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This is the second time I’ve gotten points knocked off of a quiz or practice test for selecting a “select all that apply” response of using gloves as a precautionary/best practice.

The first scenario involved handling blood-tinged vomit, and ATI said gloves were not necessary in this scenario.

The second was in preventing a CAUTI infection. The question was posed as selecting all that applied in preventing a CAUTI infection when handling the patient’s catheter. The only option for gloves was “sterile gloves” and ATI said it was unnecessary again.

I get what point they’re trying to prove but it seems like a really shitty and misleading way of doing it when CAUTIs are the most preventable HAI and now student nurses are just going to remember “I selected gloves and it was wrong.” Also, no idea what they were trying to prove in the first example — I will never handle any sort of vomit without gloves, blood-tinged or not.

Most of our assigned reading is in ATI but I was wondering if anyone knew of other resources (videos, mostly) that may be able to drive home the information in another way. For whatever reason, this subject is really boring me to death.

I’ve heard of some other student nurse tutoring sites, but can’t recall if they’re compatible with ATI lesson plans.

My brain fog and fatigue have hit an all-time high right as I’m entering a school program I’ve been trying to get into for several years. I feel like absolute shit. Went to OBGYN “provider” who recommended hysterectomy right off the bat instead of HRT and physically recoiled when I asked for HRT. I have an appointment with Midi now.

Since I’m seen by an oncology clinic I have lots of blood tests to review. Hormone panels were normal. My ferritin was originally really high while my iron was low (doctors think I have an autoimmune disease not yet specified). My vitamin D is very low and I’m on supplements for it now at 50,000 mcg 2x a week.

Over the past couple months my skin has started becoming uglier and uglier. I think it may be the massive doses of vitamin D, or possibly avoiding produce due to the widescale food poisoning we’ve had in my area over the summer. It’s so oily and discolored. I have had persistent chin acne which I’ve never had before in my life. And the chin hairs are crazy. I literally have seen them grow overnight and it’s fucked up.

My weight is surprisingly not an issue. I’ve actually lost a lot of weight, both muscle and fat, because I have such little energy I often forego eating. I try to force myself to eat protein but it’s hard. Nothing sounds or looks good to me most days. My stomach gets fucked up by nothing. I used to be able to eat whatever without issue and now if I take the wrong gummy vitamin I’ll be in pain all day.

Perhaps the most annoying thing apart from the brain fog is the migraines. I get migraines almost every single day. It’s atrocious. Around my period they can last 1-3 days and ruin any chance of productivity I may have.

This is all making me feel terrible and like I have no life left.
This time last year I was not even remotely the same person energy-wise. I am so fucking tired all the time. It’s insane.

I don’t know if anyone has been through anything similar or has any advice but please let me know if you have.

I’m on day two of our first-year program and taking a study break. I was not expecting the volume of online websites, passwords, and codes to memorize for the first week. I’m used to traditional college classes and it’s a lot to keep track of. The studying itself is not that bad. But memorizing everything to check online is. How are you holding up and what strategies are you using to stay organized as we start our school year?

Anyone else have a terrible onboarding/orientation experience? Mine said nothing was due and I’d completed everything. I got maybe one or two emails about incorrectly uploaded documents which I fixed.

I checked the website again today just to be sure of things, because orientation starts soon, and apparently there were half a dozen missing items that were never displayed in the main menu of “completed” and “missing” assignments. I literally had to go digging through subpages of the website to see that these even existed.

I also spent hours doing the first assignment and reading everything thoroughly (intro to nursing school type thing) and the questions were not only completely irrelevant to the reading material, but presented at an elementary school-aged comprehension level. I could have skimmed the entire text without absorbing anything & gotten a 10/10.

I’m nearing my mid-late thirties and wondering if I should be on something hormonal at this point. The SSRI isn’t really touching this. Idk. You know how it goes. Dark thoughts, exhaustion, depression, loss of self. Of course it’s also the ONLY time when people want to reach out to me. So I’m thinking of just dropping everything I do outside of work bc I can’t deal with the villainous reputation that comes with ghosting everyone and everything.

I know all of the coping skills, the CBT routines, the protocols for treating depression. There’s truly no point in me seeing a therapist as I know what to do, I just can’t will myself to do it.

I’ve had an objectively bad summer and past year in general and am trying to push myself, but I have no energy or will left to try anymore. I don’t enjoy anything. I view my life as a complete waste of time and overall existence similarly.

I want to quit everything I’m doing but obviously can’t because I have to pay bills. I have to go to work again tonight and would really rather…y’know. Just hoping if I get enough days off in a row I can plan something out.

This summer has been really difficult for so many reasons, and I was doing as well as I possibly could for as long as I possibly could, but I’ve realized today that I’ve completely relapsed…and I really don’t care. Life seems like such an endless series of monotonous bullshit, intercepted by some terrible news or unfortunate circumstances at random intervals. I really try to be present and positive for other people as it is my job, but I genuinely don’t care about myself or anything that happens to me from here on out.

Posted this in a comment but wanted to post here since I prefer the neutral sub.

