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They are worth it. All scrubs are expensive IMO, so spending a little more for scrubs that fit great and are super comfortable, is absolutely worth it. I have 4 pair, no ragrets. I could probably send anyone that is interested a discount code.
I have to say...I do like them a lot. The top I got is a bit tight in the chest, but if I went up to the next size I know the v would be far too low to be wearable, even with an undershirt (only complaint honestly, the V is too deep for someone who is bigger chested).
 
fleece lined leggings are the best. for the record, one can wear multiple pairs under pants if desperate...how i survived equine internal medicine when it was 50 degrees in the barn haha
"survived" "equine internal med" "50 degs"

Does not compute.
 
I would not wish my weekend on my worst enemy. I had to watch mice dig in sand for 8+ hours Saturday and Sunday.

On top of that, apparently my female landlord, who lives below me, didn't share with her husband that I am fostering a greyhound (which I intend to keep now). Apparently he freaked out when he saw my partner out with him and said the dog has to go. The woman messaged me and said she would talk to him... talk about stressful ugh.
 
They are worth it. All scrubs are expensive IMO, so spending a little more for scrubs that fit great and are super comfortable, is absolutely worth it. I have 4 pair, no ragrets. I could probably send anyone that is interested a discount code.
I haven't seen other brands that I think could possibly fit me. Do you think the xxs fits a 00/0?
 
I haven't seen other brands that I think could possibly fit me. Do you think the xxs fits a 00/0?
Have you checked the size chart measurements? I know they aren’t always accurate but at least get you an idea. Cherokee also has xxs- I just got some new XS (I’m a 2) and I’ll let you know how they are when they come in Tuesday if you’re interested. Pretty cheap and not as fancy as other brands but I do like them and they hold up well 🙂
 
I haven't seen other brands that I think could possibly fit me. Do you think the xxs fits a 00/0?
Maybe not helpful, but I was pleasantly surprised how accurate the sizing was. I didn't get an XXS, but their chart is pretty spot on.

Have you checked the size chart measurements? I know they aren’t always accurate but at least get you an idea. Cherokee also has xxs- I just got some new XS (I’m a 2) and I’ll let you know how they are when they come in Tuesday if you’re interested. Pretty cheap and not as fancy as other brands but I do like them and they hold up well 🙂
My experience with Cherokee is that their sizing is horribly inconsistent depending on the country the set was made in. Just an fyi of my experience. I really like the material and they are sturdy, I just got so fed up with some large bottoms fitting like a 3XL, the large tops fitting like an S, and then that completely changing depending on what country happened to make the set that got shipped. Granted, I shop online. The owner of the local scrubs store in town is apparently mega creepy so I've never given them a chance, lol
 
Very frustrated. I'm at my physician's office for an annual physical and thyroid check and, despite increased exercise and eating less, I'm still gaining weight. I've never weighed 200 lbs before and that is a milestone that I did NOT want to hit.

I'm hoping the blood test shows that my thyroid is being undertreated again. Otherwise, I don't know. She said I'm healthy otherwise.
 
Very frustrated. I'm at my physician's office for an annual physical and thyroid check and, despite increased exercise and eating less, I'm still gaining weight. I've never weighed 200 lbs before and that is a milestone that I did NOT want to hit.

I'm hoping the blood test shows that my thyroid is being undertreated again. Otherwise, I don't know. She said I'm healthy otherwise.
Ugh, that's so frustrating. Have you tried seeing a nutritionist? I've been seeing one because no diet or exercise routine was helping. Turns out I was hypo metabolic and was burning muscle instead of fat. I'm on a high-protein diet now and take metformin to account for some insulin resistance (AKA I was hungry allllll the time). I highly recommend if you can find a reputable place!
 
Two of the undergrads in my lab came in sick last week. After I told them not to. And now here I am, home sick for the second day in a row.

Whatever is going around this year is mad weird. No fever, but I feel like I've been hit by a bus. Achey, tired but can't sleep well, mildly phlegm-y and my head feels like it weighs 100 pounds. Don't be that person to come into class/lab sick, guys. Uuuuuuuuuuuugh.
 
