#i feel like a potato

[lornrocks]

Okay in retrospect getting both my Covid booster and flu shot while I’m still recovering from a head cold wasn’t my best idea but in my defense this was my third attempted vaccine appointment after having to cancel the first one (due to being on antibiotics) and them canceling the second one due to running out of the vaccine.

I’m still kinda congested (had to take my mouth guards out last night cause even trying to be propped up I still kept waking up coughing) but today I’m mostly just soooo fatigued. Which is probably side effects from both vaccines and also me waking up several times to cough.

But my parents came up so my mom can work on the yard, my dad is getting groceries, and he’s bringing mcdonalds’s (except I don’t think they have the Halloween buckets yet)

#personal shit #I feel like a potato #heavy and covered in chili #idk if that makes sense my brain’s a little whoooo

[annakendrick47author]

Apparently my chronic headaches are back and I didn’t notice because I’m a cis woman who’s used to being taught to ignore any pain in favor of what I have to do.

Yes, writing is slow, I can’t even think about turning my laptop on, but I have less than a week to get something done before my sister comes back to Brazil 👀

#chronic headaches are the worst #i’m trying #I feel like a potato

[articstyx]

how does one develop the ability to spot good angles in game? i need screenies but they all suck

#i hate the simblr community #everyone is so good #i feel like a potato #articsrant

[nottaclys]

Flipping through sketch books and trying to imagine drawing some of the characters on digital is so wild, cause like like the way I draw hands changes from drawing to drawing but also like from what character or fandom I'm drawing for!

Anyways I've decided to start as simple as possible to get a feel for it.

But I'm ranting lol feel free to ignore

#ranting #my art #this is fine #I'll post more art later this week #traditional vs digital #8 plus years of traditional art to doing digital is wild #I feel like a potato

[crystalcatscreation]

Doing a twitch stream today (6/8/2023)! I'll be working on some rain world art. Unfortunately I am very brain dead/tired, so I won't be using my mic during the stream, but I will try to respond in the drawing if you want to chat or have a question. For the most part, this will just be a chill stream that you can have going in the background or to watch me figure out how to draw for the hundredth time.

#stream #twitch #art #rain world fanart #digital art #very tired #not sure why #i feel like a potato #yet here i am awake

[asteroidtroglodyte]

It’s crazy how there’s so much misinformation about Food. The thing we need all the time. Arguably the point of getting up each day. Fucking food. You’d think educating our young on this central component of life would be the sort of thing we’d teach them as kids, but nooo, I have to go reading up on zookeeping techniques for keeping and feeding large primates in captivity to get a straight fucking answer about carbon and phosphorus sourcing instead of a bunch of pseudoscience or fatphobia or classism or racism or just good old fashioned taboos! [Chews furniture] HOW DO YOU DEMONIZE THE POTATO

#food #vent #rant #i now feel like both the zookeeper and the exhibit #nutrition #seriously though how did we demonize the potato #ungrateful bastards

[tapakah0]

#I was pointing at all I saw today #And only this thing moved further #animation tag #marble sky fanart #*hands on the face* #I feel like potato recently #not able to make words #please don't beat me if I suddenly turn into a real potato one day #I promise I will be a quiet potato

[iizuumi]

girl can be carried in so many ways ,,,,

#fear and hunger #cahara #my art #i love imagining him carrying her like a sack of potatoes #i dont think he actually would but it makes me laff #i feel bad for never tagging the girl in my art of her but like just tagging 'the girl' makes me feel silly idk #i love and appreciate you girl even if i dont tag you #if u saw this before i remembered to add his sash no you didnt

[kagooleo]

doodlin some joh’s

#kagoodles #trainer kris #trainer ethan #trainer lyra #rival silver #green background bc I’m a spinach head lately. and a mustard green enjoyer bc i had some good potstickers that had it in the filling #kris to me should be a little cartoonishly malleable. a smiling smirker. like >:] #i also think ethan has a little unevolved natu on his team. purely for the “you can evolve when you feel like it buddy” vibe #been considering what to make team wise for the joh's but a fun idea i've got brewing is that lyra and silver Both have chikoritas #i know he canonically has a totodile but i have a fun workaround for the future that i'm workshopping a lil #when getting starters silver thought he stole the only chikorita in the lab. then when lyra comes in elm gives her a Shiny chikorita #12 year old absolutely devastated hammering fist on the floor mad but he gets over it (but maybe still a Little salty) #learns to mellow out a bit with his potato dino over time and the evolutions for both of their meganiums have different flowers/colors/type #i know i've been out the whole month i've been unfortunately stuck in the post midpoint of the sem where the workload is Crazy #been prepping works for an art show at my college And getting projects done for deadlines and it is. a Toll #but I will get One illustration done. i've been planning out lyra's dress for a piece and the second to last pic is the test for it

