posted 2025-12-02 21:31:48

Changing jobs, new one is private care, five days a week, 9-5, stable, so I can try and go back to NP school.

Per the pulmonologist, the lumps in my lungs are benign / calcifications surrounding old sites of infection. He asked if i'd ever spent much time in the Ohio river valley, evidently the soil dust around there contains a lot of potential gnarly lung pathogens? and yes, did some barn breaking, my grandmother's family is from there. Yes, it's possible i picked something up working in that field that weekend, 15 years ago.

Not sure how i'll like private care, its very 1:1, feels kind of unambitious compared to other things, but i keep getting called out for making people feel bad in my regular job- HCA is very into customer service, and i'm not a chipper enough lil beaver.

Very much not, all the lingering colds drain my energy.

I made candied ginger today! the discount supermarket had a bunch on sale, like 2lbs for 2$, so i candied it- not sure how it'll turn out yet, but i poured off some of the sugar syrup i'd been kinda boiling it in and made mint tea with it and now that'll cure what ails ya.