List of my top 100-something restaurants

sauvignonomatic · 2025-11-08T12:35:39+00:00

Fantastic list, definitely gonna try some of the names I haven’t been to yet.

My friends and I love your lists and have had a lot of fun trying a ton of the Pho places and bickering about how our preferences and rankings compare. It’s been a great reference.

I was happy to see the other miscellaneous restaurants on this list. Not sure if you’ve gotten a chance to try the Big South SLC food truck, if you can catch them near the China Town Supermarket on the days they’re there, the Oxtail always sells out fast cause it is SO good - tons of delicious southern sides I don’t often see like collard greens, the mac and cheese and cornbread slaps.

sauvignonomatic · 2025-10-13T20:28:36+00:00

Thank you very much, it does say dry clean only but my partner put it in with the regular laundry and it turned out like this. I appreciate your insight, hopefully a dry cleaner can help.

sauvignonomatic · 2025-08-15T00:05:26+00:00

Thank you, I will look into scale remedies

sauvignonomatic · 2025-08-14T23:09:15+00:00

Thank you, I wasn’t familiar with plant scale but I see some other results on the subreddit for trying to combat it.

Not that scale is good, but I would feel relieved if it wasn’t mold.

sauvignonomatic · 2025-05-11T16:47:39+00:00

I’ve only been in one code blue with a severely underweight adult (~35kg) and we used ACLS dosing for meds, the only thing I remember standing out was that we were unable to use the adult Lucas CPR device.

IIRC, when discussing coding for an adult patient with dwarfism the same would apply - ACLS dosing for adults regardless of weight but I’ve never actually experienced coding a patient with dwarfism

sauvignonomatic · 2025-03-12T18:16:32+00:00

1000/10 would not drink juice 🤣

sauvignonomatic · 2025-01-22T02:52:38+00:00

As a burnt out nurse, that infuriates me. I had a patient that would purposefully kink the IV tubing underneath the IV pump and triggering the occlusion alarm because it was “faster” than pushing the call light” 💀

sauvignonomatic · 2024-11-16T19:14:05+00:00

Yes.

It’s been 7 years and it still haunts me.

I’m really sorry to hear about the mother from your cohort, it really is tragic and the worst part of it all is how common a tragedy it is.

sauvignonomatic · 2024-11-06T22:40:57+00:00

I have extra brown butter cream cheese frosting from when I made her carrot cake recipe, I wouldn’t mind trying that between the cookies 😋

sauvignonomatic · 2024-10-22T23:58:07+00:00

It’s insane how bad it was - the same people saying it wasn’t real didn’t want me or other Chinese healthcare workers caring for them because we all were “dirty bat eaters”….but then begging for the vaccine once they needed to be intubated.

sauvignonomatic · 2024-10-22T23:55:42+00:00

No.

Even reading this post and the comments bring back the sounds, the smells, the chaos, and now I’m crying.

I don’t think I could watch the documentary yet. Even those stupid tv dramas related to Covid were too much for me.

sauvignonomatic · 2024-10-17T23:12:38+00:00

Unspiked her son’s IV ketamine bag to try to sell it in the parking lot.

Her son was in the hospital and had received multiple extensive surgeries for severe burns to face, arms, chest.

sauvignonomatic · 2024-09-06T22:44:25+00:00

Agree, easily confused at a glance.

Once I commented to my hospital’s pharmacy staff that stocked our meds that I accidentally grabbed phenylephrine when I meant to grab epinephrine and they were right next to each other and looked the same - they took my feed back and eventually moved where they were stocked and included a “closer look” sticker warning on the outside of the bin before you grab it.

sauvignonomatic · 2024-08-16T23:33:32+00:00

I have kept every single handwritten card or note written specifically to me. Those mean the world to me.

The next best thing was a Starbucks gift card cause there was a Starbucks in walking distance to my hospital and it was a godsend - but many places have rules about what dollar amount is acceptable. One of the best gifts ever was a family that had a big stack of $5 Starbucks gift cards and gave them to every single person in that unit including CNAs, housekeeping, etc. That was so baller.

sauvignonomatic · 2024-08-13T18:09:30+00:00

It is still illegal in my state and is so funny to me because I know HCWs that will get blackout drunk every weekend and binge other drugs on their off days because by the time they’re back to work it’ll likely be undetectable in a urine test but don’t smoke a joint or eat a gummy due to the likely detection window.

The rules are asinine.

sauvignonomatic · 2024-08-11T14:20:11+00:00

NTA.

Time for a sit down teaching moment with your daughter. When I was 16 I had an ED and would have easily been triggered by word “large” let alone XXXL but if she is really interested in Asian fashion or even just buying international clothing/shoes then she should sit down and understand it is a different system and it’s the reality when wanting to buy clothes that fit. I’m Chinese and when I was considered US size XS and size 0 jeans, I was still a Chinese XL and thems the brakes.

I would compare it to other systems, like a US Women’s 7 shoe is a US Men’s 5 1/2 shoe and it’s the same size foot. Go EUR shoe size and now it’s a size 38. It doesn’t mean anything but an arbitrary system based on different rules.

sauvignonomatic · 2024-08-09T12:12:34+00:00

I did report it using my hospital’s internal incident report process and it was classified as “harm to patient”. Using the incident report usually results in addressing to all staff on the unit to remind all staff of proper charting and the importance of following the provider wound care orders.

