Steam cleaners can usually be rented from Dollar General and also some supermarket chains and home improvement stores.

I've lived in my building for ten months and I know no one and have made no effort to because of COVID risk (I get exposed a lot working in an ED overrun with COVID patients vs. no one here makes any effort to mask indoors but me, limiting the effectiveness of my own efforts). My health matters more than my standing…

It is, and I love being part of an interdisciplinary team. Direct care is not something I could ever be good at, but any way that I can help the nurses out while remaining within my scope of practice is something I am happy to do.

There is a bit of a remove, as the ED pharmacy team doesn't provide direct care, but we do help them make the stretcher more comfortable and bring them snacks and other small things like that to save the nurses the time and trouble. So we are in COVID rooms, and with a second row seat to the deterioration. We also…

I’m glad your relatives are vaccinated now. I wish it didn’t require something so dire, but I am far from suprised this late in the pandemic that that’s what it took.

We haven’t had any breakthrough infections end up in the ICU (being on a ventilator is a ticket to the ICU). You might still catch it, but you will be spared the worst outcomes, and hopefully, you will be spared entirely. I've been exposed for over a year now and remain uninfected.

I just ungreyed someone successfully for the first time in weeks. Maybe it's getting better?

It's an honor and a pleasure to help. I genuinely love my job in all its complexity, even under these stressful circumstances.

Thank you for doing that. Seriously.

Darwin pupdate:

In addition to the creepiness, it's a classic abuser move to ensure that there is no safe place for her, nowhere she can go that is out of reach. He controls 100% of her living spaces.

The coroner identified them as hers today. Cause of death is homicide.

I really wanted MJ to finally get recognized for her incredible performance in Pose.

I’m doing as well as I can be working in an emergency department during another wave of this pandemic, the second wave since I started. I go to baseball games and try to do things outside of my apartment on weekends when I feel up to it, anything that feels distant from work. My evenings and some of my weekends are…

Any time I get to hug a Corgi will be the best time to hug a Corgi.

I'm glad everything is working out. Your kitty looks like a great kitty. I hope you get to be back in the world soon.

Those cookies look incredible, Stephkat. I remain jealous of anyone who lives with you and thereby gets to eat your baking. How's your roommate? How's the cat?

Hannibal, I saw your reply, but as I can’t reply to it directly, I am doing so here.

Emergency departments everywhere are staffed with people who get a thrill out of rising to the occasion. Dealing with life and death every day does that. Peds ED staff are especially used to dealing with frustrated people, as the parents of sick or injured children are often hard to please, even when there is no…

Thanks.