Joycee🌸🌸🌸

Registered Nurse 🌸👩‍⚕️🌸
NGRN🇳🇬 USRN🇺🇸😶

[Friendly Neighborhood Nurse @friendlynurse22]

I need to tell somebody this because I'm still shaking small.
So yesterday I saw a tweet, just one of those random "check your BP" tweets we see every day and scroll past. I don't even know why I stopped this time. I work in A&E, I check people's BP every shift, but when last did I check mine? I can't even remember.
So I checked it. Just like that, for fun.
And I shouted. Like genuinely shouted out loud. My colleagues rushed to me thinking something don happen, then THEY saw the number and started shouting too. We checked it again. And again. Three times. Same thing every time.

That's when everything started making sense.
The pounding headaches I'd ignored for weeks. The blurry vision that kept coming and going. The sleepless nights. The moments I almost passed out but laughed it off as "stress."
HOW DID I NOT THINK TO CHECK MY OWN BLOOD PRESSURE?
Imagine spending your life checking patients' vital signs while completely forgetting your own.
The doctors immediately swung into action. They requested an urgent brain CT scan to rule out a bleed and started me on antihypertensive medications. Yesterday was one of the scariest days of my life.

Thankfully, this morning my BP has dropped to 140/90 mmHg. It's improving.

Then another painful realization hit me...

My grandfather died from a https://t.co/zxdKcyNhcD dad is hypertensive.Almost all my uncles are hypertensive.

I knew the risk factors.

I teach people about them.

Yet somehow... I convinced myself they could never happen to me.

I thought I was Superman.

To every doctor, nurse, pharmacist, lab scientist and every other health worker reading this:

Please don't neglect yourself while saving everyone else.

Check your blood pressure.Check your blood https://t.co/M63YHxWLIS your PSA if you're due.Check your https://t.co/IarQ0mOvPA that urine test.Stop swallowing symptoms because you're "too busy."

The patient in the next bed could easily become you.

Today, I'm simply grateful to be alive

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

i love the feeling when you're reading a book and the title suddenly clicks, why it was used and what exactly it means. so satisfying.

[Omo Ade @MaxToks001]

wetin my papa no achieve, I go achieve and more

[Adedamola @Adedamohlarr]

Nicky, Dicky,Ricky, Dawn…. I hope you guys are having a great day wherever you are 😂

[PeePee🎀 @peegzy1]

Dear HR,

“Fresh graduate” and “2-3 years experience” should not be in the same sentence.

Regards.

[Ginger @Gboye_Rave]

I must sing "Tobechukwu" or "See what the Lord has done" before the year ends.
I don't know how and when but it will happen before the year ends.

[Oluwasusi @NrOluwasusi]

My respect for pharmacists doubled.

You people do reconstitution, I don’t even know the right term for it.

You need a medication but not just the medication like a compound, and I will just hear the pharmacy will have to make it and send it.

Respect 🫡.

[MAYA @Photo_Freakk]

These photographers in Nysc camp should all be arrested..wtf!!

[STEADY✍🇳🇬 @ST_E_A_DY]

Anything wey you do for corper now 🥺
nah God you do am for 🌚

[Lyn🦋 @_ayandamay]

DEAR NETFLIX,

I am a part of my parent’s “household” no matter where I live.

THANKS.

- Management. 😡🤬😤

[thatpaediatricnurse 🇳🇬(RN) @Oluwabunminire]

Dear God

I’m due for a big winnnnnnn

[Merit @_ejiro_m]

After this NYSC I dey go for therapy. 😭

[DNS IRT @ruth_iyanda]

They need to review IELTS fee for Nigerians!
This exam is barely 3hrs and it cost that much??

[ilymjsyk @g4na_xo]

I dey find person wey go use me do that "what I fed my friend for a week" content

[Nr. Ezra Madu @PoliticalNurs]

Not all Females in hospital wearing a scrub is a Nurse!

And not all males in hospital wearing a scrub is a Doctor!!

[Joycee🌸🌸🌸 @Joyce_Temi]

@ruth_iyanda You mean this 77k 😂

[Eni Adeoluwa @Enioluwa]

I read novels for entertainment. I’m not trying to memorise anything, and once I put the book down, most of the details fade away.😅

Ask me what happened a day later, and there’s a good chance I won’t remember. But while I’m reading it, I’m completely immersed; that enjoyment is what matters to me.

[nukss. @Atinuke_Naomi]

Na this 'corper wee' dey vex me.😔

[Friendly Neighborhood Nurse @friendlynurse22]

Afa guy my leg dey pain me
Me- You don go hospital?

Bro afa which drug I go take to stop this migraine
Me- Wetin your doctor talk?

Nurse my period never show in 6 days o
Me- Our Ob/gyn works on Wednesday

E be like say one babe don gimme infection
Me- ah oya drive dey come hospital.

My pikin never Waka since 3years after I born am
Me- Oya ooo rush come today, our Peds doctor dey around.

Except in the case of an emergency, I always direct patients health concerns to the hospital.
Don't diagnose without getting the whole picture ✅
Don't prescribe online without knowing laboratory findings ✅
Don't go outside your scope of practice ✅

[Hauwa 🌟🌬 @Hauwa_L]

I need my daughter to have a disgustingly rich mum.