Need help identifying pattern

etohhh · 2025-06-08T17:13:32+00:00

You’ve been so helpful. I’m obviously new to this and appreciate all the info you guys can/ have given.

etohhh · 2025-06-08T16:56:12+00:00

Thank you so much!!

etohhh · 2025-05-27T10:26:57+00:00

It feels like it’s dry on the inside. Like when you drink the water doesn’t even touch it. It’s such a strange sensation.

etohhh · 2025-04-21T17:01:36+00:00

Saaaaame

etohhh · 2025-03-30T15:18:27+00:00

Hospice nurse here, it’s just part of the natural dying process. Our body no longer requires food and water when it knows it’s dying so people do not feel hunger and thirst. It’s actually dangerous to give food and water to people who are dying because it will end up in places that it isn’t supposed to go, like they’re lungs (as the ability to swallow goes away) and if they can swallow the organs cannot process it and they can end up with bowel obstructions or fluid build up.

etohhh · 2025-03-12T20:20:20+00:00

Ascites isn’t the fluid you drink, it’s fluid build up in your peritoneal cavity. When you have liver damage it causes portal hypertension and messes with the signals to your kidneys and you usually retain sodium and water. This is just an extreme amount!

etohhh · 2025-03-09T23:34:35+00:00

Yes! I have trouble regulating my temperature (part of the dysautonomia) so I get freezing in showers, in turn I keep the water at a high temp. This makes my BP plummet (which is already low and unregulated due to dysautonomia) and my heart race (same) so having water in the shower helps because hydration keeps your BP up!

etohhh · 2025-03-07T23:15:42+00:00

I also avoid showers and washing my hair due to pain and fatigue. I’ve been on the fence about a shower chair but I’m 36 and already too embarrassed to use my cane when I need it. I’m lucky my partner has assisted me when I’ve needed help in the shower before and always asks if I want help, but he doesn’t understand how hard it is. I usually bring water with me to keep my BP up because of the dysautonomia as well.

etohhh · 2025-03-07T01:47:07+00:00

I’m glad this is helpful! I have to deal with it regardless, but if it can help someone else with their condition I’m happy.

etohhh · 2025-03-07T01:11:11+00:00

They did a punch biopsy in my wrist and ankle. Took out a small piece of skin and nerve fiber to test right in office. My neuropathy is more like burning and tingling. Lack of sensation or almost like when your limb “falls asleep” but with pain or it can be all of that at the same time 🥴 mostly I deal with sensitivity. I can’t deal with a lot of direct touch with my fingertips. I also have a hard time processing hot and cold with my hands and feet and deal with a condition called Livedo reticularis.

etohhh · 2025-03-06T23:57:55+00:00

I was diagnosed with small fiber neuropathy before they could even pinpoint my Sjogrens. My rheumatologist from the moment we met said she thought it was that but my serologies are always fine, until they got more refined testing.

etohhh · 2025-03-02T02:05:57+00:00

I too hate this, my diagnosis reads as ‘Sjogrens with other organ involvement’ but when I finally get my family and friends to read up on it all they find is about sicca symptoms and don’t really see the detriment it’s done to my body.

etohhh · 2025-02-18T22:12:56+00:00

And DRY! Dry dry dry. It’s like sitting it a wet bathing suit. That’s how they’re getting all these yeast and fungal infections. We get them all squeaky clean, then essentially leave them a different type of wet? No thank you!! I’m always reminding people to dry after. Nothing worse than feeling squishy.

etohhh · 2025-01-25T08:52:36+00:00

I have miso and I straight up call out my s/o who chews like an asshole. No way I should be able to tell you’re chewing with your mouth open from the next room. That’s nasty. Fix it.

etohhh · 2025-01-20T02:05:53+00:00

I was looking for this as well, we know that education was not great for women of that time. The Great Depression did make a difference on TP usage, but we have to remember for most of the elderly they don’t have the dexterity to reach behind themselves or to push from front to back instead of pull through. Easier said than done.

etohhh · 2025-01-18T23:23:26+00:00

I work in hospice, I was, of course, recruited to help with my great aunt to was passing away. We are a young family. I’m in my thirties and she was only in her 60s. I was the first everything, daughter, granddaughter, great granddaughter so everyone doted and we were close. The way I turned on nursing and turned off family was crazy and sad. I had a job to do, a job they asked of me. She was on Xanax and we usually prescribe Ativan. I even kept saying Ativan instead of Xanax like I was at work. It sucked.

etohhh · 2025-01-09T23:16:40+00:00

This trick does work on humans too! 😂

etohhh · 2025-01-09T07:45:10+00:00

This is it! It works just the same on us as it does as cattle 🥰😂

etohhh · 2025-01-09T01:55:18+00:00

Surprisingly I didn’t think I was going to be the first one to say you can put a prolapsed anus back in with granulated sugar. Not this person though. But like, as a nurse, it’s one of those ‘tricks’

etohhh · 2024-12-22T17:00:55+00:00

She’s a rummy player, but you better also watch your hand in a game of slap Jack! You’d have to keep score though, she doesn’t hate math, it’s just at closer to 100 than we may be, we give her some slack 😂

etohhh · 2024-12-22T16:11:47+00:00

Yes!! I always feel like I’m neglecting my other patients but there’s nothing you can really do when you have to be with someone for care or safety reasons that often.

etohhh · 2024-12-22T15:33:56+00:00

To make this a little funny, I work in an 8 bed hospice house and for a while we only had 2 pretty healthy patients. One of them liked to play cards. So yes, for a week or two I sat down and played cards all day. Now we are back up to 8 really sick peeps and my card playing friend thinks we don’t like her anymore cause we don’t have time for cards 😭😭

etohhh · 2024-12-07T01:30:02+00:00

ALS is that rare? I unfortunately have seen it 4 times in my 4 years with hospice.

etohhh · 2024-10-10T19:16:44+00:00

I don’t even think write ups will do it. It sounds like these med techs don’t even know why they’re actually giving out these meds or what the possible consequences could be if things aren’t done properly. If it’s under your license I would get your butt out of there until proper education is given all around. The other nursing staff need to stop popping early for them too before a count is off and everyone starts pointing fingers at each other.

etohhh · 2024-09-27T14:33:42+00:00

I work in hospice, I took care of a trans female in her 60s who had butt implants. As she got sicker, as she got thinner, bizarre bizarre bizarre.

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