just back from the doc...here is your answer!

transcriber87

I had a doc appt. today for my diagnosis of PPD (don't hate on me) which really surprised me because my daughter is almost 1.  I had taken 1/2 day off work to go...she has me on anti-depressents and anxiety pills.  This could possibly be my last post here, I think I will hang on the PPD boards...this BS is really too much for me with all of the OTHER stuff going on in my life.  DRUM ROLL PLEASE.........OK....since a couple of you are just DYING to know what a LAUNDRY TECHNICIAN is....here ya go, I work for a major hospital in the Linen Dept.....If any of you have ever been in a hospital and used sheets, towels, bedliners, pillowcases, etc....I am in charge of that department and I am the one who washes, dries, yes, folds, sorts, puts them in 100 pd carts and pushes them to their respective floors.. A couple of girls at work were giving it a Fancy name LOL...thus, Laundry Technician.  I am also starting school either summer or fall to become an  LPN so I can get out of the laundry technician job...It is very hard, physical work but I love my patients and am going to school to try and better my life for me and my precious daughter.  Hope this answers the long-awaited question for you gals!! 

fauxshelley

Thank you!  I had no idea where that even came from.  I saw other people asking about it, and I didn't even know it was you.  I just had to know, lol.

mrsbecky07

Is your official job title "laundry technician"? 

either way, thanks for ending the suspense!

DevonStiles

Wow... that's a little anti-climatic.  I was honestly hoping it was code name for something else.  Bummer.

SarahBethBR

No, you titled this wrong.  It should be

JUST BACK FROM THE DOC...HERE IS YOUR ANSWER!!!!!!

KateAggie

I'm glad your doc is helping you out.  I didn't have full-blown PPD, but I've dealt with anxiety and it's hard.   

transcriber87

LOL!!  They also "float" me to houskeeping, maintenence, the front desk, wherever I am needed that day.  They cut my hours and I picked up hours in the cafe at night!  Sorry, I should have clarified that I also work in different departments in the hospital when I wrote my original post...

KXKX

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, THANK U.

mulva33

I hope when you begin school, they instruct you on the art and beauty of the paragraph.

Temp534591562502098

wow! That must be a hard job I don't envy you on that one! GL with the PPD and yes stay stress free!

mashedpotato

katela, I love your dogs.

noisy_penguin

I'm confused. Why are you saying you already love your patients if you haven't even started school yet?

mulva33

noisy_penguin:

I'm confused. Why are you saying you already love your patients if you haven't even started school yet?

I was wondering that too.  Are you building long-lasting relationships during the morning conversation of "Hi Ms. Asbury, I'm here to change your soiled linens."?

FallinAgain

Here's some legit advice.  Getting an LPN is fairly worthless these days.  Bite the bullet, do the extra year or two and get the RN.

transcriber87

I really should have known that some of you would have to rip apart every damn thing I had to say...taking it apart, piece by piece...I go on a floor where there are long term patients, rehab patients that are there for quite a while.  I am not an aide and change sheets, I deliver piles of stuff to individual rooms.  Some of these people have no family that visits on a regular basis so the people like myself and others who come into their rooms are someone to just say hello to...

 

paragraph....I AM SO FRICKING DONE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

KXKX

Sorry that was too mean.

DD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lanie30

transcriber87:

LOL!!  They also "float" me to houskeeping, maintenence, the front desk, wherever I am needed that day.  They cut my hours and I picked up hours in the cafe at night!  Sorry, I should have clarified that I also work in different departments in the hospital when I wrote my original post...

oooh, so sort of a general hospital technician.

transcriber87

I am sorry, I meant to say thanks to sugar free and Kate for their nice words!  It really is a hard job, physically.  And thanks for the encouragement on my PPD which is being aggravated by reading and responding to some of these mindless posts! 

decemberwedding07

FallinAgain:

Here's some legit advice.  Getting an LPN is fairly worthless these days.  Bite the bullet, do the extra year or two and get the RN.

I wasn't thinking "worthless," but I was thinking that getting your RN would probably be a good idea.  If you know that you love nursing and that it's what you want to do for the rest of your life, then getting your RN would greatly benefit you.  The extra year or two of school is not a big deal in the grand scheme of things.  You'll be glad you did it!

hindsight's_a_biotch

mulva33:

I hope when you begin school, they instruct you on the art and beauty of the paragraph.

bwahahaah!!

ETA: Is it just me or did miss ma'am use a shitton of unnecessary words to tell us she works in the hospital's laundry facilities?

wingedbride

I bet you see some foul things on sheets. Like, even more than motel 6 under a blacklight.

heatherlane

transcriber87:

paragraph....I AM SO FRICKING DONE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

I don't know you or the drama, but I love the way you handled this suggestion! I am a grammar Nazi myself, but I've learned in the interwebz that if I can't follow someone's grammar, spelling, and/or phrasing, that I just won't bother reading it. I guess some people have less busy lives than I do and would rather spend all day on a message board making fun of someone.

And good luck getting help with the PPD. You sound like despite the situation, you are working hard to make a life for yourself and daughter.

SoulChild

FallinAgain:

Here's some legit advice.  Getting an LPN is fairly worthless these days.  Bite the bullet, do the extra year or two and get the RN.

Ditto this.

amanjay

SoulChild:

FallinAgain:

Here's some legit advice.  Getting an LPN is fairly worthless these days.  Bite the bullet, do the extra year or two and get the RN.

Ditto this.

Amen. DH is a BSN. He makes rougly 4x what an LPN does (if people can even find an LPN job anymore) with a couple of extra years of school.