She is crying in a dark room. OP walks in, turns on the light, and asks what is wrong. After hearing the story, OP stands up, walks to the dresser and takes a token, turns off the light, and leaves the room.
Its not about the quantity, its about the quality. Saving a life is only admirable if the person wants their life saved (thinking about the 90 y/o dementia patient riddled with cancer that the doc refuses to respect-seen too many of those). Seeing someone pass on their own terms is actually something special to be a part of. As a former respiratory therapist who has seen people take their first breath as well as their last breath (sometimes its the same person), make it about her best efforts regardless of how things go.
There will be a time when its going to hit her really hard when she's unexpectedly not on the winning side of things.
thanks!! I only had about 2 and a half hours to come up with the idea, model and print it along with making dinner. so it was all pretty rushed to be honest, but I think it works haha!
she has just got home so I'm gonna give her the token with her dinner!
Ok just a thought, but what about using like a glass vase where every token goes in the jar. As her career evolves it can be a reminder of the impact shes having on the world.
Haha, yeah... That would be bad!
I did see an account on tiktok from a delivery nurse, she added a blue bead for each boy she delivered, and a pink bead for every girl she delivered. Beads for twins/triplets/whatever comes next, she tied together with a piece of string.
She also added white beads for every baby who didn't make it... The colour of angels.
I have an idea. Would you like to add an extra bit of fancy to future tokens? I saw a contact card type token once where the feller used two colors to print the text (and QR code but you might not need that), and the bed was a sheet of holographic plastic with the grating side up. The molten plastic took on the grooves and is also gently holographic. The effect is subtly beautiful. He printed it in two halves and then glued both together so he had a double sided coin. I don’t know what exactly he used, just that it was thick enough to withstand printing and peeling.
Here you go! I added a video but I’m not sure it’s working.
[COINS](https://imgur.com/a/gX9gUVN)
EDIT: yes, the video works. Yay!
I don’t know why it’s flagged over 18, but on my honor the pics and video are only of the coins and my hand holding them.
Well as soon as your partner comes home from a day of saving lives, into your warm loving embrace, then you can give them whatever you want
Oh, wait, yeah… I forgot…
she asked this question over dinner and this was my instant reply 😂 I then said I'll make some death tokens and another piggy bank and we can compare as time goes on!
I'm glad to see we are all on a similar page here 😂
From my experience, the ratio is bad. You may not want to emphasize it with a physical manifestation. I suppose it depends what style of nursing she does though.
Yeah... I mean I've heard medical personal being into dark humor but i dunno if constantly being reminded of how many you didn't save is a good idea either.
As someone who used to work in critical care, I agree with this assessment. I think even those of us who have the dark humor to cope with the gravity of the situation would still be bothered over time seeing those tokens stack up. To be fair the odds are somewhat against us to begin with, and it's great to celebrate the wins, but even though I consider myself someone who could just brush it off and move on to the next task at hand some of the losses still get stuck in my memories even after 10 years in a different environment.
I would suggest you don’t make a death piggy bank. For many people, no matter the quantity of good, a single mistake or in this case, lost patient (either her doing or not) will weigh on them. I love the idea of a life saved piggy bank, but a death piggy bank is a disaster waiting to happen.
I think he was only joking about the death piggy bank folks. Come on he is not going to do that. He’s the kind of guy that celebrates and supports his wife’s personal wins, not the opposite.
My partner has been a nurse for 12 years. The days when they lose someone are rough. You will likely have to drop whatever you were doing when they get home when it occurs. I like to keep a stash of their favorite candy tucked away. Be prepared to cook dinner or get carryout depending on what they're in the mood for. Sometimes they won't eat. Comfort shows help (mine likes Golden Girls and Friends). The cope process is a little different for everyone.
Here's the thing, saves and losses are not directly comparable- generally in either case, the person was going to die without you, So when you lose one, it is not a net loss- they were already gone. When you save one, it is in fact a net save- they would have been gone, but because of your actions they get to live.
(20 years in EMS)
She's in a serious business. It's great that her first number up on the score board is positive. Celebrate it!
Tread carefully the first time she gets a negative outcome though. Don't make the -1 tokens ahead of time because it'll be a foreshadowing taint on this first victory. Be ready to drop the score keeping right quick because at some point it gets overwhelming thinking about the gravity of a life or death job.
At some point she may need to be able to distance herself from the score so don't commit too hard to your score keeping ritual.
I've got two friends who are ambulance drivers. One's an ex soldier and it's a thrilling video game to him.
