larakathryn

things i find worth mentioning

[bluequietness-blog]

I ordered some jewelry to be made out of my breast milk---awesome, right!?  I decided to use milk that I pumped after a particularly rough night with the babe, AND a STEMI page at 3:45am, just to remind myself how I am very much a badass.  Then I come home and forget to email the lady that I mailed it and I try to remember where the receipt was that had the tracking number on it and find it has literally vanished from my memory.  Then I ordered a bunch of shit I don’t need on Amazon Prime.  Badass, indeed.  

[sunshineinholland-blog]

A year ago, I was 7(ish) months pregnant

This is going to get random.  My kid is now 10.5 months old.  My hubs is now a “stay at home dad” and I’m the lone source of income.  I work four days a week but it feels like full time because I work in a cath lab and you get my statement only if you work or have worked in a cath lab.  Amidst this I’ve been exclusively pumping for my child with special needs her whole life and I intend to do so until I “dry up”.  I feel like it’s one of the only things I can give her that is pure and simple in her life.  It’s been almost a year and I’m still struggling with my postpartum body.  I still weigh about 20 pounds more than I did before she was born and my eating habits are less than satisfactory (according to me).  I still practice yoga and have worked out here and there but I don’t have a steady routine, which I miss like hell.  I miss living near an easily accessible yoga studio where I could go at any hour and practice, I miss the simplicity of life before this child (and I’m not afraid to admit that).  If life as I know it ended in an instant I know exactly where I’d live, what I’d do.  I daydream about it.  

But when I look at her face I see no other thing except this life.  Her face is the most amazing thing I’ve helped create and her adventure in this life is as much ours as it is hers–I’m honored and privileged to be part of it.

I am nostalgic for my old life but wouldn’t trade my “new” life for the world.  What a fucking conundrum.

[bluequietness-blog]

Photos: Marchers around the world turn out for women's rights

Around the United States, and around the world, marchers rallied in support of women's rights, and to protest the election of Donald Trump as president.

This is going to be a rough 4 years.  I’m leaving this here so when we’re feeling down and defeated we can remember we have support from all over the world and we’re NEVER alone.  

[sterileapparel]

You see Dr. Wen in there? He’s explaining to the family that something went wrong and the patient died. He’s going to tell them what happened, he’s going to say he’s sorry, and then he’s going back to work. You think anybody else in that room is going back to work today? That is why we distance ourselves, that’s why we make jokes. We don’t do it because it’s fun, we do it so we can get by. And sometimes because it’s fun. But mostly it’s the getting by thing.

Dr Cox from Scrubs (via sterileapparel)

We lost a 60 year old this week. He walked in for an elective procedure and 90 minutes of code later, he was gone. His wife was still in his preprocedure room with red and raw eyes as we retrieved our next patient, strolling past her like nothing had happened, like this wasn’t the worst day of her life. But we still had work to do and cases to finish. Distance, distance, distance.

(via sunshineinholland)

[adulthoodisokay]

Victim misses. [x]

[buzzfeed]

“Too slow.” (With finger-guns.)

[bluequietness-blog]

This made me LOL in the family waiting room.  Then I looked around to make sure I was alone in my lol’ing.  I was.  LOL.

[bluequietness-blog]

I’ve had this goddamn hospital grade pump for 6 months and just now I decide to multitask with it. Ha.

[bluequietness-blog]

Well fuck. Wish I had known about this shit when I was pregnant.

[sterileapparel]

I literally can't make this stuff up

Had to give a patient some haldol while security held him down (you know, one of those nights.) While I’m trying to give it, he looks up at me and asks “Is it a full moon tonight? It feels like a full moon.”

[bluequietness-blog]

😂🌝

[whoweareneverstopschanging-deac]

Leslie Knope is never not relevant

[mdtwn]

happy election eve!! make sure u leave milk and cookies out for anderson cooper tonight or he’ll stand outside ur window and squint

[spacecrygirl]

[bluequietness-blog]

I love this way too much 😂

[beautiful-basque-country]

Do you know what Spanish media say when people knock down a statue of...

… Vladimir Lenin in Kiev? - Freedom! … Saddam Hussein in Baghdad? - Freedom! … Francisco Franco in Barcelona? - Violent vandals!

[deadly-fat-bitch-deactivated202]

Black people shouldn’t...

- feel unloved

- be underestimated

- be put down

- be profiled

- feel inadequate

- feel inferior

- be beaten up

- be shamed for the color of their skin 

- be shamed for the appearance of their natural hair

- be treated differently than others in any type of media

- have to hunt for jobs more than other people

- feel like they’re always in danger

- have to protect themselves from law enforcement

- be paid less than other humans

- feel like they’re not represented enough in the media

- have to teach their children to fear the police

- be pushed aside

- have to justify a movement to make it legitimate (#BlackLivesMatter)

…

[j3ke]

[bluequietness-blog]

jakeklock

I reblogged this video from Jake for a few reasons:

To watch it whenever I want

Because it’s fucking awesome

Whenever I hear it now my mind goes straight back to standing on that hill in the middle of the POURING RAIN singing my arse off with Emily (because we didn’t want to go down into the poopy trenches with Jake, Ryan and Sarah…though we eventually rendez-vous’d).

This show was the best I’ve ever seen.  The thunderstorm helped.

[bluequietness-blog]

I was talking about this phenomenal show today at work.  I still get goosebumps when I think about it.

[sunshineinholland-blog]

You know what works really well when you are too tired to shower but need to feel clean? Diaper wipes.

[ponamen]

[bluequietness-blog]

"Before you go back to work tomorrow I expect to have my wet food breakfast, as per usual. Kthx" -Lucy

[bluequietness-blog]

A llama and her dahlias. #DahliasLlama #farmersmarketflowers #coleusaddedbymoi