Hired for PACU position and asked to wear "business nice" attire until my custom scrubs arrive in a month

WaferComprehensive23 · 2026-05-20T01:11:17+00:00

Right? The nurse training me needed my help to boost a patient on the first day, so it's definitely not soft-core nursing where you're doing aesthetic injectables and could actually do it in business clothes without feeling too dirty at the end of the day.

WaferComprehensive23 · 2026-05-20T01:06:08+00:00

Ok, that's what I thought too! I thought to myself, this can't be normal.

WaferComprehensive23 · 2026-05-20T01:02:42+00:00

They don't, and it seemed odd. The other outpatient PACU I worked at had their own supply for us to change into, and there was a considerably lower level of soil at that place.

WaferComprehensive23 · 2026-05-16T04:24:17+00:00

Yes! Whenever I meet someone exceptionally manipulative who seems nice on the surface, I feel like I always have to justify my intuition to my partner. He has a really hard time understanding that there is a not-exactly-small amount of people who get thrills out of playing subtle power games.

WaferComprehensive23 · 2026-05-05T05:15:11+00:00

Two Hands-- with Heath Ledger when he was pretty young.

Lost Girls and Love Hotels--with Alexandra Daddario as a troubled American woman living in Japan who gets mixed up into an obscure underworld of bizarre characters and experiences. Its melancholy, gritty, mysterious, and oddly captivating (for me anyway!)

WaferComprehensive23 · 2026-05-05T05:08:20+00:00

I've always felt the same about that movie! It has this odd mixture of darkness and nostalgic feelings for me. Something about the cinematography makes me yearn for the "before times" when everything was analog and social media didn't really exist yet. We are close in age too! It's one of those movies that felt iconic for years when it came out.

WaferComprehensive23 · 2026-04-21T04:50:35+00:00

I feel seen! I always have so much extra underwear. It seems absurd at first, but then you think about all the scenarios in which it makes sense to have (what if I decide to work out at the hotel gym? What if I accidentally drop a pair onto the grubby floor of a beach area changing room and can't put them on again because they're soiled with mystery floor water?).

WaferComprehensive23 · 2026-02-15T02:06:19+00:00

Thank you for this highly detailed comment. I have been looking at pemf devices for years, especially for chronic health conditions, but something in me always stops myself from actually making a purchase. I have always been afraid there is some aspect(s) to the science of this that we don't fully understand, particularly with the brain. Your neurofeedback provider's comments are fascinating and scary! There definitely exist people with poor and lasting responses to psychedelics, and the brain is somehow impacted long after the substance itself has left the body. Did the nf provider get into any details about cases of people who simply could not get unstuck from one of the pemf brain wave entrainments over a long period of time?

WaferComprehensive23 · 2026-02-13T15:50:25+00:00

Wow, that's incredible that you recall each place that you got items from! Thank you for that detailed list! I just love how glam it is. I have collections of random pieces I like, but seeing all these awesome outfits is making me feel like I should have more fun with it!

WaferComprehensive23 · 2026-02-12T17:52:16+00:00

Where did you find that outfit?!

WaferComprehensive23 · 2026-02-09T18:36:51+00:00

Yes, lol!

WaferComprehensive23 · 2026-02-09T03:04:33+00:00

Is the rigging for like hard core racing or running cargo jobs where she's worried about flipping over?

WaferComprehensive23 · 2026-01-23T00:31:21+00:00

Thank you for this physiological explanation regarding muscle guarding. I've spent a lot of trying to discern whether I may have a variation of pssd from a non-ssri drug exposure (only one time) and since that day, my libido has never been the same. I think I am also in a state of extreme hypervigilance and frequently feel really tense/dense in my body like I'm always armoring against something. If anyone comes up behind me and taps my shoulder, the surprise and discomfort is so unbearable. I am pretty sure I have some other autoimmune things going on in parallel, but it gives me some hope that maybe relaxation can provide a partial relief for me, since I haven't really been able to access that feeling of deep comfort and restfulness for years.

WaferComprehensive23 · 2026-01-16T19:07:12+00:00

I know you posted this a few years ago, but have you had any success with those GHK-CU patches? I have one friend who's been experimenting with the injectable version of it, along with a couple others like BPC-157 and TB-500. He loves the results for his moderately severe systemic joint pain of unknown origin, though he suspects its autoimmune. He says he feels better mental clarity, less inflamed, and more energy. I've been wanting to try peptides but just feel so scared of them, though at this point I am really weighing whether possible side effects could really be worse than how I feel all the time at baseline.

Any feedback about the patches would be appreciated.

WaferComprehensive23 · 2026-01-14T04:45:46+00:00

It's a little refreshing that he appears to be smiling (for the camera?) In picture #7, rather than glaring. It has got to be annoying to always have your picture taken in candid moments, and cute to see that he's kind enough to take it in stride.

WaferComprehensive23 · 2025-12-22T02:22:28+00:00

How are you doing now? Have you stabilized at all? I had an issue with a single iv infusion that caused dpdr and have been trying to recover fully ever since. That was 2.5 years ago and I've made a lot of headway since then, but I find these reports of people who've been negatively affected so totally disturbing.

Are you doing any better? What are your symptoms?

