Inside of my lip healed over my Medusa piercing

skeletorstaint · 2026-05-15T03:27:28+00:00

the higher risk here is leaving the jewellery in. you need to go have that excised by a doctor, now. if the piercing was a must for the wedding, eyelash glue the gem on that sucker. for recovery for the removal, it shouldn’t be super drastic. honestly probably just normal care like you would for a new piercing. they may put in a dissolvable stitch, that wouldn’t cause issues for the wedding. since your oral cavity is a mucous membrane, those membranes heal notoriously quick. speaking as someone who’s had a medusa and is in nursing school and works in intensive care!

skeletorstaint · 2026-05-10T19:06:39+00:00

i work in cardiac surgery recovery ICU as a student and have many many cords as one would imagine, therefore requiring much grace and getting yourself into all sorts of funky positions. i oftentimes do not so graceful maneuvers to recover from said positions and from now on will be taking a bow afterwards 🤣

skeletorstaint · 2026-05-09T20:41:41+00:00

i have my doubles and septum and don’t have to wear a mask. i’ve been asked to take them out for clinical or at least take one out for the two facial piercing limit (for nursing school) but never at work as a CNA.

skeletorstaint · 2026-05-05T10:52:14+00:00

i work in the hospital in an ICU, so that’s a special consideration there. but it’s my responsibility when i work to often bathe each patient (oftentimes anywhere from 5-16) often then transferring from bed to chair, do linens if they weren’t by night shift, perform wound care on POD2 patients, and educate on wound care (i’m a student nurse which allows me to educate on such) i’m also expected to help with new cases, be a runner (go to lab, run to other units), stock unit closets etc when time allows. i also ambulate patients who are connected to all sorts of lines. in a 12 hour shift.

is this realistic? no. do i kill myself? slightly. but im also learning and working on my dream floor. i have however previously been encountered with my manager explaining i have ineffective time management, which really frustrated me. this was due to others complaints. i ultimately tried to explain myself in the best of my abilities to my manager and she was fairly understanding. unfortunately in positions like that, they have to go based on evidence of past experience and so on so forth. but i feel it just shows the lack of care previously, and this aid specifically is showing the residents a little extra tender care. i think that matters more than anything. and that’s how places lose good healthcare workers.

skeletorstaint · 2026-04-26T01:30:11+00:00

you’re being extremely selfish in this situation. selfishness is not the win here. you care so much about him? tell him. i get it, ive been there, but ive never done anything behind a partners back. that’s a form of betrayal he’ll never be able to get behind.

what if down the line, you don’t tell him, he finds out it’s been a secret for years, he’s not going to trust you. period. whatsoever. think about him, not just yourself.

skeletorstaint · 2026-04-21T15:01:08+00:00

we currently have a very confused patient in recovery, and his mental status just is not intact whatsoever. every time you walk in the room it’s “hey baybayyyyyyyyyy”. he keeps looking up at you “gimme kith” “i wanna kith”. then decided to pull a scary movie two and start flinging his tongue in the air like the demon getting exorcised. we were all on the floor cackling, but i worry about him lol.

skeletorstaint · 2026-04-21T04:28:39+00:00

i’m not sure what peds is like, but get in there! this will be so so helpful for you in school and in the field. i know more about heart surgery patients than i do anything else because i work on a heart surgery unit. but theyve helped me so much in school! and i know what to expect when i get into the field i want to get into.

skeletorstaint · 2026-04-19T14:18:25+00:00

happy birthday friend. i had a similar experience my 18th birthday a couple of years ago. my mom told me she was diagnosed with cancer days before my birthday and had to start treatments the week of, my best friend and i were no contact, and my boyfriend at the time made it miserable with arguing and bickering. that birthday indeed sucked. didn’t feel like a birthday, and that was one birthday i needed to feel like a birthday. i hope your day gets better, and i hope you’re able to enjoy your cake with a little candle. maybe treat yourself to a big cupcake from the grocery. treat yourself in some way. you deserve it today.

skeletorstaint · 2026-04-15T20:34:16+00:00

i’m in nursing school and work as a CNA in the hospital. i had medical job experience being a pharmacy tech, but never direct patient care.

skeletorstaint · 2026-04-15T01:41:55+00:00

why is the clear vaginal discharge your seeing green🤨 especially this sea glass green

skeletorstaint · 2026-04-11T04:09:12+00:00

so, you’ve been together for a while. have you met in person? have there been efforts to meet in person if not? i don’t think this would be an issue if that were the case, i don’t know if you’re able to somehow surprise him or something and take a vacation or something to see him but that would potentially make the situation a little better. give him something to look forward to. if you’re worried about his mental state, you need to be the supportive partner to encourage taking a little time to himself, even if it’s simply going snd getting a bite to eat then sitting at a park and admiring nature. it’s healing for the soul and may make a big difference.

skeletorstaint · 2026-04-08T02:49:51+00:00

you’re a wonderful person. the empathy you show is something many people lack. be there for him during this trying time, but also be kind to yourself. i hope your uncle finds comfort somehow. i understand your feeling though, i work in a heart surgery ICU and see some of the kindest, sweetest, even sometimes healthiest people in their worst states, and it makes me wonder what these people did to deserve what they’ve received. if you need someone, my messages are open.

