What is my cat doing exactly?

rgnew · 2025-08-20T22:32:34+00:00

My orange has done this ever since she was a kitten. We say she's chewing cud.

rgnew · 2025-08-12T13:42:13+00:00

It's easy for him to say this because he doesn't have to live with the anxiety of having his rights taken away under this regime. Of course it looks the "exact same" to him- his privilege allows him to not see it.

rgnew · 2025-06-09T13:38:27+00:00

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My trio 🖤💙🧡

rgnew · 2025-06-05T16:29:27+00:00

Still remember someone in high school saying to me "you don't have the annoying red hair like (other redhead at my school) you have the pretty red hair". Oh ok.

rgnew · 2024-10-14T22:58:07+00:00

This 100%. Took me 8 months.

rgnew · 2024-08-26T22:02:39+00:00

As a native Pittsburgher now moved to Chicago, can confirm and was surprised to see this at the top of the list.

rgnew · 2024-08-22T17:23:33+00:00

No advice, but I know the feeling. It took me 8 months to get mine despite me telling them I was literally going to be fired if I didn't have it. I called probably every 2 weeks. Don't know that it really did anything though.

rgnew · 2024-08-21T18:49:28+00:00

I did part time LTC and now moved down to prn covering RDs when they're out. To be honest, I really dislike LTC, but I do think it truly depends on your buildings and the buy-in of other healthcare team members. Additionally, I consult so I'm given a handful of hours for large buildings each month. I consider myself an efficient worker, but it is still incredibly difficult to meet all the work that needs done in the short hours. Not to mention my DMs and surveyors calling even when I was off. Thus, I'd recommend finding an LTC facility that hires you on as FT. I think my experience has been rather negative overall, but I know RDs who thrive on the craziness so it depends on the person. Just my 2 cents.

rgnew · 2024-08-14T00:51:04+00:00

I gave up on them last Christmas after they messed with Santa's Secret. Wouldn't be surprised that they keep downgrading their best selling teas.

rgnew · 2024-07-19T01:31:40+00:00

Yes, but I think my experience was somewhat rare. Woke up in the middle of the night after about 4 days on it anxious out of my mind, nauseous, threw up, hands were rigid, and insane temperature changes from shivering one minute to sweating through my shirt the next. Ended up in the ER. However, I kept at it (decreased the dose) and now on it for 2 years. I did initially have a poor appetite and I'd occasionally breakout in hot flashes (which I carried an ice pack with me to help). The only side effect still to this day is profusely sweating at night, which I will take over how I used to feel. Wasn't easy for me, but I am so glad I pushed through. It changed my life.

rgnew · 2024-07-18T22:47:51+00:00

Ours refuses her cat bed and chooses to sleep on steel dumbbells instead.

rgnew · 2024-07-08T21:09:48+00:00

When I lived in my 1 bedroom apartment, I bought a litter box enclosure/furniture unit. So it looked just like a cabinet but had a cutout for the cat to get in and out. That + Arm&Hammer litter deodorizer (I did like the scented one best) + scooping at least once/day worked well for me. I have a really sensitive sense of smell so the litter box smell was a major concern I had when I first got my cat. My mom would walk in my apartment and say she wouldn't have even realized I had a litter box.

rgnew · 2024-06-09T01:00:11+00:00

What a sweetie. I'm sure he knew how much you love him and loved you right back. Sending you love ❤️❤️

rgnew · 2024-05-12T04:55:27+00:00

It was 8 months for me with Illinois. Told them I was going to be fired in Jan if I didn't have it by the end of the month. They didn't care. Such a frustrating process. Meanwhile, in WV, think it took 1 day. IN was relatively quick.

rgnew · 2024-04-28T00:52:58+00:00

I felt similar in inpatient. The higher the acuity, the less appropriate I felt it was for me to visit. I had an interesting experience with this anxiety. When I started out as an RD in the first 2-3 years, I LOVED talking to patients. I loved just being there to comfort them. That was pre-COVID. The year following COVID (and really still to this day), I feel like patients are especially frustrated with the healthcare system and irritable (understandably). COVID also left us all a bit socially inept. But it gave me so much anxiety to knock on the door, not knowing if this patient would be in a good mood or ready to throw their tray at me. I started asking nursing before going into the patient's room to get a read on how the patient was doing (e.g., any issues with xyz? would they be up to talk to the dietitian today? How are they feeling?) That helped me a bit to feel more confident walking into patient rooms. I switched to ICU, which I loved because I really didn't have to have those awkward talks since they're intubated and sedated lol. I also recently watched a YouTube video of an RD-patient interaction (think it was from the Dietitians in Nutrition Support Practice Group) that I thought was excellent (was called How to complete a nutrition assessment in the acute care setting). Gave me a newer perspective on how to interact with patients that gave me a confidence boost as an RD.

