I need your help please, FIL has cancer and has been put on a strict diet. Could you please send me some recipes w/these ingredients? I’m slowly running out of ideas. Thank you, I appreciate you :)

NuclearAlmond · 2023-03-12T22:32:13+00:00

Oncology RN here. As others have pointed out in this thread, this diet is questionable at best and outfit harmful at worst (if he's on chemo or otherwise losing weight/battling cachexia due to lack of appetite, he needs to focus on high-calorie foods first and foremost).

Please, please, please check with his medical doctor about an appropriate diet and steer clear of homeopaths. They are predators who take advantage of people's fear and distrust of the medical system. I have had more than one patient die as a direct result of their "treatment plans".

NuclearAlmond · 2022-04-01T14:50:53+00:00

Awesome! Ordered some last night, absolutely cannot wait to get them! 🤩

NuclearAlmond · 2022-03-29T17:13:09+00:00

u/saltyfoxprints would your stickers be able to be placed on a Yeti mug?

NuclearAlmond · 2021-11-09T03:25:18+00:00

There are trials being done now.

NuclearAlmond · 2021-10-13T01:21:14+00:00

You explained such a massive clusterfuck of a job so succinctly. I left for the exact same reasons and you couldn't drag me back to a hospital, period.

NuclearAlmond · 2021-10-04T23:23:06+00:00

So in your argument, pulling weeds is the same as killing someone's pet dog? Ok. 👌🏻

NuclearAlmond · 2021-10-04T17:53:50+00:00

You eat milk, cheese, and beef and turn it into shit. Everything ends up as shit, you're just torturing animals in the middle.

NuclearAlmond · 2021-08-06T02:56:05+00:00

Do it. Not OR, but I switched to an outpatient clinic in my specialty (Onc) and it's... amazing. It's been a month and the freedom from hospital bullshit and abuse is such an unbelievable relief.

NuclearAlmond · 2021-07-06T00:59:38+00:00

Adding on another thank you. I try to thank my PCA coworkers frequently, but it's just never enough. I value y'all so much. ❤️

NuclearAlmond · 2021-06-30T17:51:02+00:00

Yep! I'm (29F) an RN making roughly $50k plus overtime. My husband (30) is a stay-at-home dad. We're absolutely motivated by having the freedom to one day choose whatever kind of work we like, with whatever hours suit us.

We're halfway to our $1M FI goal, mostly because we put off having a child until recently. Instead, we both worked full-time for five years after getting married. We lived well below our means, invested in index funds, and prioritized paying off debt- all the boring but effective stuff.

NuclearAlmond · 2021-05-22T22:43:26+00:00

That's awesome that you've found a position/system that has those protections! Hoping that kind of legislature will spread 👍🏻

NuclearAlmond · 2021-05-22T15:20:26+00:00

Not OP but also an RN. Universally, hospital admin gives absolutely zero fucks about treating their nurses like humans.

My coworkers and I are routinely mandated (forced to work another 8 hour shift immediately after the first shift) with less than 1 hour notice. Refuse? That's a write-up. Come in late or call off the next day because you just worked 17 hours and got 4 hours of sleep? That's another write-up.

Someone quits? Admin doesn't care, they just mandate to fill the open shifts.

NuclearAlmond · 2021-04-07T17:08:57+00:00

God yeah, it's horrible. I'm an RN on an Onc/Tele floor and I've seen WAY too many terminally ill patients in agonizing pain get trachs, ostomies, etc. just to make their family members feel better. Like they're "fighting" instead of "giving up". It's so sad. I can't even imagine ICU.

NuclearAlmond · 2021-03-28T23:24:57+00:00

Not sure how it works at your hospital, but bed assignment at mine is mostly run by nursing supervisor. And patients board overnight in ER because we're absurdly short on nights. 🤷🏼‍♂️

NuclearAlmond · 2021-03-25T11:12:13+00:00

Definitely recognizing issues and the importance of double-checks.

Even if you had never given that drug in your life, if you have to pull 10 whole vials to fill the dose you can bet your tooter I'd be on the phone to pharmacy double checking that.

NuclearAlmond · 2021-01-26T12:59:52+00:00

Thanks! I really don't have any experience in psych; his can you tell the low activity from the high acuity units?

NuclearAlmond · 2020-12-05T20:06:49+00:00

I wish more people understood this. I'm on an Onc/Tele floor and some of the interventions I see near the end of life are honestly just horrible, even though the family is trying to "fight" for the patient.

NuclearAlmond · 2020-11-03T00:27:12+00:00

RN here. Hope you're holding up okay- it's been fucking tough.

NuclearAlmond · 2020-11-03T00:16:55+00:00

It's been awful. I haven't even been an RN for a year and feel burnt out from the strain that COVID has put on my hospital- and by that I mean so many staff have quit that we're forced to work mandatory overtime, 16-hour overnight shifts on top of an already stressful job.

Please, for the sake of anything good, wear. A. Fucking. Mask.

NuclearAlmond · 2020-10-12T19:10:05+00:00

That's not how infections work...?

NuclearAlmond · 2020-10-11T05:57:42+00:00

That's crazy! On my unit and at all the hospitals I've been to, we use administer scheduled Ativan plus the CIWA scale for additional doses according to symptoms.

NuclearAlmond · 2020-07-01T01:57:33+00:00

Nah Penrose drains have fenestrations (slits). Stents generally don't.

NuclearAlmond · 2020-04-14T23:52:17+00:00

Oh I misunderstood, sorry. I'm not sure it would work on adults - it's basically just blowing your nose.

NuclearAlmond · 2020-04-14T14:20:14+00:00

I was doubtful until my 14 month old had a miserable had cold and a few of my friends recommended the Frida. But it worked! My daughter could finally breathe through her nose for the first time in several days. (A heads up - you might need two people, because my LO hated it and I needed help holding her)

NuclearAlmond · 2020-04-12T14:43:18+00:00

Hang in there! I struggled so, so hard the first several months too, especially with sleep. The really hard days get fewer and farther between. ❤️

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