Are you ok? ❤️ Sending thoughts and prayers 🙏❤️🙏

/s and I feel somehow dirty now

Curious if those 7 sites were IV attempts or actual injections.

I believe I heard before that part of the problem with lethal injection is getting the IV started. Medical personnel follow this little creed called “Primum Non Nocere” aka first, do no harm, so they very rightfully won’t have anything to do with lethal injection. Apparently the people who start the IVs for lethal injection are just whoever they can get to volunteer to start an IV. Starting an IV isn’t rocket science, but there are things you need to know, and if it’s not in the vein correctly and that isn’t recognized it could result in the injection not actually going into the vein and just ending up in her arm to slowly be absorbed by the surrounding tissue, which is something that theoretically could have her getting a lower dose over a longer amount of time instead of the entire dose all at once.

A couple days vacation to go hiking. I haven’t had a vacation in years, and I desperately need a break from my life. I’d be thrilled if I could just get on a plane, go across the country and see some mountains for 2-3 days and then come home, but I just can’t afford it. Maybe next year, she says, for the 3rd year in a row…

• Witcher 3
• Skyrim
• Witcher 2
• Baldurs Gate 3
• Assassin’s Creed Origins (or Odyssey)

With honorable mentions to Elder Scroll Oblivion and Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon.

I like games where I can spend dozens of hours forgetting about the main quest and losing myself exploring the world, and then coming back to the main quest when I’m ready. If I can put 100 hours into a game just in exploration I am down, but at the same time I hate being forced to grind repetitive combat like in Dark Souls games.

Edit: extra honorable mentions to Red Dead Redemption 2, Ghost of Tsushima, and Horizon: Zero Dawn. I can’t believe I forgot about those games, they’re definitely not in my top 5 but in my top 10-15 for sure. I put many very happy hours into those games. Add in Stardew Valley and Terraria and you almost have my top 15.

That’s exactly what I want as a smartphone. I don’t want a huge screen or fancy features, give me a little touch screen, a good camera, a physical keyboard, and an actual home button and I’d be so happy.

They are incredibly good at playing the system and making their lifestyle appear respectable so that those on the outside admire them.

They don’t use electricity - except for in the barns where the men work and can benefit from it. The women can struggle in the house without it.

They beat and abuse their animals. I’ve driven down the road and watched a Amish woman flogging her horse to get it to start pulling the buggy. They are also known for puppy mills and horrific abusive conditions for their animals.

They treat their children like they are disposable. Amish children die traumatic deaths all the time because they are unsupervised in situations that no child should ever be in. I’m actually all for free rein children but I don’t care if it’s your “lifestyle”, neglect is neglect. A 3 year old should not be in a position to get thrown off the back of a tractor and have their head run over by the wheel of the trailer, yet this kind of incident happens multiple times a year in the Amish communities where I used to run EMS. I had a family tell me that they didn’t leave their 1 year old unsupervised, the 2 year old was in charge of them.

They also hoard wealth and use their religion as an excuse to not have to follow laws or pay certain taxes or fees the rest of us do. They’re some of the richest people around.

They make delicious food and are pretty nice to talk to and interact with, but I think they are just as awful as the rest of the world.

I wish they’d bring back slider phones with physical keyboards. Pre-smartphone days I used to have a phone (I don’t remember what it was) that was a full touch screen with a physical home and back button on the front and then you flipped it sideways and the back slid down and there was an entire physical keyboard for easy typing/texting. I’m not interested in a folding smartphone, but if they released a slider with an actual keyboard I’d buy it in a heartbeat. I loved that phone and I loved being able to type on the screen with a digital keyboard for quick stuff or flip the keyboard out and use actual keys when I wanted to type a novel of a text message.

I am actually a stupidly easy stick. I am IV trained myself and for funsies and experience I’ve started large bore IVs in my own foot and ankle and also started a large bore IV one handed in my arm. I’ll have to ask my doctor about it next time I see her.

Go back to work because my landlord isn’t going to let me live rent free for the next 6 months and I’ve only managed to save up an extra months rent after my divorce 2 years ago left me broke and nearly homeless and then I had to take 2 months off work unpaid last year for major surgery. Also, I have no friends or family, so there’s no one I’d have to spend time with before the end anyway except my cats.

I’ve thought about Reynauds, but my skin never turns white, just blue. I also get tingling sometimes in my heels, but never in my toes or fingers (which also turn blue). The people I’ve met with Reynauds also talk about it being painful and I’ve never had pain.

Same. My toes and feet are so hairy but if it’s below 65 F my feet literally turn blue.

“I only voted for brown people to suffer!”

I think it depends on the tone. I’ve had my mind changed and view adjusted many times in online discussions. Does the other person come at me in a “debate” mindset, very aggressive, dismissive, hostile, or calling me names? Bye, I’m probably going to block them and move on with my life. But if they come at me with a spirit of discussion, education, and kindness as a fellow human with a differing opinion, I’ll consider what they say. I may not agree with it, but many times I have adjusted my views or even completely changed them.

I remember years ago I was completely against legalization/decriminalization of drugs. I thought that it would never be a good thing and didn’t understand why people would support it; why would you want to give people MORE access to heroin? I had commented on a website making a statement along those lines, and someone responded with a well educated comment about how a certain country (was it Brazil? I can’t remember, it was so long ago) had either legalized or decriminalized drugs and how not only did it allow them to put in place systems to help addicts, but the crime rate dropped substantially because the cartels no longer had a market to operate. I ended up doing some research and realized that this person was right, and ever since then I’ve been firmly on the side of decriminalizing drugs and putting efforts towards healthcare and helping addicts rather than punishment.

I once told my EMT student that if he said “quiet” one more time I was throwing him off my truck and sending him home. He laughed. I was not joking. I’d been slammed all week and it was a pretty chill day and I needed the break.

Instead of telling co-workers goodbye in EMS, it’s common to say “be safe”

I think I’m too stupid for that game. It’s fun, but I can’t get anywhere with it, my colony of like 8 people is just stagnating in a place of barely alive and I can’t figure out how to get more resources because it won’t let me explore new regions more than once and I can’t figure out how to go into a region once, gather resources and get back to my camp without dying of starvation or have everyone in the exploring party suffer a total mental breakdown and go on a murdering spree. I think the concept is awesome and I’m clearly missing so much, it’s just way over my head. Maybe I need to start over from fresh and see if I have better luck.

Level yourself up and have a text conversation with a Google voice number, then log into the Google voice account and text yourself back.

I think it might have been the end of last year rather than this year, but: “Everything is Tuberculosis”

Incredibly well written and absolutely fascinating.

Were they still using lead paint back then, because all I can think about is that this will probably leech lead into all your food

I’m so sorry

Don’t move across the country with him, get a divorce, your gut instincts are right, he’s been cheating on you this whole time and he’s about to financially ruin you.