So I recently discovered that I can buy a large watermelon for $6.99,
Cut it into cubes, and just eat it whenever I’m thirsty,
and it lasts me 3-4 days by myself, without needing to drink from a single outside source.
having me spend about $1.75-$2.3 on hydration/drinks a day.
WITH NO RISK OF POLLUTANTS FROM PLASTIC OR METAL PACKAGING,
OR HAVING TO DRINK TAP WATER
EDIT: I called off. Preciate everyone’s support. Feeling good but slightly guilty.
i’m sending my two weeks in in nine days, I called off once around two weeks ago and I called off twice last month. I want to call off because I had a horrible shift yesterday. I was 12 to 1 the only PCT, I had 4 Q2 turn patients, 5 incontinent patients, four people needing assistance to the bathroom, and the rest were independent. 3 patients had problem behaviors, and none of the difficult patients are discharging today
I didn’t get more than a minute to myself till 2:15am (7 hours and 15 minutes into yesterdays shift), for that only to be interrupted 15 minutes later by a 30 minute call light, I then continued to be up on my feet for the next 2 hours and 30 minutes only getting a break til 5:30 am.
One pt is extremely aggressive every time you go in his room he will complain about what you’re doingk yell at you over something not in your control For 5-10 minutes straight, another is a lady who will talk to you nonstop for 15-30+ minutes every single time anyone enters, seems to have a personality disorder and is very hard to get away from without feeling like you have to interrupt her or offend her by setting a hard boundary. Another spams the calllight the entire shift but is nonverbal and just grunts what they want so I will have to spend ten minutes at a time readjusting his pillow and if I leave the room before his pillow isn’t perfect he will immediately press the calligraphy again. he also repeatedly accidentally pauses out of his iPad and needs me to repeatedly unpause his YouTube videos for him.
I wasn’t done with my first round of vitals till 10 o’clock yesterday night. call lights were going off when I was in the rooms, and I think the nurses resented having to answer them instead of me. I was so pissed off at the nurses the entire shift, because often I would see them charting, and I hadn’t even got more than a minute break, but they’re expecting me to get the next call light interrupting what I’m already doing for that.
I have enough points where if I call off I won’t get a warning or penalized. I would go if it was an easier badge of patience, but this is awful and almost unbearable.
I bought a $160 Queen cotton Kantha quilt from India on Etsy,
Ever since I opened the box, the cotton felt rough and thin, there were plenty of loose strings, and it had a weird chemical smell.
First I washed it in a laundry machine, in cold water on the settings they reccomended. The quilt still smelled.
I then hand wash it about 5 to 10 times(I would wash it more than once in one sitting because the smell was still there, that’s why I’m saying 5-10 times).
i remember after touching the quilt when I would wash it, my skin would get itchy and red.
I washed it in luke warm water, gently rubbing it or simply moving it around in the water, making sure the soap got on it, not roughly at all. And then I would air dry it. The smell did not come out, and the dye immediately started bleeding out every time it was in the lukewarm water. And it would only be submerged for about 30-60 minutes at a time.
I tried machine washing it two more times, once again on the reccomended settings like cold water, and I bought a new detergent in hopes it would be better at taking the smell out.
After two more machine washes, the smell still did not come out and now the batting in the quilt has clumped into tight balls!!!!! so not only is the fabric rough and thin which, but now it’s all lumpy! I have washed comforters before using the same washing machine and this hasn’t happened.
And it still smells!!!!!!!!!!
I asked for a partial refund from the seller, explaining all of the above. They told me to bring it to a dry cleaner and then see what happens.
I told them these problems will not be fixed by dry cleaning, and restated the issues I had with it (faded dye, loose strings, rough fabric, a dye I was irritated by, clumped batting).
they literally responded saying
”Noted [name]
may you share the pictures after dye cleaning.
thanks”
So it’s like they ignored what I said and are looking for ways to avoid giving a refund. in my area dry cleaning a queen sized quilt costs about $20-$60 too!
Does anyone have any reccomendations on what I should do?
Thank you
It’s all just cheap, unhealthy, low effort stuff.
We’re kinda expected to be grateful for it, it has the premise that the hospital doesn’t have to do it, but does anyway.
But I still always feel hella dissapointed-
especially compared to nurses week where there are better options for them. For example, nurses are allowed to buy a free meal with Uber eats on them, they get free Italian Ice, etc.
For PCT week, we were given a ticket to a ‘food & drink’ event. i went there, and all they had was water, coffee, chips and massages, with shtty music playing, while they were using the event for a photo op.
PCTs can literally get free coffee and water anytime from the pantry on our units, and the chips are cheap and unhealthy .
This is what they always do if they give us food. It’s like they treat us like little kids with this junk food. I know not everyone will hold this opinion , but it pisses me how you can pretend to care about your Employees in a very wealthy establishment and give them the type of cheap shtty food that gets patients ending up in this place in the first place.
on one day they will have popcorn, but they put artificial butter and coloring in the popcorn, so I don’t eat it. Secondly, what pisses me off is that nurses and any other staff can get popcorn too so they take it away from pcts, plus it’s only available for dayshift.
