Given the downright mean comments being left here about nurses, I really hope you follow this article up with the stories from nurses that someone at Jez collected back in the fall... As a nurse, I take extreme offense to some of the things being said here about not trusting nurses and needing to “watch them like a…

I woke up very early in the morning and snagged preview tickets for my husband and myself. We were already planning a trip to England for July and it seemed serendipitous that the play will be in previews at the time. They made the ticket buying process very smooth where you HAD to preregister in order to even sign in…

That my dad had never smoked pot. (Come to find out he was a notorious stoner in highschool...)

I dunno, this is a picture of me, drawn by a 6 year old. I sat as her model, and therefore watched her draw it:

Due to still unexplained reasons (I maintain it was aliens) I couldn’t gain weight between the ages of 10 & 12 and ended up looking like a skeleton... I was 5’2” and weighed 58lbs, with a BMI of 10.8 (to give context, a healthy BMI is between 18.5 and 24.9). My dad relentlessly called me “Bones”, many times to the…

Yeah, I live in a mostly rural area, a few medium sized cities around, but there are at least 9 accredited nursing schools within a 75mile radius and only about 8 hospitals. 4 of these programs are BSNs. So I figure each year, there are around 450 new grads (almost or probably more than half are BSNs) pushed into a…

In nursing school, I had a wonderful older lady with dementia as a patient. She had had a stroke and was unable to stand on her own, let alone walk. We needed to move her from her chair into her bed for a procedure, so a CNA came in to help me with the move. We put a gait belt on the woman, and stood her up, but she…

Fair warning: I have only been a nurse for 4.5 years and I’ve only been working as a nurse for 3.5... BUT. I have had some whacky experiences and met some of the most god-awful people in the world. I have also met the most gracious, nice, and appreciative people.

Went “camping” in the backyard with my cousin. Woke in the middle of the night, hearing a woman in the swamp behind our home screaming bloody murder. Woke my cousin, who couldn’t hear it. She was screaming as if she was being murdered! I started to freak out so I broke our rule and went into the house to see if my…

Those that we encounter are adamant by about not getting them. We rarely give vaccines outside of a well child visit, so unless the baby is sick at the time of the visit, there is no “access to care” problem as they’re already in the office. At least in our area, the department of public health only does vaccines on…

That office sounds bonkers. The hospitals in my area won’t even let a family leave the unit until a newborn follow up visit is scheduled (and usually confirmed by nursing staff). It may be Massachusetts law, but at the office I work at a baby must be seen by day 7 of life unless still inpatient at a hospital.

Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion, but I do feel that any child receiving state/federal financial support should be required to be fully vaccinated (if medically possible), much like the requirements to stay up to date with regular physicals. I work in a pediatric office in Massachusetts and I am astounded by…

When I worked at a candy & ice cream store, the owner liked to decorate using whatever she could recycle. In the winter, our display window was almost always filled with white packing peanuts that were to imitate snow. One evening, a lady came in, ordered her ice cream and proceeded towards the front window. She…

Our cake was lovely! I worked at a candy/ice cream parlor/bakery in my youth and ordered it from there! It was delicious - funFetti cake with strawberry filling and vanilla buttercream frosting. We had essentially the whole cutting cake that my hubs and I planned on devouring when we returned from our post-wedding…

I work in a primary care medical office, and we routinely prescribe OCPs. Even today we got a call from a pt. who went to pick up her newly prescribed OrthoTriCyclen Lo and found out that BCBS wants her to pay $45 per month for the copay. I was furious for her. Her doc ultimately prescribed a similarly formulated low…

I thought this was the cover to one of those Klutz Kids books...

We received a used home depot gift card worth $12.51.

YNAB is the best thing that ever happened to me, financially. I was never in serious debt, but I began using it at a critical point in my life, and I truly believe it saved me from falling into a debt-riddled pit of despair. It is imperative that you keep up with it, but the wonderful start fresh option was a godsend…

I must have been an ugly duckling or really oblivious. The first time I noticed I was 17, and it was pointed out to me by a friend. I was visiting her in Italy, we were on a train, and she told me the boys across the aisle were talking about me in a lewd manner. They assumed since we were American we wouldn’t know…

Strangely enough, I feel Justin bieber is looking more and more like teen mom Maci’s ex Ryan...