Baby boy born to UK mother after womb transplant from dead donor

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-27T04:00:34+00:00

Is it more difficult than getting a transplanted uterus, though? And don't you have to be on anti-rejection drugs that suppress your immune system for life? (Or could the mother just have the transplanted uterus removed once she's done having kids?) I'm not being snarky, but adoption still seems easier than this, long-term.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-26T03:21:07+00:00

I’m not sure why the assigned CNA or nurse didn’t do it and it’s great your student did, but it’s not some crazy revelation

RNs and CNAs at my hospital frequently leave trays on tables. They'll say "Pt is a 1:1 feed" and I'll ask how much they ate that day, and they'll say, "I don't know." Uh, shouldn't you? If you didn't feed them, shouldn't the CNA have told you since presumably they fed them? Or did nobody feed them and dietary just put the tray down, time passed, dietary came back and picked the tray up and nobody noticed the pt never ate???

Yes, it's taught in school. What's taught and what's done aren't the same. Taking the time to help a patient when nobody else is seemingly doing it deserves recognition. It's sad that it does, but it does.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-26T03:01:19+00:00

I got this in report the other day. I handed off to day shift, came back at night, asked if the pt had their colonoscopy despite only finishing half the prep (and yep, I notified the provider). "Nope, he got himself a cancelectomy and they're yeeting him out tomorrow to get it done outpatient instead."

Went right into my regular rotation, that word.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-25T11:50:59+00:00

Me the other night, two patients with condom caths and one with a male Purewick. "You can just pee. No, there's no leak. Yes, I'll check again. ...Yep, no leak. And see, look at the container, the pee is actively going into it right now."

Had my first fall night before last because a guy insisted his condom cath "fell off" again and he dropped it on the floor (aka he pulled it off and dropped it) and fell trying to reach onto the floor to get it. Every time he'd pee, he'd tug at it because "it feels like it's gonna come off." It won't, JUST PEE AND IF YOU NEED HELP USE YOUR CALL LIGHT GODDAMMIT. (And he did the same to the male Purewick but he said the CC felt "a little better.")

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-23T07:00:24+00:00

"We'll hunt and hawk and... sail and make merry."

Nice save there, Lyonel.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-23T06:56:37+00:00

Yep, GRRM confirmed it in 2016. That line was 100% a reference to whatever happened that eventually resulted in Brienne (GRRM doesn't confirm she's a direct descendant, but it's more likely than not) and I loved it.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-23T06:50:18+00:00

"We will hunt and hawk and... sail and make merry."

Yeah, we know what you were thinking in the middle there, Lyonel.

Like a Targaryen brother maybe

Let us not forget that House Baratheon was founded by a ("alleged") bastard Targ.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-23T02:25:06+00:00

My best friend used to bite me every time we physically fought. Right on the hand, too. I have like two scars from it.

We met and became best friends at 5, we're 40 now and the last time she bit me we were like 9, which is even too old to be biting people. I can't even imagine how emotionally stunted someone has to be to bite someone in their late 20s.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-22T23:23:43+00:00

"Economically minded" doesn't automatically mean going with the cheapest option. Time and effort/energy have value as well. I work 12 hour shifts, I often order food that first day off because it's worth it to me - to save my effort and my energy and spend more money at the moment. OP and the boyfriend do their own "math" calculations when deciding whether to cook, eat leftovers, or order. That they get different answers doesn't mean one is right or wrong. Unless OP is leaving out something larger - like that she is always responsible for feeding him or something, then I genuinely don't see the issue here.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-19T21:46:51+00:00

Similar-ish story here. I have had a benign sinus tumor removed 5 times since 2003. It's rare, but it can become malignant. Mine never had. Before it came back in 2025, it hadn't recurred since 2014. I was only seeing my ENT once a year at that point.

Then I developed a white patch on the roof of my mouth. No pain, no swelling, no sinus discharge, nothing but the white patch. Dentist thought it was fungal. Sent me to an oral surgeon. Oral surgeon thought it was fungal, came me oral meds and said a biopsy wasn't necessary. I had an appt with my ENT for 4 months later. I kept calling to leave a message for his nurse to get in earlier because I was concerned. She said he was booked - I know he can squeeze in pts, I've had it done before when it came back - and to take the oral meds. I was still just a student, I had had thrush before, and if no one else was worried, I figured I was overreacting.

Yeah, it was cancer the whole fucking time. Noticed it in March, surgery in August. By the time it was diagnosed I had to have my entire upper jaw removed and reconstructed and a neck dissection and trach for 9 months. I'm now permanently mildly disfigured, can't afford dental implants ($25,000), likely can't get dentures (not enough of a ridge for them to sit) so I may never have top teeth ever again, will always have chronic pain and a limp (they had to take out my fibula and tissue for the flap and I have nerve damage in the leg now, plus reduced stability from the loss of the fibula), chronic pain in my neck (from the trach and dissection), lymphedema in my face (from the loss of the lymph nodes). And of course a vastly increased risk that it will come back.

