As a nurse, I can tell you we’re broken, raw, burned out, suffering PTSD, and we have become deaf to our own voices from screaming for help for so long. The best thing you can do? Follow all the nurses. I do 💙
I'm not mentioning any names, but I'm gonna take care of those who take their time to read this post. Please, in memory of someone who died or fought cancer or is fighting cancer, please acknowledge this tweet.
For my sister 💙
I’m not a wealthy woman, but I’ll readily pay $5 for a dozen eggs or a gallon of gas before I condemn our daughters and granddaughters to a lack of bodily autonomy.
Here’s the lick: I’ll be following small Twitter accounts. Y’all have sensible, articulate, and wise words. The Very Large Accounts are too busy checking their likes to interact with us small folks, they rarely see our tweets, and most have the intellect of a toad.
Dear opinion shapers and Influencers: Stop telling us Women Over 50 what we should and shouldn’t wear. When you’ve gone where we’ve gone, done what we’ve done, endured what we’ve endured, then you’ll be qualified. Btw, I know women over 50 who put 25 year olds to shame.
“I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination”
- Neil Gaiman
What book are you reading this week?
Just saw a tweet from a lady complaining about too many birthday tweets.
Fuck that!
I don’t have a big ego, I never post selfies or personal info, but today is my birthday, and life is worth celebrating! 🥳🎂🎉
People cannot treat others with malice without creating a tear in the great web we call Karma. The trauma and angst they cause will haunt them across time and space. They may be excused for specific acts, but it does not relieve them of the consequences of their actions.
You get in your car, “Born to Run” is playing on your favorite radio station, and your 9yo grandson says from the backseat, “Grammy, can you turn up Bruce Springsteen?”
That’s a win! ❤️🎶
The last Sears store in Illinois is closing tomorrow. The next generations will never understand how much that Sears Roebuck Christmas Catalog meant to us when we were kids.
Good night friends. I’ll be busy for the next couple days researching new insurance companies. I’m dropping State Farm. Also, I deactivated my Facebook account today. Can I get a “hell yeah!” 🎉
I never expected my nurse tweet to receive so much traffic. There are a few hundred nurses who commented in that thread, please give them a follow. We need your support, & we need our voices heard. My new followers: I’ll FB ASAP. Get vaccinated, wash your hands, & wear a mask.
I met a potential patient today. A 75 yo who can’t afford $750/wk for 5 hr nightly caregiver. Depends & Chux pads line her couch, she can’t attempt to get to commode & risk a fall.
She lies in urine & feces 8 hrs til caregiver arrives at 9am.
This is America. I have no words.
Some angry guy with road rage just yelled out his window, “I’m gonna make your life a living hell!”
I yelled back, “Thanks, but I’m not looking for a relationship right now.”
Talk to police officers, nurses, doctors, and other first responders about missed family functions and holidays.
If you can’t do your job without whining, it’s time for you to retire.
A nurse walks into a bank exhausted after an 18 hour shift. She grabs a deposit slip, pulls a rectal thermometer from her purse, and tries to write with it. She realizes her mistake, looks at the stunned teller, and says “Great, some asshole’s got my pen”.
Know why a bunch of British left their homes, left the Church of England, settled in this country for its independence?
They sought separation of Church and State.
You want to be a Patriot?
Read some history.
Happy hump day 🌞🌷 One minute you’re young, hip, with cool hair, driving a stick shift, partying all night, and the next minute you’re taking photos of your garden.
There’s this thing nurses and CNAs do when we’re on a hospital floor . . . We walk swiftly past each other as we grab meds or supplies, we make eye contact, we say, “You okay? Need anything? You good?”
We check on each other because we can’t do it alone. We are struggling,
Hey, I just followed 100 teachers!
Thank you all for your guidance. If it weren’t for teachers, none of us would be reading this.
#clearthelist
should be trending!
Newman’s Own Foundation continues Paul Newman’s commitment to use 100% of royalties & profits from the sale of Newman’s products to support charities around the world. Since 1982, the Foundation has given $525 million to worldwide charities.
President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden arrived in eastern Kentucky today. He declared it a disaster and has freed up federal funds for emergency work.
He did not throw rolls of paper towels to the flood victims.
I know you don’t want to see another photo, but my concern isn’t that his pants are backwards. His pupils are dilated during a presser with bright lights. He’s on drugs or has a serious health problem. Ask any Dr or nurse.
Just got a rare text from my sister.
What’s new, blah blah.
Told her I’m attending the Roe rally tomorrow.
She called me a militant.
Told her I’m an activist, it’s a peaceful protest.
I’m officially done with her.
Can we please normalize cutting off toxic family members?
@pqben42
Absolutely. I’ve watched patients in the ICU die a slow, painful, unnecessary death. Daily X-rays, blood draws, CT scans, and other invasive procedures, all delaying the inevitable. It would break your heart.
Got a text from a nurse friend today. An RN with whom I worked in Memphis died from Covid. Losing my fellow healthcare workers on the frontline is too heavy. RIP Kiki. 💔 Love one another. Don’t be unkind. Be grateful for today and never take anything for granted. G’night all
@Jersey_Jay82226
I’m a nurse, we all make mistakes. I saw a brief news story about a nurse who accidentally gave a wrong med, and she went to jail? I’ll have to research this, but I personally know many nurses who accidentally gave the wrong meds. We’re human, we make mistakes.
Wouldn’t it be great to wake up in a world that celebrates janitors, shop clerks, bus drivers, teachers, & healthcare professionals who go to work every day and are as revered as athletes?
A thought before I say good night. My grandson was recently bullied at his school. We need to care less about whether our children are academically gifted & more about whether they sit with the lonely kid in the cafeteria. G’night 😘😴
Any Boomers out there who remember the “duck & cover” air raid practices from the early ‘60’s?
I still remember the smell of pencil shavings on the floor.
@joncoopertweets
I’m with you Jon. I never go into the ocean. However, I do enjoy Lake Michigan. No salt, no sharks, no red tide, no seaweed blobs. The Great Lakes are beautiful inland oceans.
McDonald’s said today it is temporarily closing its 850 restaurants in Russia. They will continue to pay its 62,000 employees in Russia “who have poured their heart and soul into our McDonald’s brand”
US shatters daily virus cases. RNs hurt before Covid hit. Now? Most are completely raw. Compassion fatigue. Moral injury. Vicarious trauma. Chronic understaffing. Denied sick days. Threatened, harassed & bullied by anti-vaxxers. I will continue to support & amplify their voices.
@joncoopertweets
RN here. The head is very vascular, and even a small cut would bleed profusely. In my experience, surgical glue or a suture would have sufficed. Even a scratch would need air to heal.
I’m going to continue wearing masks because the lady behind me in the checkout lane at the store sneezed, and her partial denture flew out of her mouth into her hand.
Just got my flu shot! Also picked up some library books & groceries. Some dude was tailgating me on the highway. I wanted to scream “Get off my ass, Brad!” Anyone else notice that people have no patience, seem easily irritated, & have chronic anxiety? Just me?
Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, arrive in NYC, where they have been named this year’s Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award laureates in recognition of their work on racial injustice and mental health.
Team
#HarryandMeghan
@Cocolh44
Of course I do. If you can’t afford to leave a generous tip, you shouldn’t be eating out. I also leave a couple $ in the tip jar at carry outs.