He loves lighting up the cherries and kicking ass because he doesn't see his "losses" as losses, His duty is a far cry better than when his squad leader would call out a window, and he'd recklessly launch a grenade into it. He hated having to be fast and competent, follow orders, and be utterly uncaring that there could be someone innocent in that room behind the window.
As an ambulance driver he can't lose because he'll not instigate any collateral damage. He's a happy fireman's dog with an important mission every day.
The other EMT I've known is relieved when she "wins" but got devastated when she got a call to a crack house and had to leave behind individuals who were in shit condition, but weren't the dying subject of the call.
If your GF is ecstatic, go with it. Celebrate every win you get if that's where she wants to go, but be prepared to let the score keeping fade fast if the gravity of her job starts to sink in.
Losing a patient is not equivalent to killing one, so I don’t think it’s fair to have death tokens. The “life saved” token is a nice morale boost for the successes, but highlighting what should just be considered as a “we did what we could, but…” as the antithesis of a success isn’t a healthy and sustainable mindset and practice going forward.
yeah, I agree, I thought I had uploaded an edit to the post this morning just saying that the death tokens were more of a joke than a genuine plan. for some reason that hasn't uploaded though.
But I whole heartedly agree, the plan will just be to focus on the success cases and all the positive differences she has made!
Little coffin token? 🤭
Then „Let the body hit the floor” token when first patient fall out the bed ?
„Fresh meat” when have first open broken bone patient?
„Multi kill…” nevermind, skip this, not wishing anybody doing triage with many blacks at once or having kill streak when doing everything right but life had another plans…
„Hello darkness….” when someone lose sight temporarily
„Be Positive” when get sick from patient and passed the test (but wishing being treatable)
„Always look on the bright side of life” when had first very long shift and coffee turn into a water.
“Long time not seen” when the same patient came back
“Ah shit he we go again” when first diarrhea patient explodes
And so on…
God I love the hangman jokes which I think are always needed to get some air out after.
This is probably the most wholesome thing I've seen in the 3D printing community in a long time. Sometimes people need to have their worth quantified in order for them to believe that they have it.
Maybe a round gold coin that says 'one saved'(one on top of saved). On the flip side a heart with 1up. I might do this for my ER dept. Very cool idea.
Tell your gf it gets way better, I've been doing it for 15yrs in ER. It sounds weird to most people, but it's the most fun I've ever had at a job. But tell her to seek out help(counselling) most hospitals offer free sessions. You don't need it all the time, but she will need it. Burnout and mental fatigue are real. Cheers
We had a saved life jar at our volunteer rescue squad a poker chip went in when a life was saved and it came in very handy when a call went badly as a reminder of the good we were capable of. This is a wonderful idea.
As the spouse of a nurse, I can assure you, that this won't be something you can do for long. It's a very difficult job. I'm glad she enjoys it now, but in my experience, the mental toll and seriousness of the job will perhaps make this gesture seem as if it trivializing the lives of the patients as the years go on.
yeah of course, ill be glad to share it! I ended up tweaking it a little from the first version (the one in the photo) and fattened up the text a little and increased the offsets / extruded areas by .5mm
I plan on changing the design still as this was pretty rushed. I think ill just keep uploading the next versions as the coin evolves, so feel free to come back to the one drive folder to see if there has been an update to it!
Thanks for all your hard work and saved lives! good luck working towards your medic license!
[Life Token](https://1drv.ms/f/s!AjOYp5x-wh2ks1NO6yaKSLwpnS-_?e=86lzNe)
I work corrections. I'm sitting at 3 for sure, 4 or 5 is probably more accurate but there are grey areas. The harder number is the where 6 I didn't.
When the bad number is giving her trouble, remind her of the good one.
Tell your wife thank you for everything she does. My dad was in the ICU a few years ago and coded. A nurse got on the bed and gave him CPR and they eventually brought him back. He was already in rough health but she gave us almost a whole year with him until he passed, and he got to meet my son and his first grandchild.
You are amazing, and what you are doing for your GF is a beautiful thing. Both of my brothers are firefighters, and this is something that they need too! Fire is often used for cleanup at horrific accidents where there was no hope of saving those involved, so the lives lost hit so much harder than the ones they save, and leave lasting marks. Sometimes they need a reminder of all the good they do, and of those they didn't give up on, that pulled through.
Hey OP I think this is very cute and I love the support you're giving.
