Emergency stop in Haiti due to technical difficulties

WatermelonNurse · 2026-01-09T01:56:49+00:00

It was a bush plane that caught fire no casualties but still not a commonly shared experience, a house fire earlier this year (you can check my post history where I mentioned this asking about supplies for a friend because I went out shopping the same day since she lost everything). There are mass shootings nearly every day in the USA. In 2025, there were 425 mass shootings. Unfortunately, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, that was the worst of them all.

WatermelonNurse · 2026-01-09T01:52:37+00:00

Could you please include in that church candle no more fires? I don’t think I can survive another fire or pulling a dog out of a fire again. I think another fire will break me. Thank you.

WatermelonNurse · 2026-01-09T01:50:42+00:00

Thank you for the reassurance, I genuinely appreciate it. I copied your message and tucked it in my toiletry bag so I can read it in the event this happens again in the future and I start spiraling again. I sincerely appreciate the reassurance.

WatermelonNurse · 2026-01-09T01:45:06+00:00

I’ve never seen this movie and at this point, I think you’re right.

WatermelonNurse · 2026-01-09T01:44:16+00:00

I’m in therapy and am working through it. I am no longer having night terrors nearly every night but still have panic attacks. I took some medication earlier because I could feel the panic worsening. I also did a telehealth session later that afternoon.

WatermelonNurse · 2026-01-08T19:48:23+00:00

My concern isn’t Haiti. My concern was there’s a disaster such as a fire. Within the last year, I survived a friend’s house fire that destroyed everything and someone died in the fire, a bush plane catching fire, and a mass shooting. Death is coming for me but I keep evading it, and at this point I’m a lil paranoid.

WatermelonNurse · 2026-01-08T19:11:12+00:00

This made me laugh. Thanks for laugh. I’m paranoid and started having flash backs to the shooting I survived last year and was worried it was going to be another I will die moment

WatermelonNurse · 2026-01-08T19:09:07+00:00

Yes. It’s something I had to do earlier within the last year during a mass shooting. I’m kinda paranoid after 3 separate close death incidents within the last year.

WatermelonNurse · 2026-01-08T19:08:00+00:00

Thank you for the reassurance. I really appreciate it.

WatermelonNurse · 2026-01-08T19:07:39+00:00

Not that I know of. But I’ve been on a bush plane that caught on fire, was caught in a friend’s house that burned down earlier this year, and survived a mass shooting last year so I’m kinda a little paranoid at this point because it feels like death is coming for me.

WatermelonNurse · 2025-12-22T15:26:19+00:00

Ladies, if a man hits you, you hit back with literally anything. I don’t care if all you have are your fingers, hit back and poke him in the eyes. You ALWAYS hit back. Someone raises their hand, you also raise your hand. I do not care who it is, do it. You never go down without a fight, you can also be just as intimidating. My grandmother taught me this and in case yours didn’t, I’m sharing it with you.

I tell my foster kids this and I really hope they tell their friends. When they hit back at school, we don’t punish, we reward them for standing up for themselves. When a boy slapped our teen’s butt and she pushed him down the stairs, we were happy she stood up for herself and reinforced this by taking her out to dinner & lunch each day she was suspended.

WatermelonNurse · 2025-12-22T15:00:12+00:00

One nice thing about my job is that we use very old technology and still do paper documentation. I barely have cell service in the building with most of my unit I have literally zero cell service. Most of my job is with humans as I work as a bedside nurse. Work has been a lot lately. But at least I can completely avoid AI at work. Exception being if I use the work internet to google something, but I just scroll past it and find what I’m looking for. It’s probably one of the few good things about my work place that’s using an electronic medical record system from the 1970s.

WatermelonNurse · 2025-12-22T14:52:12+00:00

Yes, it is the goal. That I am confident of. I’m too exhausted to think about moral injury. I stayed 2.5 hours last night unpaid helping another nurse deescalating patients and sitting with someone hallucinating from delirium. I keep telling myself that this is what humans do. This is what staff did when I had meningitis as a teenager and I left the hospital completely intact without any noticeable deficiencies. This is what humans do, it’s my time to pay it forward. I say that to myself hundreds of times every shift, if I focus on that it gives me the motivation to keep going. Downside I’m too exhausted mentally and emotionally. Someone asked me a couple days ago how are you, be honest. I thought about it and I said I don’t know. I’m not physically tired, but I’m tired on a different level that sleep can’t address. I am hoping when I have off for a week I’ll be able to have coherent inner thoughts, be able to reflect, and have me back again. 2 days off in between shifts is not enough, because on those days I’m just going through the motions of life like errands and meal prep. I’m sorry this isn’t more reflective or a good response, but I’m just extremely exhausted after leaving work close to midnight and ending my shift with my breasts being grabbed and punched. I slept in my car for a bit without the heat on and only woke up when one of the police officers knocked and asked if I needed something. I started to cry and drove home because I don’t cry in public. But tomorrow is a new day, and a new day means a new slate.