Two of the undergrads in my lab came in sick last week. After I told them not to. And now here I am, home sick for the second day in a row.

Whatever is going around this year is mad weird. No fever, but I feel like I've been hit by a bus. Achey, tired but can't sleep well, mildly phlegm-y and my head feels like it weighs 100 pounds. Don't be that person to come into class/lab sick, guys. Uuuuuuuuuuuugh.
Yuuup it hit my entire class too. I felt like if I laid down I would die because I was so phlegmy ugh. Luckily you should get better fairly quickly, feel better!
 
Maybe not helpful, but I was pleasantly surprised how accurate the sizing was. I didn't get an XXS, but their chart is pretty spot on.


My experience with Cherokee is that their sizing is horribly inconsistent depending on the country the set was made in. Just an fyi of my experience. I really like the material and they are sturdy, I just got so fed up with some large bottoms fitting like a 3XL, the large tops fitting like an S, and then that completely changing depending on what country happened to make the set that got shipped. Granted, I shop online. The owner of the local scrubs store in town is apparently mega creepy so I've never given them a chance, lol
Yikes :laugh: We’ll see how the new set goes...hopefully accurate sizing!
 
Very frustrated. I'm at my physician's office for an annual physical and thyroid check and, despite increased exercise and eating less, I'm still gaining weight. I've never weighed 200 lbs before and that is a milestone that I did NOT want to hit.

I'm hoping the blood test shows that my thyroid is being undertreated again. Otherwise, I don't know. She said I'm healthy otherwise.
Try to get referred to an endocrinologist. This was me in high school. I played soccer and basketball, wasn't eating badly at all, and I shot up 60 pounds. Finally got my PCOS diagnosis after a year of "Be honest with us about your diet and activity level, because what you're telling us doesn't make sense."
 
2 part story I saw on Facebook today.

Family surrenders 4-month-old dog after vet said pup needed $8,000 surgery
Family reunited with dog after 'nightmare' over $8,000 vet bill

Meanwhile, the clinic was absolutely torn apart on Facebook and other review websites, and was basically forced to give 8,000 of free care due to the news coverage.

Obviously I know nothing about the situation, but a clinic taking a loss to take a surrendered animal and provide them with care doesn't really seem to be something worth the outrage...
 
2 part story I saw on Facebook today.

Family surrenders 4-month-old dog after vet said pup needed $8,000 surgery
Family reunited with dog after 'nightmare' over $8,000 vet bill

Meanwhile, the clinic was absolutely torn apart on Facebook and other review websites, and was basically forced to give 8,000 of free care due to the news coverage.

Obviously I know nothing about the situation, but a clinic taking a loss to take a surrendered animal and provide them with care doesn't really seem to be something worth the outrage...
"I couldn't afford my pup's surgery so I surrendered her, and then I regretted it, so I went around talking to the media until they gave me the dog back and did the emergency surgery for free." tl;dr for people who don't want to read it.

Ffs. I can't even.
 
"I couldn't afford my pup's surgery so I surrendered her, and then I regretted it, so I went around talking to the media until they gave me the dog back and did the emergency surgery for free." tl;dr for people who don't want to read it.

Ffs. I can't even.
I couldn’t even with the story either and couldn’t even come up with a reply to bbc :dead:
 
Getting frustrated at the way some of our courses are handling the online exams. We're not allowed to review them unless we go to an admin's office at a specified time, and if we do, we're not allowed to write anything down even if we have questions for the instructors. I always go back and look up the stuff I got wrong to review it and, y'know, learn, so this is not working for me.
 
Getting increasingly frustrated by hearing "go to the cheapest option" when (as a non-traditional second-time applicant) my only options are OOS or OOS. Yay for ridiculous IS schools that I can't pander to anymore :bullcrap:
Edited to add: Yay for parents who don't understand why I would want to go to one over the other due to my out "lifestyle" ok that's all for a mini-rant
 
Getting frustrated at the way some of our courses are handling the online exams. We're not allowed to review them unless we go to an admin's office at a specified time, and if we do, we're not allowed to write anything down even if we have questions for the instructors. I always go back and look up the stuff I got wrong to review it and, y'know, learn, so this is not working for me.
This is how our exams are during third year here. First year, we could write down 3 words per question, this year we can't even bring paper in. Quite frustrating.
 
