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Any nurse who's had their ass beat by a dementia patient at 2am could tell you this.
I love nurse Johnn btw, "mr. smith" is (usually) his character w dementia.
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Also try the math comms this is more of a math question and also I really really wanna know the answer.
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Maybe you shouldn't have neglected me, slut shamed me, and let my cousins make me strip for all of them at once at 4 years old? (Not you you, OP)
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Having talked to coworkers who worked nursing homes, some places were lucky to have those.
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I've been told I'm annoying and need to shut up as long as I can remember. Probably since I started talking.
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Was about to ask for a different state lol
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classic
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50 melons for grade school math problem
Actually I think I'm gonna start with:
"(10x-0.5)/2 snickers bars, where x is how much of my snickers you ate, you asshole."
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As an aside, do not use Vaseline with condoms. In addition to it not being body safe for internal use, some condoms are still latex and vaseline will dissolve them. Most condoms these days are nitrile, but again see above re: internal insertion safety.
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About as well as I suspected. Slow but going.
Haven't been working at it as hard as I should've. She's taking treats now though!
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cool!
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Go chug some simple syrup straight and get back to me on that one, LOL. It's not bad to put a smear on your cheek or tongue or to sip on I guess but to drink the amount you would need to for a gtt is... a LOT.
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My first comment was going to be that "symptomatically treating" is a thing as in, it doesn't directly shrink, damage, or otherwise affect the tumor in any way, it just reduces the amount that the tumor affects the person's mood and cognition. Kinda like cold medicine doesn't actually do anything to the viruses, it just unclogs your sinuses and stops your nose from itching and running which makes you more comfortable and helps you rest better which can kind of indirectly help the rest of your immune system handle things.
But more directly in response to this comment, there is good odds they'll create a specific formulation that's officially approved for the treatment of brain tumors. A great example of a medication that this currently applies to is Zyban, which is one of two Brands of the generic drug bupropion, the another common one being Wellbutrin. Zyban is specifically approved for the treatment of nicotine addiction, while wellbutrin is only prescribed "off label" for that specific purpose which means the doctor is giving it out of their own judgement (because they're literally the exact same chemical: bupropion).
Now, there are some ways that different brands might actually be better or worse for certain things for instance the specific dosage could be different in a way that would be harder to achieve otherwise; it's easier to tell a patient to take 1 tablet daily or twice a day than having to explain to them how to cut the tablet then take 1.5, or to measure out a syrup. More importantly though, the same drug can be given in forms that effect how quickly they're released into the body, think advil quick release vs motrin, which are both ibuprofen. With psychiatric drugs like bupropion (which is also given for depression and ADHD) you more often see extended release, so that the effects are more long-lasting throughout the day.
All that said, while I couldn't find a side-by-side dose comparison, that's the lesser difference considering effective dosage is going to be a more variable efficacy factor between individual patients. Both come in extended release formulations meaning Zyban has no real reason to be around twice as expensive as Wellbutrin.
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Tbh the flavor of those things is a big problem, they're hard to choke down and a glucose tolerance test requires drinking it on an empty stomach, and if you puke you have to stop and come back another day after fasting again. Looks like that's the orange flavor which is better than the grape but imo they're all nasty in the end. A more palatable mixture might be nice.
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I can hear it now, moon-gravity savings time which is kept by adding a leap-microsecond to every..... (give me a few leapmicroseconds here to fuck up the math real bad) 25.714285716 minutes?
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I had my last green tea waaaaay too late into my shift overnight wish me luck crawling into bed right now.
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I feel like the fact that this topic is being debated between two men is it's own statement. Although I suppose the people it has to be debated to aren't likely to listen to a woman anyway.
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I actually lost a toy as a kid that never was found. Reading that story at like 10 years old practically gave me flashbacks. I was like ten years into adulthood when I realized I could buy another one. Not the same really but I have it still.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13685404
One of my favorites is: "Never lie, never tell the whole truth, and never pass up a chance to use a real bathroom."
"Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened." - Dwight D. Eisenhower 1945 The image is a black and white photo of a large pile of human skulls and bones in front of a barbed-wire fence.
