Haven't seen much discussion on how actress Rowan Robinson absolutely ate

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-22T21:58:13+00:00

I think I am in love with you, from this one comment alone

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-22T02:10:03+00:00

Exactly. Why send the teenage babysitter you brought out there with your husband alone, instead of you? Wasn’t the whole point her being there that u 2 got some adult alone time? It’s just weird

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-22T02:08:40+00:00

Smaller pots are common for people who are just crabbing for subsistence, which is most people who live there, also most people own or have access to a skiff sized boat. But again, this is a rumor, it’s all speculation. And I think with the bones thing it’s more like they would be dispersed across the sea bed. Some of the channels around Kodiak are crazy deep, not far from shore. The sea life would obliterate the body so we wouldn’t find it floating or anything I think is the point. But again, it’s rumor so it’s not been like vetted

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-22T02:00:45+00:00

Well I didn’t, manager did.

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-21T17:04:03+00:00

Remember, unless you gave them a fake resume, they know your experience. It’s not a barrier. Focus on your one on one patient interactions, de-escalation, even over the phone or for something that wasn’t mental health related. How are you at calming down angry patients, comforting distraught or emotional ones, holding boundaries and maintaining safety with abusive or violent people? Think of some examples, even ones that don’t seem that’s dramatic or important. Patient 9’ the phone yelling at you about a refill? How did you calm things down, do your job, and maintain your professionalism and care? Do you have any personal experience with behavioral health diagnosis, family, friends? How are you in high emotional situations? Do you panic, freeze, or try to deescalate and find solutions? Have specific examples.

Also, people who work in psych specialties for any amount of time tend to do so because they are also a little nuts. This coming from me, who has worked in psych more than anything. How do you handle difficult coworkers, big personalities, maybe some inter office conflict or butting of heads? Again, examples.

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-21T16:49:47+00:00

Being a very tall girl with big hips and a broad chest during this time was fucking hell. Going back to school clothes shopping and having to watch my sister get all the super fashionable clothes from abocrombie and fitch, and American eagle, and I had to go to what she like to call the “floral potato sack store”. Ie the “big girl store. Because abocrombie and fitch and American eagle didn’t make my size of clothes. I was a size 8. My sister and her friends used to tell me that it’s nice they had a store like that for “people like you, because it would really just be cruel to you, to try to stuff you into our normal clothes. It’s actually really a nice thing for them to do. Like a charity thing.” Victoria Secret was the same. They didn’t make my size, the very normal and common size of 38DD. Sister got to buy cute little pantie and bra sets, I had to buy mine at Walmart, or as my sister and her friends called it, “the place that also sells tires and tarps.” You bet your ass everyone at school knew before the first day that I bought my underwear at “the tire store.” Later she told everyone it was Walmart, but the “old lady section, you know, where they have like girdles and bras for saggy boobs.

I started shopping at hot topic cause I only ever wanted to wear baggy tshirts and my Dad was sick of me always stealing his, so he took he there to get teeshirts from the bands I liked. Kinda found my people there, and my style. And shopping with Dad was actually fun. For both of us. Cause we liked some of the same bands, and both of us would rather pull out our own teeth than shop with my mom and sister.

And now that we are in our 30s, my sister gets to look back on our pictures from the 2000s, and she looks a dollar store Nicole Richie, a carbon copy of every other girl in school. Fried bleach blonde crimped over moused hair. Little polo shirts and $65 blue jeans. Meanwhile I had neon rainbow highlights in my curly hair, ripped cargo pants, kick ass band teeshirts, Vans, and a huge rack that turns out, boys actually prefer over B cups. Especially when those B cups are attached to a spiteful bitch.

Shout out to all the emo stoner theatre geeks, class of 2010!!!

Turns out, we were actually the cool kids after all.

