What Are You Thinking? Continued 14

That’s what I’m banking on. One day my secret admirer is going to reach out

I admire you and it is not a secret. Just respectfully putting that out there. You are always kind and from what I have seen, a very beautiful young lady. *bows*
 
New thought... if one more person darkens my doorstep. 🤯 Like just let me be. I'm not trying to be productive today.
 
Ugh you know you've reached new lows of being out of shape when you pull a muscle in your back just standing there doing dishes.
 
Today we had an inservice at work.
The surgeon was always referred to with male pronouns.
The nurse was always referred to with female pronouns.
At one point, the Male-presenting individual said something about “nurse tightening” a knob on the equipment and I could feel all of our eye rolls.

I fucking hate this shit.

I am a woman.
I am a nurse.
I can tighten that knob like a fucking nurse and you won’t be able to unscrew that bitch even if you wanted.
 
Today we had an inservice at work.
The surgeon was always referred to with male pronouns.
The nurse was always referred to with female pronouns.
At one point, the Male-presenting individual said something about “nurse tightening” a knob on the equipment and I could feel all of our eye rolls.

I fucking hate this shit.

I am a woman.
I am a nurse.
I can tighten that knob like a fucking nurse and you won’t be able to unscrew that bitch even if you wanted.
A nurse is a warrior.
 
Seriously though, when is the medical field going to follow the rest of culture??

I have had poly patients where I have called multiple partners and told them the patient was doing well recovering and yet heard the surgeon snicker about them having to go through an arduous decision to choose who was at the bedside.

I have had patients who *gasp* present with different pronouns than their presenting genitalia and have the rest of the room refer to them as their presenting genitalia-sex while their asleep, even when I tell them it’s inappropriate, rude and against everything we stand for as an institution. (One patient I had was standing up for her rights and was hit in the face by a “bean bag” bullet shot by police into a crowd. The least the republican anesthesia provider could do was use her pronouns while she slept. I still hate working with him because of it and this was several years ago)

Those mornings I come home from my job and just worry about the country’s future.

People can be such garbage.

I do what I can to mitigate it while you sleep when you’re my patient.
 
They call it black humor and say they need it to get through the day. There is black humor in medicine. There is a huge place for it. What you’re saying is not that. That is ignorance.

I get the black humour.

I get laughing about the person we saved from the crazy-ass car wreck because they were so drunk they basically were a rag doll during the crash.

I get poking fun behind the back of the poor 20yo who shot himself in his penis because he wanted to look cool and shoved his loaded gun in his front pocket.

I get black humour.

You’re right, this is different.

This is bullshit.

(Sorry. It’s been a weekend)
 
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