my life on sundays.
My life. Yesterday. Right now. Tomorrow.
Sleeping always wins.
A response to a person arguing with a school district about not vaccinating her child or herself against the flu
Just a quick addition from the science point of view. I have been an ICU/ER registered nurse now for a year and a half. I take care of people at their worst in the ICU. And yes that means when they have influenza, the actual virus. They are on ventilators, medicine to keep their blood pressure up and the hearts pumping correctly. Why are they sick…because they got the flu vaccine? No! It’s because they weren’t vaccinated and neither were the people around them. All vaccines do is introduce a small amount of the virus to your body so your body can do what it naturally does and form immunities to that virus. Your body remembers the virus and remembers how to kill said virus when it invades your body again. We as a community NEED the herd immunity concept. If all of the herd is vaccinated and can fight off these deadly viruses then we won’t see so much death from them. This is why we don’t see polio and small pox anymore. Earlier generations were vaccinated against them and passed their immunity on to the future generation…US! The flu is a deadly virus. VIRUS…which implies that it is non-discriminatory. It doesn’t care if you are young and healthy and eat well. Or take vitamins and supplements to keep your immune system charged. If it can find and opportunity to invade your body it will. And it’s not the virus that will kill you….it’s the secondary infection like pneumonia that will. Bacteria will invade your body when your immune system is down and that is what ends people’s lives. You even open your body to sepsis which is deadly. I have seen this repeatedly. Healthy people die, sick people die. Young, rich, poor old. Protect yourself and the people around you by getting vaccinated. I don’t have 10 years of college….I have 2, but my experience and knowledge I’ve gained with that experience is priceless and very true. So I’ll leave you with this a thought to remember this flu season: While you are sitting at home and not feeling well and the decide to go see your doctor or go to the ER or a first med clinic. If you are one of those people that don’t get vaccinated only because you don’t agree with being vaccinated and that’s the only reason you don’t get vaccinated, remember that all the healthcare workers that you come in contact with when you go to said healthcare provider, from the housekeeping staff, secretaries, management staff, not to mention the RN’s, Dr’s, medics, medical assistants, just to mention a few, are all MANDATED to get the flu shot. Why are we mandated? To reduce sick days, or just so upper management can make us do something? NO. We are mandated to do so to protect YOU, the general public wether you are sick or healthy from getting the flu. As healthcare providers we feel a moral obligation to protect YOU, the people we care for from getting ill. The flu doesn’t care who you are, if you’re young or old, if your healthy or immune compromised. It just doesn’t care. It will attack you if it can. So please don’t turn down the flu shot because you hear all these bad things about it. Some people have to due to major health reasons, but the rest of us don’t have that excuse. But we do have a moral obligation to our fellow human beings, our community and to each other to get vaccinated and protect each other from getting sick each flu season. Just something to think about.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
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| — | Dalai Lama XIV (via kari-shma) |
People who expect perfection in a mate miss a lot of fun - and sweetness.
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| — | J. D. Robb (via wrists) |
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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| — | Barbara Kingsolver (via kari-shma) |
Used in a sentence, “after 4 days of tube feedings, lactulose was given and a poonami was unleashed.”
Nursing is a glamorous profession.
You’re welcome.
I can relate to this, and I’m not sure if I’m proud that I’m becoming a…
thank you for coining this. remember the scene in anchorman when brian fantana puts on sex panther, and everyone states that it stanks like a combo of bigfoot’s dick, a turd covered in burnt hair, and indian food diaper? totally poonami. and now, a mass exodus of non-nursing followers. SORRR.
Yeah, I lost a few followers
WHATEVER
I save lives. And wipe ass. And get paid like 34$ an hour to do it. SUCK MY COLLEGE EDUCATED DICK, UNFOLLOWERS.
This totally happens to the CABG’s post op day 2 after a huge dose of sorbitol! Or any ICU patient for that matter who has been given sorbitol! Ha!
If you have a problem that can be fixed, then there is no use in worrying. If you have a problem that cannot be fixed, then there is no use in worrying.
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| — | Buddhist proverb (via sol-psych) |
