Hello there! I’m Kimberly, aka, Lady Ren, aka the co-host of the fabulous Auto Asphyxiation Podcast (your favorite podcast’s favorite podcast). As you may know, I am also a nurse. I have an LPN certification and licensure and have fifteen years clinical experience in a variety of settings including orthopedics, management of critical/chronic illnesses, primary care and long term and sub acute settings. As such, I would like to offer myself as a resource in these uncertain times.
Over the next couple of days, I will be making posts regarding some practices (they are easy, I promise) that can help keep you and your loved ones healthy and well.
Some topics that I plan on going over-
-Community healthcare and how you can help
-Food safety and maintaining nutrition in the home (I am a Licensed ServSafe Food Handler Manager from my previous life)
-What you can do NOW with your physician to protect your health in the future
I hope that I can provide you some comfort. I am happy to answer questions that you may have, please remember that I do work and if there is an emergency, your first call should always be to 911 and not the random nurse you know online. If you are bleeding profusely, I cannot help you from my laptop except to say “apply pressure and call 911”. Also remember that if you send me a message with a photograph of a random body part with a weird growth or boil, I may be in a public place when I receive it. Do you want that boil on display at the grocery store? Let me know prior to sending a picture so that I can help protect your privacy.
I am not a physician, and I am not able to diagnose or treat any illness, disease or injury without the guidance of a physician. Any advice that I may give you is based on my education and years of experience as a nurse and is not doctor’s orders or a physician treatment plan.
Maintaining food safety at home is important topic. I want to somehow build up this knowledge base, but yet at the same time, I feel our institution that did this must be restored. Think about all the work women will have to do when they dismantle schools, food safety, medical facilities— all that was labor that primarily women did so this is just adding more work to our plate, to subjugate us by keeping us busy. This is probably what all this dismantling is about.
Though we should still hold a workshop on the topic.
Pre-covid I didn’t mind eating at a buffet type setting, post covid era, I don’t care for buffet food. The food is sitting out in the open, exposed to the elements, you don’t know how long it’s sitting there.
I cook and bake a lot at home. I prep meats. In the fridge you should store meat on bottom shelf. Also if you freeze meat it’s best to defrost it in the fridge at a controlled temperature.
Bird flu is here. I used to cook and eat a boiled egg for 7 minutes so its runny I now add and extra minute so its soft boiled. No sunny side up eggs.
I won’t do buffets, I won’t do fast food (hepatitis), I do a lot of high end Japanese and French food (where the owner is the chef) or I will just order wine, because I’m actually scared.
I also only go to coffee shops that are owner operated and obsessed with quality and cleanliness, I check out the bathroom before I order.
So the planning meeting for next years flu shot was shut down at CDC. I always get an annual flu and covid shot. Later this year, in the fall, I may have to plan a trip to Montreal to get my covid and flu vax. So many Americans are going to get very sick and or die during this administration.
It will be how they will control the population. Can’t have an uprising if everyone is dead or has to spend their waking hours meditating their chronic illness brought on by prevents diseases.
I (hopefully) expect that there still will be flu and Covid vaccines available this upcoming season.
While the federal government is not partnering with WHO, our individual states can. There will still be a recommended flu vaccine available. I have a friend that works at the CDC and I will be following this closely with her so I can give everyone (myself included!) a little guidance.
We absolutely need to reinstitute these food safety measures after we defeat the fascists. Public Health and Safety measures are one of the first things that need to be addressed for the safety and security of the population.