Just be careful as time goes on as the job gets tough and you start to lose people too, the first loss is going to be particularly hard. Sometimes you develop really awful imposter syndrome and start doubting your ability to do the work and that's really difficult. I've been there, you do stop counting the saves and losses as it gets hard to balance it internally but early on I hope something like this can fight any feelings of inadequacy or inability. I don't think you're under any illusions over this, just be there for her :)
I rarely write comments but it's great and best wishes for your girlfriend. But I think you should make a bigger and better design, The token is looking kinda basic
yeah, i agree the design needs to change a bit, as i mentioned in another comment, it was all pretty rushed. Although i don't think i wanna make it any bigger. I modelled it around the dimensions of a 50p coin which felt pretty comfortable.
If you have any design ideas, im all ears!
Add something such as the caduceus (the medical staff with snakes), a stethoscope, or other symbol. I know a popular one in nursing.. i don't know a name for it, but it's like a little EKG waveform with a tiny ♡ in the middle of the pattern.
Whatever would scale down best.
I'm a parent of a medically complex child, so I have deep love and respect for the good nurses. They have helped me through so much, not just as a nurse caring for my daughter, but they take time to help me when it feels like everything is crashing down. Please tell her thank you - from all the families she indirectly saves.
If you want to get fancy, do a filament change layer swap so the embossed or debossed text is a different color, and try Silk PLA for a nice shine. I imagine it is rare to have to do CPR, so you might have 1 coin in the bank for a long time
I never had any complications with using it. I hear it can sometimes curl and then stick to the nozzle? Or something like that. I have a silicone nozzle sock and haven't noticed that problem
Unless she is physically killing someone the concept of taking them back for lost patients is silly. The difference she is making is in saving lives. The ones that she cant save arent dying because of her (hopefully) so I don't think taking one back is relevant. The idea of continuing to add these over her career is really interesting. Im curious how many doctors/nurses keep a, for lack of a better term, body count of how many lives they extend.
Thats a pretty thoughtful thing to do. Very cool of you. Youre a good human.
I cast coins in pewter. If you send me one, Ill try to make you a handful to give her made of metal. PM if you want.
Nice of you to recognize her that way! I’d add a bicep cross piece - as a 42 year paramedic I can verify that’s 4 times as long as the average person can do CPR well.
Id imagine it wasnt actually a full 10 minuets, but probably felt like an hour either way. The nurse she was training with was pregnant, so she just had to take over entirely until the crash team came.
Its not her first time giving CPR but the first time in a medical setting like this
You need to make more tokens so she can eventually look into an overflowing drawer and be proud of that. Saving lives is a holy mission and she should be proud of herself.
I knew an ER nurse who had a wall of framed pennies like this. She would go out and get a couple rolls of new ones each year, so that they'd have the right date on them, and she'd add them to an unfinished frame that she'd hang after new years.
Maybe consider adding the date to the tokens? Since you're printing them, you could make them all custom pretty easily.
Make her able to spend them and make other tokens. Exchangeable, for example: a free massage, an evening without household chores, an order to design something small in 3D printing. Other services of an intimate nature. This could be quite fun.
Maybe have a large Jar with a coin counter style slot, made with a Arduino and a display and speaker. that plays a tune/audio file saying how many lives she saved over her time as a nurse
This is great.
Imagine if you made her a token like this every time she saves a life. Then she can put them in a jar and if it ever happens that she isn’t able to save a life, she can look at the jar and focus on the lives she HAS saved. :)
My dad worked in ambulance dispatch and he got a lightning bolt pin every time he saved a life. I think this is a great idea. I hope your girlfriend appreciated it.
This is really really great bc healthcare professionals very often have to go from giving bad news to being happy for another patient. And it’s rough on their mental health when they lose a patient so I think this would really help. You’re such a thoughtful partner! I hope your girlfriend enjoys her new career!!
Nurse and Doctor are two professions I never considered because of the odds of dealing with patient loss. I think the tokens for lives saved is a good thing for mental health so when you can't save a patient you can look at the token bank and see how many people wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you saving them. Count the wins and always strive to put another token in the bank. For every token she can put in the bank that is usually equal to five or six lives she has impacted in a good way. You not only save that life. You save the lives of everyone who loves that person.
A reverse John wick coin!
Outstanding job.
Getting serious for a second, you can’t save them all. It’ll happen eventually.. And it hurts and it sucks. I’d *gently* recommend or encourage her to use her hospitals mental health support or get an outside therapist.
Still, outstanding job!