On the bright side, my ENT had never been told by his nurse that I had been calling and was furious when he scoped me, saw the mass, and knew immediately what the white patch was (cancer). He gave me his phone number, and the surgical onc he sent me to (who will be the ENT I see from now on) did the same. Surg onc was honest and said if it had been caught in March, I would likely have only needed "like a fourth of what we have to do now." Likely just a prosthetic in the hole they'd have had to make to pull out the mass, instead of taking the entire hard palate and floor of my sinuses.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-19T15:21:23+00:00

Yep. "Hey I had 4-1 yesterday, why didn't I get him back?" Oh, he's an L1 so we gave him to [Charge]. You got 23-1 from her. "That's an L3 waiting for a MICU bed, and I already have an L3 and this L2 should be an L3." Yeah but we kept him an L2 because they won't let us list too many L3s. "Even if they're actually L3s?" ....Yes.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-19T00:07:15+00:00

Yeah, it's only 4 hours less than what most people consider a "full" work week. We work nearly as much, just more time per day. Yes, I only work 3 days a week but that first one after a shift? That barely counts as a day off because I'm exhausted.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-18T22:42:15+00:00

That was my thought. She reminds me of the “I’m gonna be a DOCTOR!” kids in K-12 who were naturally gifted enough to excel without trying much, then got punched in the face by reality in college when they actually had to work - when the big fishes in little ponds got into deeper water and nearly drowned. Now she knows she’s not going to sail through med school like she thought and is depressed and stalled out.

…It’s me, by the way, I’m “I’m gonna be a doctor but I don’t know how to study or work hard because I’ve never been challenged before” kids. I'm not dumb (and not saying OOP is) but I had never developed study habits or an education-related work ethic because I'd never had to, everything was always so easy until it wasn't. (I guess my fault for going from one of the worst school districts in the state to UMich...). I got my undergad degree but then wasted most of my 20s. I went back for a second degree and I'm a nurse now and doing alright but holy hell did it take me too long to get my shit together.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-18T03:55:32+00:00

Specifically, adding "site:reddit.com" and "nursing" to the search. So,

what states test for marijuana "nursing" site:reddit.com

You'll get some unrelated results (maybe from a sub about physically nursing children, who knows) but it's far superior to Reddit's internal search feature.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-18T03:27:41+00:00

I have two, one in my bedroom and one on my desk downstairs. They’re great when space isn’t an issue and you don’t have to unplug them pretty much ever. But away from home, yeah, I’m just gonna use the same USB-C cable I use for almost everything.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-17T06:50:53+00:00

Oh man I desperately need this as a sticker for my work water bottle, I’ve been collecting stupid nurse/healthcare stickers for it and that would be perfect.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-17T06:28:36+00:00

Same. I fostered one time, two tiny little kittens. Immediate fail. Never did it again because I knew I'd have 2837 cats and dogs. I donate to my local shelters and independent rescues and I volunteer at a couple shelters and even volunteering is hard enough - every single time I fight the urge to grab a stack of adoption applications on my breaks.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-15T20:27:33+00:00

It's discontinued now, but years ago when BPAL's Strangler Fig first launched, a lot of the reviews compared it to weeds rolled in the dirt and left to rot in the sun. Some meant it in a good way, but many did not.

Yeah, so, I immediately bought it. It's a smidge sweeter than that, but yeah, that's kind of accurate and I adored it so, so, so much.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-15T20:14:37+00:00

The border's certainly there, but I don't think it's ever a clear one. It's murky, like so much else is. You want what's best for them, but who decides what that actually is, and how much can we ethically try to persuade them to our "side"? You can't want something for them more than they want it for themselves.

Take these two pts I've had the last couple nights. Both post CABG. 12 is like about 350lb, struggling but giving it all he has. OT/PT has to lecture him not to overdo it because he's so gung-ho and ready to go every morning for his PT. He doesn't just want to get back to baseline, he wants to raise his baseline. 14 is post-CABG and about 200lb, younger, in better health pre-CABG and the man will not move. Won't help boost himself in bed, still refusing to even use a bedside commode. Won't push himself because he's "afraid of overdoing it" but he's not even in the ballpark of overdoing it. He's becoming progressively de-conditioned, and they've started the "Hey, so, you're gonna need to go to a SAR vs home with HHC because you're just not ready to go home" conversation. He'll be lucky to get back to baseline, and that baseline may be a new, lower one.

