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[pointless-letters]

“SIR - We were promised magic flying unicorns, we voted for magic flying unicorns, and by God if we don’t get our magic flying unicorns we will petition the Queen.”

[dbluegreen]

i don’t like anything. well,i’m exaggerating a bit. it’s the depression. not the exaggerating...the not liking is the depression. or at least in part. hail anhedonia!

i got a free week of youtube tv starting two days ago and there’s nothing i want to watch until maybe preacher gets recorded. i haven’t seen it,so don’t know if i will like it. i did get to see the doctor who christmas special which i DID like though it was slightly tainted by a brief appearance of someone who ruined an entire two seasons of doctor who for me. coughclaraoswaldcoughsorrynotsorryijusthatedthecharacter

well,i’m also tired. with the north pole shifting to my home state starting tomorrow,i wanted to get out and fill my gas tank and buy some food and some pants. my current favorite jeans are beyond redeemable but i’ve been wearing them with holes in them and it’s not sexy or cute or anything positive to wear things with holes in them when you’re my age...almost 60...and also for-real/ and not much chance of changing circumstances unless i find a rich and generous friend or relative/ poor. so i did those errands and now i must sleep for days.

so i guess it doesn’t matter if i don’t want to watch anything,unless i’m too tired to sleep. so that’s a positive?  nah,are you kidding me?

yes,there are a few things that are not bad,but if i mention them they will be taken from me. superstition makes no sense but i get knocked down when i’m too positive. talked to my therapist about this and she just shrugged and said it was silly. nope,it’s epic,mythic and psychological. also anxiety producing and sad.

[asthepaperburns-blog]

The was once a man there – a man who made her world go round. There was once a man there who was the girl’s best friend. A man who stole her apricots, time after time, because the girl never learned. A man who was the definition of love. A man who taught the girl what it meant to be patient and kind. A man who taught her to look for the good in every aspect of life. And the man lived with a woman. A woman who took them on family walks to the dumpster. A woman whose laugh the girl would do anything to hear. A woman whose praise she strove to attain. A woman who the girl thought could move mountains. A woman who she believed to be unstoppable with the man by her side.

[thegreyareaofmedicaltelevis-blog]

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As well as the nursing predicament, hospital dramas also prove to be wrong in accurately portraying medical situations. One of those misconceptions is side rails on hospital beds. The rails are always shown down, and very rarely are they up. In reality, the rails should always be down because of patient protection. If a patient had a head injury, for example, and fainted, they could end up on the floor due to the failure of side rail protection. Television put the side rails of patient beds up so they can be closer to the patient. It adds to the dramatic effect and is easier for the actors to interact (McGuirk). Another common misunderstanding is being able to shock a flat line. You can’t shock what isn’t there, so if there is no heartbeat, the patient is dead. Many people do not know this, due to the fact that they saw it done on T.V (McGuirk). Defibrillators are used to send an electric shock to the heart, but unlike in television, it never works on a flat-lining, or asystole, patient. Shocking the heart only works in certain cases, such as when the heart monitor shows erratic heartbeats (The Top 10). A second myth that follows defibrillators is rubbing them while they charge. Rubbing the paddles together should never be done unless there is conductive gel on them, or else it will damage the equipment (The Top 10).  In Grey’s Anatomy, there is a specific example of medical inaccuracy. In one episode, an illegal autopsy is given against a family’s wishes. The two characters who performed the autopsy are forgiven, not arrested, because they discover the patient had a rare disease. Many patients still avoid doctors because of reasons similar to this- they are afraid of being experimented on, since television brings their fears to life (TV Medical Drama).