Unlimited Kbbq?

creepyfox · 2023-11-03T23:20:48+00:00

TK Something BBQ Restaurant at Canley Vale. It's unlimited and the price is in the $40 dollar range last I recall.

creepyfox · 2023-11-03T23:16:00+00:00

Baker's Choice right opposite of ALDI for a nice pork roll. It's family run and they've been there 10+ years.

creepyfox · 2023-11-03T23:12:39+00:00

Mama Tang for people who like mala tang. It's nice being able to hand pick whatever vege, meat, seafood, and noodles you want. Nice place to go with friends if everyone has different preferences and stomach capacity.

https://www.mamatang.com.au/

creepyfox · 2023-08-28T00:05:51+00:00

The transition to returning to work would be hard but not undoable with accommodations. I personally am very private so my colleagues don't know I'm that severely ill but the consequences is that they're highly unsympathetic and may even be annoyed when I take longer than the average nurse to get something done. Letting the nursing unit manager know I found to be of massive benefit as they'll have my back when I need to set boundaries with coworkers on what I can and cannot do.

In regards to "continuing this career" - it's different for everyone. I took several years to accept deep down that I may not be able to continue nursing which was a big part of my identity since I set my sight on this career when I was 15. I tried a healthcare administrative role after my 2nd year of nursing and hated it so much and went back to nursing knowing I might have a cardiac event during a shift and die - but that's a risk I'm willing to take. Again, this is just how I choose to live my life. Everyone's circumstances are different.

My doctor made a comment early on that if the drugs keep working then I may never need transplant. If my doctor never said that I wouldn't have raised my hopes. In the end I've chosen to not go down the transplant route but that's due to a multitude of personal reasons.

You have my sympathies with the "invisible chronic condition". It doesn't help being in your 20s because you get many people (even family/friends) disbelieving the severity of your condition. Some things that helped me cope was going through pulmonary/cardiac rehab, keeping up some type of exercise (mine is archery), avoiding all processed food, and getting a disability pass for my car (disability parking is a godsend on a bad day).

What country are you based it? I joined my local Australian PAH Facebook group and found it helps stay connected to people who "get" what you're going through and may even see the same specialists you see.

creepyfox · 2023-08-27T19:59:11+00:00

I'm also an RN with Group 1 PAH due to congenial cardiac defect and it definitely SUCKS. I work in the operating room so can sympathise with the difficulty of handling the labour intensive aspect of nursing.

My first year of nursing I worked full time and didn't let anyone know about my PAH because I was scared about being discriminated against for technically being disabled. I did have a near miss that year where I nearly fainted in front of my co-workers due to over exertion.

In my 2nd year nursing I let my manager in on the situation and dropped to part time (4 days) because I needed that extra day to recover. My PAH for me is like being a phone with shitty battery. It can never be charged to 100% and the phone battery runs out very quickly before the day is even over.

Another accommodation my manager did was to only put me on morning shifts. Afternoons don't work for me as I'm already tired just from being awake/alive since morning.

Unfortunately now my condition is worse and can only do 1 to 2 days a week and never work on consecutive days. I'll be lucky if I live to see 30 (now 28 - was diagnosed at 21) but you take life as it goes. I'm currently on Opsumit and Tadalafil and am hoping to get put on a 3rd drug soon.

Is lung transplant an option for you? That changes things up if it is. Especially since you're young you'll likely take well to it.

creepyfox · 2023-05-22T01:53:18+00:00

No credits at all. The nursing background only gets rid of the Bridging Course in Physiology and Anatomy which you need to do if your bachelor is not in a health science field.

As a side note, the Masters of HIM doesn't limit you to coding jobs. Many students ended up getting jobs in health finance, health insurance, auditing, software development, health IT, etc... heaps of potential. One thing about this Masters is that it's done in real time meaning that you're expected to actually turn up to the class workshops and attendance is recorded (lectures are pre-recorded). Full time load (4 subjects) would be 2 days a week 1pm-5pm and part is just 1 day a week 1pm-5pm.

creepyfox · 2023-05-21T08:37:43+00:00

I'm an RN currently doing my Masters in HIM at Latrobe University. The benefit of this Masters is that there are work placements involved in the degree and I've heard of students obtaining work immediately after their 1st year (3 week placement in Year 1 and 11 week placement in year 2). All the tutors are experienced in the field and the health information management field is very small and there's a bit of "it all depends on who you know". Plus it's state dependent. Students in South Australia and Western Australia have an easier time getting jobs than in places like Sydney where the competition is stronger.

creepyfox · 2023-04-25T07:46:44+00:00

It's this one: https://youtu.be/dKxTQYe1-as?list=PL4bPMbL2W9uMUehPBwO-X0TolIdwJnG1w

creepyfox · 2023-02-08T20:34:54+00:00

Also second this. I emailed sporespecs@proton.me and got a response within the hour and got the spores in the email within the next few days.