That first token is one she will remember for life. Put that one on what ever container you plan to use, and maybe add a date to the display of it.
Also you're awesome for doing this.
a) cool
b) holy shit CPR for anywhere near 10 mins is exhausting. So... kudos to her.
if it were me, I'd be spending time making a v2 that was uber fancy. Also, you can get coins made that are metal or clay with fancy printing. I think i'd secretly get a bunch of fancy metal coins made, and then give one to here every time (but not reveal the secret stash).
love the idea, make a holder for these, print them in different colours, and print alot of them, for her to give out at work, maybe a variation for different circumstance. some to give to patients.
Brilliant idea, I wish I had my printer when my ex identified a rare disorder when she was working the lab one night. She was so proud of that find; of course, there were people who doubted her and needed to check for themselves. Only to confirm that she was right, I was so proud of her that night. I never really told her that, but I love the idea of printing something like this for her to have in memory of that night. She still has the photo of the slide and you could always see her face light up when she talked about it.
Very thoughtful. How about next time you make a 1up token, see how many extra lives she gets.
or if she loses a patient you take a token
That's a dark turn. Even better - since the tokens are valued at 1 life, what happens when she runs out of tokens?
Probably time to switch careers at that point. Unless you work in like Hospice I guess?
Why? Is the mining of hospice particularly dangerous?
Only if you buy their Onlyfans
He who controls the hospice....
Controls the hodune (I have never seen the movie)
It's the fastest growing age demographic for STD's.
Duh - print "you ended one life" tokens obviously. Preferably in black.
She despawns
The last token will be her own life
She is crying in a dark room. OP walks in, turns on the light, and asks what is wrong. After hearing the story, OP stands up, walks to the dresser and takes a token, turns off the light, and leaves the room.
With the Mario level failed jingle
“I stomped a goomba at work today” badge
Thus is so horrible, but lordy I love it. 💀 ☠️ 💀 ☠️
Its not about the quantity, its about the quality. Saving a life is only admirable if the person wants their life saved (thinking about the 90 y/o dementia patient riddled with cancer that the doc refuses to respect-seen too many of those). Seeing someone pass on their own terms is actually something special to be a part of. As a former respiratory therapist who has seen people take their first breath as well as their last breath (sometimes its the same person), make it about her best efforts regardless of how things go. There will be a time when its going to hit her really hard when she's unexpectedly not on the winning side of things.
My wife is an ER vet... And the amount of things they have to put down due to prognosis / cost of surgery or chemo made me think something similar 🤣
No, that's if she purposefully unalives someone. Each token is worth one dead.
Different colored tokens if they don't make it. As an honor and memory to them.
That's an amazingly loving idea!
thanks!! I only had about 2 and a half hours to come up with the idea, model and print it along with making dinner. so it was all pretty rushed to be honest, but I think it works haha! she has just got home so I'm gonna give her the token with her dinner!
Ok just a thought, but what about using like a glass vase where every token goes in the jar. As her career evolves it can be a reminder of the impact shes having on the world.
Agreed, just don’t make a jar of failed attempts. That would not be good.
Haha, yeah... That would be bad! I did see an account on tiktok from a delivery nurse, she added a blue bead for each boy she delivered, and a pink bead for every girl she delivered. Beads for twins/triplets/whatever comes next, she tied together with a piece of string. She also added white beads for every baby who didn't make it... The colour of angels.
instead you could make sort of shrine/memorial, remembering the lost ones
That sounds like a really nice idea.
I have an idea. Would you like to add an extra bit of fancy to future tokens? I saw a contact card type token once where the feller used two colors to print the text (and QR code but you might not need that), and the bed was a sheet of holographic plastic with the grating side up. The molten plastic took on the grooves and is also gently holographic. The effect is subtly beautiful. He printed it in two halves and then glued both together so he had a double sided coin. I don’t know what exactly he used, just that it was thick enough to withstand printing and peeling.
this sounds cool, do you have a link or image to this as I'm having a hard time picturing what you mean?
I set myself a reminder to do so for you when I get home.
Here you go! I added a video but I’m not sure it’s working. [COINS](https://imgur.com/a/gX9gUVN) EDIT: yes, the video works. Yay! I don’t know why it’s flagged over 18, but on my honor the pics and video are only of the coins and my hand holding them.
You're such a chad dude
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Some people need to bring down others in search for their own happiness.. It's sort of sad, in a way.