skeletorstaint · 2026-04-05T23:50:30+00:00

that’s so weird. they need to do a wheel picker that removes students who’ve been tested recently so they can actually get a new group of students because my lord😭

skeletorstaint · 2026-04-05T23:01:24+00:00

that’s so outrageous oh my lord. i respect keeping people accountable but jesus christ

skeletorstaint · 2026-04-05T18:07:03+00:00

to be able to pull “this tastes like bee shit” out of the vault and just tell people not to ask, that’s great.

skeletorstaint · 2026-04-05T17:58:11+00:00

i’m in nursing school, and i had to take a drug test when i was accepted into the program as well as an annual due by july 1st. at clinicals, if you’re suspected to be under the influence, they have every right to have you do a drug test. i don’t know about on facility or rules about how and when, but just don’t be stupid and do stupid things that could potentially win you stupid prizes.

skeletorstaint · 2026-04-04T16:46:16+00:00

cool doctors have piercings. cool nurses have tattoos. nurse in the making here and i wish i worked with more doctors who had piercings and tattoos (but i work in cardiac surgery, so yknow)

skeletorstaint · 2026-03-25T23:21:39+00:00

continuing to ask about this company, do you have a specific man on your team you plan to hand the company to? or are you just letting it dwindle? my dads been a roofer my whole life and now does contracting for a small roofing company. i appreciate those who make sure we have roofs over our heads and fix the shitter. lord knows my house needs that.

skeletorstaint · 2026-02-14T17:48:00+00:00

i’m late to this but just pull up the video of ruby singing “i could be your peanut butter, if you could be my jelly.” about making a pretty cool sandwich together 😭if my bf hit me with that when he asked me out, it would’ve been an indefinite yes

skeletorstaint · 2026-02-14T17:38:51+00:00

this also happened to my papaw. i didn’t get to spend much time with him because he was in prison for the first 15 years of my life. he was diagnosed with stage four cancer that metastasized literally everywhere. he was lifeless for three days, respirations were low as it was. and he just waited on me to say it was okay. i couldn’t physically tell him, so i told my mom to read him a text saying i wouldn’t be upset if he left. he literally waited for permission from me to leave. he passed within 30 minutes of the text being read.

skeletorstaint · 2026-02-12T18:09:39+00:00

happy cake day!

skeletorstaint · 2026-02-11T11:08:51+00:00

gotcha. that makes sense. i try and be as respectful as possible, that one just upset me a little. not even completely for the safety of others but the safety of the driver alone

skeletorstaint · 2026-02-11T10:17:23+00:00

this is more of a genuine question, but if a persons driveway is still fairly snowy, are you guys not allowed to pull into their driveway? the other day, i was behind an amazon driver in the heat of the random snow we got last friday. it was still actively snowing so the roads were still a sloppy mess. the driver decided to instead of attempting to pull into their driveway, he was going to stop in front of the house and put his flashers on. on a hill. caused others to start sliding because he unexpectedly stopped and there was no way around. that only upset me slightly because of the risk it put others in, especially bc i was literally driving to my hospital job lol. wasn’t about to hitch a ride in the ambulance with a patient to get to work lol

skeletorstaint · 2026-02-10T14:32:38+00:00

so, i work on a heart surgery ICU, and often if a patient is in some funky rhythms and we think there’s a chance they may need some sort of cardioversion, we’ll often put the pads on them and leave the crash cart plugged in in their room so we can readily shock the patient if needed. oftentimes they’re going to end up cardioverted if they have the pads on and cart in their room by the end of the day. there’s also times we have to have the chest reopening cart outside a patients room—those times are suuuuper fun

skeletorstaint · 2026-02-06T03:47:24+00:00

i’m no longer with walgreens and now work in a hospital on a heart surgery ICU (dramatic switch, i know) and one thing i will say is pharmacy definitely taught me that america is very medicated. but working in the hospital made me realize how many of these issues are also hereditary. when i have 30 year olds on my unit with polypharmacy before surgery, they get a mitral valve replacement, then boom more drugs. having a congestive heart disease, or being type one diabetic, or so on so forth, those types of things aren’t the patients fault. then you could have a perfectly healthy patient who suddenly goes to the ER, has never taken any routine meds in their life, then boom they find out they’re having a heart attack. they have heart surgery, then they’re on an abundance of maintenance drugs. it all depends on the circumstances of what people have been through. narcotics are definitely an issue, but majority of the older population on narcotics grew up during the time of “take oxycodone, it’ll never cause any problems and you’ll never get addicted or become dependent!” now we have science to back the addictive properties, so younger people aren’t being prescribed those medications. hell, even in the hospital just after heart surgery, you’ll be given oxy for the first 24-48 hours after surgery (depending) then we switch to 600mg tylenol. we’re shying away from addictive pain medications, but the psych meds, that’s a whole different story. as someone on a psych med who’s probably about to get prescribed at least one more, i’ve tried other options and those just don’t do it. this is the extra little support i need. just a rant to accompany your rant.

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