The UK Kink Thread

[BiaTcHiNFiRe]

Jocklitude and Jockery

*giggles*

Now that was fucking funny!!!

 

[jockdom]

Now that was fucking funny!!!

made me smile!

 

[jockdom]

Hope every body has a good weekend.

 

[Malich]

Should do. got friends over for character Generation for a new RPG campaign we're starting.

Maximum Geekery!

 

[Chantilyvamp]

Happy saturday and may all your dreams be as kinked as mine

 

[jockdom]

Should do. got friends over for character Generation for a new RPG campaign we're starting.

Maximum Geekery!

Havent rolled played in years! Pendragon used to be our thing but vampire was cool too!

 

[ShyVixen]

Morning Malich, CV, JD

I've never really been a big roleplayer...I tried D&D once, fascinated the hell out of me, but took up too much of my time. I also have this issue of control...lol See when I'm writing, I can control the scene, what I want the characters to do etc etc, when RP you can't do that and it frustrates me.

That said, hope y'all have a good weekend. Only two days till I go to London. YAH!

 

[naxalite0906]

Morning all! I wish I didnt have to goto work today.. Another 12 hour shift is never fun

 

[VelvetDarkness]

Morning all! I wish I didnt have to goto work today.. Another 12 hour shift is never fun

Poor thing. Good to see you about on the thread though.

 

[jockdom]

Memo to self cheap cooking whisky best avoided

 

[VelvetDarkness]

Memo to self cheap cooking whisky best avoided

Oh dear, that stuff's on a par with meths.

My local hospital went all out putting bottles of hand sanitiser on the end of every bed to promote hand hygiene and minimise patient to patient infection. What they didn't bargain for was patients trying to drink the damn stuff because it's 70% alcohol.

 

[jockdom]

Oh dear, that stuff's on a par with meths.

My local hospital went all out putting bottles of hand sanitiser on the end of every bed to promote hand hygiene and minimise patient to patient infection. What they didn't bargain for was patients trying to drink the damn stuff because it's 70% alcohol.

aldis own blend classy!

 

[EmpressFi]

Oh dear, that stuff's on a par with meths.

My local hospital went all out putting bottles of hand sanitiser on the end of every bed to promote hand hygiene and minimise patient to patient infection. What they didn't bargain for was patients trying to drink the damn stuff because it's 70% alcohol.

Here in the states, I once had a patient who was a paranoid schizophrenic with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease... we would have to take his hand lotion, mouthwash, shampoo and soap away because he would drink it... he also would stuff cigarettes into many hiding places ... at least until the time he smoked with the O2 up all the way and ignited his face...

 

[jockdom]

Here in the states, I once had a patient who was a paranoid schizophrenic with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease... we would have to take his hand lotion, mouthwash, shampoo and soap away because he would drink it... he also would stuff cigarettes into many hiding places ... at least until the time he smoked with the O2 up all the way and ignited his face...

ouchy! mental illness and heavy smoking go hand in hand!

 

[EmpressFi]

ouchy! mental illness and heavy smoking go hand in hand!

I can laugh about it now.. well the situation after.. we'd been telling him for weeks that one day, he was going to blow up his face and he'd say that he turned off the O2.

On the day it happened, my boss told me to check him out and what happened. As I approached the door, I saw him leaning on his knees in his chair, rocking back and forth, and saying ~ almost prayer-like, "I believe you now, I believe you now, I believe you now."

 

[VelvetDarkness]

I can laugh about it now.. well the situation after.. we'd been telling him for weeks that one day, he was going to blow up his face and he'd say that he turned off the O2.

On the day it happened, my boss told me to check him out and what happened. As I approached the door, I saw him leaning on his knees in his chair, rocking back and forth, and saying ~ almost prayer-like, "I believe you now, I believe you now, I believe you now."