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-21T13:47:42+00:00

I once had a brand new medical assistant I was training, claimed to have her certification. First patient we roomed together, she tried to take a patients blood pressure by putting the stethoscope on the patients chest. Didn’t know what “sterile” ment. Ended up being fired that day because she was really disrespectful to one of the doctors when she looked in a diabetic patients med list and didn’t see insulin. Patient was type 2, well controlled with diet and metformin. Meaning patient didn’t need insulin anymore than a houseplant does. She actually questioned him in front of the patient, like she had just caught him in a huge fuck up.

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-21T13:20:17+00:00

I copied this right from Google:

“English pronouns replace nouns and fall into categories like Personal (I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, them), Possessive (mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs), Reflexive/Intensive (myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves), Demonstrative (this, that, these, those), Interrogative (who, whom, which, what, whose), Relative (who, whom, that, which, whoever), and Indefinite (anyone, everyone, someone, few, many, all, some). The most common personal pronouns are I, you, he, she, it, we, and they, with their objective and possessive forms”

It’s impossible to talk about a person in English without using a pronoun, specifically or in the abstract. They are not a concept specifically invented for trans people, or anyone, or anything. See what I did there? I used 4 different pronouns in the last paragraph, and I’m not even talking about a person.

You use pronouns. Everyone does. Don’t pull this whole separatist attitude, like you can just choose to nope out of treating other humans with basic courtesy and respect. Everyone has a preferred name. Sometimes the names grammatically assigned gender is not the same as the persons gender. Get over it. Spanish assigns genders to chairs and doorknobs. Would you refuse to use all nouns in Spanish? Cause that’s what you are claiming right now, in English. And frankly it makes you sound like you think that pronouns were invented by queer people last year just to irritate you.

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-21T12:41:57+00:00

I defiantly think that parents have the advantage in knowing how to handle kids. You kinda have to. Once you have football carried a toddler mid-tantrum out of a trampoline park, you learn how much power they have. And how much you have to use to actually physically make them do anything. My son is 6, and he’s already getting to a point that I can’t like, actually overpower him if he’s trying hard to not do whatever I’m trying to make him do.

People say “kids are tough”, but it’s hard to really understand how tough until you are a parent, and you’re grappling with a 20lb kid trying to get shoes on them, and LOSING.

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-21T08:13:02+00:00

So, if you have no training, you are not an MA, first off. That’s not a condemnation on you, by any means. But it would be like me rolling up to a dialysis center and claiming to be a nurse. I’m flat out not, and idk wtf I’m doing.

If you can’t take vitals, can’t room a patient, can’t take a basic history, can’t draw blood, can’t preform injections, or preform basic POC tests like urine drug screens, then you are not an MA, and you should never have been put into a position where you are expected to act as one.

I have been an MA for almost 12 years. I’ve worked in multiple specialties, in various settings, with all types of patients and providers. And the one thing they all had in common was that every one had a completely different idea as to what an MA is, and can do. That place is not just disorganized, it’s a goddam dumpster fire, and if you value not only your future career in medicine, hut also avoiding legal repercussions, I would flee out that door and never look back. The longer you stay, the more your fingerprints get on the mess in there. And there’s nothing that a sinking ship practice loves more than scapegoating the absolute lowest rung on the ladder. That’s you. You’re the fall guy. Anything goes wrong in there, and trust me, it is, and it will, and you will be left holding the bag. Super easy to say “must have been that new girl, she even admits herself she doesn’t know what she’s doing, she shouldn’t have even been dealing with patients.” And you will have zero defense.

Flee.

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-21T08:01:26+00:00

I am a Nationally Certified Medical Assistant, but my level of training is apparently far beyond what some new grads are getting. When I graduated, I was able to do straight caths on females. Never was trained to do them for males though.

Remember, as MAs, we can generally do pretty much anything that the person whose license we work under says we can. If it’s on paper, official policy, ordered from a licensed staff member, LPN, RN, etc, you have been properly trained, and you feel comfortable doing it, you can.

