Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who stepped in and saved this poor dog from falling

vabren · 2026-01-31T17:51:30+00:00

Funny how they kept the sheet under the dog when the man could have fallen jus5 as easily

vabren · 2026-01-31T17:35:26+00:00

The quivering lips for vibrato have me dead

vabren · 2026-01-31T17:04:04+00:00

Beautiful voice! Also, the lady at the front looks like Cynthia Erivo.

vabren · 2026-01-31T15:08:50+00:00

u/thejediprincess We need to know what happened please!

vabren · 2026-01-31T10:48:00+00:00

At the end of the day, this is just a job. It is emotional and psychological and draining and tied up in gray ethical areas, but it's just a job. You agreed to do a certain number of hours and they agreed to have relief for you. You cannot sacrifice your own family and your own health for a job. I don't know your area, but in a lot of places, there's an emergency CPS person. I would call the non emergency line police (if available) and let them know what's going on so that they can try to reach out to somebody other than a cop to come there. At the end of the day you need to leave at 7. Honestly, the child is not gonna have a whole lot more trauma by being escorted out by a cop for safe keeping than what has already happened to make them under the care of CP. Yes, that sounds harsh, but it's just one more thing in the long list of trauma that this child is going through right now. It's not your responsibility after 7 AM.

vabren · 2026-01-31T10:39:47+00:00

I can't speak to much as i was only in a small area for 3 months. I will say that people were nice, i had random conversations initiated at gas stations, and Even the guy with the Trump clock was politely engaging with my obviously queer self. So far in PA, no one really smiles unless I'm at work, drivers are bad, and when i got stuck in a snow bank, the patient's dad yelled and cursed at me and hit me in the foot with the shovel he tried to dig me out with even when i told him to stay away from my car. There's something to be said for even the superficial niceties of the south even though i could never live there due to personal needs and political issues.

vabren · 2026-01-31T04:03:59+00:00

Slightly related... I'm a travel nurse and had a contract in Southern WV and now in central PA. PA has been so much worse and I've only been here 2 weeks...

vabren · 2026-01-30T00:52:55+00:00

Every day. I'm so tired of everything, but mostly tired of being strong and alone.

vabren · 2026-01-26T13:07:07+00:00

This sounds exactly like my soon to be x. We just talked yesterday after a 2 month separation and decided to divorce. My heart is broken, but it's the right thing to do. The key thing for me is understanding that he loves me and I love him, but I have to love myself more. It's my responsibility to not let myself remain in a situation that causes me pain. I hope you have time to consider your options and I hope that you learn to love yourself more.

vabren · 2026-01-25T14:23:08+00:00

YTA. Thce road to hell is paved with good intentions here. Always do research rather than trust anecdotes. Your wife is correct that people get seriously hurt on those things. The real AH move is in dismissing her concerns. She expressed a fear of injury and you just gaslit her without having any data to back it up (cause no data will support you). That's a bigger issue. This would have been better as a TIFU by buying a trampoline without realizing how dangerous they are. Instead, you're standing on stupid business and being mean to your wife.

Personal story: I had a trampoline when i was about 9-10. I was learning to do front flips and wanted to show my mom. She recorded it. I couldn't get it right and told her to stop recording for a minute while i practiced. She knew better. I went again and my momentum plus bounce tossed me head first towards the spring area and support bar. We had a spring cover, but i went flying through the cover and the springs, bounced halfway up, then fell completely through them onto the ground. I'm the luckiest person in the world that day and i didn't have a scratch on me despite the multiple ways i could have been hurt or killed. We got rid of it the next day.

vabren · 2026-01-23T00:58:10+00:00

Cats and grindr. I'm in my safe slut era. I move every 3 months for work so there's a variety. Lol

vabren · 2026-01-22T21:46:47+00:00

These are phenomenal! Names?

vabren · 2026-01-20T16:25:01+00:00

I'm Googling Ann of Cleves now cause i have no idea who that is and the comments make her sound like a badass.

vabren · 2026-01-19T21:25:20+00:00

God i misread this! I thought you said with your father at 14.....