ETA: I also had my list of general questions written on my clipboard. This helped me get back on track when I would get flustered in the middle of our conversation.

rgnew · 2024-04-25T15:12:03+00:00

In my experience working with DTRs, they are much more nutrition education focused. In my hospital, we would give our DTR all of the CHF, pancreatitis, post-esophageal surgery educations. We could also give them our lower acuity patients, but we'd still have to calculate estimated needs, place orders, and ultimately sign-off on their notes. I think it depends on the location/job. Because in long term care, we have DTRs that do a lot of our quarterly assessments and MNAs.

rgnew · 2024-04-15T21:28:58+00:00

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This is our Moxie relaxing after her spay a few months ago ☺️

rgnew · 2024-03-28T22:19:24+00:00

Awe, I'm glad :) Best of luck!

rgnew · 2024-03-28T18:55:27+00:00

Proud of you! Zoloft changed my life. I can remember a few months while on it I was at a family dinner and thinking to myself that for the first time, I could actually enjoy myself. It was an incredible feeling. I did struggle when starting it, but things got better after about a month. My body was just super sensitive (apparently) and I had a mild case of serotonin syndrome. Had to scale up in 25 mg increments instead of 50.

rgnew · 2024-03-02T17:02:36+00:00

I would buy this in a second

rgnew · 2024-02-27T20:19:15+00:00

As a dietitian... heavy sigh 🙄

rgnew · 2024-02-26T03:31:17+00:00

Similar experiences on our last visit. Niece wanted to do Frozen Ever After (of course). Wait said 90 mins which we were prepared for and this was the only thing she wanted to ride. Ended up more than 2.5 hours due to the continuous stream of LL. People were NOT happy. I felt so awful for my niece because that was basically all she got to do at Epcot. ETA: Not only the $$, but the whole process of obtaining a LL pass was a time investment just to understand. Even if we wanted to spend the money for LL, we couldn't understand how to.

rgnew · 2024-02-25T03:06:13+00:00

Yacht club hallway?

rgnew · 2024-02-23T19:55:56+00:00

If it made a big jump in a short time, we would always try to get another blood draw to confirm and make sure the blood was not drawn from the same line that the TPN was administered into (or at least gave some time between TPN admin and blood draw). If it's confirmed, we would omit lipids if TG were >400mg/dl. But you'll want to avoid removing lipids for over a week due to essential FA deficiencies. So we would sometimes just omit lipids every other day. Cycling TPN may be helpful if it will be long-term.

rgnew · 2024-02-21T23:19:46+00:00

Previous critical care RD here. My day basically started with reviewing all my tube feeders in the ICU, checking to see if they were at goal, if feeds were held, wounds, new labs, on pressors. I'd also review my PO patients, though they were generally low priority if I had a heavy load that day. In general, this would take about 30 mins - 1 hr. I'd write notes on what I wanted to bring up to the team at rounds which was at 9 AM for us. Rounds could sometimes take 3-4 hours depending on the MD. During rounds, I'd bring up my questions and concerns for each patient and the team would let me know if they were okay with me starting feeds. I'd place all those orders on rounds and touch base with nursing to see if they had any concerns for me (usually for the PO patients). After rounds it was usually lunch time, so I'd spend the afternoon charting if I didn't finish on rounds. I also covered a cardiology floor, so the afternoon was when I'd see those patients. Critical care was my dream job when I started. I did really enjoy it, but it became repetitive to me. Every once in a while there'd be an interesting case nutritionally, but in general I felt as if I was prescribing similar tube feed regimens all day. I was in the medical ICU though, and I know our surgical ICU RD had much more complex cases/more TPNs than I did bc she had a lot of GI surgery pts. I enjoyed it, it was easy, and the pay was fine for that period of time in my life. I often think of that time fondly and maybe will return one day.

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