Oh my goodness, the poor guy. Once treated a burns patient, he was a kid who had tried to light a cigarette with his head inside his schoolbag so that nobody would see. Unfortunately, his bag was made of highly flammable synthetic material. He was a state and eventually needed re-constructive maxillo-facial surgery, which was nicknamed 'max factor' where I used to work.

 

[EmpressFi]

Oh my goodness, the poor guy. Once treated a burns patient, he was a kid who had tried to light a cigarette with his head inside his schoolbag so that nobody would see. Unfortunately, his bag was made of highly flammable synthetic material. He was a state and eventually needed re-constructive maxillo-facial surgery, which was nicknamed 'max factor' where I used to work.

Yeah.. lucky for him , he lost half a mustache and an eyebrow and his lip swelled up. We were more worried about his lungs since he was compromised that way already. I ended up having to sign the commitment papers since he'd become a danger to himself. It's memories like this that remind me why I retired from nursing

 

[VelvetDarkness]

It's memories like this that remind me why I retired from nursing

Amen.

I'm so much happier since I quit the profession. Some people are horrified that a trained nurse would waste her skills by leaving medicine. It's just impossible now though. Nurses' pay is falling further and further behind inflation in the UK, the hours suck and even the overtime system has been shafted.

It used to be that nurses got time + 1/3 for general OT and time + 2/3 for antisocial hours (night duty and weekends) and double pay for national holidays. Now, a nurse has to be booked through the internal agency for extra hours. This means more form filling and a separate paycheque. Unfortunately, the second cheque means that overtime is taxed as though it is a second job, which means that on paper you make extra money but in actuality, the government takes it back with its other hand. You don't actually take home any extra money for doing overtime any more.

I just won't martyr myself to the system any more.

 

[jockdom]

Amen.

I'm so much happier since I quit the profession. Some people are horrified that a trained nurse would waste her skills by leaving medicine. It's just impossible now though. Nurses' pay is falling further and further behind inflation in the UK, the hours suck and even the overtime system has been shafted.

It used to be that nurses got time + 1/3 for general OT and time + 2/3 for antisocial hours (night duty and weekends) and double pay for national holidays. Now, a nurse has to be booked through the internal agency for extra hours. This means more form filling and a separate paycheque. Unfortunately, the second cheque means that overtime is taxed as though it is a second job, which means that on paper you make extra money but in actuality, the government takes it back with its other hand. You don't actually take home any extra money for doing overtime any more.

I just won't martyr myself to the system any more.

respect to that profesion! Shocking how shitty their pay is and how hard they are worked!

 

[VelvetDarkness]

respect to that profesion! Shocking how shitty their pay is and how hard they are worked!

I know. In April nurses were awarded a 3% payrise. It didn't actually filter into their paycheques until the following month and wasn't backdated. General inflation is estimated at between 5 & 8% so even with the payrise, every year nurses' pay falls further behind.

 

[EmpressFi]

Amen.

I'm so much happier since I quit the profession. Some people are horrified that a trained nurse would waste her skills by leaving medicine. It's just impossible now though. Nurses' pay is falling further and further behind inflation in the UK, the hours suck and even the overtime system has been shafted.

It used to be that nurses got time + 1/3 for general OT and time + 2/3 for antisocial hours (night duty and weekends) and double pay for national holidays. Now, a nurse has to be booked through the internal agency for extra hours. This means more form filling and a separate paycheque. Unfortunately, the second cheque means that overtime is taxed as though it is a second job, which means that on paper you make extra money but in actuality, the government takes it back with its other hand. You don't actually take home any extra money for doing overtime any more.

I just won't martyr myself to the system any more.

Here in the states, they actually pay quite well, well some places do. I know what you mean about people's reaction. When people I interview find out I'm a retired RN, I always here, "My god, then what are you doing on a help desk??" or my brothers have asked why I wasted my education. I just couldnt do it anymore. No matter the reason I went into nursing.. to make my mom happy, thought it was my "calling".... whatever it was after 5 years of spinal cord injury rehab, dialysis, and ventilator nursing, I was drained.

