#lazydevilmonkey

[hellsite-yano]

Happy birthday, Mr. Have a good one

Thank you, I will

#lazydevilmonkey

[dxmedstudent]

The ask meme: amber and lantern.

amber - share an unpopular opinion that you may have. I didn’t like the vagueness and arbitrariness of the lockdown relaxations the other day. Nobody NEEDS to travel to a park many miles away, or even half the country away. Nobody NEEDS endless exercise - not in a pandemic. Garden centres are nice, but frankly not that important. I resent that cleaners and nannies are allowed, but seeing your family or boyfriend isn’t. Or, I mean, you can techically travel as far as you like to exercise and are allowed to meet them in an outdoor space from 2m away.  I had a pretty depressing conversation with the boyfriend about how I could technically see him legally, but the rules would mean it’d require a lot of travel and effort  (out of my valuable free time) for a short time together - well not together, unless you count standing 2m apart to be together in which case you must be from an Austen novel. We decided it’d be best if we spent that time together virtually instead, until the rules would allow us to spend more time together meaningfully. I felt pretty guilty because of course if I *can* see him and want to, then I’d feel bad for not trying - whereas  he doesn’t want me to go to an excesive effort to visit him when I’m already tired and stressed as is. Not when we can continue to have fun via video chat and doing stuff together every day. I don’t see how we’ll keep people adequately socially distanced at work. I know that lots of people desperately need to work - but I worry that their sectors will still struggle. I worry about all the people with health conditions that will feel forced back into work. I’m glad the furlough scheme is extended til October - it’s going to take tiem for a lot of industries to bounce back, and it’d be really bad if lots of people were made redundant. we’ll really struggle if the economy grinds to a halt - there are so many people whose employment and living conditions are precarious, and who could end up jobless and homeless.

I think the UK’s lockdown restrictions being loosened is going to result in a second wave of infections - and maybe even more waves. I suspect our social distancingmeasures will need to continue for some time - months at the very least. I would much rather that we had caught this all early so that we had many less cases. Right now, I worry that people are going to take these rule relaxations as the chance to socialise much more freely, and that the freedoms we’ve been given aren’t the ones that matter the most - but we’ll still pay the price and probably get a new peak in deaths. The things that are allowed? Garden centres, travelling to national parks, nannies, cleaners? This definitely feels like the upper middle class politicians selecting things that they personally want and not considering that many of us live in different worlds. I’m certainly expecting to be busier in a few weeks’ time.

lantern - how did you meet your best friend? What were your first impressions of each other?

I’ve never had one best friend - not at primary school, not at secondary school, and certainly not afterwards. My oldest friend that I’m still in contact with is a girl I’ve known since primary school. When I was being bullied by the class as the new girl, she was the only one who still wanted to be friends with me. She’s moved abroad for work several times in our 20s and 30s so I can’t always see her often, but we’re still very much in touch and I see her whenever she’s in town. My sister’s the person who’s known me the longest and who probably knows the most about the convoluted workings of my mind. I met her when I was little - she startled me because I was not prepared for how pink and wrinkly little babies were! I have no idea what her impression was of me, given that she was a neonate. We’re still very close, having somehow survived our teens without killing each other XD Our brother came along later, and he’s pretty cool to chill with. I hope I’m a good influence XD The Guy is the person I talk to the most, and we confide in each other the most, probably. He's good at making me feel better when I’m worried or sad, I’m lucky that he’s a pretty calm soul. That said, he’s not a medic, so I try not to overwhelm him with medical stress. We don’t share a long history together yet, so we’re always learning more about each other. So far it’s been fun. We met via online dating, though due to my shifts it was a couple of weeks before we could meet in person, and I was really hoping that we’d get on as well in person as we did online. My first impression was simultaneously “Oh, he’s cute!” and “Sh!t, he wasn’t lying about being tall”. I don’t know what his exact first thought was when he saw me, but he was grinning, and he’s still around for some reason, so I’m guessing he has no major complaints.

#askdx #ask dx #dxdates #dx dates #lazydevilmonkey

[doctorspork]

@damnedifyoudeeohh replied to your post “Feeling horrendously guilty because I volunteered to work Christmas...”

You first. (Then the gimme gimmes.) Imagine what would happen if you DIDN’T move up the surgery— patients won’t be getting your best if you’re in horrendous amounts of pain, as you likely would be at Christmas on this trajectory. You do what you gotta do, and give it back when someone else is in need.

@lazydevilmonkey replied to your post “Feeling horrendously guilty because I volunteered to work Christmas...”

Repeat after me "It's okay to take care of yourself". It'll take years before we can kill that normalisation of overworking ourselves till we drop. Besides, a sick doc won't treat any patients for a while, meanwhile a dead doc won't treat any patients at all

Thanks all, I needed to hear that (multiple times, it seems). I felt a little silly because a part of me is like “It’s just gallstones!” but I am spending increasing amounts of my day in pain and actively trying not to vomit so I know I gotta take care of it before it becomes an emergent issue.