Getting frustrated at the way some of our courses are handling the online exams. We're not allowed to review them unless we go to an admin's office at a specified time, and if we do, we're not allowed to write anything down even if we have questions for the instructors. I always go back and look up the stuff I got wrong to review it and, y'know, learn, so this is not working for me.

This is how all of ours were, but the school policy really is that you aren't allowed to review exams at all. Some professors were just nice and would go over things with you you got wrong, but you could never really look over your exams.
 
This is how all of ours were, but the school policy really is that you aren't allowed to review exams at all. Some professors were just nice and would go over things with you you got wrong, but you could never really look over your exams.
Oof, that wouldn't fly here. Our exams have an astounding number of errors in them, whether it be that an incorrect answer was selected as the correct one, the correct answer wasn't even listed, etc.
 
Oof, that wouldn't fly here. Our exams have an astounding number of errors in them, whether it be that an incorrect answer was selected as the correct one, the correct answer wasn't even listed, etc.
We never get to review exams at my school, so when there are errors (and there definitely are errors), we just have to pray the powers that be notice them.

If you ask too-detailed of a question after an exam, you run the risk of getting a professionalism violation for having reproduced a test question from memory.

I am not a fan.
 
We never get to review exams at my school, so when there are errors (and there definitely are errors), we just have to pray the powers that be notice them.

If you ask too-detailed of a question after an exam, you run the risk of getting a professionalism violation for having reproduced a test question from memory.

I am not a fan.
lol wtf?

For at least a few hours after every exam, I can recall most of the questions from memory (yet I can't remember the answers to them as I take the test?).

Just goes to show you that exams really are just formalities
 
"I couldn't afford my pup's surgery so I surrendered her, and then I regretted it, so I went around talking to the media until they gave me the dog back and did the emergency surgery for free." tl;dr for people who don't want to read it.

Ffs. I can't even.
There also seems to be 0 info about what exactly these complications were that required both a transfer to an emergency vet and $8k to fix (probably something, you know, a teensy bit worse than a dehiscence), probably because the owner realised the more vague she made the complications sound the more she made that vet look bad.
 
There also seems to be 0 info about what exactly these complications were that required both a transfer to an emergency vet and $8k to fix (probably something, you know, a teensy bit worse than a dehiscence), probably because the owner realised the more vague she made the complications sound the more she made that vet look bad.
Also, total aside here, but that dog looks huge for being 4 months old lol
 
Oof, that wouldn't fly here. Our exams have an astounding number of errors in them, whether it be that an incorrect answer was selected as the correct one, the correct answer wasn't even listed, etc.

Yeah, my classmates have found lots of errors in grading and in things like keying the exam in other courses in the past. With this last exam, there were errors with how IT put the questions into the system (like if a question was supposed to have 5 answers to choose from, and there are only 4), and they forgot to add one set of questions to the exam altogether, so even if the faculty do everything perfectly, it could still get messed up.

Disappointed but not surprised to hear that not letting students review exams is common in other schools. It really is an important learning tool. When I don't get to see my exam after, then the meaning of the entire exam becomes just about the grade since I literally can't get anything out of it after taking it except that number. Some of the stuff I remember best is from questions I got wrong on exams that I got to look at and think about after the fact to figure out where I made mistakes. Maybe I'm just frazzled and drained and burned out and generally grumpy, but it really bothers me that we're having that learning opportunity taken away from us in some courses.
 
Oof, that wouldn't fly here. Our exams have an astounding number of errors in them, whether it be that an incorrect answer was selected as the correct one, the correct answer wasn't even listed, etc.

