Paula

Put an egg on it and call it breakfast. Kill 'em with kindness. ED & L&D RN. LUC and UCD Alumna. Bay Area Native. Chicago Living. Part Potato. She/her.

[Paula @Paula_Kaye]

@siobhandiores And when you describe a boggy uterus, it’s compared to a whoopie cushion too…. He’s on to something

[Paula @Paula_Kaye]

@JaneCarlton @2curbchainz And now that horseshoe is hanging above one of my doors!

[Paula @Paula_Kaye]

Seeking warm weather activity ideas. It’s supposed to be 27 tomorrow.

[Paula @Paula_Kaye]

This. All of this. Did miss my ED family this year on Thanksgiving and can’t say that the chief complaints were the same over in L&D.

[Paperbound Circle @paprquorum]

There’s a pattern to emergency medicine visits on Thanksgiving. Here’s a thread (did I do that right?) 1/x

[Paula @Paula_Kaye]

@realQrampage It’s interesting. I work in two units—one a community hospital ED with MDs/DOs and mid levels providers NPs/PAs and it’s true collab. I work in a teaching hospital L&D with a small midwife group—wow the docs are trash to them, despite data supporting midwifery delivering babies.

[Paula @Paula_Kaye]

Sometimes you have a patient you just vibe with. She was nearly 80, and had a bit of a potty mouth. Said things like I’m very type A and my husband is B, B-. Also when asking for stuff from home she said to him, “no, I don’t think you need to write it down.” Is she my future?!

[Paula @Paula_Kaye]

Every morning around this time I give up on willing my phone to ring to get a stand by/on call from work. 😭😭😭

[Paula @Paula_Kaye]

Omg. I forgot I put on a pimple sticker before I went to bed last night. WENT OUTSIDE to watch the elite @ChiMarathon runners, got Starbucks, brought the dog. Oy.

[Paula @Paula_Kaye]

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SLEEP. I got my Covid booster and flu shot today at work. One in each arm. I SLEEP ON MY SIDE. I CANT PICK A SIDE

[Paula @Paula_Kaye]

How do I get the job of naming hurricanes?

[Paula @Paula_Kaye]

Slept horribly, and dreamt poorly at the end. Hopefully my car is in the garage when I try to go to work…

[Natalie Crawford, MD @ncrawfordmd]

A nationwide abortion ban was introduced today by Senate Republicans - aiming to limit abortions across the US. This ban would prohibit abortions after 15 wks, but medically their argument is false.

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[Paula @Paula_Kaye]

@BaeBielle Absolutely. I have been engaged for a month. Two hours after being engaged (most of which was spent on the phone) my fiancés dad asked us when and where. Like we don’t know yet… haven’t had much time to plan. When we know, we’ll tell you.

[Paula @Paula_Kaye]

Just keep telling myself, this time tomorrow I’ll be boarding a plane to go to my favorite place with my favorite person to see my favorite people. 1 shift and 1 (more like half) a sleep to go.

[Paula @Paula_Kaye]

@JaneCarlton Rosie is the SAME. She literally tries to go home with everyone who isn’t us.

[Paula @Paula_Kaye]

Of the many things I’ve learned in my jobs, some things are more practical than others, but above all—chew your food. Chew it well.

[Jonathan Van Ness @jvn]

This is about controlling bodies and keeping people in systemic poverty for generations. It’s heartbreaking that this personal medical decision has been made by people enforcing their evangelical beliefs on all of us.

[Paula @Paula_Kaye]

There is something so comforting in the pathetic state of laying on your bed to air dry/sitting in your towel avoiding the future.

[Paula @Paula_Kaye]

Today is my Friday and THANK GOD. Much in need of this three day weekend. Gotta gear up for the next four in a row and recover from the dog jumping on the bed at 2am because of the thunder.

[Kilometers Morales, RN @MurseWordsworth]

I'm not sure what you should do with this information, but earlier today, 100% of my patients were covid+ and were being admitted to the hospital.

Yet I've heard people say that the pandemic is over