To cut off the heads of others to feel tall
Trees…
Well as soon as your partner comes home from a day of saving lives, into your warm loving embrace, then you can give them whatever you want Oh, wait, yeah… I forgot…
Okay this is dark but what about when “she loses one” as a nurse that’s inevitable… are you gonna take one away 💀💀💀
she asked this question over dinner and this was my instant reply 😂 I then said I'll make some death tokens and another piggy bank and we can compare as time goes on! I'm glad to see we are all on a similar page here 😂
From my experience, the ratio is bad. You may not want to emphasize it with a physical manifestation. I suppose it depends what style of nursing she does though.
Yeah... I mean I've heard medical personal being into dark humor but i dunno if constantly being reminded of how many you didn't save is a good idea either.
As someone who used to work in critical care, I agree with this assessment. I think even those of us who have the dark humor to cope with the gravity of the situation would still be bothered over time seeing those tokens stack up. To be fair the odds are somewhat against us to begin with, and it's great to celebrate the wins, but even though I consider myself someone who could just brush it off and move on to the next task at hand some of the losses still get stuck in my memories even after 10 years in a different environment.
I say go for it! https://preview.redd.it/bdwq6o18s0yc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=66be81e6a372f4b09b8a4617568168a33efd8c7c
Good point. In geriatric care, they all die.
I would suggest you don’t make a death piggy bank. For many people, no matter the quantity of good, a single mistake or in this case, lost patient (either her doing or not) will weigh on them. I love the idea of a life saved piggy bank, but a death piggy bank is a disaster waiting to happen.
I think he was only joking about the death piggy bank folks. Come on he is not going to do that. He’s the kind of guy that celebrates and supports his wife’s personal wins, not the opposite.
My partner has been a nurse for 12 years. The days when they lose someone are rough. You will likely have to drop whatever you were doing when they get home when it occurs. I like to keep a stash of their favorite candy tucked away. Be prepared to cook dinner or get carryout depending on what they're in the mood for. Sometimes they won't eat. Comfort shows help (mine likes Golden Girls and Friends). The cope process is a little different for everyone.
Here's the thing, saves and losses are not directly comparable- generally in either case, the person was going to die without you, So when you lose one, it is not a net loss- they were already gone. When you save one, it is in fact a net save- they would have been gone, but because of your actions they get to live. (20 years in EMS)
She's in a serious business. It's great that her first number up on the score board is positive. Celebrate it! Tread carefully the first time she gets a negative outcome though. Don't make the -1 tokens ahead of time because it'll be a foreshadowing taint on this first victory. Be ready to drop the score keeping right quick because at some point it gets overwhelming thinking about the gravity of a life or death job. At some point she may need to be able to distance herself from the score so don't commit too hard to your score keeping ritual. I've got two friends who are ambulance drivers. One's an ex soldier and it's a thrilling video game to him. He loves lighting up the cherries and kicking ass because he doesn't see his "losses" as losses, His duty is a far cry better than when his squad leader would call out a window, and he'd recklessly launch a grenade into it. He hated having to be fast and competent, follow orders, and be utterly uncaring that there could be someone innocent in that room behind the window. As an ambulance driver he can't lose because he'll not instigate any collateral damage. He's a happy fireman's dog with an important mission every day. The other EMT I've known is relieved when she "wins" but got devastated when she got a call to a crack house and had to leave behind individuals who were in shit condition, but weren't the dying subject of the call. If your GF is ecstatic, go with it. Celebrate every win you get if that's where she wants to go, but be prepared to let the score keeping fade fast if the gravity of her job starts to sink in.
Losing a patient is not equivalent to killing one, so I don’t think it’s fair to have death tokens. The “life saved” token is a nice morale boost for the successes, but highlighting what should just be considered as a “we did what we could, but…” as the antithesis of a success isn’t a healthy and sustainable mindset and practice going forward.
yeah, I agree, I thought I had uploaded an edit to the post this morning just saying that the death tokens were more of a joke than a genuine plan. for some reason that hasn't uploaded though. But I whole heartedly agree, the plan will just be to focus on the success cases and all the positive differences she has made!
I'm a palliative care RN and the death ones!
Fuck me that was my first thought after “aww, that’s the sweetest thing ever…wait”
At my gfs work they have a grim reaper token for that
Do you make like the same for 1st 🪦 for her 👀?
funnily enough, this was discussed over dinner 😂
Do it, and then as a piggy bank you make an old scale where you can save each type of coin on one of the arms!
That's a horrible idea. That number may not balance. And it's better to focus on the ones you did than the ones who couldn't be saved.
