I love genuine questions and people putting in the effort to love and understand each other better. If you come at me just wanting to argue I’m going to troll you back. FAFO.
also helps to plan difficult conversations if it’s something that can wait a few days or that could wait a week but you know you need to do it sooner rather than at the end of the week when she won’t be able to respond as charitably. me and my husband keep track of each other’s hypomanias and depressions for similar reasons.
Also called “jetpacking” (especially if the smaller person is gassy).
One time I took a box of gingersnaps to coldstone creamery and had them mix it into chocolate almond ice cream. Apparently they won’t do it anymore even if I bring a still sealed box like I did.
I’m an inpatient psych nurse. I see there are already 40 answers, so what are your specific ones for me?
Am an RN.
When you elevate the head of your bed (In this case to help the fluid drain out of your head / sinuses), don’t put the extra pillows under your head, put them under the mattress. you’ll fall to the side as the pillow pile collapses too much to be useful while you’re half awake, but if the whole head is up you just gotta wiggle your way back up if you wake up congested. You can also stuff extra blankets and stuffed animals or whatever else you have under there for extra lift (although at a certain point if you don’t have a footboard the mattress will start sliding down. You could also try sleeping in a recliner chair if you have one.
All fluid used in a neti-pot MUST be sterile, or you’ll get brain worms / amoebas. You can get sterile saline from the wound care / bandage aisle in the pharmacy, or you can make it at home but make sure you let the solution cool so that it is NOT boiling before putting it in the neti pot.
Traditional Medicinals Throat Coat with slippery elm is the GOAT for sore and scratchy throats, which can happen as the fluid drains.
Also did you take real sudafed or fake sudafed? Phenylephrine is literally a placebo. Pseudoephedrine is the stuff you want but you may need to show ID for it because it can be used to make meth.
The most code I know is turtle LOL (and to be clear I’m talking about the one for like, kindergartners where you draw geometric shapes by lifting and putting down the pen with the commands)
also if I did know something else the first thing I would do would be something like powerdeletesuite for reddit. I know it doesn’t get rid of stuff posted to other instances but it would likely auto-delete a lot of them unless the instance specifically wanted to block me from doing so, and a big part of why I do it regularly is that it keeps me fairly obscure. Every time I comment on this people are like “what you put on the internet is forever” and like, yeah, but I don’t have to make it easy to find.
I’ve kinda wished there were more tools to create my own algorithms and move them between accounts or even share them with others. Like grouping cross-instance comms of the same or highly similar content into one feed. Would be nice to just lump all the asks together to scroll through when I want to interact or something. Or having my own search terms that find me more positive content. Would be cool to have more ways of finding stuff I’m interested in it would just help a lot if there was some transparency and self determinism in the process.
Isn’t this just the plot of Death Stranding?
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I think I need a computer to keep going and am also taking critiques since I’m actually not a huge expert in these things and am sure I’ve gotten at least a few things out of order already…
Also one of my tarot decks is all emoji if you want one straight from rnJesus. I can even give you some notes on the cultural references like death referencing the white rose of york, the meyers briggs types of the courts, misc mythology references, etc since that’s been my hobby for the last year or so.
A 100 bed (or so, idk what number it would actually come out to) hostel / shelter / halfway house for chronically institutionalized people who don’t know how to function in normal transitional housing. Instead of a larger number of beds they might also be split into multiple smaller buildings.
Each unit would have one small room with
Public facilities include:
Residents do pay rent but it’s only enough to keep the facility running and the accounting books are publicly available on a monthly basis. If the model does well enough and receives enough outside support, rent may be a symbolic amount like $5-10 just to legally maintain the facility as a transitional public service as opposed to a long term housing solution (although that would be another great thing to donate this money to, but my personal focus would be the people that would struggle to function in that environment without some sort of actual rehabilitation).
They can get a discount by performing tasks to run, clean, and maintain the facilities including both the public areas and turning over rooms between residents or maintaining the rooms of disabled residents (while those residents are elsewhere for the day). Their names are not listed on the public books, just the number of people contributing in this manner. Any money they make for tasks performed outside the facility is theirs to keep.
