@iv-coffee-stat
@iv-coffee-stat.bsky.social
RN in Primary Health. Vaccinator. Atheist.
Lover of good coffee and good grammar. Not averse to swearing.
Te-Whanganui-a-Tara
Lover of good coffee and good grammar. Not averse to swearing.
Te-Whanganui-a-Tara
Today, as often happens, a patient asked me if I was sick. I knew why they were asking but I said “no why?”
“Because you’re wearing a mask” said the patient.
I said, “no, I’m not sick. If I was sick, I’d stay home. And I don’t want to get sick, so this mask is to protect me from my patients “….
“Because you’re wearing a mask” said the patient.
I said, “no, I’m not sick. If I was sick, I’d stay home. And I don’t want to get sick, so this mask is to protect me from my patients “….
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Today, as often happens, a patient asked me if I was sick. I knew why they were asking but I said “no why?”
“Because you’re wearing a mask” said the patient.
I said, “no, I’m not sick. If I was sick, I’d stay home. And I don’t want to get sick, so this mask is to protect me from my patients “….
“Because you’re wearing a mask” said the patient.
I said, “no, I’m not sick. If I was sick, I’d stay home. And I don’t want to get sick, so this mask is to protect me from my patients “….
I had to leave the room briefly to get a piece of equipment, leaving a woman & her 6 year-old in my room. I came back in to see the six-year-old had opened my top drawer and was in the process of removing a peppermint from its packet. Watched by their mother. Who clearly was not going to stop them😑🤯
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I had to leave the room briefly to get a piece of equipment, leaving a woman & her 6 year-old in my room. I came back in to see the six-year-old had opened my top drawer and was in the process of removing a peppermint from its packet. Watched by their mother. Who clearly was not going to stop them😑🤯
Please stop booking your small children to see the nurse for liquid nitrogen treatment to their warts. It’s really bloody painful, the kids are traumatised by it and often it doesn’t get rid of the wart, or the wart grows back. Get some salicylic acid paste/paint treatment from the chemist. Thanks
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Please stop booking your small children to see the nurse for liquid nitrogen treatment to their warts. It’s really bloody painful, the kids are traumatised by it and often it doesn’t get rid of the wart, or the wart grows back. Get some salicylic acid paste/paint treatment from the chemist. Thanks
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In other words, traffic deaths are a policy choice
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 AM
In other words, traffic deaths are a policy choice
At least half of all the avocados I have ever cut open look like this😫😭
November 17, 2025 at 5:33 AM
At least half of all the avocados I have ever cut open look like this😫😭
Sometimes I’m out & I see a woman about my age, accompanying an older woman who I assume is her mother, & I’m overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia &, I guess, envy. My Mum died when I was fifteen. I’ve never experienced having a mother as an adult myself. Several of these twosomes at my movie today
November 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Sometimes I’m out & I see a woman about my age, accompanying an older woman who I assume is her mother, & I’m overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia &, I guess, envy. My Mum died when I was fifteen. I’ve never experienced having a mother as an adult myself. Several of these twosomes at my movie today
I asked my sweet delightful 88-year-old patient how she keeps active and she said she plays tenpin bowling, indoor bowling, does a walking group once a week and exercycles at home every evening while watching The Chase!!
(This is more exercise than I do at present. She’s old enough to be my mum!)🥰
(This is more exercise than I do at present. She’s old enough to be my mum!)🥰
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I asked my sweet delightful 88-year-old patient how she keeps active and she said she plays tenpin bowling, indoor bowling, does a walking group once a week and exercycles at home every evening while watching The Chase!!
(This is more exercise than I do at present. She’s old enough to be my mum!)🥰
(This is more exercise than I do at present. She’s old enough to be my mum!)🥰
Talking about a movie I’d seen & really enjoyed at the British & Irish film Festival at morning teatime, and our newish colleague said “oh God I saw that-it was crap.”
And I’m honestly not sure how I feel about that comment. Of course can have different tastes, but I’d have been more tactful….
And I’m honestly not sure how I feel about that comment. Of course can have different tastes, but I’d have been more tactful….
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Talking about a movie I’d seen & really enjoyed at the British & Irish film Festival at morning teatime, and our newish colleague said “oh God I saw that-it was crap.”
And I’m honestly not sure how I feel about that comment. Of course can have different tastes, but I’d have been more tactful….
And I’m honestly not sure how I feel about that comment. Of course can have different tastes, but I’d have been more tactful….
If you’re going to Southeast Asia in one weeks time (or frankly anywhere else in Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands, South America, Eastern Europe) please don’t pop into your doctors “just to check if I need any travel vaccines” because
1: yes you do
and
2/ no we don’t have time to arrange for you
1: yes you do
and
2/ no we don’t have time to arrange for you
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
If you’re going to Southeast Asia in one weeks time (or frankly anywhere else in Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands, South America, Eastern Europe) please don’t pop into your doctors “just to check if I need any travel vaccines” because
1: yes you do
and
2/ no we don’t have time to arrange for you
1: yes you do
and
2/ no we don’t have time to arrange for you
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15 reasons why the Michelin Guide arriving in New Zealand is a bad idea
15 reasons why the Michelin Guide arriving in New Zealand is a bad idea
The tyre man is here to judge our food. Nick Iles argues why this is terrible for New Zealand cuisine....
thespinoff.co.nz
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
15 reasons why the Michelin Guide arriving in New Zealand is a bad idea
Well, I would describe that as a lot bigger than a “moderate” quake. Felt like two earthquakes merging together. Scared the crap out of me.
