[BBFRN]

"I have a Fur Uncle." When he got back to a bed, he asked me if I knew what a fur uncle was...His doc had told him he needed to get his fur uncle removed. I had to leave the room before I laughed.

[acutecarenp]

Originally Posted by lgflamini

"I have a Fur Uncle." When he got back to a bed, he asked me if I knew what a fur uncle was...His doc had told him he needed to get his fur uncle removed. I had to leave the room before I laughed.

"don't take my blood pressure in that arm!!!.. I got di-a-been-is in that arm!"

"I ran out of dioxin and latex"

"my cousin got the screamin-moanin' Jesus...(spinal meningitis)..and I wanna get checked out"

Nurse: "Are you sexually active?"
Patient: "Well.. I think I am...but my boyfriend says I just lay there."

[dspring]

I had a "lady" call in one night, and said she was bending over and her dog jumped on her, and had sex with her. She was worried that she could become pregnant from the dog. It was all I could do to not tell her she should follow up with her vet in the morning.

[teeituptom]

Had a young lady sign in for complaint

" I have something in my Yahoo"

I told her we didnt work on computer problems here,

[mhull]

At 6am this morning, we had a new complaint on the sign in sheet....."Kidding Stone, hurts realy bad".....yes that is the way it was spelled.

[BamaBound2bRN]

I have a question for all of our "English Critics".........has anyone here ever taken a day out of your precious year to volunteer for Project Literacy to help these people?

[student4ever]

Originally Posted by BamaBound2bRN

I have a question for all of our "English Critics".........has anyone here ever taken a day out of your precious year to volunteer for Project Literacy to help these people?

That's all it seems my job is these days - trying to help these people understand proper English. But when you live in a backwoods rural area like I do, it's like pushing a semi up a mountain - darn near impossible.

Not to mention that at least 50% of the people I see are highly educated, and know better, they just choose to use their "homeland dialect." I laugh at my fair share of mistakes - but never in a malicious way. I laugh at my own mistakes, as well as the mistakes of my co-workers... we all laugh together. Somehow it makes a shift from hades go so much better. Face it. Funny spelling errors and certain dialects sound funny sometimes. Is there something wrong with laughter? I mean, isn't laughter the best MEDICINE????

It's proven - you get many more facial wrinkles and lines from frowning on others than you do sharing a laugh. So laugh it up, or you'll die of stress looking a hundred years older than you really are.

[hollyster]

Had a pt ask if we had any of the ass pain powder, my partner looked at me and said "yes, but we leave them in the admin. building ." The woman shook her head and said no, like the BC powders for my headache.

[Dalzac]

A little off topic but had a visitor tell me she used to be a nurse and knew all about car-wreck arrested, and bamboo bags.

[Stitchie]

"My capacitator needs changing"

He was sent home with an indwellling foley catheter, but to him it was a capicitator and nothing I could say would change his mind.

The resident called him "Flux" which totally surprised me (after the "Back to the Future" movies). I laughed so hard I was crying.