There are no drug tests but no drugs (or weapons) are allowed on the premises. Any paid staff are background checked and any 24-hr safety staff (so not kitchen / EVS) who do not already have a license or advanced degree in health and human services receive somewhere between a 2-week to 1-month 8hr per day classroom education on human rights, nonviolent crisis deescalation, CPR, safety and sanitation, and policy training on how to assess and what to do if they suspect drugs or weapons have been brought on the premises (probably some other stuff too but idk. I’d make the class longer if I thought it would be financially possible / likely to get enough people to attend). Would also probably help to have 1 hour of monthly continuing education on a bunch of those topics but also to help them contextualize their experiences with this population.
The floors are sex segregated with the exception of one floor (or a smaller proportion) that is co-ed and allows persons of any gender presentation provided they have no history of sex or gender targeted charges.
If I think of anything else I’ll add it, but these are my thoughts having worked with this population and wishing there were more services focused on helping them reenter society.
Also tbph I’d probably actually live there myself, eat in the cafeteria, have a weekly movie night in one of the public meeting rooms, etc, the only thing I’d be missing is a workshop, but I could do with maybe a slightly larger permanent suite in the basement or on the roof or something. The tradeoff would be dealing with the bullshit that would necessarily arise on a 24/7 basis, LOL. I might also want a bigger bed if my husband wanted to live there with me, which he might because his 5b idea is almost definitely a free or low cost cafeteria (I’m a nurse, he’s a cook) but he’s also much more misanthropic than me and might want more privacy / emotional distance.
Independent / self-directed. In the right position (especially field work, wfh, or onsite overnight) it’s very useful to have someone who doesn’t need other people to get things done.
My resume: I survived working for the state for over a year without any of the patients grievously injuring me. Here’s my license number.
Them: you’re hired!
I’ve been mentioned a couple times for both my specialty knowledge and because I banned a person from curated tumblr for throwing a tantrum so that’s a thing. Idk about tags tho
Tom Bombadill. To the extent that one of my main goals in life is to be as chaotic and inexplicable to people as possible, but benignly so.
It’s because most of the blood return to your heart is passive. The heart pumps OUT through the arteries pretty hard, but the blood finds it’s way back through the veins whenever it feels like it, it just can only go one way because the veins have valves along the way that prevent backflow. A lot of the pressure that actually gets the blood back comes from the contraction of the nearby muscles squeezing the blood up past the valves. So especially if you’re standing with your legs all the way down there from your heart, most of the work to get the blood back up is going to come from your calves and thighs flexing.
My A&P teacher very cheerfully illustrated the point by telling us there’s actually one animal that does have valves in it’s arteries.
It’s the giraffe! It has valves in the artery going up it’s neck to help keep up enough pressure to get the blood all the way up to it’s head!
We had a guy at one of my old jobs who was trying to get a not guilty by reason of insanity charge because he was facing a life sentence for something he didn’t want to spend that time in prison for (the only time it’s worth it). Unlike most guys however, instead of faking, he actually drove himself insane! He was actually fine coming in, just had some (dubious) suicidal ideation but perfectly cognitively intact. But the doctor wasn’t buying the suicidal thing after a week or two so he started staying awake for weeks on end then slept for weeks on end, soiled himself constantly, refused to eat then binge ate. Just went absolutely feral until he really was.
One of the things he did for a while was refused to lie down at all. Just stood completely still in the hallway staring at the wall. Did it for weeks. Started to look like a candle melting down into his feet until they began to split open and weep interstitial fluid. Anyway the point is we started having to chase him around the unit a little. You’d go just stand next to him and bug him a bit until you got him to walk a little because we needed to start stimulating some blood return. I forget how that story ended he may have still been there when I finally had it with that place and left.
Since I’ve had my IUD it’s super sporadic and sometimes I kinda forget and then last week I wasn’t even up trying to pass meds or lift patients or anything I was literally just sitting suicide watch and just doubled over in the chair wondering if I was about to involuntarily expel my IUD, the world’s biggest shart, or both simultaneously. I wound up begging a coworker for a break and finding a bathroom off the unit to destroy.
Yeah but it’s a -10 to have a panic attack if I don’t wait the full cooldown period.
Travel mug full of herbal tea and a rubiks cube.
Oh for a lot of immigrants I do wind up resorting to folk music, and there’s a lot of overlap with hymns and other spiritual music.
I have borderline personality and premenstrual dysphoric disorder. I was so unmanageable as a teenager (and twice a month since my cycle was coming every two weeks) that my fundie parents put me on birth control at 14 years old.