I still remember the day I realized that I was killing myself. I was still capable of doing the job.. but when I told Malin that his father could die if he had a cardioversion without thinking about the pain that statement would cause the man I loved... when he brought it to my attention that I'd coldly explained in detail what would happen... that I no longer needed to do it.

 

[VelvetDarkness]

A newly qualified nurse (outside London) starts on about £16 - 17k or $30K ish.

My breaking point came when I was working in dialysis. First they upped our patient load from 2 dialysis sessions per day to 3. Then they lengthened the day shift from 12 hours to 14. I was working 14 hour days, completely exhausting myself, giving poorer care as a result and taking home less money than many of my peers who never went to college. One particularly bad day, a patient was given the wrong dose of anticoagulant and we had to sit with him until his fistula stopped bleeding for an hour after his treatment finished. I sat there and realised that I had been here 15 hours and would be back again a mere 9 hours later. I realised that I was dreading each workday instead of enjoying working in my chosen profession. All I could see was a million 14 hour duties stretching away into the future and I just couldn't face it.

I have been insensitive like that before now. I once got told that my cousin's father in law had just been diagnosed with cancer and that spinal secondary tumours had been found. She was upset that he was to receive no treatment and my reaction was, "well there's no point." That may have been true but my cousin was simply not ready to hear it and it was not my place to spell out this man's prognosis to her. I felt absolutely awful but there's no taking back something like that. To this day we're not as close as we once were and I'll always feel responsible for that.

 

[EmpressFi]

A newly qualified nurse (outside London) starts on about £16 - 17k or $30K ish.

My breaking point came when I was working in dialysis. First they upped our patient load from 2 dialysis sessions per day to 3. Then they lengthened the day shift from 12 hours to 14. I was working 14 hour days, completely exhausting myself, giving poorer care as a result and taking home less money than many of my peers who never went to college. One particularly bad day, a patient was given the wrong dose of anticoagulant and we had to sit with him until his fistula stopped bleeding for an hour after his treatment finished. I sat there and realised that I had been here 15 hours and would be back again a mere 9 hours later. I realised that I was dreading each workday instead of enjoying working in my chosen profession. All I could see was a million 14 hour duties stretching away into the future and I just couldn't face it.

I have been insensitive like that before now. I once got told that my cousin's father in law had just been diagnosed with cancer and that spinal secondary tumours had been found. She was upset that he was to receive no treatment and my reaction was, "well there's no point." That may have been true but my cousin was simply not ready to hear it and it was not my place to spell out this man's prognosis to her. I felt absolutely awful but there's no taking back something like that. To this day we're not as close as we once were and I'll always feel responsible for that.

I feel like I'm hijacking..after all.. I'm only an honorary brit.. but the $30k is about starting pay these days for RN's.. some paying more. I remember feeling the same way. Especially on my ward, every day, seeing no change, no improvements. Between that and being treated like shite by the MD's.. it just sucked the life out of me.

 

[VelvetDarkness]

I feel like I'm hijacking..after all.. I'm only an honorary brit.. but the $30k is about starting pay these days for RN's.. some paying more. I remember feeling the same way. Especially on my ward, every day, seeing no change, no improvements. Between that and being treated like shite by the MD's.. it just sucked the life out of me.

Oh hijack away, you're always welcome. Anyway, I started the thread so I get to domme it. What I say goes.

 

[EmpressFi]

Oh hijack away, you're always welcome. Anyway, I started the thread so I get to domme it. What I say goes.

woo hooo a domme

Malin likes to tease me about going back..for the money.. but also because he knows that I miss the caretaking.. not the political BS of which doctor can you call after 7pm or who needs what gloves for procedures, etc. But I couldnt go back to that. I really couldnt. Although..ask my co-workers and friends who they go to with medical questions...