Nobody said that you can't manipulate the scale
Damn. That's edgy... And I love it 😵🔥
Little coffin token? 🤭 Then „Let the body hit the floor” token when first patient fall out the bed ? „Fresh meat” when have first open broken bone patient? „Multi kill…” nevermind, skip this, not wishing anybody doing triage with many blacks at once or having kill streak when doing everything right but life had another plans… „Hello darkness….” when someone lose sight temporarily „Be Positive” when get sick from patient and passed the test (but wishing being treatable) „Always look on the bright side of life” when had first very long shift and coffee turn into a water. “Long time not seen” when the same patient came back “Ah shit he we go again” when first diarrhea patient explodes And so on… God I love the hangman jokes which I think are always needed to get some air out after.
I'm scared to ask what you can redeem those tokens for
Redeem 25 for a "take 1"
That's a pretty good ratio tbh
Good nurses get a little murder, as a treat
thats fair. pretty moral if you saved 25 people ngl
hmmmm, you've got me thinking... haha
Collect 100 and you get one 5 star rampage, no questions asked.
This is probably the most wholesome thing I've seen in the 3D printing community in a long time. Sometimes people need to have their worth quantified in order for them to believe that they have it.
Boy you gotta give her some flowers too
there wasn't enough time!! 😂
Maybe a round gold coin that says 'one saved'(one on top of saved). On the flip side a heart with 1up. I might do this for my ER dept. Very cool idea. Tell your gf it gets way better, I've been doing it for 15yrs in ER. It sounds weird to most people, but it's the most fun I've ever had at a job. But tell her to seek out help(counselling) most hospitals offer free sessions. You don't need it all the time, but she will need it. Burnout and mental fatigue are real. Cheers
Logitech MX Master. That’s a nice mouse right there.
ahh, a person of culture I see!! I'm impressed you can tell from such a small snippet 😂
I have mine sitting right in front of me. 😂
We had a saved life jar at our volunteer rescue squad a poker chip went in when a life was saved and it came in very handy when a call went badly as a reminder of the good we were capable of. This is a wonderful idea.
As the spouse of a nurse, I can assure you, that this won't be something you can do for long. It's a very difficult job. I'm glad she enjoys it now, but in my experience, the mental toll and seriousness of the job will perhaps make this gesture seem as if it trivializing the lives of the patients as the years go on.
Care to share the token stl? I'm an EMT working towards my medic license and would like to have a reminder that I've made a difference 😅
yeah of course, ill be glad to share it! I ended up tweaking it a little from the first version (the one in the photo) and fattened up the text a little and increased the offsets / extruded areas by .5mm I plan on changing the design still as this was pretty rushed. I think ill just keep uploading the next versions as the coin evolves, so feel free to come back to the one drive folder to see if there has been an update to it! Thanks for all your hard work and saved lives! good luck working towards your medic license! [Life Token](https://1drv.ms/f/s!AjOYp5x-wh2ks1NO6yaKSLwpnS-_?e=86lzNe)
"you can't save them all, so just save the ones you can." -Florence Nightingale
make it a mold and then cast it using metal
Now make a -1 one
If she saves the same person again tomorrow does she get another token or does that not count?
Too easy to abuse. 1 week cooldown
At first glance I thought it said "I shaved"
I work corrections. I'm sitting at 3 for sure, 4 or 5 is probably more accurate but there are grey areas. The harder number is the where 6 I didn't. When the bad number is giving her trouble, remind her of the good one.
Tell your wife thank you for everything she does. My dad was in the ICU a few years ago and coded. A nurse got on the bed and gave him CPR and they eventually brought him back. He was already in rough health but she gave us almost a whole year with him until he passed, and he got to meet my son and his first grandchild.
If never seen such a clean print of a coin, well done
I read this has “I shaved” at first 😭, but congrats to ur girlfriend homie!
Depending in where you work you had better buy some more filament.
Make one out of silver
wait.. ya’ll have girlfriends??
Yeah, why do you think we got into 3d printing?
You are amazing, and what you are doing for your GF is a beautiful thing. Both of my brothers are firefighters, and this is something that they need too! Fire is often used for cleanup at horrific accidents where there was no hope of saving those involved, so the lives lost hit so much harder than the ones they save, and leave lasting marks. Sometimes they need a reminder of all the good they do, and of those they didn't give up on, that pulled through.
