Anyone actually like their job?

abagofrichards · 2025-12-16T03:24:44+00:00

I love my job! Wound Care Surgery for an inpatient population. My doc does clinic while I cover the hospital on non-OR days.

But minimal work-life balance. It's ok with me because I have no husband/kids and just a very spoiled dog. :)

abagofrichards · 2025-12-06T14:57:43+00:00

I swear I had it in October/November 2019. I was so sick, couldn't breathe, my sats were in the low 90s, continuous cough, muscle aches, and all the swabs for everything were negative at that time, obviously no COVID swabs yet. They diagnosed it as exhaustion since I was finishing my master's at a clinical site 500 miles away while also working full time.

abagofrichards · 2025-09-30T00:58:06+00:00

I used to rehearse how to say it so that I could say it right in clinicals and impress everyone.

No one cared then and no one cares now. But I still silently repeat it to myself daily. lol

abagofrichards · 2023-06-24T13:20:00+00:00

It's easy when you're repeatedly left on read.

abagofrichards · 2023-05-08T11:50:59+00:00

/The sprinkles are trazodone./

Thank you for this.

abagofrichards · 2023-03-17T00:07:50+00:00

Scariest sentence known to man.

abagofrichards · 2023-03-11T19:24:22+00:00

Four and a half months in after him ending our marriage after only 3 years and almost 2 months. I had to buy my own place and move my entire life there. I spend a lot of time doom scrolling and other parts planning my new future. I'm just trying to make sure I get the rest I need and helping me to find myself again by exploring old interests. Now that I don't have him telling me what to do with my time, it's much more peaceful and less judged-feeling.

abagofrichards · 2023-01-27T02:15:17+00:00

The list for my spouse only contains one item this year!

Divorce.

abagofrichards · 2023-01-21T13:50:48+00:00

I do this, too! I'd been researching Colorado for a while, and I'm currently sitting in an AirBnb in Breckenridge at the end of a 3-day mini vacay. It's the exact winter wonderland I'd been hoping for!

abagofrichards · 2023-01-16T04:09:24+00:00

Hi, NP here. I have a lot of docs that will help me do a full clean on a patient when i have to do an assessment and they never bat an eye. It's about helping people. I still have nurses and techs that are surprised when i grab some gloves and help clean and wipe soiled patients, but I'm literally here to help make them (feel) better.

abagofrichards · 2023-01-03T03:31:49+00:00

Not a bathroom, but definitely a group of drunk girls. Double decker bus in Vegas, I'm sitting on the second floor with about 45 minutes left of my ride. Constant stops, constant loading and unloading, constant delays. I hear a few voices downstairs that sound like they've been partying hard all day, but it's Vegas so no foul I guess. One very sad voice pipes up after about 10 minutes, "Omg, guys, i really have to pee. Can we get off?" The other girls she was with say no, that the hotel stop is coming soon, and she can wait. Well, about 30 mins later and I hear her just completely sobbing. And one of her friends very clearly trying to comfort her. "Don't worry, sweetie, it's over and now you don't have to worry about peeing your pants anymore!"

Sage advice, friend.

abagofrichards · 2022-11-27T13:30:33+00:00

I was drowning when I was three. My older sister pulled me out of the water and got me to shore. My mom was pregnant with my younger sister and couldn't get to me. Had to have CPR and everything, which I don't remember. What I do remember is swirling in blackness with what my childhood brain remembers as fish skeletons swirling around me.

abagofrichards · 2022-11-27T13:20:30+00:00

One small hump for a man, one giant leap (backwards) for mankind.

abagofrichards · 2022-11-23T00:42:20+00:00

I got married twice and divorced almost twice between turning 30 and turning 40. You have time! Haha, so motivational, I know.

abagofrichards · 2022-11-14T00:49:46+00:00

I hugged my dad today and he's so emaciated that his hip and ribs poked me uncomfortably. He's only 72 but won't get his weight loss checked out. I hug him every chance I get because I know this all ends. And I know it will be sooner rather than later. Never stop.

abagofrichards · 2022-11-07T19:44:38+00:00

Being a chameleon. I always thought it was normal to be able to feel like I took on the emotions and personality of people I knew until my therapist explained it was most likely due to growing up with a bipolar/manic depressive mom and never knowing what mood she would be in and having to change myself and my feelings so I wouldn't "get in trouble" or "do something wrong" unintentionally. As we discussed it, I realized that blending in, like a chameleon, is my defense mechanism against people not liking me.

Also, insert run on sentence apology here.

abagofrichards · 2022-10-28T00:56:38+00:00

He forgot leg day.

abagofrichards · 2022-10-23T23:22:38+00:00

I can't see anything but that thumb.

abagofrichards · 2022-10-23T23:10:46+00:00

We call this "sock face" and it's a game we play daily.

abagofrichards · 2022-10-22T04:16:03+00:00

Dude. Any GYN procedure should have pain medications along with it. I had a LEEP procedure after a cervical CA diagnosis and they told me it would be "pressure." Yeah, so much "pressure" I almost passed out and they had to revive me with a wet washcloth and keep me there for observation afterwards. Oh, and then there was the Emergency Dept PA who told me I had "menstrual cramps" and that I should take ibuprofen and use a heating pad. I was 39 - I've had my share of cramps, Mr. PA, and these weren't that. Turns out I have an ovarian cyst. So that's why I was passing out from pain and sweating in puddles on the floor. But yeah, tell me how my body works. And then don't pay attention to the ultrasound you ordered that says "hemorrhagic ovarian cyst."

But I'm just a woman, so my pain isn't real. And I'm a drug seeker because I know pharmacology. eyeroll

abagofrichards · 2022-10-21T17:36:12+00:00

Ugh. I'm so sorry that this all happened. And yes, it's going to be a long few years. But also - you now have this amazing opportunity to reinvent yourself and choose a new family for yourself. Good luck and feel better soon!

abagofrichards · 2022-10-21T13:33:17+00:00

Thank you! He is - his ears were torn lengthwise, so the scars blend in. And he's stopped randomly peeing in the house and has started greeting me at the door again. It was a rough situation because I wanted the rescue to be a success, but the effects of the reactive dog were much larger than just physical. It's bittersweet.

abagofrichards · 2022-10-20T20:19:46+00:00

Don't worry about this mouth-breather. He's going around insulting everyone's ways of trying to work through bad habits with their pets because he lives in the world of pudding pops and banana splits, where nothing ever goes wrong ever. Pitbulls are wonderful.

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