treebeard189

EMT/ER tech of 10 years in medic school now and doing clinicals at multiple local ERs and I've found it fascinating how they work compared to my experience. Obviously the little differences in policy or priorities (this many of y'all don't have seizure pads?) but also just the broader flow. My fiancée is nightshift supe at my old ER so it's been kinda fun taking ideas back to her or talking about what we did so well compared to other places. A lot of y'all's managers need to realize that vertical/fast pass zones aren't just overflow beds. If you keep putting complicated work ups in there for 8 hours your wrecking your patient throughput. But at like 3 different ERs I got told that their ma

We'll be doing a small tour through tuscany in October and Samporium caught my eye. But wasn't sure which of the two locations to visit. We'll have a car which we don't normally bother with so taking the opportunity to go to Chiusdino seemed like a good idea. But the Florence location seems to have several menu options, and is the only once I've seen reviewed here. Has anyone been to both? Or even just any thoughts on Chiusdino?

Open to other recommendations in the Florence/Lucca/Sienna triangle especially any outside of cities to take advantage of having the car. And unfortunately no we won't be able to drive up to Francescana, I know every mention of Italy people say to just go ther

We will be going to Florence for our third time late October (23-28). We are actually staying outside the city and will be renting a car and trying to now explore more of the area around Florence. We really want to take advantage of having a car and try to see some of these small towns. We have lots of rough ideas but before we start really cementing the itinerary I just wanted to see people's thoughts and opinions.

Pretty much our plans in no order yet are

1 full Florence day, just enjoy walking around Florence. I want to get a pair of shoes from Mannina for my wedding, and probably use the car to drive out to Tullio for dinner. If we're not exhausted go to our favorite most ridiculous

I don't think we've had a single phone call with a vendor go as scheduled. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, we live in a busy and professional area but no one can keep a schedule it seems.

Our venue didn't reply to an email initially then literally the next weekend we saw them at an expo and just hammered it out in person. Then recently we wanted to face time to discuss some small questions and they totally missed it and just asked us to email them the questions didn't even apologize in the email.

Our DJ sent me a calendar to pick a time to call that had 0 availability for the rest of the year. I emailed back and then just continued via email cause we couldn't find a time to talk that

I'm about to be opened to schedule OR shifts to try and get my first live tube and it's honestly intimidating the hell out of me. I've been an EMT for 10 years done ER, IFT, 911, events, construction sites etc. I've done some really really cool stuff and definitely some things more technically challenging but always a part of a team. Heck I've dropped LMAs in codes. But thinking about being at the head of the bed by myself with everyone looking at me and then like fumbling through an airway before being kicked off honestly scares the shit out of me. Id almost rather have my first tube be an emergent one, this just feels like it's going to be the ultimate evolution of my public speaking f

I was flying ATL to DCA last night, don't normally bother to check bags but got my meeting finished early and got there early. So I checked my bag to not carry it around and got the little "do you want to check your carryon for free" prompt. Which to me implies they're expecting tons of room in the bottom of the plane. So I check everything cause why not and have a nice lounge and flight experience (centurian at ATL is not bad at all compared to what I've seen people say. No smell when I was there).

Get to DCA and my bags are no shows. Look at the app and turns out delta put them on a different ATL-DCA flight. That flight was then delayed pretty significantly so I had to sit in DCA and

So my fiancee and I love to travel and we find local foods to be a great way to interact with a culture. We go to a lot of restaurants and food markets when we travel and it's a big part of our experience.

Now that we've been together so long it's becoming hard to keep track all the different meals and experiences. And I was thinking of getting her something for her birthday that we could use to keep track of this that's more personal than just taking a photo on your phone. All my research into "food journals" and "food diary" just come back with weight loss and calorie tracking.

I really would love to find a nice pocket size journal that we can travel with and take notes on food/meal

My 94yo Grandmother was recently diagnosed with a fairly aggressive acute myeloid leukemia. Oncologist did a great job making it very clear at her age with what he was seeing it wasn't worth pursuing any treatments and helped get her enrolled in hospice.

My aunt is primary caretaker as my grandmother has been living with her since the birth of her daughter. Pretty much blood work showed persistent anemia and she was not producing and RBCs or platelets. We have an incredible set up for her in her own bed, with absolutely phenomenal work by my aunt and cousin. The plan after her diagnosis had been to provide some care pretty much to give the very scattered family time to come through. So sh

Sorry for the clickbaity title but I'm at an absolute loss in a weird spot. My fiancee and I have flights booked DCA to SYD via LAX on 1/15 into February.

Unfortunately my grandmother is rapidly declining from a very aggressive leukemia they found last month. I've been told I shouldn't wait until I return from this trip to go see her. Because of a work obligation I can't leave until 1/10. Here's where it gets weird

My grandma lives an hour from LAX. I am going to fly out 1/10 to go see her. Some of you might see what's going on here. I want to just meet my fiancee in LAX on 1/15 and we continue together to SYD. I've been told by Delta on the app (I know I know, but the call lines have

Having some problems organizing our wedding parties and was hoping for some help.

My fiancee is going to have 4 bridesmaids and a bridesman. We want a multicolored fall themed wedding, and she's picked out some great colors but each of them is going to have a different color (tumeric, sage, wine etc).

We already probably will have unbalanced parties with me having 6 groomsmen. Plus the bridesman. I'm a bit worried with how this will look in photos to just have a bunch of gray suits then randomly very colorful dresses. My original plan for them had been grey suits and burgundy but now I'm wondering if I should change it up/how I would handle that.

And then what do we do with the brides

We are doing a Sydney to Melbourne road trip this January. Given how much flights and hotels, especially in melbourne, cost we will probably just try to hit one absolute knockout meal on the trip. I know St. Peter gets a ton of praise on here, thats high on the list. But I have also seen some really incredible looking steakhouses, and I realized a lot of the *s we have done in europe are very seafood heavy. So the idea of red meats really taking center stage is appealing to me. Obviously I know australia has great seafood and won't be skimping, but I kinda like the idea of splurging on a steak.

Wondering what people might lean towards with that in mind. The ones that have stuck

I am turning 30 this spring and was looking for a hike that I could do solo to just like totally disconnect on, looking for something pretty but I really trying to avoid crowded trails. Are there any good ~2 night loops where even in spring I would have a good chance of crossing no one? I do a lot of my hiking around the AT in VA and they're all busy in the warm months, but really loved a 2 week trip I managed to do in Wyoming where I only saw one other group the entire time. Obviously can't do anything spectacular and expect to have it to myself but something at least moderately scenic. East coast USA, willing to travel to it. I am wondering maybe something up in the middle of nowher

We are heading to a wedding in Melbourne in January, will be flying into Sydney because we figured, it'll probably be awhile till we manage to come over again. Lets knock out a larger chunk. Had been planning to fly between the two but now we are thinking of including Canberra and we love road trips. I know the pacific road between Sydney and Brisbane is supposed to be gorgeous. Is the A1 down also worthwhile? I've heard after Eden it gets pretty boring, but north of that is it worth going out of our way for? Or should we just cut directly across?

My current plan was A1 south to Batemans Bay, across to Canberra, then the 23 down to Cann River to pick up the A1 into Melbourne. Which

So doing DCA to MEL via LAX. Never done this long of a trip before without like a full day break somewhere. What tips/tricks do I need to know? Done lots of trans Atlantics but never a solid 15hr leg.

And have a bunch of miles id like to hopefully use to get us out of main economy. Is there a price difference in buying say one whole ticket with miles or paying cash for two main tickets then using miles to upgrade? Optimizing my miles for this trip is a decent chunk of the reason I got the amex delta card.