[epicqtefail]

Happy Pancake Day to a community that is so aggressively insistent (affectionate) about a character having no ass

#as a no ass haver i feel seen #i only realised like 2 hours ago that it was pancake day i didnt even make pancakes today #i peeled and mashed potatoes instead im so mad

[andhumanslovedstories]

Hey so your post about pain management as a bedside nurse is so important to my own nursing practice that I've considered printing it out so I can have it to hand all the time. So thanks for that. Also, how do you deal with assignments that are busy enough that pain management is harder than it should be? I'm coming up on two years as a nurse and I feel like I take it personally when I am too busy to adequately manage my patients pain. I'm also coming from a newly unionized hospital where the ratios are still horrendous (I do 1:10 on med surg) and I'm hoping once we can enforce our staffing grids it'll be better but idk I'm burning out and I love my job so much and I really respect your nursing philosophy? I guess. Sorry for the word vomit it's been a crazy shift.

I've been trying to think of how to answer this since I got it. It's just such a horrendous ratio. With ten patients a shift, that's like six minutes an hour for each in a fantasy world where there's no charting and everything is exactly where you need it to be. I feel like I don't have great insight into this because the most med surg patients I've had assigned is five. Ten patients to one nurse is just a raw deal for everyone. Like christ no wonder you feel like you're burning out! I'll give you what thoughts I have and hopefully other people can chime in if they have suggestions. But that's such a hard patient load.

When I've been super swamped, I've found that's when being really explicit about your thinking with the patient helps. Like if I have to dash into a room and then dash back out, I'll make sure the board is updated with the next medication time and that the patient knows when the medication is going to kick in. I'll also provide call light parameters. I have a lot of success telling people, "the med should be doing something by 5:30. If I haven't checked in with you by then, and the pain is unchanged or barely changed, hit your call light and we'll try the next step. Also hit your call light if you feel any sudden change, like now you're nauseated or you have a headache or the type of pain changes or something just feels very wrong. Is there anything you need before I step out of the room?"

I like to be explicit about when to call me because I think there's two directions call light usage can go wrong: someone calls all the time, or someone never calls. With someone who calls all the time, I find that telling them when I'll be back and that I want them to call me if I'm not takes away some of that anxiety that can causes some people to call frequently. Often those patients are afraid that if they aren't on the call light, they're gonna get ignored.

For the other type of patient, the one that doesn't call, I want to make explicit that it's GOOD AND NORMAL TO CALL YOUR NURSE WHEN YOU HAVE SYMPTOMS. We've all had that patient at the end of shift who goes, "btw the gnawing pain in my leg is now a 10/10" and you're like "what gnawing pain sir?? you've literally never mentioned it before now?? I don't have any meds for that lemme page super quick????" These patients can get into pain crises easily because they don't ask for help until something is unbearable. In addition to pain crisis bad, it takes a lot more time to deal with something unbearable than it does to deal with something uncomfortable.

On that note, are you spending your very limited time efficiently? To me, that actually means spend more time talking with patients, at least up front. Manage expectations, make sure people know what to expect. Having conversations with patients that are like, "You just had surgery, it's not gonna happen that we get you completely painless. We want to get you to a manageable pain level that allows you to do whatever it is you most want to do this shift." (For me on nights, that's usually sleeping at least a little, but sometimes the realistic goal you make together is that you will feel at some point better than you feel right now.) "You have this medication scheduled, and you have this one available every X hours when your pain is severe. Is there anything you know that helps you deal with pain?"

Also establish if patients want to be woken up for certain prn medications or if they're sleeping, to let them sleep. With some patients, I will advise them to get woken up for pain medication because I know that they're going to need consistent control to avoid a crisis. (Crises take so much time!)

When I'm crunched for time, I'm fond of bringing in an ice pack and being like "if it works, great, if it doesn't, just take it off, either way here it is." Sometimes I'll do the same with a warm blanket. If I know my patient needs to take pills, I'll bring a cup of water with me into the room. If there's a basic prn like melatonin or tylenol that I think they might want, I'll pull them in advance. If the patient doesn't want them, I return them next time I'm in the med room. (Obviously, don't do this with controlled substances. It's super easy to forget to return them, and not returning opioids is one of those whoopsies people get fired over.)

