Once described as “able to be mellifluously hectoring.” RN, screw top porch pounder. I like nerds & my sense of humor is my strongest muscle. She/her 💕💜💙
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It's kind of incredible that Barack Obama can be one of the best political speakers we've seen this century and still not be the best speaker in his own family.
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"childless woman" is such an 19th-century-ass insult. what else you got. do I render inferior tallow? do my cabbages grow pale and blemished? does the quality of my sock-darning bring shame upon my father's name?
THE SPEED AT WHICH YOUR DOCTOR MOVES IS NOT SOMETHING I CAN CONTROL.
I can sometimes influence, at best. Screaming at nurses and then being well-behaved for the MD is super common and super gross. You are not a nice person.
Rachel Bennett retweeted
My stomach is in knots over the EMTALA case in the Supreme Court today.
Here’s what’s at stake:
Very little makes me angrier/more frustrated at ~everything~ than doing my taxes. Oh your divorce is finalized & your ex took everything including your ability to claim your kid* this year? Here’s a fee for not getting enough taken out of your paycheck all year while scraping by
This is grossly cruel and barbaric and is absolutely the point and it’s terrifying.
Also in the Alabama ruling on frozen embryos is this:
“Doctors must create just one embryo at a time. Each embryo, no matter how poor its quality, must be transferred. Only one embryo may be transferred at a time. If the cycle fails, the whole process must start all over again.
IVF patients would have to accept the transfer of a single low-quality embryo that is certain to fail—and to do so one embryo at a time. Each transfer requires months’ worth of expensive medication, including injectable, both before and after the procedure. And each failed cycle requires the patient to start all over again. Most states (including Alabama) do not require insurance to cover IVF, and each cycle can cost up to $30,000. This would force patients—the ones who can afford it—to undergo doomed, single-embryo transfers, one by one.”
If you know ANYONE who has been through IVF, you know exactly how fucking cruel this is.
Rachel Bennett retweeted
Everyone who trauma dumped on Elmo last week has been crying about that Tracy Chapman Luke Combs duet for like 18 hours now
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The look on Tracy Chapman's face when the crowd realizes its her
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Rachel Bennett retweeted
Me here to talk it out whenever you want. Me will also supply cookies. 💙🍪 #EmotionalWellBeing
Wow! Elmo is glad he asked! Elmo learned that it is important to ask a friend how they are doing. Elmo will check in again soon, friends! Elmo loves you.❤️ #EmotionalWellBeing
Rachel Bennett retweeted
Every queer person has experienced this on some level. Being in a room surrounded by people who call you their friends or even family, yet will gleefully welcome and celebrate someone who works to harm you and your community and care nothing for your feelings about it.
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I like to play Connections on the NYT site each day and I've been inspired to make my own version. See if you can get it right! (The answers are revealed in the second image so be careful not to spoil it for yourselves!)
Rachel Bennett retweeted
it is now time for the quadannual ritual in which the first Iowan to find the center of the corn maze gets to choose which sociopath might get nukes in November
All I see when I look at this is a dystopian movie where some uber-rich yet dissatisfied folks archly toy with and kill me for sport.
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Tested positive for Covid for the first time last night. I’m a peds hemeonc nurse so I’m not going to work BUT I also don’t have PTO left bc I had surgery in the fall*. Like zero hours. So I’m looking at 5 days without pay and I am pretty damn anxious about it.
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It’s agonizing, & doesn’t have to be this way. If my clinic is closed on days I would normally work that’s out of my control, they should pay me & it shouldn’t come out of my sick time. I shouldn’t be worried about a halved paycheck (if I’m lucky) right now.