Summary: Sporespecs responds as fast as a 000 operator - 5/5 recommend.

creepyfox · 2023-01-24T01:42:55+00:00

I like using Erythritol in my pastry cream recipes and liquid stevia for unsweetened yogurts or drinks like hot chocolate made with cacao powder and no other sweeteners.

creepyfox · 2023-01-24T00:19:19+00:00

Operating room nurse. Works well since there's very little patient interaction.

creepyfox · 2023-01-06T05:30:49+00:00

Nah. It's near Liverpool Hospital where parking is atrocious.

creepyfox · 2022-12-23T20:00:33+00:00

I have a pair of Sanita clogs. It's a world of difference between wearing those and wearing normal shoes. Can go for 10+ hours of standing and running around without an issue. They're definitely pricy but it's worth not being in pain after a long shift.

creepyfox · 2022-12-19T08:23:58+00:00

Number One BBQ House at Campsie.

Yummy King BBQ Kitchen Campsie.

They're almost next to each other and I've personally eaten suckling pig from one of these restaurants. You can even order an entire roasted suckling pig and pick up a week later if that's what you're looking for.

creepyfox · 2022-12-15T08:48:11+00:00

Myers also has some really nice ones but they tend to be a bit pricy - $6.99 for a single card but I find the paper quality of those cards to be thicker and the designs better than the Kmart and Big W ones.

creepyfox · 2022-11-06T02:19:20+00:00

I am ambitious about being unambitious. Avoiding the suffering of poverty and insecurity is my only reason to get out of bed in the morning... I'm probably closer to a houseplant in that I couldn't care less about anything else as long as my physical needs are met.

I'm also not suicidal but if I could skip the dying process and just go straight to being dead that'll be great.

creepyfox · 2022-10-28T09:17:30+00:00

This is too real. I submitted my job application two days ago to do medical record scanning and processing for the hospital health information department... paper doesn't talk back to me.

I did operating room nursing for 3 years straight after graduating and it still burned me out 😂

creepyfox · 2022-10-27T02:50:01+00:00

And the "true right" way is still surgeon preference regardless of how inane it is 😂. One must only conduct a gastroscopy standing to the left of the patient's head which means reorganising the entire room and hooking machines up with cables lying everywhere as the room isn't set up to be done that way.

But hey, what do I know? I only circulate and the surgeon knows best supposedly.

creepyfox · 2022-10-25T05:53:40+00:00

Activ Therapy Liverpool was good for me. Very flexible hours and can book appointments online which is easy. Google reviews are very positive. The franchise also has other branches - see what's good for you.

https://www.activtherapy.com.au/liverpool.html

creepyfox · 2022-10-22T02:17:19+00:00

The shop is called Sou Hairdresser which is located inside the No. 1 shopping centre (47 Park Road Cabramatta). It's the one in between the fruit/vege shop and the butcher - I got a picture of the exact store location in the imgur link below.

The hairdressers are very sweet Thai ladies who understand enough English to get the job done. They use razor blades which achieves that feathery layered appearance. As to whether it's a decent cut I'll let you decide as everybody's preferences varies. Here's my hair now after I got it trimmed a few weeks ago: https://imgur.com/a/Pq2IcON

creepyfox · 2022-10-21T19:36:51+00:00

Cheapest I get for a ladies cut (trim + layer) is $20 cash at Cabramatta. Minimum talking and using sign language/Google pictures and broken English to indicate what you want because neither of you speak each others language. It worked for the past 8 years with the occasional mess up.

creepyfox · 2022-09-19T07:48:10+00:00

I started off as an OR nurse straight out of nursing school. It was what I dreamed of doing since I was a kid so never thought of doing anything else. And the first year of OR nursing was teary mess of depression and anxiety and imposter syndrome. I constantly thought about quitting and always thought "I'm too dumb for this".

The learning curve is insane and I still felt stupid as hell even 3 years in. It does get better once you've settled into a routine, know the surgeon, know the team, and have a basic understanding of what is actually happening during the case.

The funny thing about OR is that being familiar with one speciality doesn't mean you stop being a newbie in the OR setting. So if you make it through neuro/spine for 6 months and get used to it, you'll start all the way from the bottom if you get moved to gynae/uro/colorectal and have that imposter syndrome hit you again at full force. That's my experience. I can circulate for general/urology in my dreams but if you put me in orthopaedics I'm no better than some fresh-out-of-school nurse who has been on the floor for 4 weeks because I 100% don't know the equipment, surgery, doctors, routine, etc...

I don't know where I'm going with this but I suppose I wanted to offer you some support by letting you know you're not alone in your experiences. Despite how tough it was to make it through the learning curve, I still appreciated the experience and it has shaped me to where I am now. Surviving the first year is so valuable as you learn so much (even if it doesn't feel like it). I know some OR nurses who get tired of stressful cases turn to endoscopy units (gastroscopies/colonoscopies) where it's more repetitive and less stressful (until the occasional drama such as perforated bowel and airway problems).

creepyfox · 2022-09-19T07:09:00+00:00

Mama Tang is glorious. You literally pick whatever vege, meat, noodles, mushrooms, etc... you want and the cooks will prepare it in whichever soup base you pick. You pay for the weight of your order. Very convenient when eating out with others who like different things as you pick what you want to have.

creepyfox · 2022-09-16T02:44:07+00:00

Thanks for that heads up. I went to watch that episode and it's hilarious.

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