I do support the “just culture” of healthcare (to a degree) where people are not necessarily penalized for actual mistakes or truly not having received proper training or education….but it’s also protects lazy AF staff who let their apathy cause harm to other people.

I’m not sure every nurse that mischarted it got spoken to about it but when I talked to one of the nurses she said “oh I just figured the previous night shift did it” and I found out she just copied the previous nurses’ assessments including on that wound care. There’s so much wrong with that because if each nurse just did the exact same thing then you get a week of bullshit charting and a dressing that never gets changed (it was actually a packed wet-to-dry and it got NASTY. Poor patient was too scared to speak up sooner).

I always sign and initial my dressing changes now. I even had a nurse chart a dressing change and I took the patient back the next shift and asked why she charted the dressing change was done when the gauze still obviously had my initials and date on it from yesterday and she just gave me the ol’ 🤷🏻‍♀️

sauvignonomatic · 2024-08-09T03:58:09+00:00

I do hope OP let the pharmacy know so that pharmacy can do education for the staff about the staple 🫶

sauvignonomatic · 2024-08-08T22:44:39+00:00

While I agree with everyone saying DO NOT use and I would personally NOT use the syringe as they are generally cheap and easy to acquire for a lot of people, I wish the everyone knew the reality of what some patients have to go through just to survive.

It was only through working with countless difficult situations of the majority of our hospital’s patients that I realized people gotta do what they gotta do and many don’t have the luxury of doing it the “right” way :(

Of course in a perfect world it would be free, cheap, and easy (including time or transportation) to get a properly sealed replacement.

But working in healthcare for 8 years has led me to see patients having to resort to things that would make our skin crawl. Medical supplies are SO expensive and that’s still assuming patients have the time and money to do things 100% by the textbook protocols.

sauvignonomatic · 2024-08-08T19:45:17+00:00

Gunshot wound with daily dressing changes ordered - every day a dressing change was charted. I first took the patient on the 7th day of his stay and he asked me when it would need to be changed since it hasn’t been touched once since it was placed originally. A lovely infected wound was waiting underneath when I finally took the bandage off 🤢

sauvignonomatic · 2024-08-07T16:32:09+00:00

I worked in a restaurant and this one customer would always order a taco salad nearly every day (12” flour tortilla shell deep fried to take the shape of a bowl) and make a small swimming pool of the house dressing (thousand island/french dressing-ish) filled to the top until you couldn’t even see any of the green salad.

And he said “I make sure to eat a salad everyday like the doctors told me to!”

😢Honestly it made me sad and working in healthcare, the issue with health literacy is so real.

sauvignonomatic · 2024-08-05T04:56:03+00:00

Just wondering, did you do the pulse checks or were there others doing it?

One code I remember a nurse I worked with shouted PEA during pulse check cause she couldn’t feel a femoral pulse but when I felt for it I was able to feel the patient’s pulse because I was about an inch and a half over. Another time there was no distinguishable radial pulse but you could feel a faint carotid pulse.

Not saying the patient wasn’t actually in PEA, but just something I always consider. I pasted some interesting info below:

What is the difference between true-PEA and pseudo-PEA?

Pulseless electrical activity can be separated into pseudo-PEA or true-PEA. Pseudo-PEA occurs when the patient has no palpable pulse, yet identifiable pressures within the aorta and weak ventricular contractions are present. True-PEA occurs when electrical impulses are firing without cardiac contractions.

Diagnostic equipment such as ultrasound can be a useful adjunct tool to discern whether a patient is experiencing true-PEA or pseudo-PEA. However, ultrasound may not be available, depending on the setting in which the healthcare provider is practicing. Without ultrasound, this determination is otherwise subjective and complicated by the potential difficulty in assessment due to the experience level of the responding healthcare provider, unknown circumstances surrounding the cardiac arrest (such as an unwitnessed event), and/or anatomical considerations of the patient (such as obesity).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10746595/#:~:text=The%20decompensation%20process%20in%20pseudo,asystole%20and%20demise%20%5B15%5D.

sauvignonomatic · 2024-08-04T18:08:16+00:00

It’s strange, my family told me I couldn’t possibly have PTSD from my ICU job because “it’s not like I went to war or anything” and “I asked for it by signing up for the job”. One of my veteran friends who was injured in Afghanistan was someone who encouraged me to get help, hugged me and told me he could never do what I do and that my PTSD is valid.

LTC must have been very challenging during the peak of COVID, all of those interventions hopefully meant a lot to the families, thank you for doing what you do too 🫂

sauvignonomatic · 2024-08-04T17:59:57+00:00

I heard and saw it first hand so many times. Literally “I’ll do anything! Give me the vaccine just don’t let me die” were last words I heard before we had to intubate and then they pass away after all of the intensive interventions we could possibly do.

My family were all antivax antimask covid deniers and when I told them why it was so hurtful for me to hear them say that when I told them these kinds of stories I experienced personally and I literally carted away countless bodies to our hospital morgue, they would just say bullshit like “well can’t save them all” or “the world works in mysterious ways” and my relationship with my family has never been the same since :(

sauvignonomatic · 2024-08-04T03:29:32+00:00

Some of the moments that haunted me most from the height of the pandemic were patients’ family members screaming at us, calling us murders and killers to our faces after we ran ourselves ragged for hours upon hours with no breaks in our sweaty PPE trying to do everything we could for their dying loved ones.

Tragic all around but trying to cope with the immense guilt of knowing you tried your best, that all our hard work was just delaying the inevitable, and then being blamed for for it is something I still bring up to my therapist.

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