#damnedifyoudeeohh #lazydevilmonkey #replies #spork talks #waiting to hear about who's gonna cover me so I can make them cookies and assuage my conscience

[elegant-agent]

coming as a surprise to absolutely no one, the majority of images are hollow knight

got tagged by @largestrongman

uh... don't really have a lot of people to tag, but

@doggendoodle @lazydevilmonkey @extremistavenger @nootythenoot @baselicoc @askpredetor @peach-coffee-tea

#the only reason i don't do tag games beyond more than once a century is because i'd tag the same people over and over #also i'm out of people

[himacat]

I’ll try!?? for @lazydevilmonkey

Done with Copics/Watercolor

#furry #sfw #kemono #likulau #nekojishi #art #request

[tamhonksss]

On the upside, the whole clown fiasco might mean people won't dress up as Leto Joker for Halloween?

a positive trade off 

#lazydevilmonkey

[sovietgoner]

lazydevilmonkey said: that’s one mean ecg

Um, yeah! Looks pretty much like ventricular fibrillation, but goes into one wonderful asystoly.

#lazydevilmonkey #sovietgoner #urbex #ecg #medicine #urban #poland #polska #wroclaw

[elegant-agent]

i got tagged twice for a tag game and i’m not gonna make 2 separate posts but it’s long so keep reading

i don’t got a lot of people to tag but @suspiroatroz​ @askpredetor​ @lazydevilmonkey​ @extremistavenger​ @baselicoc​ @doggendoodle @peach-coffee-tea @achievealot

Rules: tag 20 people you’d like to know better and get them to answer some questions below

Tagged by @largestrongman​ (twice but it’s ok lv u bby)

Nicknames:

- wowo, wow-wow, willow

Gender:

- male

Star Sign:

- leo, august 13, very fun when it’s a friday

Height:

- 5′6 and a half

Hogwarts House:

- still know nothing about harry potter but last time i had this question i said that giant spider who lived in the woods

Favorite Animal:

- i’ve got a weird fondness of bugs now, but i’ve always been partial to dogs

Number of Blankets:

- one but it’s one of those massive, kinda padded ones you use for a bigger bed

Where are you from:

- originally san jose, california but i grew up in the valley, so technically not from the bay area, get fucked san fransisco

Dream Trip:

- honestly? i’ve always wanted to kinda get into space, so a space station or the moon would be pretty cool

When I started this account:

- june 2017, only 3 years. felt more like 30 with how much shit has happened between now and then

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1. Do you make your bed?

- no, never felt the need to. it’s not like anyone’s watching, right?

2. What’s your favorite number?

- lucky number 13 babyyyyyyyyy

3. What’s your job?

- busser at a local restaurant. pick up old dishes, sweep the floor, that kind of stuff.

4. If you could, would you go back to school?

- buddy i’m already in college and i don’t want to go back now

5. Can you parallel park?

- kinda? i can definitely do it sorta kinda, but it takes me a good amount of time to get it right

6. A job you’ve had that might surprise people?

- the fact that i even have a job at all, probably

7. Do you think aliens are real?

- statistically speaking, yeah. the universe is huge, the possibility that we’re the only ones out there is both terrifying and impossible. honestly? also yeah, i hope they’re watching us right now and i hope they see that a lot of us want to get to know them better ;)

8. Can you drive a manual car?

- nope, i only learned how to drive an automatic and even then it took me months to get it right

9. What’s your Guilty Pleasure?

- mm... don’t really have one that i’m willing to admit, except maybe for apex legends. i get that battle royales have saturated the games market for a year and that its numerous microtransactions are predatory in nature and in practice, but pathfinder just makes me go 😳

10. Tattoos?

- none on me, none in my future

11. Favorite Color?

- dark and cool colors. black and dark blue are pretty common colors i’ve got, but i’m also partial to dull red. i have also just realized that this was only about a single color, so all sorts of black

12. Things that people do that drive you crazy?

- using highlighters and permanent markers. the noise they make when they get on paper is just... irritating. even imagining it right now makes me reflexively cover my ears.

13. Any phobias?

- i can’t recall any that i have right now, but the dark always makes me pause. not ambient light at night dark, i mean darkness that you can’t see through dark, the dark in the middle of a hall with the light fixture you’re under flickering and the light at the end a faded fluorescent green dark. that kind of dark.

14. Favorite Childhood Sport?

- not a sports guy at all, but i did play basketball with my uncle a few times.

15. Do you talk to yourself?

- it’s not full-on talking to myself, but more of a thinking out loud thing, only when i’m alone.

16. What movie do you adore?

- spirited away! it was a movie that i loved watching, especially with my grandma and my sister. i know it’s a pretty commonly loved movie, but it just rings my heart in that very good kind of way.

17. Do you like doing puzzles?

- nope, video game or otherwise. always makes me feel like i’m doing something wrong, even if i’m doing it right.

18. Favorite kind of music?

- i dunno? i never pay attention to what kind of stuff i listen to, i just listen and i like

19. Tea or Coffee?

- coffee, but that’s only because i’ve never had any kind of tea. the coffee i like barely counts as coffee, it’s more like coffee-flavored milk

20. The first thing you wanted to be when you grew up?

- police officer. i know, yadda yadda pigs bootlickers corrupt blah blah etc etc, but i just want to help people. i don’t care what other people did before me, what i care about is how i can help someone in need.