Decision making takes time. Walking to go get stuff takes time. I want to save the time it takes to assess if the patient needs those things and then walk off to fetch them by just having the things already. If your tightest resource is time, be liberal with resources you can spare. If you're stuck with a patient, do you have anyone you can delegate a prn med pass to? Do you know how to do the absolute minimum charting you need to? Do you have flushes and alcohol wipes and whatever other most common things you need? And since you can't hoard time, if you've got some to spare, ask yourself if there is anything you can do now that will save you time later. If you have five free minutes now and an incontinent patient, getting them up to the bathroom now can save you from taking the time for incontinence care and a bed change later on when they've also sundowned and decide they hate everything but most of all you.

So much of this answer I realize is investing as much time upfront as you can, which I realize is so hard when you are so busy. It sucks immensely that prepping takes much less time than not being prepared does when you don't always have time to prep. Plus when you invest that time to pain plan with patients and do small preventative interventions, I think it also provides some psychological comfort that helps with pain. You're letting them know you're invested and you care and you have a plan, even if you don't have all the time you'd like. That can mean better pain control, which can mean needing to spend less time in that room overall, meaning you can save six whole minutes at some point and maybe even, if we're feeling crazy, get a chance to indulge in that greatest of indulgences: just a real leisurely on-shift piss.

#nursing tag #i hope this helps at all i know how much it sucks to end a shift like 'cool. i didn't help my patients. feel great about that.' #it sucks when you don't have enough time to take care of people because you have too many people to take care of #anyway also thank you re: pain post compliment. and also thank you re: getting to talk about pain mgmt again #marge simpson holding potato voice: i just think [nursing process and symptom management] is neat!

[murderofcrow]

#some clearer footage of the painted voobs 🙏 #i feel like everything else from download pilot was filmed with a potato lol #sleep token #sleep token worship #sleep token vessel #vessel #vessel i #tw flashing

[fragonreal]

magma nonsense.

#spamton #spamton g spamton #deltarune #deltarune fanart #colors!! #the blue one is a potato #everyone became orange scented #just realized his hair is slightly different in each picture wtf #i dont feel like fixing it :P #have nice day :^)

[utilitycaster]

the thing about people who tend to be really into villains is like. I have no moral issue with this. My problem is that you get people who are like yeah I love VILLAINS I'm VILLAINOUS and EDGY. And then when you're like ok cool anyway I think this villain does bad things, in the narrative, which to be clear, is their purpose, and I have again no moral issue because this is pretend and a story, they're like "no? my shmoopy? would NEVER. my sweet villain baby who has never done wrong? I love them because they're evil but if you say they're evil i'm going to scream and scream and scream." and also if you make any jokes about the villain they're like "actually this is deeply insulting to them because they had trauma in their life? You're so mean to my murder puppy" and like. The true secret is most villain stans just want to fuck the villain. And again. I have no moral issue with this. I support it, even. But I wish they would thoroughly lean into that desire for the villains instead of scouring the fandom and throwing a tantrum whenever people are like "wow I think the bad person character is sorta bad and here's a meme about it"

#like really the thing is a lot of villain stans also have the tumblr etiquette skills of a rotting potato #and the victim complex of. well. a fantasy villain. #it's like an offshoot of when people are like why is this minor npc not the center of the story and it's like. well. #queue #it really is like people who like heroic paladin figures: fuck the haters I guess #people who like villains: um your post in which you said you didn't like my favorite hurt my feelings? why are you attacking me?

[alackofghosts]

hello friends what is up

#silly time :^) #warrior of light #Alisaie Leveilleur #to me she feels like one of those kids that has being handled like a potato sack on her maslow's hierarchy of needs #fanart #speedpaint #i draw sometimes #Final Fantasy XIV

[electrozeistyking]

could you do a fursona of your serial designation Q au?

disassembly drone kisses green-eyed goofball, more at eleven

#that feels like a description of winesoda actually #Zeisty's Askbox #scott halley (oc) #serial designation ''quill'' (oc) #murder drones oc #murder drones #it's also not really an au? so that's funny to me???? #also i really like potato does so their fursonas are small and round #oc x oc #canineteeth