November 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Well, I would describe that as a lot bigger than a “moderate” quake. Felt like two earthquakes merging together. Scared the crap out of me.
Oh FFS!!!!!!
When will NZ bloody well ban fireworks?
They’ve been talking about it for years, but it’s never happened. Just hurry up and do it!!
When will NZ bloody well ban fireworks?
They’ve been talking about it for years, but it’s never happened. Just hurry up and do it!!
November 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Oh FFS!!!!!!
When will NZ bloody well ban fireworks?
They’ve been talking about it for years, but it’s never happened. Just hurry up and do it!!
When will NZ bloody well ban fireworks?
They’ve been talking about it for years, but it’s never happened. Just hurry up and do it!!
Two of my friends have very different personality types- one is always early and the other is always late. Off work this week & going to a movie this morning with “always early”, who said she would pick me up at 10:15 but actually arrived at 9:55….
October 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Two of my friends have very different personality types- one is always early and the other is always late. Off work this week & going to a movie this morning with “always early”, who said she would pick me up at 10:15 but actually arrived at 9:55….
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Another stupid headline from Stuff. While technically accurate, she’s not living in a village in Norway or up a mountain in Peru.
She lives in Perth, Australia.
Population approx 2.4 million.
She lives in Perth, Australia.
Population approx 2.4 million.
October 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Another stupid headline from Stuff. While technically accurate, she’s not living in a village in Norway or up a mountain in Peru.
She lives in Perth, Australia.
Population approx 2.4 million.
She lives in Perth, Australia.
Population approx 2.4 million.
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Obligatory WATCH BREAKFAST ON PLUTO tweet 🤪👍👍
Gosh Cillian Murphy is SO beautiful isn’t he?
October 18, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Obligatory WATCH BREAKFAST ON PLUTO tweet 🤪👍👍
Gosh Cillian Murphy is SO beautiful isn’t he?
October 18, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Gosh Cillian Murphy is SO beautiful isn’t he?
Saturday morning moan:
Does anyone else wonder why Americans say “….off of….”???
Eg …”people were evacuated off of the train”
“I said get your feet off of the chair”
That “of” is completely superfluous. And it annoys me intensely.
Does anyone else wonder why Americans say “….off of….”???
Eg …”people were evacuated off of the train”
“I said get your feet off of the chair”
That “of” is completely superfluous. And it annoys me intensely.
October 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Saturday morning moan:
Does anyone else wonder why Americans say “….off of….”???
Eg …”people were evacuated off of the train”
“I said get your feet off of the chair”
That “of” is completely superfluous. And it annoys me intensely.
Does anyone else wonder why Americans say “….off of….”???
Eg …”people were evacuated off of the train”
“I said get your feet off of the chair”
That “of” is completely superfluous. And it annoys me intensely.
Why do old blokes think it’s appropriate to tell sexist jokes to the nurse while she’s changing their dressing, removing their sutures, or sticking an injection in their bum? Frankly, not a wise thing to do if somebody’s holding sharp scissors, a blade or a needle close by…..😑
October 16, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Why do old blokes think it’s appropriate to tell sexist jokes to the nurse while she’s changing their dressing, removing their sutures, or sticking an injection in their bum? Frankly, not a wise thing to do if somebody’s holding sharp scissors, a blade or a needle close by…..😑
… and the parent who books their child into one of our very scarce “urgent” slots when the child isn’t really unwell, & then gives a list of their own (non urgent)
symptoms that they want treated today!
You think you’re so clever, but now someone else’s really sick child misses that urgent spot😡
symptoms that they want treated today!
You think you’re so clever, but now someone else’s really sick child misses that urgent spot😡
October 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
… and the parent who books their child into one of our very scarce “urgent” slots when the child isn’t really unwell, & then gives a list of their own (non urgent)
symptoms that they want treated today!
You think you’re so clever, but now someone else’s really sick child misses that urgent spot😡
symptoms that they want treated today!
You think you’re so clever, but now someone else’s really sick child misses that urgent spot😡
When a teenager is playing on their phone throughout the entire consultation, answering questions with one word answers or “Dunno” & you say to them “please put your phone away” and they give you an eyeroll and a dirty look and SO DOES THEIR PARENT….honestly sometimes I’m just so sick of this shit!
October 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
When a teenager is playing on their phone throughout the entire consultation, answering questions with one word answers or “Dunno” & you say to them “please put your phone away” and they give you an eyeroll and a dirty look and SO DOES THEIR PARENT….honestly sometimes I’m just so sick of this shit!
Minute Cryptic - 6 October, 2025
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October 6, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Minute Cryptic - 6 October, 2025
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Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
October 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
#TwentyfiveFortyseven