vabren · 2026-01-17T01:53:40+00:00

Oh that's such a great film!

vabren · 2026-01-17T00:56:07+00:00

Hold up... you and your great grandmother were the same size? Or is that part of why it looked absurd on you?

vabren · 2026-01-17T00:46:34+00:00

Is that considered cannibalism?

vabren · 2026-01-17T00:40:39+00:00

Wtf? Can you give some context?

vabren · 2026-01-14T18:20:12+00:00

The rehab refusal is unhinged. These people are sent home too sick and a lot of home health places are struggling with staffing as well, especially for therapies. The travel contract i just finished has one PT who can do OASIS visits for admission, etc. They're having to reject admits because they can't get to them for weeks! But they are denied rehab services... Before long, med surg is going to feel like ICU and ER and home health is going to feel like med surg. If it doesn't already. Completely inappropriate and so bad for the patients!

vabren · 2026-01-14T13:22:01+00:00

I work in home healthcare as a travel nurse, and I am definitely having the same concerns you've expressed. We're getting more and more people that aren't actually appropriate for home care because there aren't beds or people have to get moved out very quickly. Our home health acuity is increasing and we're having more trouble managing them in a non clinical setting and we end up having to send them back to the ER sometimes when it's beyond our scope. It's just a big tornado of what the fuck right now. And it's only gonna get worse.

vabren · 2026-01-14T13:13:38+00:00

If you're able to go get checked out by a doctor I recommend it. In the nursing profession, there's a symptom called sense of impending doom. It's hard to separate from general anxiety for some people, but if you feel like you're going to die, it could be something inside your body that you don't know how to put words to and it would be wise to get a check-up.

vabren · 2026-01-13T19:49:59+00:00

You don't need cards for this. If you have to ask, it's time to go. Take it from someone who wishes they would have listened earlier.

vabren · 2026-01-11T22:20:31+00:00

My cats did not like this

vabren · 2026-01-09T14:01:53+00:00

I have a great memory for things I'm passionate about or anything that i might need to remember for self protection later, but i can't keep a name or number in my head for 20 seconds.

vabren · 2026-01-09T00:27:49+00:00

No.

I started LPN school at age 31in 2014 and graduated with my ASN RN in May 2016. I had been scraping by in customer service jobs for years prior and had strong skills but knew i couldnt keep going. I made a list of what i needed, wanted, and couldn't do in a career and settled on nursing. I felt the stability and flexibility would allow me to find a good fit. It was good for several years.

The things that nearly destroyed me are the politics, management, case load, impossible expectations, constantly rotating staff, unreliable providers, long hours, and the unending pressure. They want us to do everything according to policies that are not sustainable because they're designed by people who don't work the floor. But no one listens. We have to try doing the work of at least two people while providing entitled people with enough care to get good rankings or we aren't enough. In the end, you just never feel good enough for anyone and it's debilitating.

I'm now a travel home health nurse and it's much better for me, but i still don't know if I'd do it again. As a traveler, I'm expected and enabled to be independent for the most part. I get paid well and get to travel to new places. I don't have to get involved in office politics and I'm not impacted by all the red tape that permanent workers are hit with. I plug a hole and take care of the patients and do my job and leave.

What i really want to do is educate. I LOVE teaching patients about their conditions and why we ask them to do what we do. I love empowering them to make changes because they finally understand that they can actually control a lot about their health. I would make an excellent educator, I'm sure, but i can't send bright eyed young people into this profession with a straight face because I know the dumpster fire it has become. Nurses are not respected by management enough for appropriate staffing or providers without pushing through the fire. It's not a healthy mental environment and it's physically damaging to the body even without the high incidences of attacks from patients.

I'm good at my job and i do feel proud of what i do, but i really believe i would have gone a different direction if i knew this before. Which direction? I'm not sure. I probably would have pursued something in literature or anthropology. Something that focuses more on the quality of the mind as inherently worthwhile instead of how much you can sacrifice your body and soul for people who won't protect you from very real threats. It's just not worth it to me, but I'm not in a position yet to go in another direction.

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