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  • Fair enough! Keep this in the back of your head though if you ever become critically injured or sick - daily caloric requirement goes up when you’re recovering from something, so yours specifically might be even higher than that already-higher-normal.

    There comes a point where eating anything just feels gross cuz you’re already stuffed, so you’d have to start being strategic about meal/snack timing, and prioritizing high calorie foods and drinks. Hopefully your team would have access to your history in that situation, and account for that shit from square one, but YOU are your best advocate, so don’t be afraid to prod them if needed.

    …and sorry lol, been doing a fuck ton of nursing school homework the past few weeks, so my brain is still in nurse mode when I hop on Lemmy. You’re basically an NCLEX question! :P



  • the more I shit

    I mean that’s still ‘calories out’ if you’re not actually absorbing them. Guessing you’ve already done this if it’s been a life long thing, but just in case, you might want to hit up a gastrointestinal doctor - there are conditions that cause usable nutrients to literally just go through you. You may have one of those - and if yes, knowing which will give you a path to fixing it or working around it.

    Then again, 5’2 at 100 lb is only just a hair into the underweight range. If you feel good where you’re at, maybe fuck it.







  • I hardly ever block individual posters, but communities, I’ve blocked 936 of them at the time of making this post. Sports, porn, anime, or furry shit are all block on sight. Plus a handful of randoms that I’m just not interested in.

    I’ve finally got All where it’s pleasant to browse. Takes some doing, but worth the effort if you want to customize your feed reductively vs actively seeking out and subscribing to communities.





  • Almost never, cuz by the time I usually see the patient they’re a few minutes away from being unconscious, and are being dog-piled by a pit-crew of nurses and anesthesiologists. I’ll turn around for a quick hello, then return to setting up my sterile field so everything’s ready for the surgeon.

    Mohs cases are a totally different world: the case itself is super simple, so I have a lot more autonomy due to not being preoccupied with the setup, which takes all of about 30 seconds. I don’t like to just stand there waiting for the doc, so I’ll usually just butt into whatever my scope as a tech allows, which usually means taking vitals and making non-clinical interventions like tackling their anxiety by distracting them with stupid jokes or music.

    I’ve only had a couple of opportunities to do something like that in the regular OR.




  • That’s a good illustration of how free will could exist without evil. Neither pizza nor burger are evil: we can choose either without compromising our spirit.

    Now imagine a third meal - your neighbor’s 2 year old kid strapped to a table next to a fork and knife, screaming for their life. You have the option for the prior two; or you shove a fork in that kid’s eye and dig in.

    The absence of that third option does NOT equate to a lack of free will. Giving people that option is evil. Why would god give us that option?





  • The theological answer doesn’t hold up. We have a god that’s supposedly all knowing, all powerful, and all good (complete absence of evil), yet he turns around and creates a world full of evil. So he either isn’t aware that evil is happening, is powerless to stop it, or is himself evil.

    If there is a god, the Christian presentation of it is at the very least dishonest about the core pillars of what that god is - and if it can’t even describe its own god honestly, I certainly don’t trust the rest of the mythology.

    The theological answer, by its own text, a lie.