Bad Thing was probably a note written around the “eternal sunshine” era, possibly shelved from that album, and later revisited for use on “petal.”

Background: Ethan Slater was cast in the play “Marcel on the Train” in October 2025. AG attended this play during its run. Now for detailed evidence linking the song to this time period:

Bad Thing lyric: “yeah i like your butterflies, the kind you’ve been making with your hands”

At first glance you’d think it’s some riff on “you give me butterflies,” but it’s a direct reference to Ethan, probably written around his rehearsal time for “Marcel on the Train.”

“At the conclusion of Marcel on the Train, Slater duplicates Marceau’s award-winning pantomime, ‘Bip and the Butterfly,’ featuring the mime’s innocently funny-and-always-hopeful iconic persona, inspired by Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp.” source

“congratulations on a beautiful run of this very beautiful show 🦋” - AG wrote this on her Instagram Stories on 22 March 2026 in reference to the end of Marcel’s run.

You can also look up Bip Hunts Butterflies on YouTube if you want to see the butterfly pantomiming routine.

TL;DR: Ethan Slater literally “makes” (mimes) butterflies with his hands at the end of the last play he was in, which Ariana both attended and posted references to in her stories before they split.

I’ve posted in the hematology subs over the past few years and talked to my hematologist but am running out of ideas on what to do.

My ferritin has been elevated for over two years (200-500) and my iron is consistently low despite trying to incorporate iron sources and plenty of animal protein like beef, fish, and eggs. My iron saturation and iron binding capacity are both low. Marrow production and red blood cell counts are low.

I am consistently fatigued, exhausted, and dealing with brain fog despite walking 10,000 steps a day, lifting weights, drinking fluids and getting enough protein.

If anyone has been through something similar or if they have any ideas, please let me know.

For over two years I have had very high ferritin (over 200-300) and low iron values (15% iron saturation, low binding capacity) paired with other strange blood test results. Iron is on the low but normal side and sometimes dips lower than normal.

I’ve been referred to hematology-oncology and had a liver scan but nothing has been suggested in the way of treatment aside from “wait and see.” They did a liver cat scan and checked for other markers, I have low RBC and low MPV, abnormal cell morphology, and am positive for antinuclear antibodies.

I feel absolutely terrible, am always fatigued, and don’t know what tests to ask my hematologist for at the next appointment.

Willing to trade or purchase. I have Olma the strawberry cat to trade.

Just went to pick up a refill yesterday for the generic Adderall XR (I still have half a month’s script left bc I barely take it since it doesn’t work) and they told me it’s on back order and they don’t know when they’ll be getting it.

Curious to see what is filled when & if it returns.

I haven’t been taking it in a few days and am just going to continue doing so. I don’t really see much of a difference, aside from sleeping at normal hours and not falling asleep in the middle of the day like I did when I took it.

Has anyone else noticed they no longer sweat after taking the meds? Like, at all? I find it kind of strange.

I’ve thought about this since the beginning of the shortage. Clearly there are many celebrities who are taking stimulant medications because they don’t eat or are near death and have boundless energy (for their age and circumstances.) I know they take IV vitamins and all kinds of research drugs. But what kind of Adderall/stimulant do you think they’re taking? I’ve seen a lot of people saying that the name brand stimulants are no better than the generics so I’m wondering what, if anything, is out there that actually works.

I used Rohto Skin Aqua UV Super Moisture Milk in the blue bottle but I was told it has been discontinued. Please hit me with recs for sunscreens that don’t feel like sunscreen. This sunscreen was perfect (didn’t sting eyes, dried down matte, didn’t feel like sunscreen) and I’m devastated

Like…so I just get a couple days a month now of being just ok?
Am I supposed to just cut out all food groups? Subsist off of glass-bottled spring water?
Do I need to buy a $1,200 red light panel?
I really don’t understand wtf to do. I never wanted to be this person complaining about my health but the amount of pain I’m in on a physical and mental level is no longer bearable. This is beyond luteal bc it’s now stretching well past my cycle week so it’s ruining my entire month.

I went to the doctor & they said hysterectomy. I am not exaggerating. It was low dose birth control or hysterectomy, those were my presented options.

I can’t even type anything I’m just in crisis, and I’m so sick of everyone saying to just ask AI or ask a crisis hotline to solve problems for me, they just parrot the same thing over and over and it’s taking me everything not to do something stupid today. I wish everyone would just leave me the fuck alone, forever.

The side effects of psych drugs are too much. I can’t be sweating buckets while trying to work multiple jobs & I can’t deal with the ones that don’t make you sweat bc they cause weight gain.

Clean eating & exercise are not helping. Nothing is helping. All I do is ruminate on how bad everything is and how I’m another day older and how pointless life is bc it’s just endless suffering. My body fucking hurts no matter how many steps a day I take or how much water I drink or how I stretch.

I physically cannot even conjure the thoughts to find things I’m grateful for even though I know they exist. It’s like I can’t connect the dots. It’s (supposedly) the last day of my period and I’ve never felt so low, ever.