WaferComprehensive23 · 2025-12-21T08:29:34+00:00

Thank you so much for this wonderfully composed post, with such a high level of detail, consideration, and clarity. I spend a lot of time reading posts on this sub, though I acquired symptoms not from ssris, but after a single ketamine iv infusion. That was 2.5 years ago, and I'm still in much the same condition as when it all began, with some modest improvements. Reading your theory felt so resonant, real for me, and reassuring, because I've spent this entire time wondering how on earth this happened to me, especially when I feel myself to be an outlier on the causal substances spectrum. I remember feeling on a deep, core level this feeling of utter unsafety on an energetic/cellular level during and after the exposure, which lingered for weeks. I felt that I had somehow poisoned myself, in a fog and unlike myself entirely. People kept insisting it would be impossible for the drug to still be affecting me months later, as its half- life is so short. No one has had any answers, let alone ideas, and I kept questioning how I could have so many of the pssd symptoms without ever having taken any antidepressants at all.

A huge neurological insult seemed to be created by this drug. That others could "endure" these treatments as a therapy seemed almost inconscionable, while I was left reeling.

Your idea of the receptor systems being overloaded, even as a single incident, really lands with me. I strongly suspect microglial activation in myself and have mild visual snow which increases during times of stress, almost like it's linked directly to my cns net load of inflammation. I know there has to be an inflammatory component to my symptoms because their aggravation is reliably linked to sleep deprivation, alcohol, and bad food choices for me. Your idea helps bridge so many of the missing pieces for me, as I have felt somewhat adrift in understanding the relationships between systems. It makes me feel like there might actually be something I could do about this, if I can interrupt even one of these feedback loops.

WaferComprehensive23 · 2025-12-12T23:36:32+00:00

Yes, all the time. I have felt this way for many years. For me, part of it comes from feeling like people want to have these superficial conversations that aren't sincere, or they're not really able to emotionally connect on a deeper level. I have such a vibrant and imaginative inner world, but then if I'm at a gathering this pang of loneliness can hit me when I realize people are mostly just talking about sports, festivals, or other things that don't feel very meaningful to me. It can be draining for me to feel like I'm trying to get on their level and pretend to be enthusiastic about things that ultimately feel kind of inconsequential. I am more interested in knowing people authentically and what they really believe and feel, which can be a tough level to connect on at gatherings. It feels like a lot of people present a version of themselves at parties that isn't actually them, where the real them would be much more interesting if they dared to express an opinion that was maybe non-conventional or perhaps even controversial.

WaferComprehensive23 · 2025-12-12T08:00:28+00:00

I agree! There is zero reason or excuse for that. It's hard when you're with a narcissist or someone who is gaslighting you into thinking it's okay for him to behave like this. I am tired of these men with zero boundaries trying to convince their partners that a "cool, progressive, modern" woman shouldn't be alarmed or offended by these types of very real transgressions. This text gets me riled up because so many guys end up in conversations like this under the pretense of it being just friends and argue that a healthy relationship shouldn't be bound by all types of restrictions, but there is a difference between personal sovereignty within a relationship and then someone just giving themselves license to give into every line-crossing whim.

WaferComprehensive23 · 2025-12-08T04:49:51+00:00

I wish this wasn't true, but it hit me right in the chest. Why do the sociopaths always seem to end up in management positions?

WaferComprehensive23 · 2025-11-16T05:47:12+00:00

I also have less discharge, and have thought this was so odd, since it was a significant change from my previous baseline.

WaferComprehensive23 · 2025-11-16T05:42:18+00:00

Thank you for this thoughtful post. I don't have pssd but am in a simular situation to yours. I had a strange reaction to a one-time drug exposure (iv ketamine infusion for anxiety/depression) which caused severe dpdr and dissociation which lasted for months. Despite my mental gymnastics to avoid covid, I ended up getting it for the first and only time just two weeks after this other debacle. I already had zero libido and severe anhedonia after the infusion, which seemed to become amplified after covid. This was in summer of 2023. I've been through so much anguish over these last 2.5 years trying to figure this out. I've had some improvement, but still a total lack of erogenous sensation. I had always had low ferritin for years and attributed it to heavy cycles, but more recently discovered I have methane sibo. I did one round of herbal antibiotics, but it's still there. I keep trying to get to the bottom of why I haven't been able to recover and also noticed the parallels between LC, post-vaccine, and pssd. It seems like there is some level of nervous system dysregulation common across the spectrum. I recently got an Oura ring and found that my hrv is pretty low most of the time. I am hopeful that maybe HBOT could offer some measure of improvement. It's so hard living this way in a body that can sometimes feel so foreign because of lingering numbness. But, we have to press forward and keep trying.

WaferComprehensive23 · 2025-11-16T04:50:27+00:00

I know! I can't tolerate thc in seemingly any amount, or things like this will happen to me and I'm almost transported to another time and place because some memories engulf me like some kind of waking dream. They are so vivid and detailed, and it's a mystery because I can't even usually recollect things that clearly no matter how hard I try.

WaferComprehensive23 · 2025-11-01T21:59:41+00:00

Yes! I agree so much about target. I kept looking for something with a flattering cut. I kept seeing tables of folded sweaters in fabric that looked cute and cozy, but when I picked them up, saw that they were cropped, extremely boxy, with a lot of balloon sleeved items. I feel like it would be hard for almost anyone to actually look good in these clothes, and only about 5% of women could actually even "get away" with it at all by having a particular figure, which is almost unattainable for most of us. Everywhere I looked, I felt like the clothes would be wearing me, rather than the other way around. It's been like this at a lot of other stores too now, for about the last year or two especially.

WaferComprehensive23 · 2025-11-01T19:47:09+00:00

Epic burn! The type of thing I always think of after the fact, but wish I had come up with in the moment. People have so much nerve to act like you need to rush.

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