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Old Apr 22, 2008, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by preemieRNkate View Post
Hmm, our 8th floor windows don't open either. But there is always the pneumatic tube system with it's 1 kilo weight limit!
Visions of that one commercial with the kid (at bring your kid to work day) shooting stuff out the bank's tube system at that guy in the car come to mind!!!!

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Originally Posted by preemieRNkate View Post
But there is always the pneumatic tube system with it's 1 kilo weight limit!
What a great idea!

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Old Apr 22, 2008, 06:00 PM
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"...But there is always the pneumatic tube system with it's 1 kilo weight limit!..."

Snort! Sure glad I wasn't drinking anything...

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Old Apr 22, 2008, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by preemieRNkate View Post
But there is always the pneumatic tube system with it's 1 kilo weight limit!
Now every time I send a tube somewhere - I'm going to have that image stuck in my brain!!!!! (at least it will be something to laugh about at 5 in the morning!)

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Old Apr 22, 2008, 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted by hikernurse View Post

Constant alarming doesn't faze you, but you can't get the lullabies from the mobiles out of your head.
Woman, I am going to hunt you DOWN. You earwormed me!

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Old Apr 22, 2008, 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by preemieRNkate View Post
Hmm, our 8th floor windows don't open either. But there is always the pneumatic tube system with it's 1 kilo weight limit!
There HAVE been times when I'm so mad at pharmacy or the lab, and they have the gall to ask for a tube, to send them one with a nice, stinky Pregestemil diaper tucked inside....

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Old Apr 23, 2008, 01:11 AM
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Or you ever get breastmilk in your eye. Been in the NICU over 2 years now and that happened to me last night for the first (and hopefully the last) time

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Old Apr 23, 2008, 06:53 AM
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I have noticed that working in the NICU I use my nose a lot. You can tell what a kid may be growing by the way they smell and you know what they are eating by the way their diapers smell.

I sometimes laugh when I am charting a diaper change. I never knew that 50K and 4 years of college would qualify me to examine baby poop with an eagle eye and to know when to show it to others.

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Old Apr 23, 2008, 12:27 PM
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Pregestimil poop.....

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Old Apr 23, 2008, 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by WeeBabyRN View Post
you know what they are eating by the way their diapers smell.
So true. And you know what mom is eating too

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