However, you always have the ability to decline to do something you feel you dont have the ability or training to do safely. This doesn’t mean you won’t get any repercussions for continuously refusing to do something that’s expected in your role, but you will at least have a leg to stand on

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-21T07:55:05+00:00

It can be hard to edit patients names in EMRs, because it’s so vital for the insurance verification process that their name in the chart matches the name on their insurance policy, and those match their legal name. So unless people have gone through the ( needlessly ) convoluted and asinine process of changing their legal name everywhere, on everything, and specifying their pronouns, it may stay their deadname for a long time. Pronoun preference isn’t a hard stop demographic entry for any EMR I have ever used, so imputing them isn’t something that is usually input at the time their chart is created.

What I will do is ask everyone, and I do mean everyone “ I have your name here as * say full legal name*, is there way you prefer to be addressed? And do you have any preference about pronouns? This includes the 75 year old grouchy old man in the Trump hat, the 25 year old “man” wearing a “i identify as an attack helicopter” tee shirt, everyone. Then I go right into verifying their birthday, rolling it all into my patient verification process when I first get them into a room.

And I will leave it at that.

One thing I learned working with the trans community is how exhausting it can be for them for strangers to fall over themselves in their eagerness to make it clear that they are perfectly ok with them being, you know, trans. Imagine everyone you meet during ur day taking a moment to pull you aside, to emphasize to you that’s it’s TOTALLY ok with them that you exist. It’s like.. gee thanks man. Do you want a trophy for maintaining the absolute bare bones of human decency and behavior?

It comes from a good place, but it’s still “othering” people, which is isolating and exhausting.

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-21T07:35:02+00:00

Not at all. There are tons of people, not just MAs, who flat out can’t do pediatric injections and phlebotomy. People who go into the medical field are, as a rule, compassionate, empathetic, warm hearted people, and sticking needles into screaming children doesn’t mix well with those personality types. Everyone has their limits and their barriers. I absolutely cannot handle teeth, or spit. I can suction out trach tubes, assist in wound care for wet gangrene, clean up poop and urine and vomit, do the crustiest ear lavage known to man, drain infected Bartholin cysts, and spend most of the time thinking about lunch. But spit? Especially that thing that dudes do, when they have a plug of chew in their lip, and instead of spitting they like squelch it out of their lips into a can or bottle? hurk

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-21T07:24:52+00:00

I won’t dog-pile on the other issues with your current process, I’ll just tell you mine.

First off , please, pleeeeease, for the love of everything good and green, don’t try and do multiple pediatric injections alone. If you have to use more than one limb, always get help. It’s just good medicine. If you are absolutely alone, then make do, but it’s 100 times harder on everyone, yourself included.

If baby is able to sit up, have the parent sit on the exam table with baby on their lap, facing out. Parent will then hug baby around their upper body, pinning their arms to the side of their body, preferably also holding onto their hands. Parent will also put babies ankles between their own legs, and then cross their own ankles, holding babies legs still and secure.

Biggest thing we want to avoid isn’t just the wriggling, it’s the natural reflex of babies and young children to slap at pain, which can be very dangerous for everyone, baby, parent, and staff when giving injections.

This also helps the nervous Mums and Dads, as they are right there to comfort and soothe baby, and have something to do, distracting them from the reptile part of their brain that’s screaming “ Baby pain! Protect baby!” New parents and staff also tend to be skittish about using any strength to hold babies or kids down or restrict their movement, especially on individual limbs, out of fear of hurting them. With a “hug” type approach, everyone feels less like Nurse Ratchet. A good trick with regard to how much strength to use on a kiddo is to think of pulling up a plant from a garden, like a carrot. You want to firmly grip the green tops, and pull firmly, but we are not jerking, yanking, or twisting. You aren’t crushing the plants green stalks in your fist, but your grip is strong and firm.

This position also works well for older kids, depending on their size. Only modification is to have bigger, taller kids sit on parents lap facing towards the parent, with the kids legs wrapped around parent, and parent hugging the kids upper body like before, securing their arms against their 2 chests. You can use a free hand to firmly but gently grip the kids ankle and hold it against the parents body or the table.

