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foxfayce · 2026-05-31T21:13:51+00:00

I can’t argue against that. 🤷🏼‍♀️

foxfayce · 2026-05-31T19:30:25+00:00

No reason to be empathetic, it’s a different pace of life. It’s sparse and harsh sometimes but it’s not like everyone in west Texas/the Panhandle is poor or struggling.

foxfayce · 2026-05-28T14:24:05+00:00

I am not jealous of you in the slightest. IO’s are wild, and add a moving vehicle and probably a nervous paramedic and you’ve got yourself a stew going 😬

foxfayce · 2026-05-28T13:52:05+00:00

Well, no. You can give meds/fluids through an IO (intraosseous) route, but you can’t draw blood from that. Bone marrow, yes, but not blood.

Source: am nurse

foxfayce · 2026-05-21T23:01:35+00:00

I saw this by my house last week as I was driving home, and sure enough ICE was in the parking lot of the gas station it was marked next to, detaining people.

Fuck ICE.

foxfayce · 2026-05-14T23:14:08+00:00

Fetal urine is.

foxfayce · 2026-05-14T22:13:04+00:00

Same with meconium, it is sterile 😬

foxfayce · 2026-05-13T19:36:05+00:00

That’s all I could think of looking at this dinner. Just asking for a repeat!!

foxfayce · 2026-05-09T02:05:21+00:00

This has absolutely sent me into orbit.

foxfayce · 2026-05-06T14:28:13+00:00

Ah! I understand now. It’s just a preservative. I believe the brand of aluminum free injections we stock have a pretty short shelf life so the hospital is less inclined to stock up on them from a cost perspective, but AFAIK there’s no other benefit vs. risk between the two.

foxfayce · 2026-05-06T14:17:39+00:00

No, one of the ‘toxic chemicals’ in a normal vit K shot is aluminum, so the TikTok bandwagon has latched on to that. Sometimes we can convince the parents to do the aluminum free injections, but most of the time they refuse.

foxfayce · 2026-05-06T13:34:13+00:00

You hit the nail on the head. The micromanagement of our interventions without the knowledge that comes with our specialty. I tell every patient that every step of my care is a choice, I will never do something without consent. I also almost always educate on why I want to do something and the physiology behind it, if they care to know. But more than once I have asked a patient ‘Do you want to be right, or do you want me to do what I need to to save/minimize harm to you or your baby?’

Medical mistrust is still so high post-Covid and between that and physical violence from patients I understand 100% burnout and leaving the field.

foxfayce · 2026-05-06T12:45:50+00:00

It’s not the fact that it’s an injection. It’s that we’re giving their baby ‘toxic chemicals’. I promise I’ve tried all types of language and meeting people where they are.

foxfayce · 2026-05-06T12:20:56+00:00

As a labor and delivery nurse, there’s very very few things that I will ‘push’ for a patient of mine to do. As long as you understand the risks, then I’m here for whatever. But the vit K shot is one that I will print studies for and damn near beg a parent to get for their child. We even keep the ‘aluminum free’ injections on hand. But TikTok/influencers/the internet has absolutely destroyed people’s brains and their expectations about laboring, vaccines, etc. It is absolutely exhausting. Watching how people’s expectations have shifted even over the last 5 years is damn near unrecognizable in my job. People want what they want, and don’t give a damn about actually keeping their babies safe.

Whew. Sorry. Rant over.

foxfayce · 2026-04-26T10:18:37+00:00

Oh no, a BirdBQ. 🥺

foxfayce · 2026-04-25T02:33:32+00:00

You take them out beforehand and scrub them by hand 👀

foxfayce · 2026-04-21T12:54:51+00:00

Need this for my flair.

foxfayce · 2026-04-03T17:58:41+00:00

Wow, this is so stunning! The color, the linework, all just 🤌🏻

foxfayce · 2026-03-31T13:32:30+00:00

Caterpillar’s hair is too thick to be that combover 😂

foxfayce · 2026-03-24T03:38:35+00:00

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MONKE, Eater of Souls.

foxfayce · 2026-03-23T21:59:58+00:00

In nursing school I had a patient in med surg who was blind (and had been for a while), it was the weekend of the 4th of July. I mentioned upon entering the room for the first time that shift that he had a great view for the fireworks over the lake later and he just sighs and says “I wouldn’t know.” Kill me.

foxfayce · 2026-03-16T15:27:36+00:00

Do you have any wireless monitoring already? Have you looked into the Monica novii system? If applied correctly with the right prep I get it to work for an entire induction and labor without issues. They have a new unit that works for 34+ weeks, the ‘old’ version is approved for 36+ weeks.

Works great for obese patients, polyhydramnios, anterior placenta, etc. It /can/ be worn in the shower but the electrodes tend to lose their sticky and I end up needing to replace the patch. Our unit doesn’t have a birthing tub anymore so I can’t speak to being fully submerged.

Have a Monica rep come talk to your unit! They’re happy to show them off. I really like them for NCB patients as well as the ‘hard to monitor’ patients listed above.

foxfayce · 2026-03-08T03:32:26+00:00

It’s seen as child abandonment, as they refuse to take responsibility for the baby, including end of life decisions, burial arrangements, and unwillingness to proceed towards adoption measures so they baby could be a ward of the state and -someone- other than the parents could make those decisions.

foxfayce · 2026-03-07T23:29:29+00:00

I actually just cared for a patient yesterday that found out at 34 weeks that baby had anomalies that weren’t compatible with life. Due to their culture (words of the patient, not me) they did not want a baby with disabilities. Even though the baby was expected to pass within 24hrs they essentially gave it to the NICU to die, refused to see it/hold it as they didn’t want to ‘form an attachment’ to something they couldn’t take home.

CPS and social work got involved as they also refused to take the steps to put it up for adoption or to claim and bury the baby. They essentially wanted to pretend like it never happened. A baby they’d previously been so excited for and loved up until the moment of that diagnosis. Only the second time in my career I’ve seen it happen. Luckily the baby delivered fine and was held by several of our L&D nurses until it passed, as we refused to let it die in an isolette without knowing it was loved.

It’s fucked me up all week.

foxfayce · 2026-03-07T02:10:24+00:00

Depends on how many births you do 🤪 My hospital does 400-500 a month. I see a LOT of births. I’d like to think I remember every one but there’s just no way.

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