• 141

    I feel like my kidney stone became a part of my personality about three months into dealing with her. People would ask me how I was and would often include, “is Karen still with us?” Anytime someone would ask me to go somewhere with them, I’d be like, “well, I hurt a lot so I…

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  • 140

    Back when I was first being treated for Karen the Kidney Stone, when she was merely 8.4 mm and when I didn’t have hydronephrosis, I felt it was a little weird that I wasn’t being referred to a specialist, especially since the kidneys are finicky fuckers, but I kept my mouth shut and took the…

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  • 139

    So I went to the emergency department (ED) today literally right at the beginning of my shift because I 1) was diaphoretic, 2) was tachypneic, 3) had tunnel vision, 4) was dizzy, 5) was nauseated, and 6) felt tingling/numbness in my fingers, right before I got blinding flank pain and nearly passed out in front…

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  • on rotation

    on rotation

    So did y’all know that working nights absolutely sucks? Because it does. I honestly thought I wouldn’t mind it – I mean, no management, slower pace, patients are sleeping, etc. – but now that I’ve been on the graveyard shift for a little over two months, I’m about to lose what little sanity I have.…

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  • challenge

    challenge

    For every day of last month, I decided to do another selfie challenge, partly because I was really down on how I looked and felt about myself and partly because I remember how fun last year’s selfie challenge was. Although I didn’t get as artsy-fartsy as I did in 2022, I had a lot of…

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  • on rotation

    on rotation

    How. How is it already May. I am legitimately dumbstruck as to how fast this year is moving. Like it seems both like yesterday and also a year ago that I broke up with Frat Boy Douche (that was back in January), and I feel like I just went to nights less than a week…

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  • 138

    I lost my keys on Wednesday and didn’t realize it until Saturday afternoon. First of all, I didn’t need them since 1) I was in Savannah, 2) we took my sister’s car, and 3) I didn’t actually get into a car at all until Saturday. Second, I have a very good reason that they suddenly…

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  • 137

    I haven’t posted a lot about my current writing project – Jill & Abby – recently, mainly because it wasn’t really going anywhere. Work was taking over my life, what with its 12-hour shifts and constant learning, and nearly everything went on the back burner, but now that I think I’ve gotten a handle on…

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  • on rotation

    on rotation

    Just yesterday, I got back from a lovely mini-vacation in Savannah, GA and seriously just want to go back. I just fit into that town so well that I keep wondering if I shouldn’t just bite the bullet and move down there. There’s only a few things keeping me in Nashville at the moment, so…

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  • on rotation

    on rotation

    I know, I know … I missed last week’s “on rotation,” but I had literally just switched over to a night shift’s schedule and it kinda slipped my mind. But! I’m back for this week, ready to see what YouTube has in store for me. Enjoy! Oh, and as … well, not always, but as…

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