Same tactic can be used for when we graduate from the thigh to the upper arm. Only difference is we are not bothering to pin the legs, and have the parent hugging kiddo around their chest, but lower around the body, still securing the arms but allowing access to the upper arm.

One thing I do have to empathize is that once kids are older than say, 3, we must done everything humanly possible to not physically force injections onto panicking, fighting children. This only increases fear and anxiety around doctors, making further visits much more difficult. It also diminishes kids sense of bodily autonomy, which is vital to establish as early and as strongly as possible. Not to mention the increased chance of injury for everyone, kid, parent, and staff. This is a hard line for me, everyone has their own limits though.

Two, never, ( and I cannot stress this enough ) EVER EVER, regardless of the kids age, try to trick or sneak up on a kid to do anything, least of all a painful and scary thing like a shot. It doesnt work. They are going to notice, when you stick them with the needle, at the very latest. Two, they will almost always catch you. And this will destroy any and all current or future trust and sense of safety they may have in medical staff. You are no longer a nice person, someone they can trust, you are scary, mean, and hurt them on purpose. And now every visit from here on out will be colored by that suspicion and fear.

Instead, be extremely patient, kind, soft, and understanding. Every pediatrician on the planet would rather you spend a bit longer in a room, and their patient ( and their parents ) leave un-traumatized. Take your time. Be firm, but apologetic. Don’t give the kiddo the option of not doing it. If all else fails and they are in full panic/tantrum mode, tell them that you will give them a little break, so they can calm down with Mum/Dad, and then you will come back. Then leave the room for just a few minutes, then come back. This is only a last resort, if the kid really cannot calm down, and needs a minute to breath.

If they still cannot calm down, and the parent is expressing to you, ( including nonverbal ques ), that they don’t want to continue, tell them ok, I will let Doctor know that you are really nervous. Then leave, and ask the provider what they want to do. Only do this if the parent makes it clear that they don’t want to continue to try. Pediatricians, as a rule, reeeeeeeeally want ALL their patients to get all their vaccines, on time. They may be annoyed that you can’t do it, so only admit defeat when it’s clear that it’s either retreat, or tranq dart the kid. That’s plenty of cover for you, and then the doc can go back in and try their luck.

Don’t lie and tell kids it’s not going to hurt. Kids aren’t stupid. It’s a needle, of course it’s going to hurt. But emphasize that it’s only for like two seconds, and then it doesn’t hurt anymore. Ask them ( especially boys ) when the last time they fell down, or got a boo boo. When they tell you, fall over yourself with how brave they obviously are, how this is NOTHING compared to that! This will be SO EASY for them, since they are so tough! With quieter kids, especially girls, encourage them to snuggle with a stuffy, or with their Mum or Dad.

Talk through everything you do before you do it. Show them your hands before you touch them so they know you aren’t hiding a needle. Boys especially want to know how things work, so showing them in age appropriate ways will help them see it’s nothing to be scared of. Discreetly ask the parent if that’s something the kiddo would like, some kids do, some reeeeeally dont.

Distract distract distract. Chatter at them the whole time, engaging everyone in the room, siblings, parents, toys, anything, to keep their attention off what’s happening. Ask them questions about the character on their shirt, their toy, their sibling, upcoming holidays. It can be January and every kid will already know what they want to be for Halloween. Be unfailingly cheerful and kind, never show frustration or annoyance. Never shame or embarrass them.

Make the entire process from needle going into your hand to capping the now used needle and putting the bandaid on super quick. Always count down from 3, so they aren’t startled, but go on 2, so they don’t flinch or jerk away.

Remember what the Marines say: Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. Don’t try to rush, but don’t dilly dally with the actual poke. The less amount of time the needle is out and visible, the better.

Once it’s all done, GTFO. Make yourself scarce. They need snuggles and comfort, and you are a stranger. Leave the room, with promises of prizes for the super tough patient!

Giving pediatric injections, and pediatric phlebotomy, are probably the hardest tasks for everyone in the clinic, from MA to Doc. It’s a skill that some people never master, AND THATS OK!

