u/blobsong

My sister is interested in climbing. I'm stoked about this!!! But here's the thing. She is fat and stores a lot of weight in her belly. She is bigger than a lot of people who are also considered fat, if that makes sense. I'm using fat as a value neutral descriptor here, no judgement. But it's just necessary info.

I'd LOVE to help her. She's in okay shape, she hits the exercise bike pretty hard and she's working on her overall fitness. I think I can find low grade routes she would enjoy top roping on! I can get an ohm device .... But the harness is the thing. I think the waist of the harness may need to be very high, to sit above the biggest part of her belly. And wider leg straps. Does something like this exist?

Thanks all 💛

This isn't a medical question, just my own curiosity. If the endometrial lining is made of blood, then isn't that blood already out of circulation? I always pictured the endometrial lining as an extracellular matrix of blood and other compounds.

If menstrual blood IS still part of the circulatory system, then when I menstruate are blood vessels .... breaking? If so, does that mean the blood vessels grow back each menstrual cycle?

In retrospect my old job was a LOT. I left it with my self esteem a wreck. When I got in the car after my last day I just sobbed. I'm travel nursing now, I'm in a MICU. I needed to clear my head. It's crazy different. I am beginning to feel like a competent nurse again. And I'm meeting nurses from all over and learning that my unit was different than many others.

For example: I've learned a lot of places double VA ECMO. As in, two nurses to one patient. We never did that. We would have a patient with VA ECMO + CRRT + Impella and only one nurse. Another story is I had to take a triple pressed patient, POD#1 from a MVR+AVR, with pulmonary hypertension, cvc swan art line ventilator, to MRI with only a RT. No other RN to help.

We didn't have resource nurses, we never got to eat a real lunch, we never debriefed codes. We never singled CRRT, LVADs, or IABPs. The APPs could be so bitchy and condescending to nurses. The nurses could be so cruel to each other. Management would call me on my personal cell phone to ask inconsequential questions about my previous shift. The culture punished mistakes so harshly and even punished you for asking questions.

I miss CVICU and I'd like to do it again someday. But I'm scared it will be like this at a future job. How can I suss it out? What should I look for? I'm not sure how much of this was my specific unit, and how much is just the intensity of CVICU. I know CVICU is tough in general.

Maybe I just want to go back because I want to prove to myself that I can be a good CVICU nurse....

I am born and raised in the Bay. My parents, siblings and cousins are all still there. I left the Bay to find my first nursing job because it's so competitive. Now I'd like to come home.

I'm currently doing my first ever travel contract in New England. It's fine. I think I'm being underpaid.

Anyway I'm looking into positions working on my CA license but getting discouraged. It seems like even travel nursing in the Bay is hyper competitive.

About me: Started as a stepdown RN and then moved to CVICU at a Level 1. Currently a MICU travel contract at another Level 1 hospital. 5 years total nursing experience.

I want to make enough to live but really, I want to be home. My ideal contract is in critical care, day shift, and allows me to live in Berkeley or Oakland with a reasonable commute. Is this doable? I'm just so overwhelmed right now.

A few weeks ago I accidentally slammed my index finger in my car door. Finger isn't broken but the nail is cracked all the way across it. Now the broken piece of nail is starting to detatch from the nail bed. How to handle this? How to climb with this? How will I know when the nail is ready to come off the skin? I think it's going to be painful

Hey all, trying to figure out what to do with the broken resonator on my 2015 Impreza. Mechanic says replace ASAP. Various random internet forms say the resonator isn't strictly necessary, it just improves mileage.

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Is there anything Subaru-specific about this? Or anyone have general thoughts?

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I will replace it eventually, but I'm on a budget so I want to understand how much to prioritize this.

My partner and I are cis women, we don't have really many options for known donors so we're definitely using a bank.

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I have no qualms with a large sibling set. But I know a lot of queer people who are also using donor sperm who felt that sibling limits were very, very important to them.

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My partner and I genuinely don't see the issue. We figure we would raise the kid(s) from day one to know about their conception and about the possibility that there are many other people from the same donor. We would stay in touch and visit with the other families as much as possible. I think it might be a cousin-like relationship? Like, if you end up close to your cousins that's a fun bonus but it isn't serious hardship if you don't.

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But maybe that's naive. Please call me out if I need it. I'm not a donor conceived person - I don't know how it would feel on that end. What are your thoughts and experiences here?

So I'm moving and I'm starting in the MICU but the only critical care ever done is two years of CVICU. And I don't even feel like I was a good CVICU nurse. It's been two years of busting my ass in the CVICU grind.

I guess I'm good at cardiac stuff, but I've never seen DKA. I've never seen ARDS on a patient who wasn't postop. I haven't even seen that much sepsis. I don't know how to be a normal critical care nurse. All I know is that we are going to the chair at 5am!!!

Helppppp I'm nervous

Hi all, I feel dumb for this but I was talking to a couple recruiters and I think they both submitted me to the same position. What to do?

Also, there's an ICU and a stepdown position available at the same hospital. Highly prefer the ICU but the travel nurse hiring person, who seems to staff travel nurses across the whole hospital, has only reached out to me about the stepdown position. Can I ask her about the ICU role?

Hi all, my recruiter with a certain agency (Triage) rubbed me the wrong way but I'd like to stay connected with that agency. How do I go about doing that?

I like and trust my recruiter and she understands why I want this position. She has followed up with her contacts and not heard back. She is keeping me in the loop.

It's my first time travelling and this is in my dream location. I am so antsy and I desperately want this job. It's near close friends in a rural area and it is the only hospital around.

But it's been two weeks! I've interviewed for and declined a couple other positions and those processes went so much faster.

I'm losing hope. Please someone tell me you've been in this position and the job came through. When should I pivot to plan B?

Edit: I didn't even interview with them yet!

Hey all I'm a RN thinking of taking a three month contract in Billings. I'm a rock climber and she's an artist who does a lot of landscape paintings.

We're a gay couple and she is Black. She's actually no stranger to living in super white rural areas but that was New England. We don't need a ton of friends or anything. As long as we can meet a few fun accepting outdoorsy people to climb and hike with we'll be okay.

Advice for us? Thoughts?