Cardiac ICU RN checking in

Thanks for the add folks

@ThisIsChris ☝🏻

@Deleted User thanks @JoeDrake now roled

Passed my state CNA exam today gents!

Congratulations!

Thanks! I’ll be looking into finding work at my local hospital

Apparently they offer to pay for nursing school if you work there for a year

Congrats!

Anyone ever dealt with a patient with anosmia?

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I’m working with a client who has it and it’s caused a feeling of “revulsion” as he puts it towards eating. As you can assume he’s lost a ton of weight because of this

First thing that comes to mind is CBD. Second is ginger.

By the way, my second choice for a handle was Nature Boy, if that tells you anything. If you're looking for alternative health info, tag me and chances are I'll know something about whatever it is. Traditional/alternative medicine is vastly superior to allopathic medicine when it comes to chronic conditions. Sorry if I'm hurting anyone's feelings by saying so, but that is the case. Of course there are nuances and special cases, but modern medicine does a great job at turning profits and a terrible job at keeping people healthy.

Regarding what you guys were talking about earlier. There's a few things I can recommend for stress and trauma (which are different degrees of the same thing). 1) TRE trauma release exercise, 2) Hanna somatics, 3) qigong, 4) stabilize your blood sugar, 5) vipassana (www.dhamma.org), 6) self oil massage (I use sesame oil). You can also release a lot of tension in the supine position with a couple heavy sandbags on your belly. Just don't do it after a meal.

I hope I wasn't too brash with my previous comment. Not sure if we're all on the same page, but I'm not a fan of chronic disease care in modern medicine. It's great for emergencies, but when people go through conventional channels for things like back pain, digestive issues and cancer, they get raked over the coals.

@Grossly Incandescent something else that might help : have him keep a thermos of hot filtered water and take a sip every 15 minutes. You can also try making some really strong ginger tea with a little bit of black pepper and have him drink a little bit of that about 15 minutes before each meal.

today I learned that leaving cooked rice outside of the refrigerator is super dangerous

it causes the growth of heat resistant bacteria

rad, I'll be sure to leave mine out

I found out after I threw up all my food today

Multivitamins: good or bad?

I take em

Without soy

Sometimes an vitamin D during winter

Take beef brain and beef liver instead of synthetic vitamins

Ancestral Supplements has good ones. I highly recommend

Scar update from July. Still looks nasty TBH.

Sorry if I'm cutting in on your supplement conversation I just don't see much activity in this channel and figured people would be interested in how my wound turned out.

@Der Seeteufel - SD are you applying anything to the scar?

No

I have a pretty prominent scar on my left leg from a motorcycle wreck

I've heard tea tree oil helps, but I've never been bothered to apply it

Yeah my gf doesn't seem to mind so I don't really care. It's not like it hurts or anything.

@Myndrian do you find that you get withdrawal if you quit taking these? I tried pituitary glandulars once before and had weird symptoms when I quit taking them.

Nah not really. Take them slow though cause there can be detox symptoms

Cause there are a ton of nutrients in brain and liver helping the cells to function properly

@Myndrian I recently cooked up some liver. Pretty good! How often do you eat it and in what portions

Also, how can one ensure their water quality? I'm inclined to buy water from the store, but I'm not sure where it's sourced from, it could have the same pollutants as those in city water