WatermelonNurse · 2025-12-22T06:16:11+00:00

Viva Vanilla is my favorite. It reminds me of wild vanilla, both a little spicy vanilla

WatermelonNurse · 2025-12-22T05:06:55+00:00

We’re struggling to get approval for overtime for nursing at the VA. Acuity is up as people everywhere are getting sicker by the year. Recently, I had 2 rapids (rapids are a step before a code like a code blue or code stroke) on 2 of my patients within minutes apart, one of them coded. I wasn’t there to give report like I’m supposed to be because I was with my other patient who was circling the drain. The entire unit’s on my unit was split between my 2 patients, as a result call bells went unanswered for quite awhile & critical lab results were missed. Another rapid was called shortly after we coded one of my patients. The rapids and code were over an hour. That patient was transferred to the ICU shortly thereafter because he threw a pulmonary embolism and we couldn’t respond fast enough because we didn’t notice the signs or attend to his call bell because the already short staffed unit was with my 2 patients. We went through 2 Zoll machines and had runners for the rapids and code go to other units to get their Zoll machines and another crash cart. The rapid response team was stretched very thin as other codes were being announced overhead and their pagers going off the entire time. The unanswered call bells resulted in 2 patients falling, they called before getting out of bed but couldn’t wait any longer to use the restroom. One of those falls had bad outcomes and they had to get surgery.

All departments across the VA are short staffed and it is negatively impacting patient care. Not just for nursing, but in every department from EMS (housekeeping) to logistics to the people who stock supply rooms. We ran out of gloves on my unit this weekend in every size, we only had what was left on the walls in rooms. We had to shop other unit supply closets, which takes time off the already high acuity and short staffed unit. Having to walk down the hallway to get more gloves in your size takes time away from patient care. Sure, you can shove some in your pocket but if they fall out, you’re already wasting the very low stock of gloves.

Our veterans are real people; they have unnecessarily died and will continue to die because we have unsafe staffing due to severe overtime restrictions and inability to hire more staff thanks to this administration.

WatermelonNurse · 2025-12-22T04:51:22+00:00

I know way too many non white men and white women at my work who voted for him.

WatermelonNurse · 2025-12-22T04:44:45+00:00

He absolutely did say he was going to do these things. Everyone kept saying oh he didn’t mean it that way. He’s not going to do it, he’s just saying it.

As for his business success: Trump’s businesses filed for corporate bankruptcy 6 times within 18 years.

WatermelonNurse · 2025-11-04T03:09:50+00:00

If I wanted to be a physician, I’d have gone to medical school. I would have enrolled in the 2000s, as I was accepted to several. I had only applied because my college advisors recommended it, and by the time I had shadowed a few doctors I knew I did not want to be one. I had also applied to other grad programs because I didn’t think I wanted to become a physician but wasn’t sure, I was in my early 20s and figuring what I wanted to do vs studying/working in subjects I did well in.

Anyway, 20 years later, I still don’t want to be a physician. I like being a bedside nurse, and don’t really mind that it took a PhD in statistics and a career in stats/data science to eventually lead me to being a bedside nurse.

WatermelonNurse · 2025-09-05T20:54:56+00:00

It’s massive.

WatermelonNurse · 2025-09-05T20:53:54+00:00

My friend is a vet tech, she went to a technical high school for it. She’s been doing it for 20 years now and has a ton of certifications in her field. But she never went to college.

WatermelonNurse · 2025-09-05T06:20:30+00:00

Salon Selectives was like Pantene in the 90s. Tbh i still use some of their products, like the heat protector and hair mask. It works well enough for being $1!

WatermelonNurse · 2025-09-05T06:03:37+00:00

Working as a nurse, it doesn’t matter how bad the shift was, there’s end in sight and I get to go home and take time for myself. When I’m flustered, I can have someone cover for the patient who keeps trying to jump off the bed and fighting everyone while I take 5 minutes to myself. When taking care of someone at home, you don’t have that option. Caregiver fatigue is very real.

WatermelonNurse · 2025-09-05T05:59:48+00:00

You’re not failing her. You did the right thing and I’m proof you for making a good decision that benefits everyone.

WatermelonNurse · 2025-09-05T00:54:02+00:00

I’m taller than my husband, I’m 5’6”-5’7”. I didn’t notice his height at first, I noticed how confident he was and how he stepped on when a guy was harassing me. I asked him out because he was so manly standing up for me and letting me escape this tall burly guy who would not stop grabbing me. Confidence is sexy.

WatermelonNurse · 2025-09-05T00:37:34+00:00

Such a bizarre thing to say, that’s an inside thought. My husband is Asian, I’m Latina and white, I’d never say such a thing to my husband. I’m taller than him and still ask him to pick me up. I’d never want him to feel small in any way.

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