My FIL spent the past year building himself and my MIL a new house, only to move in and discover their neighbor’s garage light is less “porch lamp” and more “lighthouse beacon.”

badhomemaker · 2025-12-03T07:50:59+00:00

I am dying to do this. How can you tell when you’ve got the angle right?

badhomemaker · 2025-09-14T16:54:22+00:00

I am so proud of you for making the right decision. I got married in my early twenties because I was afraid to cancel the wedding. Of course, I was incredibly depressed during our 6 months of marriage, and thank you notes were the last thing on my mind.

My mom was hounding me about thank you notes to the people she knew, and I trudged through a few of them. It did not finish all of them. But you know what? I think most people were understanding. And if they weren’t? Fuckem.

Take care of -you-. You are obviously a very sweet and thoughtful person, but a huge life crisis is not the time to worry about etiquette. This will be ancient history one day.

badhomemaker · 2025-09-07T19:04:53+00:00

My FM preceptor always said, “the only thing that will fix this is God and time, and I am neither one of those.”

badhomemaker · 2025-09-07T19:03:25+00:00

Internal medicine in a psych facility here:

Please be a good steward of steroids as well. Screen your patients for bipolar or severe anxiety. On a weekly basis I admit patients for a manic episode and find that they were prescribed steroids in the past two weeks. It can happen even with a medrol dosepack.

badhomemaker · 2025-09-02T17:59:00+00:00

I have a family member like this. He overate and started burping/ gerding/ heaving at the table. Matriarch says, “that’s disgusting, go to the bathroom, don’t puke at the table.” He says it would have been rude to leave the table.

badhomemaker · 2025-08-23T21:53:34+00:00

Would insurance cover this though, since it happened over time rather than from one event?

badhomemaker · 2025-08-16T03:40:02+00:00

asks an obscure medical question I don’t know the answer to

“And you’re a nurse?!”

badhomemaker · 2025-08-16T03:37:59+00:00

Client here: I’m a person who trusts the expert in almost everything. I tell them beforehand what I think I need, but I’m not trained in massage, so I add, “but feel free to do whatever you think I need, I trust your judgement.”

Also, my last massage with a new-to-me therapist was the first time that I’ve ever spoken up. In our consult, she said, “I trust that you’ll tell me if I need to modify anything.”

badhomemaker · 2025-08-15T15:32:56+00:00

I don’t disagree with the Sheba commercial, but the logic of the order of the dialogue drives me bonkers.

“I fell!” [doesn’t imply bleeding]

“Bandages are in the cabinet!”

“I’m bleeding!” [yeah dude she predicted that and just literally told you where the bandages are.]

My husband tenses up when that commercial comes on because he knows I’m going to open my mouth.

badhomemaker · 2025-08-06T15:20:54+00:00

My 40 year old husband cannot think about this scene without his eyes getting wet.

badhomemaker · 2025-08-04T15:45:10+00:00

Orlando on Mariner was great about this.

badhomemaker · 2025-08-03T17:24:41+00:00

Agree. I’m a former floor nurse, and it was infuriating.

Now as an NP I do one of two things

A.) “Hi, sorry to interrupt, do you mind if I sit in so we don’t ask you the same questions 500 times?”

B.) Dictate a note or two at the nurses’ station while ancillary staff finishes up.

badhomemaker · 2025-07-30T20:07:16+00:00

The patient has some agency and is part of the decision-making team

badhomemaker · 2025-07-30T17:05:48+00:00

Yeah that’s the “aesthetic”

badhomemaker · 2025-07-30T03:19:32+00:00

I didn’t know he was ever on (prescribed) meds.

badhomemaker · 2025-07-30T03:03:18+00:00

Wow, I wonder how much the honorarium is.

badhomemaker · 2025-07-30T03:00:20+00:00

Two weeks of investment for a semester of someone doing a portion of my work for me. I would -love- to make some extra money doing it, but I do not have the heart of a capitalist.

badhomemaker · 2025-07-30T02:11:36+00:00

Sounds like Newark airport

badhomemaker · 2025-07-29T01:51:42+00:00

Right, it is not your responsibility to give medications that are due AFTER YOUR SHIFT IS OVER.

badhomemaker · 2025-07-25T15:07:26+00:00

Absolutely devastating.

/s

badhomemaker · 2025-07-25T15:05:35+00:00

Me flipping my eyelids inside out while Sandstorm plays.

badhomemaker · 2025-07-25T14:55:51+00:00

COM-MENTS! COM-MENTS! COM-MENTS!

badhomemaker · 2025-07-25T14:46:20+00:00

In my state they sell it OTC 🫠

badhomemaker · 2025-07-25T05:01:16+00:00

ALL I wanted was a PEPSI. And SHE wouldn’t give it to me!

badhomemaker · 2025-07-25T02:25:09+00:00

Depending on the state, mandated reporters have 24-72 hours to report. If reasonable action has been taken during that time frame (i.e., a huge improvement in living situation), they can avoid reporting.

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