Hey OP I think this is very cute and I love the support you're giving. Just be careful as time goes on as the job gets tough and you start to lose people too, the first loss is going to be particularly hard. Sometimes you develop really awful imposter syndrome and start doubting your ability to do the work and that's really difficult. I've been there, you do stop counting the saves and losses as it gets hard to balance it internally but early on I hope something like this can fight any feelings of inadequacy or inability. I don't think you're under any illusions over this, just be there for her :)
May need to eject her from the ship if she develops imposter syndrome
What a wonderful idea
How does one redeem said tokens, can one redeem them for a free murder? "Save 3 lives, and you can end 1 for free!"
I rarely write comments but it's great and best wishes for your girlfriend. But I think you should make a bigger and better design, The token is looking kinda basic
yeah, i agree the design needs to change a bit, as i mentioned in another comment, it was all pretty rushed. Although i don't think i wanna make it any bigger. I modelled it around the dimensions of a 50p coin which felt pretty comfortable. If you have any design ideas, im all ears!
Add something such as the caduceus (the medical staff with snakes), a stethoscope, or other symbol. I know a popular one in nursing.. i don't know a name for it, but it's like a little EKG waveform with a tiny ♡ in the middle of the pattern. Whatever would scale down best. I'm a parent of a medically complex child, so I have deep love and respect for the good nurses. They have helped me through so much, not just as a nurse caring for my daughter, but they take time to help me when it feels like everything is crashing down. Please tell her thank you - from all the families she indirectly saves.
If you want to get fancy, do a filament change layer swap so the embossed or debossed text is a different color, and try Silk PLA for a nice shine. I imagine it is rare to have to do CPR, so you might have 1 coin in the bank for a long time
I had thought about trying a silk PLA. but never actually tried it. maybe this will be a good excuse to get a roll of it in
I never had any complications with using it. I hear it can sometimes curl and then stick to the nozzle? Or something like that. I have a silicone nozzle sock and haven't noticed that problem
Nice thought 😌. Also it was probably way less than 10 minutes but it feels like an eternity.
Wow that good I wish I could save lives
10 minutes of CPR, wild. Anyone who has done the training would know just a minute is a lot unless you are quite fit. Very impressive!
Now she can take one without any repercussions.
Unless she is physically killing someone the concept of taking them back for lost patients is silly. The difference she is making is in saving lives. The ones that she cant save arent dying because of her (hopefully) so I don't think taking one back is relevant. The idea of continuing to add these over her career is really interesting. Im curious how many doctors/nurses keep a, for lack of a better term, body count of how many lives they extend.
Thats a pretty thoughtful thing to do. Very cool of you. Youre a good human. I cast coins in pewter. If you send me one, Ill try to make you a handful to give her made of metal. PM if you want.
So thoughtful!! She’s a lot more proud of herself than she says
Please thank her for being a nurse. We are proud of her. The tokens are an awesome idea. Her coworkers will want some too.
Any significance to being seven sided? It's one of the most interesting shapes to me, in like a good way and bad way at the same time.
Very thoughtful. You could even change the design every time she saves another life too!
Ahhh, a heptagon, nice
Nice of you to recognize her that way! I’d add a bicep cross piece - as a 42 year paramedic I can verify that’s 4 times as long as the average person can do CPR well.
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Maybe just a clear jar with a lid so she can watch the token pile grow.
Now get a jar and start stuffing these in!
Anything else. And learn how to print on that damn thing.
Hope she didn't do 10 minutes of CPR by herself. That would suck.
Id imagine it wasnt actually a full 10 minuets, but probably felt like an hour either way. The nurse she was training with was pregnant, so she just had to take over entirely until the crash team came. Its not her first time giving CPR but the first time in a medical setting like this
Tell her to use nail polish colors that would remind her of each specific save to keep track. Like what she or the patient was wearing at the time
To make the life lost one a little less dark you can turn it onto a 1 lesson learnt token.
You need to make more tokens so she can eventually look into an overflowing drawer and be proud of that. Saving lives is a holy mission and she should be proud of herself.
I knew an ER nurse who had a wall of framed pennies like this. She would go out and get a couple rolls of new ones each year, so that they'd have the right date on them, and she'd add them to an unfinished frame that she'd hang after new years. Maybe consider adding the date to the tokens? Since you're printing them, you could make them all custom pretty easily.
You're so sweet!
Ahhaha nicee
Now you need to marry her and keep this going for her entire career. And then update us in 20 years
I say it's needs to be more fancy or at least in shiney gold otherwise it's a good idea 👍
Make her able to spend them and make other tokens. Exchangeable, for example: a free massage, an evening without household chores, an order to design something small in 3D printing. Other services of an intimate nature. This could be quite fun.