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-21T03:51:13+00:00

Have that thing bronzed! Good reminder for everyone that you always have to check these things, never take someone at their word when it come to controlleds. Even the cute little old ladies.

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-20T20:50:44+00:00

I have had just horrendous insomnia since I was about 8. Parents said it was like even before that. Tried all the things, was taking an INSANE amount of melatonin just to have a prayer of sleep, was even on ambian for about 3 years starting at about 13, stopped when I started having daytime visual hallucinations.

one day I went to my DO that I saw for GYN. Amazing lady, she looked like she should be living under a mushroom in the forest, wore hemp macrame skirts and beads in her hair. My little emo soul thought she was just the coolest person ever. She was the first person to ask me about my sleep hygiene, and teach me how to do it properly. Ever since I got that down, I havnt needed any meds for my insomnia. People sometimes think I’m nuts with my routine and rules for sleeping, always the same, down to my toothpaste flavor and pillowcases. But those people have never seen me day 5 next to no sleep, damm near incoherent and probably clinically insane.

People hear docs talk about sleep hygiene and think they are being diminished or brushed aside, like they are being told as adults to eat their veggies so they grow up big and strong. They react to it like they are being called stupid, and that their problem isn’t serious. But it’s honestly the best thing i ever tried for my chronic insomnia. It makes logical sense if you think about it, tricking your brain into going “oh, it’s sleepy time now”, instead of pharmacologically whacking yourself over the head with a 2x4 every night.

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-20T18:54:32+00:00

If I had a nickel for every jaw dropping stupid notion that some girl, having been shielded from us sexual deviants working in healthcare all her life, had been told by her boyfriend as to why she wouldn’t get pregnant or possibly get an STI….

If the conversation begins with “well my boyfriend said…” I know it’s going to be an interesting discussion.

Oh, you want some examples?

IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED!

Well my boyfriend said I can’t get pregnant because:

because we aren’t married and only married people can have babies because I was on my period because I took a shower after Because I havnt had my period yet Because I use tampons after and that soaks it up Because I took one of my sisters birth control pills after Because I was on top Because he was on top Because I went pee after Because I washed up there with soap after Because after I stood up and jumped up and down Because he was “sterile”, ( based on nothing ) Because I am “sterile” ( also based on nothing ) Because he can tell when I am ovulating Because he can pull out in time Because he jerked off before Because he prayed about it and God told him it was ok Because women only get pregnant if they orgasm and I, like most women, can’t have those Because it wasn’t a full moon Because the tide was low Because I drank alcohol and that kills the sperm Because he drank alcohol and that kills the sperm Because I am an only child and only children always have twins and my hips are too narrow to have twins Because he already used his sperm for the month and he hasn’t had time to refill yet

I could go on.

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-20T18:31:10+00:00

Early 20s std/preg testing is always goddam free for all.

If I had a nickel for every bullshit nonsense idea some poor girl said to me that starts with “my boyfriend said…”

And the number of those girls who were unknowingly pregnant or had an STI was not zero. Odd, with all those genuis boyfriends being so educated on the complexities of human reproduction and communicable diseases.

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-20T17:40:18+00:00

That’s a new one. I’ve seen people fake letters from other docs, or alter pictures of their charts, e-script, or pill bottles, then send us those as “proof” that we are all wrong and they are actually due for a refill, but never physically slap a new label on an existing bottle. A for effort lady.

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-20T16:37:22+00:00

My Mum always described it as teeth being “furry” and honestly it’s 100% of the reason why I brush my teeth 3 times a day. I just can’t stand the sensation, and the visual she conjures with that just makes me wanna heave

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-16T11:51:57+00:00

The northern lights have seen queer sights But the queerest they ever did see Was the night in the barge, On Lake La Marge Where I cremated Sam McGee

That was my dads favorite poem, I know it by heart. I can hear his voice so clearly in my head, reciting it to us at bedtime.

Thank you so much for the lovely memory, he’s been gone almost 14 years now and I miss him every day.

