DONT take a persons medical device

I shouldn’t have to say that but here we are

One of the managers at work likes to take and hide peoples stuff as a joke. My manager took my pulse ox when I wasn’t looking. When I noticed it was gone I started to panic. A pulse ox is minimum $30 and I’ve had mine for over 7 years and have named it. So yeah I was panicking. I immediately paged my manager to my register and when he arrived I demanded it back. He did give it back.

I informed him that it was stupid and dangerous of him to take a medical device from someone especially like that.

So again

DONT TAKE A PERSONS MEDICAL DEVICE

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If I may be allowed a medical nitpick about The Expanse 2x05…

Miller: Naomi, can you check the med data on my suit?

Screen: *shows absolute garbage with a heart rate jumping from 110 to 146 in 0.2 seconds; multiple SpO2 values most of which are >100%; blood pressure apparently 70/60; and he’s fully conscious and supposedly in REM*

Naomi: You’re fine.

Me: 🥴

MY BABY MY BABY MY BABY MY MABY MY BABY MY BABY MY BAY MSYDBDHSJSHSNSSBHDEUVDWBUEUBD3JEDB

Checked in at urgent care. My oxygen is still in the 80s and they're waiting for a room to admit me. Lol. Lmao, even

> asthma is bad

> asks for a refill of my inhaler

> it's delayed

> gets prescribed new inhaler

> it's barely working for me

> gets prescribed inhaled corticosteroid

> it's delayed

what do you think is the best execution of a trop you hate?

for example I absolutely hateeeee blushing maiden but I find pharm from uwma ok to watch maybe because of the storyline. same with nuea from stare in my mind because in the last episode they do seem like a new couple in love

Lokey think joong works best as person in love expressing his feeling cause he looked to stony when he was " in love but cant say " "suffering " i thought maybe he even forgot to act but then he do be crying well and looking devastated so..... he should not do cold people maybe

Well sing your feelings is probubly my least favorite trope. (I mean there are more egregious damaging ones, but going in soft...) 

But there are some I don't mind because the singers are on pitch, decent, given an okay song, and/or professionals: 

Ingredients (Jeff)

Oxygen (Nut)

Cutie Pie (NuNew) 

Love Sick (Captain) 

We Best Love (YU) 

Ocean Like Me (Holland) - although the actual trope never really happens 

Wish You: Your Melody in My Heart (Kang In Soo & Lee Sang) 

I think that’s about it. 

he sings the opening song, babes!

it got dicey more than once but hell spit me back up not even satan wants me

A girl once asked me what my heart desired.

Apparently, blood, oxygen and neural messages were all wrong answers.

another thrilling evening here at chez muirneach (reading about AILMENTS and DISEASES online)

For the most part, my approach to prescribing hormones is “sure,” but I will note that the one thing I lean HARD on patients about is smoking. If you’re transgender, and you’re on hormones, the number one thing we want to protect is your cardiovascular health. That’s frankly the number one thing I want to protect in all my patients, but anyone taking exogenous hormones is at higher baseline risk. And the best thing you can do for your heart is DON’T SMOKE. It’s a bitch to quit, and I didn’t even smoke much or long before I quit in my late teens, and I STILL didn’t enjoy quitting and had smoking dreams for years. It’s harder to quit than just about anything else up to and including crack and heroin, and that’s coming from a patient of mine who recently passed in her early 60s who’d done all of those things—for years and years—but eventually was able to quit everything except smoking. And that killed her. She developed severe COPD and eventually called to say her blood oxygen saturation was dipping into the 70s, which is incompatible with life. She was lucid enough to decline medical care, including refusing to call 911 or go to the ER. A week later, after both I and one of our outreach nurses had contacted her to ask her to please go to the ER, I got a notification that she’d been found dead. She had been so frustrated that she wasn’t a candidate for a lung transplant.

One of my oldest trans patients is in her late 50s. She’s had blood clots that went to the lungs. Repeatedly. Smoking raises that risk. Estrogen raises that risk. She’s a veteran with PTSD; of course she smoked.

These aren’t theoretical. These are humans I’ve cared for over years of their lives. I have been rooting for them—my beloved former addict, who spoke without shame about her years of homelessness and drug use in the city; my queer elders, who are slowly trading in their motorcycles for power scooters. I want everyone to live their fullest, best life.

Smoking doesn’t fit into that. Please don’t smoke. I don’t want you to die like that—not now and not later. I want you to have the future that you may not be able to see yet, but exists.

Since I moved home as an out queer, word got out, and there’s a whole apartment complex of lesbians in their 60s to their 80s who come see me—sitting next to their wives in the office, nagging about blood pressure meds, tattling about not having gotten the shingles shot they said they would. To be clear, when I was growing up in town, I knew no lesbians. Not one. I knew one gay kid in my class, which eventually turned into two. We were it. To see these women living decades with their wives and being able to squabble like any couple in my office over who was supposed to bring their home blood pressure cuff in for us to check it… it means the world to me.

Visit home has been a success thus far!! Gorgeously sunny, obtained coffee, and even found a fully intact raven carcass!! Win win win babeyy!!

my diet of beets and vodka keeps me strongk asf and my shit sooooo unbelievably black n slimy

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