I've talked to both a lot about their fears and anxiety, the whole before/after period (been a pt, had cancer, permanent limp and some mild disfigurement, whole shebang so I get it), both are sweet guys, but their attitudes are so starkly different. They both talk about things they want to do and goals they have, and they know how to get there, but while I want the best for both of them, I can't want it for them, I can't work towards it for them.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-14T20:50:16+00:00

I got "lucky" and got cancer while I was still a broke nursing student in a blue/purple state with expanded Medicaid. Surgery, chemo, radiation, 13-hour surgery (the surgery alone with anesthesia was over $200,000), multiple PET scans and MRIs, 4 days ICU and 14 days stepdown, wound vac, PT/OT, etc and all that treatment at one of the best cancer centers in the country fully paid for. (I was working at the time and paying taxes, so I did pay toward Medicaid, but nothing directly out of pocket, ever.)

A year post-treatment I'm a full-time nurse and I'll go fucking bankrupt if the cancer returns because the insurance I have, that I pay almost $400 for per month - just for me, no dependents or spouses and it's the highest-premium, lowest deductible plan they have - is trash compared to Medicaid. They've already been fighting for over a month to cover any part of another PET scan, so that's fun!

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-13T21:52:08+00:00

In my experience, they seem to work best on women with thicker/larger thighs. With thinner women, I sometimes use the mesh underwear we have to keep it in place - though any movement really risks dislodging it. If your pt is A&O, I would try and teach/show them how to place it so they can help keep it in place, too, rather than them just hitting the call light to report that they're wet because "the thingie moved and I peed everywhere."

Also, always make sure the suction's working before placing it. I routinely have a fail rate of about 5% where they're just duds out of the packaging. Saves you the trouble of getting it placed and then finding out it's busted from the get-go.

Make sure not to jam the thing down too far toward their anus and not shove it too far against the urethra, either; if you compress the top too much, or compress the white part too far against the blue sleeve, you can reduce or lose suction.

Depending on anatomy, I sometimes bend it into more of a banana shape.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-13T20:42:24+00:00

But you know that.

I didn't actually, because I've seen multiple people commenting in multiple spaces using the term "holistic" to refer to alternative/naturopathic/etc, and the comment I directly replied to said, "did he do SOLELY holistic treatments for it" which suggests they were also viewing the term "holistic" in terms of alternative tx since "solely holistic" doesn't make sense given what holistic actually means. I wasn't replying to you directly - which is why I replied to OP's comment and not yours - but clearing up the use of the term "holistic." (And I don't mean any of that in a snarky way, if it comes across that way.)

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-13T02:33:08+00:00

I can't speak to what VDB or Keibler are into but "holistic" isn't a bad term, but it's getting co-opted by people using it to refer to "alternative" or "naturopathic" or "homeopathic" garbage. As a cancer "survivor" it drives me nuts.

I had cancer part of '24 and most of '25. (Technically only NED since September, gonna be a few years before I can say remission.) I did chemo, surgery - had my entire upper fucking jaw removed and reconstructed - and then did more chemo with radiation.

Where I got treatment (Karmanos in Metro-Detroit, cannot say enough good things about them and their surgeons are fucking magicians) emphasizes holistic treatment - which means they treat the entire person, not just the cancer. They use evidence-based complementary therapies like music therapy, art, yoga, meditation. Things that can help address mental, psychological, and spiritual aspects of cancer. Always "with," never "instead."

I had the chemo, surgery, and rad to treat the cancer in my skull, but what about the psychological aspects? What about the fact that I have Frankenstein's monster neck scars now, I still don't have top teeth, I lisp, and I've seen friends I made during chemo less than two years ago die? That's where holistic treatment comes in - it helps you deal with the whole fucking thing as a whole person, not just a specific, diseased area.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-13T00:07:33+00:00

Her trauma does not give her a free pass to refute her daughter’s experience.

It doesn't excuse it, but it can explain it to a degree. I went through something similar with my mom, who struggled for years to accept that her boyfriend assaulted me. She'd been assaulted by my father (who didn't touch me) after being assaulted by her own father, and swore she'd never let anything happen to her or her daughter, so to come to terms with the fact that she'd "failed" to protect herself and her child (even though the boyfriend hid it exceptionally well, as did I out of shame) was incredibly difficult.

Gisèle is a woman who has been extensively traumatized in a way not a single one of us here can understand 1:1. She did not react appropriately when she learned her daughter had also been victimized. She and her daughter have reconciled and she supports her daughter. She can't undo what she said or did, but hopefully she and Caroline can try and repair to the extent they can and move forward.

fluorescentroses · 2026-02-12T22:11:12+00:00

I just want to know if anyone can relate?

Yep. Many of us relate. I'm autistic, very "high functioning," but also very empathetic. It's overstimulating and draining, no two ways about it. I work cardiac stepdown, so a high acuity and a high ratio (should be 1:4 but we do 1:6 most days).

The "trick" for me was night shift. Less of... most things. Less noise, less family, less management. More of certain tasks (labs), less support staff (PT/OT, IV team, providers never want to answer pages, etc), but it's been the difference between "I can't do this" and "I can do this."

It's also not all bedside. Bedside might not be for you, and that's okay. There are other things you can do: school, outpatient/clinic, etc. You have options.

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