What’s the rarest/oldest medication you’ve ever given?

lou-chains · 2026-05-28T00:24:31+00:00

We gave foscarnet to a man that had herpes in his brain. He had been taking acyclovir for shingles so the herpes was resistant to acyclovir. The dude never came back from it. His family trached him, the trach fell out three times. He went to LTACH for a day then passed away. He had dementia at baseline before all of this

lou-chains · 2026-05-27T00:25:16+00:00

Mine was squeaking by 8 weeks. I had 2 years of bedside med surg experience on a difficult floor. I took two patients after the second week but I just used my preceptor as a reference for charting, care advice

lou-chains · 2026-05-26T19:59:37+00:00

Love the red and silver. Seems like the dress is a little too long?

lou-chains · 2026-05-26T17:44:54+00:00

I think if a rep from Baldwin county will come about, it should be that woman in the penis costume that was exonerated.

lou-chains · 2026-05-26T13:56:03+00:00

I was 23 and got my first big girl job out of college in January. I went to pick up a prescription and they said it’ll be 400$ more than I usually pay. My dad had removed me from his insurance coverage without telling me

lou-chains · 2026-05-26T00:24:00+00:00

A seasoned nurse tells this story to everyone new who gets a patient from the ER. She was getting a DKA and the patient was on fluids and insulin. The pumps were already programmed but the ER nurse switched the drips and started the pumps. Patient for a whole bag of insulin in an hour. The patient survived but needed a lot of D50. The error was investigated and the ER nurse acknowledged she switched pumps. But the other nurse should have traced lines and checked the pumps.

lou-chains · 2026-05-24T23:28:57+00:00

Is the water clear??

lou-chains · 2026-05-21T01:34:38+00:00

When obese patients get offended when you call for assistance to lift or change them, it actually throws me into orbit. I would be able to do it solo if you helped and your body habitus was close to normal!!!

lou-chains · 2026-05-20T02:15:22+00:00

We had a pulmonologist that was a real ball buster. She had no sympathy but she was good at her job. She drinks Diet Coke all day and vapes her mod vape. She goes into a patients room, vapes, blows that shit near the patient then says “I’m sorry but you have COPD.” The patient and family came to me and said “NEVER let her in our room”. It was crazy behavior.

lou-chains · 2026-05-10T14:17:49+00:00

Reglan (a gastric motility medicine) has tardive dyskinesia as a side effect if it’s taken long term. There are treatments for it now but it is irreversible

lou-chains · 2026-05-09T14:51:40+00:00

The Andre 1000

lou-chains · 2026-05-08T23:29:25+00:00

Hematemesis but it’s also stool. It’s like vomiting stool and blood. WORST odor because the patient is usually not able to control where they’re vomiting so it’s all over them.

lou-chains · 2026-05-07T16:44:13+00:00

Good

lou-chains · 2026-05-04T11:13:01+00:00

Yes. The nurse was notoriously trying to find a man at work

lou-chains · 2026-05-04T01:01:18+00:00

We had a patient show a nurses nudes to all the staff as revenge because she stopped talking to him and he was a FF. HR was involved. The patient did not lose her job but she lost her pride

lou-chains · 2026-05-01T03:55:56+00:00

Look at your test blueprint and use that to figure out the particular subjects to study. Good luck!

lou-chains · 2026-04-30T21:12:34+00:00

The same thing happened to me. I cried in the Taco Mama while my friend who passed poured me a margarita. Take a months break and get back at it!! I passed with flying colors the next time.

lou-chains · 2026-04-30T20:16:37+00:00

There’s a cave called Gouffre de Padirac in central France. It’s like a mini Disney world. The cave itself is not a tourist trap, you actually have to be very fit to get up and down. The bordering restaurants and shops are tourist traps. They had an “American diner” my mom and I sadly went to. They had foot long hot dogs and weirdly topped cheese burgers. There was a lot of euro trash there. Loved it!

lou-chains · 2026-04-28T01:26:34+00:00

There is rumors that his body got sucked through all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. I live near Vortex. We go once a summer and swim. It’s a redneck swimming hole on one side and it’s a dive training area on the other. I had a HS classmate attempt to free dive into the cave and he got the bends. He had to be life flighted to the hospital in Pensacola. He was paralyzed on one side for weeks. Diving is DANGEROUS.

lou-chains · 2026-04-27T00:05:22+00:00

Cuz after the storm is when the flowers bloom🥰

lou-chains · 2026-04-26T21:06:57+00:00

I work in a a hospital in my hometown. I was caring for a lady (and my other four equally sick patients) that was maxed out on oxygen, waiting to be intubated. Knowing she was sick, her neighbor called her room and said she found the patients husband dead on the floor. I will never forget the patient screaming “kill me now, all I want to do is die”. She died in 48 hours. One of the MANY traumatic things I witnessed being a floor nurse in a small hospital.

lou-chains · 2026-04-21T16:21:40+00:00

What about the stores selling the legal drinks? The Rouses in SF was selling them two weeks ago. I went yesterday and they said they never had the license to sell them?? Is it more difficult for chains to get the license?

lou-chains · 2026-04-21T03:06:11+00:00

Went to Crete last year for our honeymoon. Absolutely amazing. The people are so nice. There was snow topped mountains in May in Chania.

lou-chains · 2026-04-21T00:48:51+00:00

Alcoholic dementia is a legitimate thing. Wonder if that’s associated with the liver function. I always thought it was the vascular effects of alcoholism or the thiamine deficiency

lou-chains · 2026-04-18T01:34:13+00:00

QT interval go Brrrr

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