i don’t have pictures of the other things i’ve gotten from my mce sales reps but all of the things ive gotten have been soooooo cute. just wanted to share
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So I’m one day post op and I wanted to see if others experienced the same cramping and pain I’m getting. I chatted with my surgeon who suggested imodium for the diarrhea which has so far put a pause on that which had been constant since getting home yesterday. The cramping I’m getting is across my entire abdomen but the worst of it is in the center of my upper abdomen in between my ribs. It almost feels like liquid is getting to the end of my stomach and then bursting into my small intestine causing intense cramping. I had a lot of burping prior to surgery and I’m still having a lot now. Every time I nap, I wake up with intense nausea. I’m also getting a lot of bubbling throughout my abdomen and especially in between my ribs.
I’ve been trying to see if sitting up straight vs laying down does anything but I get uncontrollable cramping either way. Anyone else experience this? I’m supposed to go back to work in 2 days and genuinely did not expect so much discomfort and pain.
I’ve eaten only ice pops and have been drinking broth, water, and juice.
i got my shiny bird! i thought for sure this was another one where i would throw one ball and it’d flee but it wasn’t! although i don’t have the normal version which is purple and i find that cuter lowkey
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I am hoping this won’t end up being too long to read, but I think the situation I’m in is a little complicated so bare with me. I got accepted into a PhD program and start in August. I work as a lab tech at the school I got into and have been a tech for a couple of years now. I would’ve been a direct PhD admit into the lab I currently work in, but due to funding uncertainty, it would’ve been too much of a risk in the case that my PI wouldn’t get grants to fund me and I would’ve been screwed over. So, I will enter into the program and do 2 rotations, then start in a lab. By the end of my second rotation, my PI should know if there is funding for me.
Here’s where it gets complicated. I work in a small lab which, aside from me, includes the PI, a student/tech, a senior scientist, and a post doc who is the PI’s son. I absolutely love my project in my current lab (cancer bio) and it’s what I’ve spent the bulk of the last two years doing. It’s my own project and things have been rather successful (experiments are working in vitro and in vivo across multiple cell lines, patient samples, etc., starting to put together a paper.) It’s mostly a promising project and something that my PI had another student work on for some time with no success. This student (still works in the lab) is extremely lazy and couldn’t give a single crap about anything in the lab which is why the project went nowhere when she worked on it. She comes in solely to get paid to do nothing aside from annoy everyone and our PI just allows it. She’s the entire reason I have this project as my own (although I am kind of grateful for this now) and is also the reason that I have to work 50+ hours a week since she genuinely doesn’t do anything so everything falls on me because I actually do my job and care about my research.
Our senior scientist is even worse than her but in a very different way. He purposely withholds information about techniques or protocols to then come ask you how it went/how you did something and then has some backhanded comment like “I wouldn’t have done it like that” “you should’ve done it like this” or whatever it may be. He gets in screaming matches with everyone (including the PI) in the lab as if it’s a normal thing to do. Due to lack of funding, he was laid off but doesn’t leave until the end of the year and I have gotten to the point of not being able to be in the lab with him alone due to fear. He will be in the lab 12hrs a day, every single day of the week including the weekends just to stalk out what anyone is in the lab doing and bother them. He is genuinely crazy and also does go around talking badly about me and the rest of our lab to other PI’s and staff at our school. It’s a nightmare.
It’s likely that the other student/tech in the lab will have to leave at the end of the year due to funding, but unconfirmed and given my PI hasn’t gotten rid of her yet, I wouldn’t be surprised if she kept her if there was funding. She also has been stealing time since she started working here (admitted this to me although not directly, but said to clock in for the commute to and from work which obviously isn’t allowed) and will take 2 hour lunch breaks or just disappear for half of the day and then show up at the end of the day to clock out and leave.
So, if you’re still reading this, you can hopefully tell by now the chaos it is that I work in. I’ve kept details quite minimal because this could be an entire book if I really got into it.
Back to my main issue now that the background is out there. Staying in this lab for my PhD would more than likely mean that I will finish my PhD in ~3 years based on where I am already at with my project which would be the “easy” way out. But, this also means I may have to continue to work with the lazy student who has sabotaged multiple of my in vivo experiments at this point and overall makes my job harder. Additionally, regardless of if that student stays or leaves, it means I would be getting no help from anyone else in the lab on my project. If there isn’t funding for that student to stay, it’ll just be me, my PI, and my PI’s son in the lab. I assume my PI won’t treat me like a PhD student and will continue to treat me like a tech, but I don’t know what the other option is with having only 2 people in the lab. She never wants her son to be the one to do a long or tiring experiment so it always falls on me since the other options are the lazy student who grows mold on her cells and mistreats mice or the scientist who will take 3 weeks just to mentally prepare to run a single western blot. I’m also pretty much the lab manager and I guess I’d have to continue to be this once I’m a student if I’m still in this lab.
This situation feels kinda odd and I feel like I won’t get a real PhD experience by staying in this situation. My other option is finding another lab, starting completely new, (most likely) spending multiple more years in the program, but maybe I will be in a more normal lab and get a “normal” PhD experience? The other thing is that if my PI does get funding for me (which she is trying to do by any possible means) and I don’t want to stay, what am I supposed to do? She isn’t looking for another student and is probably winding down on her research as a whole being 70 y/o. I would just feel so bad because she wants me and expects me to be her last PhD student (and also hasn’t had a PhD student in several years) so how could I say no? I would’ve wasted so much of her time trying to find money for me to stay.
I don’t know if anything I’ve said in this makes sense at this point because I don’t even know how to better explain the situation I’m in. If anyone has any advice though I would really, really, really greatly appreciate it.