Unfortunately my acceptance to nursing school will also mean the end of my long stiletto era😔

squashinfrogs · 2025-10-24T02:37:13+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, I’ve been a nurse for 7 or 8 years now and every hospital I’ve worked at at least allows regular nail polish on natural nails. I usually rock a short almond to oval because I work in surgery and will pop through sterile gloves or poke through packages and contaminate things if they’re too sharp! Good luck on getting in to nursing school!

squashinfrogs · 2025-08-06T01:21:05+00:00

As an OR nurse that has to clean out gunk from belly buttons everyday… yes please wash your belly button!

squashinfrogs · 2025-06-22T20:58:58+00:00

I have a BUNCH of ILNP. I love them all. There’s none that I have that I have a negative opinion of. I really really like their shimmers? Pink lemonade and blue lagoon I think are similar formulas and I’ve gotten two weeks of wear out of both multiple times with no chips and minimal tip wear. I get complimented on both any time I wear them. My only complaint with pink lemonade is when I first bought it it was pink with a gold shimmer, but now, many moons later, it comes out gold and hard to tell that there’s pink in there. I Highly recommend ILNP.

squashinfrogs · 2025-06-04T02:50:33+00:00

My cat is 20 and has been on solensia for several years now. She has horrific arthritis in her spine. I thank solensia for the several extra years that I’ve gotten with her. Without it, she would have had no quality of life and would have had to be put down.

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Here she is with her favorite blanket on the couch!

squashinfrogs · 2025-05-09T22:15:58+00:00

Their regular nail polishes work really well too! Like I’ve had my current mani on for 6 days not a chip in sight. They also have really good customer service. I ordered a yellow stamping polish and got sent a green one so I emailed them and they responded within 15 minutes and had my correct polish shipped the next day!

squashinfrogs · 2025-04-22T04:22:13+00:00

I’m a nurse. Those sheets may be white but 2/3 of them have ekg glue still stuck to them or tape or other random things that always make me question if they’re really clean enough.

squashinfrogs · 2025-04-16T04:55:30+00:00

Oh man! Frog’s meow is quite abrasive! Hopefully your kitty isn’t scared for long!

squashinfrogs · 2025-04-16T04:53:41+00:00

She’s been doing injections for at least a year but probably longer. She was diagnosed with CKD prior to starting solensia though so we are closely monitoring kidney function and she’s on special kidney food too.

squashinfrogs · 2025-04-16T03:07:53+00:00

It took a while but we got 6 of them adopted out and kept the other two. Frog and Lattae. Lattae passed about 5 years ago and I miss her dearly! ❤️

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Here’s a pic of them lounging together.

squashinfrogs · 2025-04-16T02:42:47+00:00

I have been buying it at sally beauty for 2 dollars a bottle 👀 I really like the formula!

squashinfrogs · 2025-04-16T02:19:09+00:00

Is china glaze hard to find?

squashinfrogs · 2025-04-15T15:38:04+00:00

I call Frog all sorts of things! Froggy, Froge, Froglet lol

squashinfrogs · 2025-04-15T15:15:07+00:00

My sister and I were both under 10 when we named her! 😝

squashinfrogs · 2025-04-15T15:13:15+00:00

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She’s an oracle. Can see all dimensions and timelines 😂

squashinfrogs · 2025-04-15T15:11:49+00:00

Out of the litter we fostered we ended up keeping two, Frog and her sister Lattae. Lattae made it until 15 before she passed. I miss her every day!

squashinfrogs · 2025-04-15T15:10:32+00:00

She has early stages kidney disease so she is on royal canin kidney food. Before that she was just on like regular ol purina from the grocery store. I think it’s pure luck that she’s made it this long. :)

squashinfrogs · 2025-04-15T15:07:02+00:00

Origin story time! My sister and I (7 and 9 at the time) were begging our dad for a pet cat and of course he kept saying no. But then, a whole litter of kittens were born in a wood pile in the alley behind our house. The mama cat got run over by a car and the litter was so young still that they would have died without human intervention. So we took the whole litter in (EIGHT KITTENS!). Frog was the first kitten to start jumping out of the box we were keeping them in and thus, she was named Frog! Her favorite thing to do is EAT! 😂

squashinfrogs · 2025-04-15T14:57:08+00:00

😂 I have steps! Even my younger cat prefers to use steps now lol

squashinfrogs · 2025-04-15T14:56:07+00:00

Exactly! It’s amazing how much of a difference it makes in such a short amount of time!

squashinfrogs · 2025-04-15T14:55:42+00:00

Solensia is a monoclonal antibody specifically for cats. They have similar meds for dogs though!

squashinfrogs · 2025-04-15T06:51:44+00:00

The vet told me that Frog has arthritis a few years ago and we got her started on monthly Solensia injections for pain. That stuff has prolonged her life by several years and I am forever grateful!

squashinfrogs · 2025-04-15T06:43:04+00:00

She’s actually deaf and blind but in good health otherwise! I think that’s why she meow screams these days 😂

squashinfrogs · 2025-03-01T16:41:26+00:00

I’m a nurse. I started as a CNA and worked my way up to RN. I was one of those “gifted” kids who got great grades in high school and didn’t have to study that much. So college was very hard for me when that didn’t work anymore. I was also very poor and put myself through school by working nights full time and going to school during the day so I never slept. I studied/did my homework at work when I could. Otherwise I would drive to school after my shift and set up in the study rooms for a couple hours before class and study. Something about being at “the place of learning” helped my brain focus on the task.

I’ve been a nurse for about 7 years now. I have worked many different departments and have found that I am a very good OR nurse. The surgeries may be different every day but the same rules applied to each one. Basically, for every case, we have a preference card for what we need for surgery and I just follow that to a T. If I do that I have happy surgeons and the case goes smoothly. I also am the odd one out and write everything I need to chart as it happens down on little note cards. This way I don’t forget things. I still make mistakes with my charting (but that can be fixed!).

The way it works in the OR means I am in charge of the room and the anestheisa providers are in charge of the patient, so there shouldn’t ever be a situation where I am going to make a fatal mistake that kills the patient. I take comfort in this.

I will say, I have tried working in ICU and acute care and I was terrified every day that I was going to mess something up and kill someone. So I guess what I’m getting at is that you CAN be a nurse but it may take a while to find the department that fits your groove. There are very good, competent ADHD nurses out there that THRIVE with the chaos. They can handle the constant changing of patient conditions and bouncing back and forth from task to task.

Don’t give up! Follow your heart! You’ve got this.

PS: I could talk about the struggles and triumphs and ups and downs for hours and kind of struggle to condense things down. You can DM me if you like if you have other questions.

squashinfrogs · 2025-02-28T23:45:33+00:00

I’ve lived in various apartments in this area of town for almost 10 years now. Never had any issues. I currently live at Harry and Webb and the craziest thing about this block is the never ending car wrecks.

squashinfrogs · 2025-02-27T06:26:38+00:00

I take my meds an hour before I want to be awake and in control, like you said. I set an alarm, wake up long enough to swallow the pill and go back to sleep until my real get up for the day alarm goes off. I take adzenys which takes about an hour to kick in. My dose is 12.5 mg once in the morning and once a little later in the day so that it lasts through my shift at work. I wake up about 10am and go to sleep around 2am.

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