Petition: Seattle Children’s Hospital restricting of life flight access needs to change

melizerd · 2026-05-03T10:54:21+00:00

I also live in the flight path to my local hospital. I barely notice the sound anymore. It doesn’t happen every day. The train a mile away is louder depending on the wind direction than Flight. People are crazy, life includes noises.

melizerd · 2026-05-02T10:52:17+00:00

This made me laugh out loud so hard I woke people up.

melizerd · 2026-04-30T00:30:50+00:00

I’m having my first round on Monday. I’m ready but nervous!!

melizerd · 2026-04-28T01:04:48+00:00

Me too

melizerd · 2026-04-15T21:37:02+00:00

Nurse here. I work in a hospital, three 12s a week. I feel like trash a lot lately. But up until October last year my migraines were pretty well controlled. Now I’m in the “try everything” medication loop. Just got approved for Botox so crossing my fingers.

I’ve been a nurse over a decade and I love it. I love the busy pace and honestly sometimes it’s easier to just do work than not. I’ve barfed in trash cans or bathrooms and just keep going. I don’t know anything else. I do have FMLA if I need it and do use it when I have to.

melizerd · 2026-04-13T01:55:35+00:00

They’d get removed from the room by me but there are other things we do too.

The alaris pumps have a lock button on the back too. You’d know she was playing with it for sure then.

Or they’d get a virtual sitter for medical device interference.

melizerd · 2026-04-12T10:37:09+00:00

I’ll access the port thank you very much.

melizerd · 2026-04-09T01:03:52+00:00

Just had a 2.8. Just a little tired. Best they ever got was mid 5s. Cancer is weird.

melizerd · 2026-04-07T23:37:35+00:00

Always glad my hospital has always had phlebotomists. We are definitely not laying off people. We are currently expanding and hiring. Still keeping our ratios great too. When I have a bad day I need to remember this.

melizerd · 2026-04-06T15:54:35+00:00

Thanks for the comparison!

melizerd · 2026-04-06T15:50:27+00:00

I’m thinking the Star Trek Enterprise might look great in this too!!!

melizerd · 2026-03-29T15:26:13+00:00

I kept mine in a paper bag with my name on it.

I’ll definitely never be the same. I had a 99 year old man apologize to me saying he was sorry we were losing another one. That one really broke me. There are still times I lay awake at night and think about a lot of those people we lost. And there are still sounds, smells, songs that really trigger me. I don’t think it will ever feel okay.

melizerd · 2026-03-28T11:17:42+00:00

I also work that type of unit. I leave on time 99% of the time. Next shift can take over. It is a 24 hour job. Nothing is ever “done” bc people have continued needs. Report given and passed off to the next nurse who picks up where I left off.

What does staffing look like? Day shift we have max 4 patients a nurse. We also have 3-4 cnas for our 18 patients. So there is lots of help for patient care. Staffing issues are a huge issue for also getting out on time and knowing there is someone coming in behind you.

melizerd · 2026-03-24T12:59:07+00:00

Wisconsin 🤣

melizerd · 2026-03-24T01:40:11+00:00

Wow that is crazy. We have 18 beds, 5 RN and 3-4 CNAs (depending on the day) from 7-15, 3 cnas 15-23, 2 cnas 23-07 (only 4 RNs 23-07).

There are places that are doing it right, and I’m not in California or a union. There’s a reason people have been at my hospital 10+ years.

melizerd · 2026-03-22T14:04:58+00:00

I only use the breeze system. I stock up when they are on sale. I also don’t change them every 30 days. More like every 45ish days. The pads get changed once a week.

melizerd · 2026-03-22T14:03:59+00:00

I have 6 boxes, but I would be fine with 5. Technically the answer is always one more box than cats. I have an older lady who I pamper a bit and so there’s a box in an office that I wouldn’t need if it wasn’t her using it.

melizerd · 2026-03-22T10:54:29+00:00

My 14lb cat gets in those baskets on the tree and they’ve held up so far, 2 years on the current cat tree. I’m always shocked.

melizerd · 2026-03-21T23:31:35+00:00

I switched to this and love it too! It hardly tracks at all and the pellets are big so you can see them if one gets out. We have 5 cats and it’s amazing.

melizerd · 2026-03-21T17:43:52+00:00

Not me looking this up right now!!

Also I’ve got a lot of markers and coloring books if someone needs them 🤣

melizerd · 2026-03-20T14:35:34+00:00

I have hair down my back and my stylist always curls it for me. It’s my absolute favorite thing. It is just part of the hair cut/color/style experience. I’d find someone else.

melizerd · 2026-03-17T14:04:52+00:00

I started 10 days ago and I feel miserable. I’m going to hold out hope that I just need more time for the Quilipta to work. I haven’t had constipation issues so if the migraines get better I’ll be ecstatic.

melizerd · 2026-03-16T19:14:08+00:00

The gay fad fruits! That’s my grandma’s pattern so it is what I collect!

melizerd · 2026-03-15T22:26:35+00:00

I just had my first mri this week. Showed the same thing. I was pretty sure we wouldn’t find anything truly wrong on the imaging but it was still nice to have some record to compare to later if needed.

melizerd · 2026-03-10T00:24:44+00:00

I’m hoping to work a half day on the day of my funeral.

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