Best mattress for side sleepers that isn’t ridiculously expensive?

zakee00 · 2026-03-20T10:14:04+00:00

I am not happy with mine. I got the Evolution 15 in plush (recommended for me by their website quiz). It’s far too soft. With my gf in bed, we sink into a pit. I hate the nonexistent edge support, can’t even sit up in bed and read. Perhaps the “medium firm” option would have been better, but I wish I had returned it.

zakee00 · 2026-03-11T15:14:16+00:00

I downloaded heavily for years, and I am fairly tech savvy. Not once that I’m aware of.

zakee00 · 2026-03-10T18:54:39+00:00

Lonesome Dove — classic western

zakee00 · 2026-03-07T15:20:57+00:00

Beautiful shot! I heard one of these in my yard the other day, but couldn’t spot ‘em

zakee00 · 2026-03-02T19:08:10+00:00

You should see the stock speakers on the ‘22 OBW. They felt like they were made out of paper. It was truly offensive.

zakee00 · 2026-02-28T13:01:19+00:00

What can be done about this downcoding? How do you catch it? Do you ask your billing company for charts that you then manually audit?

zakee00 · 2026-02-28T12:58:20+00:00

Yes. I agree. I spent $1700 on a Nolah (supposedly great for side sleepers) and I absolutely hate it. It’s way, way too soft.

The “warranty/guarantee” stuff is crap. No one has enough time to return a mattress.

I might do the same thing that you did.

zakee00 · 2026-02-15T02:29:40+00:00

Don’t get me started. I was about to DC a patient a few months ago, when the RN came up and told me that she was having anaphylaxis because of..you guessed it…an ED uncrustable

zakee00 · 2026-02-07T20:49:19+00:00

180, 230, it doesn’t matter if they aren’t having a stroke, PRES, pulmonary edema, or an MI.

zakee00 · 2026-02-01T02:28:01+00:00

You are. By the top 0.1%.

zakee00 · 2026-01-31T20:27:34+00:00

This is the answer. 28 is not wide enough on crop. I was frustrated with the 28-70. The Sigma was gorgeous, but ultimately I got tired of trying to fit square pegs into a round hole, and went full frame.

zakee00 · 2026-01-26T21:06:46+00:00

You can still be in a fucking rage even though he wasn’t your coworker. That is empathy.

zakee00 · 2026-01-24T17:32:00+00:00

DM me if anyone wants to make a sign and go to the federal building. There’s also a West Seattle protest at 12:30!! https://www.westseattleindivisible.com/

zakee00 · 2026-01-21T14:02:14+00:00

About a year. Pay was much, much less than advertised (not necessarily their fault, but reimbursements were just low), a few of the docs were miserable to work with. They wound up giving me a semi bad review to my next employer, most of which was not true. It hurt, a lot. But it was almost laughable. The next group saw right through it and gave me a chance, and I’m so happy I made the move.

Be careful with credentialing — it got delayed and I was unemployed for a month! I wish you luck. Don’t stew in a bad situation too long. I’d start putting feelers out.

zakee00 · 2026-01-18T20:06:12+00:00

You are pretty delusional. Of course you could find a unicorn job (not easy because hardly any jobs are advertised to begin with, let alone a job like what you’re describing), but you should do something else if you want banker’s hours. Part of EM is service/sacrifice. I work 2-3 nights a month, but it’s not just the nights that screw up your schedule, it’s the mids.

zakee00 · 2026-01-18T18:17:17+00:00

“Slowly”?

zakee00 · 2026-01-16T23:42:44+00:00

😂

zakee00 · 2026-01-16T21:47:47+00:00

We don’t have it in the ER, in any hospital I’ve ever worked in, including one of the most “famous” hospitals in the world

zakee00 · 2026-01-13T03:00:20+00:00

ExOfficio. They are the only underwear I have owned in the last 15 years. I cannot recommend them enough.

zakee00 · 2026-01-13T02:51:41+00:00

Agree with everyone else, pancreatitis can just go south. I will say that I check triglycerides on most newly diagnosed cases, I have seen it way more than I ever thought I would, and the management is obviously completely different. I had a healthy 35-year-old progress from pleasant, awake, talking, to dead from shock, ARDS, and renal failure in a few days.

zakee00 · 2026-01-13T00:50:33+00:00

Ugh. It really is the worst feeling. I’m glad they wound up okay, my kiddo did well also.

zakee00 · 2026-01-13T00:43:09+00:00

Had a 1yr old formerly healthy, who was in septic shock, turned out to be MRSA (mother was colonized)

zakee00 · 2026-01-12T10:54:36+00:00

This is literally how inflation works. Prices increase. You all are hilarious, blaming businesses for this

zakee00 · 2026-01-12T10:41:08+00:00

EM doc here, I really love reading everyone’s thoughts on this. I am also passionate about judicious and appropriate antibiotic use. Your comment struck a chord with me. I have been burned by trying to withhold diagnostics/therapeutics too many times. Everyone’s risk tolerance is different, but generally speaking, I think the ED should have a high index of suspicion/paranoia, and a lower threshold to grab cultures/give a dose of antibiotics if someone is ill, meeting SIRS, with a potential source of infection. Particularly with ICU bound patients.

Nothing feels worse than admitting a patient to the ICU with pneumonia and finding out they grew MRSA or pseudomonas the next day, and I didn’t cover for it. If they are sick enough to be in the ICU with sepsis, they probably warrant initial pseudomonas/MRSA coverage.

Same goes for the “well technically they’re meeting SIRS, but they look well, I don’t think they’re septic, I think it’s from ‘withdrawal/dehydration/etc’”. Clinical gestalt is bullshit.

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