Most of my negative self talk is self-injurious in nature so I won't trouble you further with the exact content, but I've had difficulty finding a good substitute because I have a pretty strong aversion to the more flowery language a lot of positive self-affirmations use, but I still wanted something that rolled off the tongue as well as poetry so it sticks in my head better. I really like common meter (think "because I could not stop for death") and it turns out you can easily get it out of chat gpt by asking for 14-syllable couplets in iambic pentameter with natural word order, then splitting the lines at the 8-syllable mark and mixing and matching as-needed with a little supplementary help from a thesaurus. I asked for a few different versions and after some mixing and matching I got to: ``` "You make mistakes but take a breath and let your torment go. Forgive yourself for stuff you did, and things you didn't know." ``` ...so I'm gonna give myself a good ol' cognitive-behavioral thought restructuring and try to at least repeat it after each self-abusive thought, then hopefully be able to replace them entirely. I'll let you all know how it goes, but I wanted to share in case any of you wanted to try it with me!
i could post all of her vids i love her so much
...ideally one that was both genuine and that you had the confidence and self awareness to interpret as kind. And for bonus points, what's one you've given? I'm thinking back to the guy in group therapy years ago who told me he always thought of people who swore as not knowing any better words, but that I obviously knew better words and just also swore and even used them artistically and that's just really stuck with me. Sometimes I wonder how much of my self esteem has suffered not just because I've been told not to brag, but also because I'm extremely weird so the compliments I do receive often reflect that. My bonus one (and I'm not sure how well he was able to take it) was that one of my fellow psych nurses was frequently and obviously terrified any time shit hit the fan, but that somehow still he'd never once failed to have my back. He'd be stuttering the whole way through an incident but I'd walk out of the med room with both halves of a B52 and he'd take one of the syringes without a second thought. He was literally the epitome of "courage isn't not being scared, it's being willing to face it." I should find a nice presentation of that quote somewhere to send him because I'm not sure I phrased it well at the time.
Right now we're at the "sitting in the lobby and watching people get on and off" stage of desensitization.
They're dishwasher safe! (At least so far) I throw the caps in the utensil basket.
Going literally shitty on this one. This will probably also be a decent survey of lemmy's demographics; every man I've shared this with reacts in abject terror while all the women who didn't know you can do this look like a divine revelation had struck them. 🤣
Looking for both philosophical and real world examples including situation-specific ones like one field of study that it would versus another where it wouldn't. Idk I'm bored as shit and wanna discuss something.
It's canonically important that he's permanently and severely disfigured. I feel like they're trying to go for that dark brooding thing teenage girls go nuts for (I sure as hell did) but don't realize how important the severe injury / disability is to the exact story arc that made him catnip to teenage girls. And they're honestly wildly overestimating how much that affects his "attractiveness"; like I said, it certainly didn't matter to my stupidly horny tween self. It really reflects how shallow these people are. And honestly part of the reason I don't care about that kind of thing as an adult might even be attributable to watching atla at that age, which is a great example of why that representation matters so much. Also tbh the way he the injury looks in the original animation, I'm surprised if he can even see more than maaaybe vague dark vs light shapes out of the damaged eye, meaning he's also disabled. I've had partial blindness in one eye since before I can remember and it can make sports that require depth perception difficult. The fact that he got the injury as a teenager / young adult would be even more disabling because he wouldn't have the neuroplasticity of a toddler / infant to help him adapt like I did. Yet he still competently engages in *ranged combat* on the regular! TLDR network / tv show executives are cowards and don't actually understand what real people who don't essentially live in the hunger games capital city actually find attractive.
A big one for me is coming back and seeing my catatonia patient I was giving IV meals to and changing the sheets out from under a week ago now up in the dayroom participating in a few rounds of spades while munching on cookies and soda. I have to shove down that exact excited squeal from the video sometimes. What've y'all got?
Cliff's notes from the 300+ hours of various talk therapies it took to control my personality disorder and eventually got trained in to pass it forward. It's got some tips on interacting with the mental health system in general as well.
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sh.itjust.worksI love genuine questions and people putting in the effort to love and understand each other better. If you come at me just wanting to argue I'm going to troll you back. FAFO.