Me: telling my primary I need help with weight loss for 2-3 years. My PCP: you should stop drinking your 180 calorie energy drink, cut out all potatoes, and do a very low carb diet. You say you don’t feel bad and you aren’t morbidly obese. You just need to burn more calories. Me: <blink, blink>

Happy 3rd Gotcha Day and 6th (completely made up because we don’t know when it actually is) birthday to this little man. I love you so much, Eli Vanto! 🥰 He and his big sister had special doggie breakfast this morning and will get a burger for dinner tonight!

Email went out to ED leadership 2 weeks ago about a problem with pediatric weights and our weigh stretchers. Guess who found out about that problem today, because ED leadership didn’t pass anything on? Seriously. Anyone in SE Michigan need a nurse educator? Specialty is ED, but can teach anything!

“I was looking for you yesterday.” “I was off yesterday.” “I thought you were here doing education?” “I was.” “I looked for you at 6am.” “I was in my office from about 5am ‘til almost 730am.” “Oh, I didn’t look in your office.” Seriously? 😒 (My office is in the dept, and the light was on.)

Maybe I should just go back to bedside. Caring about bigger things seems to get me shit on more than just coming in, knocking out a 12-hour shift where people yell at you for things you have no control over, and then going home. Maybe I’ll give ICU a shot. Hmm.

BLS instructor update: ✅ ACLS instructor update: ✅ NZ nursing license applied for: ✅ Helped security with their new AEDs: ✅ Reviewed new MTP process with staff: ✅✅✅✅ Llama dog toys given to friends: ✅✅ Buildings burned to the ground: None I guess it’s been an ok day, considering yesterday. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I am attributing the changes in the 2025 AHA guidelines to @lglaucomflecken.bsky.social. They now include Recovery and Survivorship in the Chain of Survival, as well as emphasizing the need for psychosocial interventions for both pts and their families. 💚

It’s always nice when you walk into the office to pick some stuff up off the printer for the education you’re doing after hours and inadvertently hear 2 members of the leadership team talking shit about you. 🙃 Anyone looking for a well-qualified clinical educator in SE Michigan? 😞

Crap. 💩 I was hoping for more time to help Jonathan raise closer to enough for a flight to Cleveland. Hopper is predicting the cost to go up soon, probably due to cancellation of flights. If you can spare even a bit, it all counts. If you have airmiles to spare that helps too. I’ve booked his hotel

Blue or green? 🤔 Kinda wish polls were an option. 🤣

If you are a graduate nurse and you have questions about pathophysiology or pharmacokinetics or anything like that, please don’t use ChatGPT. Your facility will have access to something like Lippincott or Elsevier that will have properly sourced reference material. Use those things! 💚

I feel like I’m not doing enough. Time to step it up, ladies! 🤩🤩

When they’re doing testing on our fire suppression systems, they announce that in the case of an “actual fire” to call security. Bruh. I’m calling 9-1-1. I love our security guys, but firefighters they are not. I hear it 2-3 times a week, and it always makes me chuckle. 🤭

It’s also “totally reasonable and acceptable” for people to not want to be governed by racist, fascist, ignorant, uncaring ghouls. 🤷🏼‍♀️

It’s kinda funny. People like to use that Maya Angelou quote, but they consistently make you feel like shit. If one of the billionaires could just give me a measly million, I’d go hide in the woods somewhere with my roommate and our dogs. Le sigh.

One of my very favorite things about my job is how much I am appreciated. For instance, the gifts they got for everyone for Emergency Nurses Week came late, and they just got them all put together, and I was told I don’t get one. Love this for me. 🙃

A little Friday night hockey! #LGRW

Dear anyone in a public waiting area, No one wants to hear your shitty music or your shitty tiktoks/reels/videos/etc. Hope this helps.

I have no words to describe the lunacy.

Today officially begins my birthday month! Huzzah! 🤩

Trump just called us "the enemy within" Those are LITERALLY the words Adolf Hitler used to describe Jews in Nazi Germany. Literally the same words.

“generals gathered in their masses to listen to gigantic asses“ headline is sitting right there, which outlet is going to step up

They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only time I’ve ever known.

If you aren't someone the church would have persecuted 400 years ago, are you even living?

As a current Dearborn resident, I have never been woken up at 530am by a call to prayer. Did our founding fathers want a bunch of people with different names running things? Perhaps we should ask the people that were here before the founding fathers. Matt Walsh is an idiot.

28 days until my birthday, if anyone was wondering. 😬

This Teamster nurse does not agree with this endorsement. At all. Ever.

Well, after an hour and a half of waiting, we’re all getting cut loose. The judge came in and asked who was excited to spend the day on a jury … I was the only one who raised their hand. 😂

Made it inside. Definitely not late. Like half the people came in after me. Now in the very exciting waiting stage of the game.

Got called for jury duty. Was super excited about it, but the day started off terribly when I got to the security line and they said no water bottles allowed. So instead of being 4th line, I’m now like 400th in line because I had to take my water bottle back to the car. 😒

A little safety fair action on a cool Saturday morning! My partner in crime fell down and couldn’t be here, so I’m running Stop the Bleed AND Hands-Only CPR … it’s a good time. 😂

Excellent news: Eli Vanto doesn’t need surgery! If you’re in SE Michigan, Dr Cullen, the pupthalmologist at Blue Pearl in Southfield, is wonderful!! 🥰

Eli Vanto on the way to the pupthalmologist to see how much it is going to cost his mumsy to get his recurrent cherry eye fixed. (He is clipped into his car holster, which is attached to the seat at two points … in case anyone was concerned.)

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Just before “seepies” last night. 🥰

You guys!! I got a jury duty summons!! I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!! (Seriously … our small district courts are where the law still matters.)

If my math is mathing, Eli Vanto has peed on 33 states and 1 province. I think Ahsoka may have 1 or 2 states on her brother. They are well-traveled dogs! 🤩😍

What in the mother of fuck?! Trusting the experts is literally a hallmark of science, because the experts come with facts, data, reason … unlike those other things. 😣

A fun, short, hot day at Disney’s California Adventure. Thanks to Gil from Bullhead City, AZ for this fun PhotoPass shot! Heading back to mom and Dad’s, before heading back to Michigan Tomorrow morning.

Vaccines save lives. Pass it on.

Disney’s California Adventure day! Due to stupid work being stupid and tight schedules, we will not get to see @ryanjamesdee.bsky.social today, which is a huge bummer, because he will not experience the joy that is wearing matching outfits, which would benefit @dfygrvtalwys.bsky.social. 🤭

I miss the olden times when one could easily tell the difference between actual headlines and satire. 🥺

Oh. In case anyone was curious where I stand:

Fuck this administration. Excuse me … regime. 😡

😡😡😡

Starting the day off right! Breakfast with Minnie at The Plaza Inn!

Disneyland day! 🤩🤩

@ryanjamesdee.bsky.social we need this! 😍😍😍

VACATION STARTS NOW!!

I’ve got about 90 minutes until I’m on vacation for 2 1/2 weeks, and I am captain of the luxury struggle bus. A few more things to today up and I’m not thinking about this nonsense for a while. (Except I’ll write down random thoughts about things I want to do when I get back.)