They run statistics on the exam program for each question that usually catches things like that if the majority of the class gets a question wrong. Also we could challenge questions we remembered so that was fine. Just couldn’t go look at the exact questions and answers and talk about them.
 
My lab tests came back today. It actually appears that the hypothyroidism is being overtreated, so we're going to back off on the levothyroxine a bit.

My liver values are elevated. Which is... rather concerning. At any rate, she told me to definitely continue trying to lose the weight and come back in in a month for another check.

Also still haven't found a job and am still broke. So there's that, too.

Ugh. So discouraged with everything right now.
 
hugs, elkhart. hang in there. hopefully will get your treatment back on track; and maybe that will resolve the liver issue, also. if you ever need a shoulder to cry on, or somebody to just listen, let me know.
 
There was a vet-related thread on Reddit the other day and I made the mistake of commenting on it about my frustration with marketing techniques that try to convince people that their dogs and cats should be eating expensive raw food diets. Soooo many rude disparaging replies about how I'm either not a vet, have been bought by Hills/Purina, have been "suckered big time", or just can't read food labels because corn is obviously the worst possible ingredient for pets. Not a single comment of support or agreement. **** these fad diets and these dingus marketing techniques that are spitting in the face of good science and rallying the ignorant masses to their cause.
 
There was a vet-related thread on Reddit the other day and I made the mistake of commenting on it about my frustration with marketing techniques that try to convince people that their dogs and cats should be eating expensive raw food diets. Soooo many rude disparaging replies about how I'm either not a vet, have been bought by Hills/Purina, have been "suckered big time", or just can't read food labels because corn is obviously the worst possible ingredient for pets. Not a single comment of support or agreement. **** these fad diets and these dingus marketing techniques that are spitting in the face of good science and rallying the ignorant masses to their cause.
(the /r/askvet subreddit is a delightful oasis that aggressively moderates out fad diet bull****)
 
the internet is a cruel place. I have been bullied on a forum more than once, because of a dissenting opinion from the herd. and a much worse scale than I ever got in school. people get it stuck in their heads that a certain thing is correct, and will then refuse to listen to anything else. I really feel that the days when people can sit down together and hold a discussion like civilized people, are gone.
 
Yeah, my classmates have found lots of errors in grading and in things like keying the exam in other courses in the past. With this last exam, there were errors with how IT put the questions into the system (like if a question was supposed to have 5 answers to choose from, and there are only 4), and they forgot to add one set of questions to the exam altogether, so even if the faculty do everything perfectly, it could still get messed up.

Disappointed but not surprised to hear that not letting students review exams is common in other schools. It really is an important learning tool. When I don't get to see my exam after, then the meaning of the entire exam becomes just about the grade since I literally can't get anything out of it after taking it except that number. Some of the stuff I remember best is from questions I got wrong on exams that I got to look at and think about after the fact to figure out where I made mistakes. Maybe I'm just frazzled and drained and burned out and generally grumpy, but it really bothers me that we're having that learning opportunity taken away from us in some courses.
That happened last year where a whole section was left off the final. Good to know it's still happening. Was it pharm by any chance?
 
There was a vet-related thread on Reddit the other day and I made the mistake of commenting on it about my frustration with marketing techniques that try to convince people that their dogs and cats should be eating expensive raw food diets. Soooo many rude disparaging replies about how I'm either not a vet, have been bought by Hills/Purina, have been "suckered big time", or just can't read food labels because corn is obviously the worst possible ingredient for pets. Not a single comment of support or agreement. **** these fad diets and these dingus marketing techniques that are spitting in the face of good science and rallying the ignorant masses to their cause.
I saw this thread and made the mistake of reading it. Several veterinarians made the same point about raw food diets and got totally **** all over by the pack of idiots who jumped all over that thread to try to sell Orijen and Natural something or other. But, you know, dogs and cats totally can't get Salmonella or E. coli or Toxoplasmosis or any foodborne disease, duh, they have shorter intestinal tracts or something. 🙄
 
There was a vet-related thread on Reddit the other day and I made the mistake of commenting on it about my frustration with marketing techniques that try to convince people that their dogs and cats should be eating expensive raw food diets. Soooo many rude disparaging replies about how I'm either not a vet, have been bought by Hills/Purina, have been "suckered big time", or just can't read food labels because corn is obviously the worst possible ingredient for pets. Not a single comment of support or agreement. **** these fad diets and these dingus marketing techniques that are spitting in the face of good science and rallying the ignorant masses to their cause.