Last year they gave us a box of energy drinks. It’s like, hey we over work you and this job sucks, here is something that harms your health so you can work harder, thank you !
i don’t even drink energy drinks or coffee because it messes with your nervous system and is bad for your heart.
but yea what A way to make an overworked underpaid work force feel appreciated!
It’s a hand block printed quilt I bought on Etsy from India that was $160. It is 100% cotton, so I’m guessing that the chemicals come from something else like the dye etc.
can’t return it.
what’s annoying, is the cotton feels extremely dry and rough, and it has a oily feel to it weirdly… might be from the dove soap I used, biggest problem is I can still smell the smell, and touching it irritates my skin.
I tried washing it in a washing machine twice at first, but it was too big that it only washed the bottom half of the quilt, so I flipped it over, and washed it again. Then dried it in the dryer. The smell was still there.
Then, about 8 to 10 times I put it in my bathtub, filled it with lukewarm water, and ran a lot of dove soap over it, lots of suds. This weird navy blue hue, and light brown hue would keep coming out of it. And it smelled ever slightly better than the first day. But as I said, you can still smell it and it irritates my skin
Not sure what to do, would appreciate any advice
We met on a plane two years ago, he was sitting next to me- I’m typically shy, but he started a convo with me and we got along well. He then asked for my #, and we’ve been texting since.
We get along very well over text but I’ve been to insecure/afraid to call him or FaceTime himz I’ve sent some voice notes and like two pics of my face.
I was wearing a cap on the plane, with my hair pulled back, and he was mostly seeing me from a side angle. I have a lot of appearance related insecurities and I’m hoping that 0.5mL of filler in my upper lip which I’m getting in 2 days, a lash lift and a tan will help me.
He’s also a super handsome guy- 6’1”, athletic, pretty face and masculine with a beard, and very expressive and articulate and knows what he thinks about things.
i am also insecure of how I’ll dress and my small chest i am technically a 28C size but they look very small. especially since I have broader shoulders. He booked a hotel for our first date to end the night after- we Have sxted online a lot and the expectation does seem like something will happen at the hotel BUT if I can’t stop being insecure of my appearance or how I’m acting I can’t imagine doing well with that!
im also very worried that I will ruin the whole thing or make it boring or awkward and it will be such a let down if I can’t express myself like I do over text BECAUSE I feel low social energy and very drained these past few years plus I naturally struggle with expressing vulnerability and excitement due to a childhood we’re I was taught that such reactions were stupid Or embarrassing looking & also I was very self critical of saying the perfect thing or not being cringe or acting interesting enough etc.
my fear causes me too be too in my head and not be able to naturally express my excitement or my feelings Easily.
I have also been feeling extremely emotionally drained for years since I was fifteen after a very traumatic incident and many that have followed, and it’s harder for me to act high energy sometimes Especially if I’m being weighed down by fear and insecurity.
i know this is a lot, and I don’t expect anyone even myself to know the easy fix for it, but I would really appreciate any help or advice,
Thank you 🙏
So basically a lady just asked me questions about my port wine stain which was inflated.
The doctor wanted me to do an mri scan but had to pre approve me for the mri scan🙄.
this ‘pre approval’ was literally just a 6 min video call where a woman asked me basic questions like if it had grown over the years, if it was painful to touch, where it was, if I had it from birth, and then she answered my question about what they might do- which was like a 1 minute to 30 second answer.
This lasted around 6 minutes from beginning to end. It only took longer because our internet connection kept cutting out.
I am expected to pay $279 for that?!
I have not paid it and it’s been over a month because I feel resentful and pissed off. I have a near perfect credit score 800+ and pay my bills on time, but this feels so wrong and unfair that I haven’t. to have my money taken like that- 15 hours of hard work(I work as a PCT on a medsurg unit), for a woman asking me easy basic questions from a computer in her room for 6 minutes is disrespectful and robbery! She already likely makes 3X as much as me in a year which makes me so angry, they don’t deserve my money.
Does anyway know any way to get this bill lowered?
Ok so one reason I am so scared… and also partially why it took two years for us to meet was because of insecurities around my appearance and being fun/interesting enough for him. Like I have been very insecure about talking to him on the phone and showing pics of myself although I have.
we met on a plane and the connection went from there. I really liked him but unfortunately as I said… the insecurities.
I’ve taken some more ‘extreme‘ efforts to improve my appearance which gave me enough confidence to say yes to meeting next month, but right now the results will take atleast 3 to 4 weeks more to show.
i also am worried about being underdeveloped in my chest area as I have B and I’m wondering if this whole check into a hotel thing is going to imply doing ‘it’. we have sxted online a lot in the past few weeks before but I am SURE I am going to be more nervous and insecure in person.
Super worried about my appearance still and if this moment will be when he realizes how ugly and weird I seem or at least that he wotn like me as much as over text.
he just asked me what I think and that he’s booking the hotel,
I feel extremely nervous but excited… I don’t know how I’m going to handle it,
he is very handsome and he’s way more confident and comfortable socially than me
Just wondering what you guys think I should do or have any words of wisdom.
Thank you so much🙏