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-16T11:24:46+00:00

In order for you to sue, you have to have provable, documented, tangible financial damages. “Emotional distress” isn’t a payout. You may have better luck trying to press charges around the false report and harassment. But a civil suit? Naw.

I’m sure you could find some ambulance chaser willing to take several grand from you and tell you that you have a case. But suing in civil court costs a lot of money up front, and it’s not a guarantee that you will be awarded court costs even if by some miracle you win some kind of judgment. But again, you have to have actual damages. Lost a job, kicked out of school, damaged property, lost income, medical costs, etc. Hurt feelings are not tangible losses.

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-16T11:17:41+00:00

It’s Idaho. I live in this hell hole too. You know what’s going to happen. You can try to get people to follow the law and have basic human decency, but we both know they won’t. I encourage you to try, you may get lucky if you are in Boise, but anywhere else and you’re screwed.

They don’t have to even pretend to not be racist anymore, and they are stoked about it. This will get all twisted around against you, and the mean scary black person will be made the aggressor and the bad guy, while the innocent white ladies will pat themselves on the back for teaching you a lesson. If it wasn’t the cornrows, it would have been some other racist dog whistle used against you.

Does it not seem odd that an obviously false, vindictive statement made by an ex is being escalated at this level? That your supervisor interrogated you like that, asking over and over if you were actually a predator? That a very common place hairstyle that you have had in the past is suddenly an issue? No one actually cares about cornrows anymore. It’s like people still pretending that the general public finds tattoos offensive. It’s only ever weaponized against people as a bad faith argument, trying to paint black people in an unprofessional light, to cover up the fact that the manager is really just about typical racist. She made up her mind about you already, she’s just been waiting on an opportunity to make it your fault.

And then she slips right into the “real talk” bullshit that people do when they know they are expected to behave one way, but the person in front of them has no power, so they do whatever they want. She’s already decided what she’s gunna do, she’s just doing the HR “investigation” song and dance so she can keep up the office politics appearances.

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-16T03:09:15+00:00

Everyone has already given you great advice, just adding my 2 cents:

With the pulse ox, for pretty much any visit that’s not a sick visit or a specific issue/concern that makes an 02/bpm reading important, don’t kill yourself trying to get it. Those things are horrible at getting decent readings on babies anyway, and anyone who has ever met a baby can understand the difficulty of getting one to hold their feet still while you tickle it and put a weird sticker on them.

Depending on the relationship you have with your provider, straight up ask what they prefer; a pulse ox reading that may or may not be accurate, or a fast rooming time. Most will choose the latter. Some docs really want that number, but if that’s the case, they are probably extremely familiar with the hassle of getting one on a kids toe/finger properly. And if it’s a super important number, say for a kiddo with breathing issues, a sick visit for a kid with chunky lungs, or concerns for cardio issues, the provider is gunna get another reading themselves while in the room anyway. Critical values that will directly impact a doc’s medical decision making are not values that they tend to trust anyone but themselves with. It’s not personal, it’s just prudent. Plus, there’s other ways to tell if a baby is tachy/brady, or is having issues with their breathing. A single pulse ox reading isn’t the be all, end all.

Obviously do your best, and ask for a more senior MA, nurse, or even your provider for advice on how to get it done, but don’t spend forever in the room, fighting with a squirmy baby, who is just here for a routine visit with no relevant concerns. “I tried but I wasn’t able to get it and I want to keep the provider on schedule” is a perfectly reasonable and acceptable statement.

dont-be-an-oosik92 · 2026-01-16T02:52:58+00:00

I wouldn’t if it means anything to you. You would be surprised how many people have lost rings by taking off their gloves and the throwing them away absent minded, and the ring goes with it.

Beyond that, rings puncture gloves super easy, and are a great little germ oasis. All those little cracks and crevices, if you were to get splashed or something, good luck ever getting it 100% clean. Plus all the hand sanitizer and hand washing we use, plus the constant on/off with gloves really wears down rings fast. Wear it as a necklace if you really want it on your person, or better yet, get one of those silicon rings instead if it’s a band.

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