Everyday is an adventure...

A very accurate and timely twitter thread. 👌

The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not.

And the child is right.”

CONTINUE to fight for BLM and the abolishment of police

CONTINUE to defend immigrants’ rights and work to abolish ICE detention centers

CONTINUE to demand a better response to climate change, not just by revoking the changes trump made but by further addressing the issue

CONTINUE to speak out against US foreign intervention and unnecessary wars

CONTINUE to speak for women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, POC’s rights, etc. 

CONTINUE to demand healthcare reform

I cannot stress enough how much you need to give us just a few goddamn days to be happy and feel safer after 4 years of a Nazi president. Leave that shit in the drafts please.

This win does not mean everything that has happened in the United States this year or over the years should be forgotten.

Black Lives Still Matter. Police Brutality is very much still present in the american system. White Supremacists unfortunately still exist. Sexism unfortunately still has a place in society. Women are still not considered as equal.

LGBTQIA people matter. BIPOC matter. Racism is not okay. Being ISLAMOPHOBIC is not okay. Climate Change is real. Science is real.

There is a lot of work that needs to be done. We rejoice today and tomorrow we got back to educating ourselves, educating our community, learning about our privileges and doing our best everyday to make our environment a better place and hence make the world a better place.

Important to the Medblr and Nurblr community - as well as the other hardworking women who are both a mother and a professional.

And I’m just sitting there like, I know how to sleep. I’ve been doing it my whole life, and I think I’m pretty good at it. My lack of sleep has nothing to do with what kind of fan I use or aromatherapy I spray. It’s got everything to do with the fact that working for 80 hours a week, literally two full time jobs, does not leave enough time in the day to do all of my other wellness things (like exercise and eat healthy and see my family and bathe and do house chores or grocery shop). There are literally not enough hours in the day for me to sleep for 8 of them.

You insist I get 8 hours? I have to wake up at 4:30am, so you want me in bed by 8:30pm? My shift doesn’t end until 6pm, with sign out and wrapping up loose ends, I’m lucky if I’m leaving the hospital at 7pm. I drive 20 minutes home. Until I greet my dogs and husband, unpack my bag, and change clothes, it’s 7:30pm.

So in that hour of free time I have left, should I exercise? Apparently not cuz it’s bad for sleep hygiene. You have to do that in the morning. So I’ll wake up at 3:30am instead, right? Well, now I need to be asleep asap.

So maybe I should eat dinner with my husband during that time. But no. It’s not good to eat right before bed. So not that either, huh? But don’t forget to spend time with your spouse. That’s important for wellness.

Oh, I also need to be doing my own medical reading. Because it’s important to stay current. So I guess I’ll just sit with these journals and articles with my husband on the couch for a few minutes and read while I completely ignore him and his day for my own personal knowledge.

But not for too long. Because that sleep ritual is so important. Make sure you get a cold shower to lower your basal body temperature. And put on the same pajamas every night. And turn on your oil diffuser. And leave your phone and pager in the hallway because they’re not good to have in your room. But also make sure you answer any pages or work related phone calls so never mind bring that with you, actually. Close your black out curtains. Insert your ear plugs. Turn off your fan, because that’s pink noise. Turn on your white noise maker because that’s better. But wait, turn the fan back on because you won’t sleep if your room isn’t cold enough. And shame on you if you drank any caffeine in the last 8 hours. You’ve ruined everything now. Don’t you care about how important sleep is? Aren’t you prioritizing wellness?

Do lectures like this make hospital administrators feel better about themselves? Like “it’s not OUR fault if they’re not sleeping. We told them how to sleep better! They should have listened and invested in that lavender oil we talked about!”

If you put the onus on us, you remove any responsibility from the hospital, the programs, the ACGME, the government, etc. You successfully make us feel like it’s our fault if we can’t do everything we should be doing just right. You take a group of people who are overachievers and perfectionists by nature and you give us goals that we literally can’t meet, and tell us if we’re not meeting them we must not care about ourselves. And if we don’t care about ourselves, how can we care about our patients? You let yourself get tired? What if you make a medical error because you’re sleep deprived? Don’t you care about the lives you’re trying to save? What kind of doctor even are you? Prioritize your own well being! Medicine is a team sport, make sure you bring your A Game so you don’t let everyone else down! Do YOUR part!

BUBBLE BUDDY: - POISONED OUR WATER SUPPLY - BURNED OUR CROPS - DELIVERED A PLAGUE ONTO OUR HOUSES

Across from the the crustacean tank was a small octopus tank. This little fucker squeezed out of a tiny hole at the top of his tank, walk across the hall, and get into the crustacean tank. He would then hunt and eat. After he was done, he crawled back out and get back in his tank

Octopus Escapes from Tank to Prowl on its Neighbors

Octopus Escape — 600-pound (272-kilogram) octopus wriggles through a passageway the size of a quarter

Legging It: Evasive Octopus Has Been Allowed to Look for Love

you will in fact continue to have acne past the age of twenty

you will eventually hit a point where you start to feel icky inside if you go too long without eating some sort of vegetables

depending on your current level of athleticism/physical activity as well as the kind of activities you did as a kid/teenager, your joints may start acting whack in your twenties, despite what everyone says about that not happening until middle age

eventually you will reach a point where you wonder how you were able to stay up until 3am nearly every night and be perfectly fine the next day (and this moment will come much younger than you expect)

it is much harder to meet new people after you’re done with school than sitcoms would have you believe