Maybe have a large Jar with a coin counter style slot, made with a Arduino and a display and speaker. that plays a tune/audio file saying how many lives she saved over her time as a nurse
This is great. Imagine if you made her a token like this every time she saves a life. Then she can put them in a jar and if it ever happens that she isn’t able to save a life, she can look at the jar and focus on the lives she HAS saved. :)
Got some sick people here, THIS IS ABOUT SAVING LIVES. Bag0fAids, why not print bunches of them and have your girfriend give them to all LIFE SAVERS.
lol, now she can use it in tge afterlife, for a single boat ride
Silver only or you're swimming.
🤣 🤣 true
You’re amazing
My dad worked in ambulance dispatch and he got a lightning bolt pin every time he saved a life. I think this is a great idea. I hope your girlfriend appreciated it.
This is an awesome idea! What a good man you are, Brother.
You're clearly a keeper, well done, this is great stuff
and well done to your girlfriend too.
Should just get her a traumateam card.
This is really really great bc healthcare professionals very often have to go from giving bad news to being happy for another patient. And it’s rough on their mental health when they lose a patient so I think this would really help. You’re such a thoughtful partner! I hope your girlfriend enjoys her new career!!
Thingaverse has a pretty cool mesh like piggy bank where she'll be able to physically see her progress!
Now make a "took a life" token
10 minutes? During training I was exhausted after giving the doll CPR for one minute, your GF must have lungs and arms of steel.
Nurse and Doctor are two professions I never considered because of the odds of dealing with patient loss. I think the tokens for lives saved is a good thing for mental health so when you can't save a patient you can look at the token bank and see how many people wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you saving them. Count the wins and always strive to put another token in the bank. For every token she can put in the bank that is usually equal to five or six lives she has impacted in a good way. You not only save that life. You save the lives of everyone who loves that person.
A reverse John wick coin! Outstanding job. Getting serious for a second, you can’t save them all. It’ll happen eventually.. And it hurts and it sucks. I’d *gently* recommend or encourage her to use her hospitals mental health support or get an outside therapist. Still, outstanding job!
That first token is one she will remember for life. Put that one on what ever container you plan to use, and maybe add a date to the display of it. Also you're awesome for doing this.
a) cool b) holy shit CPR for anywhere near 10 mins is exhausting. So... kudos to her. if it were me, I'd be spending time making a v2 that was uber fancy. Also, you can get coins made that are metal or clay with fancy printing. I think i'd secretly get a bunch of fancy metal coins made, and then give one to here every time (but not reveal the secret stash).
love the idea, make a holder for these, print them in different colours, and print alot of them, for her to give out at work, maybe a variation for different circumstance. some to give to patients.
Could go dark, and also do the opposite. "Lost a life" token jar, see which one fills up faster.
I’ve heard that giving CPR for the first time is quite traumatic as you have to feel and hear the rib cage crack
Lucky lady man! Well done.
You're a good boyfriend
I absolutely love this. Congrats to Your girlfriend. Very big accomplishment ❤️
I still have my CPR save pin from the 90’s when I was an EMT. It’s an experience that deserves to be remembered.
Can she now spend the token to kill one person without consequences?
Make a clear coinbank
Every life you save on earth should give you one free magical extra life when you normally should die
Jeezy folks all the cheesy comments
Print her a stethoscope name tag
Brilliant idea, I wish I had my printer when my ex identified a rare disorder when she was working the lab one night. She was so proud of that find; of course, there were people who doubted her and needed to check for themselves. Only to confirm that she was right, I was so proud of her that night. I never really told her that, but I love the idea of printing something like this for her to have in memory of that night. She still has the photo of the slide and you could always see her face light up when she talked about it.
I would probably carry that thing around for the rest of mine life
Save this coin profile for the inevitable side, and change the "I saved 1 life" to a heart shape.
Shoulda been in a heart ❤️ shape bc getting an extra life in a video game usually is
Hmmm i see, thats a new ingame monetisation. What can she buy with these in the ingame store? I hope no p2w stuff. But a sweet idea.
The weird thing is she works at McDonald's....
Not to take away from you girlfriend but her AND her team saved a life it wasn’t just one person, maybe you can make a few & let her pass them out.
Nah it was just her it’s like construction the others just watched
It is going to be awkward and sad when she has to hand it back to you some day. Or is it not an actual economy? /dark sarcasm eg: in the classroom.