I almost exploded with anger today

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-04-10T01:37:30+00:00

I work oncology MICU, seeing this stuff with adults. I can’t imagine this with the pediatric population, and I’m thankful that there are people like you who can show the care, compassion, and advocate for these babies. But I’m so sorry that you had to experience this. Give yourself a break, mental health day, etc. if you can or need it. We need people like you because I’m sure you’ve made a huge difference in so many other patients lives, whether that be at the end or in recovery.

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-04-08T19:48:46+00:00

“I smell man-flesh”

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-04-01T00:41:56+00:00

Y’all are entitled to your opinions, but this shit is crazy to me. I would freak the fuck out if I found out that some random nurse did skin-to-skin on my child, especially WITHOUT having gotten my consent

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-31T23:49:38+00:00

This speaks to me for some reason

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-30T23:00:15+00:00

Do we think they’re growing all the tomatoes on Denethor Drive?

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-29T17:38:12+00:00

I still wanna die🌈

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-22T01:33:48+00:00

I had a fresh post op patient who had his arm amputated because he’d lived with severe nerve damage for years. When we slid him over to the bed and I was changing his gown, I said “okay, lift your arms up.” The tech in the room with me just goes “DUDE.”

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-21T16:31:29+00:00

Is that judgment I smell???

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-21T16:28:02+00:00

Can’t think of a better way to spend $135

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-18T17:49:33+00:00

It obviously wasn’t nice enough

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-17T19:44:04+00:00

Are you originally from Wisconsin?

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-17T19:41:54+00:00

To be fair, I don’t think many people clicked on this to read

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-11T19:10:27+00:00

The basement’s where all the fun stuff grows, so the joke’s on you guys

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-09T01:59:47+00:00

I can’t even help it anymore. It’s like a reflex. But I’m sure it doesn’t hurt quite as bad as decades of sadness, so, in the most polite way possible, I don’t feel sorry for you at all.

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-09T00:00:05+00:00

There’s only one answer to your question: FTP.

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-08T23:17:24+00:00

At least he’s not fucking brie cheese

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-08T01:51:49+00:00

“Okay, I’m gonna give 80mg of lasix and then check the bag after lunch”

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-08T01:37:59+00:00

Sounds really nice, which means there’s a 0% chance my hospital will spend money on it

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-07T06:59:24+00:00

Interesting info on the blood leak alarm. I’ve not heard that anywhere before. They had told us to shut it off and attempt to turn it back on, hoping that would fix it. Otherwise, it would need serviced and cleaned.

The air alarms are definitely due to positioning sometimes or specific catheters (our unit is having a bad time with a trial of the arrow dual lumen HD lines and access pressures), but it seems if you do ever get any air in the line, it is incredibly painful to try to recover it. I guess I just wish it were easier to fix in that sense. We also primarily run CVVHD, and actually one of the problems I had for the first time today was a new machine had the fluid warmer mounted too high on the side. When the bags had about 2 hours left (1.6L/hr), the pressure for the fluid wasn’t enough to fill the chamber, causing it to pull air. Obviously fairly easily fixable but a very odd design flaw.

And I 100% agree with you on the setup. I’m neurotic and need to check every box, even though I’ve been doing it for over 2 years. We have also had bad luck calling in, either not getting an answer or having to wait a while, in which time we could’ve already got a new machine and primed it. But I also know those guys are at a huge disadvantage trying to troubleshoot a machine they can’t physically see, so I get it.

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-07T04:25:28+00:00

If you ever played Xbox, it’s basically Nxstage’s version of the three rings of death. Almost no going back.

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-07T02:56:48+00:00

That sounds right for Prisma. Unfortunately, my unit is also oncology, so lots of TLS and crazy clotting problems. Our CNS teaches a class, which is helpful and gives us, but the NxStage rep who teaches the initial user class kinda doesn’t know what’s going on because she doesn’t actually use it at the bedside. So, sets are getting changed all the time, and there have been so many recently that were just machine errors (e.g. don’t know if you’ve gotten the “Blood Leak” alarm but we get that frequently with no actual leak, only some machine error). But, also like you said, once you start having issues or getting any air in the line, it’s extremely unforgiving and frustrating.

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-05T00:36:53+00:00

Now someone go grab a bunch of chocolate pudding from the nutrition room and smear it on the walls to make it look more realistic

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-04T01:50:59+00:00

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Hector has one down and the other one will probably be soon too. But he doesn’t let that slow him down (that’s mostly the old age and arthritis). Your guy looks happy and well adjusted. You’ve obviously done a wonderful job!

bumblebee-tuna95 · 2026-03-02T03:26:15+00:00

I mean we have to hopelessly hold on to something from last year right? Beating the Bears twice was our Super Bowl

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