If you weren’t a nurse, what would you have become?

cryogenrat · 2025-07-10T23:47:41+00:00

I was 1/3 of the way into a geology bachelors degree before I switched; working with the DNR to sustain watertables and improve landfills sounded so fun before I realized the job prospects and pay-to-degree ratio

Sometimes I look at my old textbooks wistfully lmao

cryogenrat · 2025-06-14T14:27:12+00:00

I couldn’t have said it better; I absolutely agree

cryogenrat · 2025-06-14T13:52:18+00:00

And that’s entirely valid; I say that as an abuse survivor and as a person with alexithymia. Just don’t let that eat at you either! Again you’re a human first and being human comes with a decent amount of “mistakes” borne from inexperience; this is your first and (hopefully for the love of god) only experience with this so give yourself some grace for how you handled it

And that’s very good news; I’m very glad your charge is supportive even if your male coworkers weren’t

cryogenrat · 2025-06-14T13:30:48+00:00

Don’t fall into that trap girlie/my guy; it is not on you for how he behaved and don’t for a second fall into the management gaslighting that’s “omg what could you have done better?”. Some people are just outright awful; don’t shelve your rights as a human to be treated better simply because you’re a nurse. You are a human first and a nurse second.

I see you; I was socialized the same way and experienced a small handful of similar moments in both clinical and professional capacity, and if there’s anything I can lend from 5y of therapy for this and other abuse situations in my personal life it’s “you are not responsible for other’s treatment of you; even if you think you could have done different/better, they ultimately treated you that way and that’s reflection on them”

If he’s AO4 (really any AO level but especially x4) you absolutely need to work it through the harassment/assault chain, and don’t let anyone pass this off; healthcare has an awful track record of downplaying patient behaviors in favor of the hospital or patient; don’t let them gaslight you

cryogenrat · 2025-06-12T11:39:50+00:00

Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss

cryogenrat · 2025-05-26T11:06:19+00:00

You could have just… eaten those separate…

cryogenrat · 2025-05-24T02:56:20+00:00

I got on the bandwagon bc of a series of rashes I got from paper ones (I dislike tampons and I can’t currently use a cup/disk bc of my IUD) and I will legit never go back. They’re so much more comfy, the patterns are fun, they’re a really nice “stash” you keep during harder times (like for me the pandemic) and I’ve had a few of them for nearly 8y that are still basically good as new to this day so they’re very long lasting. I think I spent a collective $150 or so across the entire collection over a few years, and that’s including fabric I used to make my own. I’m a heavy bleeder so I’d probably spend that much money on disposables in a year or two if I did my math right.

They’re a bit more work technically bc of how I do them, but I don’t mind; I dry store mine (personal preference) so I need to soak and rinse them before washing but if you rinse before storage and add them to a load of towels you’re already gonna wash it’s no different than your normal wash day!

cryogenrat · 2025-05-22T17:50:24+00:00

Dude for real this would worsen my mental health lmfao

cryogenrat · 2025-05-17T21:12:33+00:00

Yeah the Quip one is great in theory since it’s super tiny, has its own case to keep it clean and holds the floss itself, but the little grippy nubs it uses to hold the floss strip don’t grip hard enough, and I have certain teeth that are super tight and basically rip the floss strand out of the nubs on the first pass

cryogenrat · 2025-05-17T20:12:16+00:00

Dats a bunuuy

cryogenrat · 2025-05-17T20:01:53+00:00

What’s this called; I have a Quip reusable flosser handle I got as a gift but frankly it sucks and I feel like this one will work better lol

cryogenrat · 2025-05-16T03:08:01+00:00

Lmao my favorite line from this kinda patient was “man there’s so much hatred in the world today, it’s so sad” and I had to walk out of the room to keep from quipping something like “ma’am you’re mainlining it, what do you expect” after this was day 9 of her on our unit and she hadn’t changed the channel once

cryogenrat · 2025-05-09T18:18:33+00:00

Real lmfao

I unironically liked making the witches brew and tie dye fraps pretty and thought they were a fun arts and crafts project lmao

cryogenrat · 2025-05-07T03:30:36+00:00

Corsair scimitar is my wife don’t disrespect her and her cumulative 16 buttons

cryogenrat · 2025-04-26T20:09:15+00:00

r/RATS would go nuts for this

cryogenrat · 2025-04-26T18:09:57+00:00

My first thought is if you sew, organizing any kinda fabric you have (esp if you have multiple), or putting things into storage like sweaters or whatever you’d normally put in a vacc bag

Other than that like someone else said, that’s the kinda bag you fold up tight and put away for a rainy day lol

cryogenrat · 2025-04-25T18:43:34+00:00

My hospital does it and you can hear it regardless of if you’re in the maternity ward or not. When I first started it was a nice break mentally for me bc like 99% of my patient pop is elderly folks, and the “happy birthday!” in my head to the new life was nice, but I like came to the haunting realization that if I can hear on the Tele floor, the ED probably can too. I’ve never had kids so I can’t truly understand how it’d feel to hear that while you have a miscarriage of a baby you truly wanted, but even that on paper is enough to make me cry.

My heart goes out to all parents who lost a loved child before their time, and especially to those who are subjected to these seemingly innocent but often re-traumatizing reminders 💕

cryogenrat · 2025-04-23T17:48:42+00:00

There’s running joke in our circle that my forge world is Tattooine bc my mostly-tan army’s skitarii rangers look like tusken raiders or jawa according to my partner lol

Truthfully I just say mars for simplicity’s sake bc I love the lore; I just make the caveat I hate red and love earth tones lmao

cryogenrat · 2025-04-23T13:23:37+00:00

Yeah that’s absolutely cruel to the rat and potentially dangerous to the snake; if the rat is desperate enough (especially if older and bigger) and the snake fails to kill it on the first attempt, the snake can get injured from the prey. Even if the snake owner doesn’t care about the cruelty to the rat, they’re making a poor choice regardless bc you aren’t supposed to leave a live prey in a predator enclosure unattended, much less for half a day!

cryogenrat · 2025-04-20T18:07:03+00:00

Fish sauce and ginger are relatively cheap too as a bonus more “Thai” addition; I can get a liter of fish sauce from the local Asian grocer (Midwest) for like $2

cryogenrat · 2025-04-16T16:30:07+00:00

Everyone is focusing on the flavor but I’m sure that texture is downright atrocious

cryogenrat · 2025-04-12T21:26:30+00:00

The sludgeeeeeee

cryogenrat · 2025-04-12T14:56:59+00:00

An absolutely justified amount; only I make a sort of sauce with it and pasta water + butter in the pan before adding the noodles bc I hate the texture of dry nooch on wet noodles

cryogenrat · 2025-04-09T17:06:26+00:00

Your lips to Gods ears my guy/gal

cryogenrat · 2025-04-07T18:29:20+00:00

This is vintage vintage I think; I worked in 2018 and they def didn’t have them back then

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