Me anytime I see a discussion about pet food/pet nutrition/raw diets...

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I was reading an article the other day that linked grain-free diets to dilated cardiomyopathy in golden retrievers due to the lack of taurine in the diet. It's my new favorite thing to tell owners when they ask what I think of their grain-free food.
OMG THIS IS BRILLIANT
 
Me anytime I see a discussion about pet food/pet nutrition/raw diets...

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As is this GIF Cat (so brilliant! Like a unicorn)

I came from a super nutrition-y school (if you mention Blue Buffalo, Tufts trained me to seek and destroy; same for weird raw diets) so I approach things as such.

Will I get so excited to do weight loss, RERs & MERs with weigh ins and such?

You bet your face I flippin’ will.
 
As is this GIF Cat (so brilliant! Like a unicorn)

I came from a super nutrition-y school (if you mention Blue Buffalo, Tufts trained me to seek and destroy; same for weird raw diets) so I approach things as such.

Will I get so excited to do weight loss, RERs & MERs with weigh ins and such?

You bet your face I flippin’ will.
Well now I want to see this

WHATS WRONG WITH BLUE BUFFALO?!?! *ducks and hides*
 
Well now I want to see this

WHATS WRONG WITH BLUE BUFFALO?!?! *ducks and hides*

I love blue buffalo!!!! Great food that keeps brining me all the $$$$$$. Bladder stone, GI, bladder stone, GI
... all the monies!!! 🙂
 
Well now I want to see this

WHATS WRONG WITH BLUE BUFFALO?!?! *ducks and hides*

I love blue buffalo!!!! Great food that keeps brining me all the $$$$$$. Bladder stone, GI, bladder stone, GI
... all the monies!!! 🙂

Need I go on? You should hear the nutritionists at Tufts. I wish I had a recording of the rants...
 
In other news, I think I’ve been hyperextending my arms (esp my left one) when I sleep (double jointed elbows) and that could be why my arm wants to fall off/is useless when I try to use it at all.

Gross. I'm double jointed in my hips, if I have to help restrain a large dog and my hip gets in a funky position, it is awful. Probably why I have occasional hip pain when I wake up from sleeping.
 
Gross. I'm double jointed in my hips, if I have to help restrain a large dog and my hip gets in a funky position, it is awful. Probably why I have occasional hip pain when I wake up from sleeping.
Yeah, I feel your pain. My legs are also weird (I don’t think it’s double jointed...or maybe my hips are double jointed...) but my arms have been the issue for weeks now :/
 
This is how our exams are during third year here. First year, we could write down 3 words per question, this year we can't even bring paper in. Quite frustrating.

Yeah, my classmates have found lots of errors in grading and in things like keying the exam in other courses in the past. With this last exam, there were errors with how IT put the questions into the system (like if a question was supposed to have 5 answers to choose from, and there are only 4), and they forgot to add one set of questions to the exam altogether, so even if the faculty do everything perfectly, it could still get messed up.

Disappointed but not surprised to hear that not letting students review exams is common in other schools. It really is an important learning tool. When I don't get to see my exam after, then the meaning of the entire exam becomes just about the grade since I literally can't get anything out of it after taking it except that number. Some of the stuff I remember best is from questions I got wrong on exams that I got to look at and think about after the fact to figure out where I made mistakes. Maybe I'm just frazzled and drained and burned out and generally grumpy, but it really bothers me that we're having that learning opportunity taken away from us in some courses.
Waaat?

How are students supposed to learn from their errors: by practicing medicine on a patient that is always a "100% perfect" patient?

I dunno about you ... but a lot of my patients are not 100% perfect.
 
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