This was not so much funny at the time as scary as hell...
I work on a Trauma ward in the UK where we mostly deal with patients who need orthopaedics and/or plastics input.
Well we only take admissions from the ED, and one night a couple of months ago I got a call from the Site Nurse Practitioner (the senior nurse who runs the hospital after hours), telling me she had an admission for me...
Well this admission was a really pleasent young lady who had GDFD (this is an unofficial diagnosis of 'got drunk and fell down'
), getting a quite impressive fracture along the anterior border of her fibula. Well they put a plaster backslab on her down in the ED and she was to be NBM for Th first thing in the morning. The thing is, about an hour after coming onto the ward we heard this almighty crash and a scream of pain... It seems she had decided to get up... Now when my colleage and I had left her, she was alert and orientated, and she knew she was to ring the nurse call bell if she needed anything and that she was not to even think about walking till after surgery... Well it appears she sleep walks...
She had gotten out of bed, hobbled on a still wet plaster into the next room and slipped on the floor... I rush into the room to see her broken leg twisted at an inhuman angle and blood running all over the floor... She had completed the fracture of her fibula, and also broken her tibia to the extent she had an open fracture and had lacerated an artery. So while I desperatley try to staunch the bleeding and my colleague calls the on-call ortho and anaestetic docs, the elderly gentleman (who had a fractured neck of femur) in that room had been so traumatised by the incident, arrested...
Thankfully all involved in the incident made a recovery, though the elderly gentleman has still yet to leave the hospital, having had angioplasty and a triple CABG, he now has an HAI...
Anyway... bearing in mind I was due to finish my shift at 08:00, i think I finally left work at 11:00 after having filled in all the paperwork I fell behind on while saving life and limb... Not my favourite shift
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. I had this guy on the bath chair (the electric ones that go Up and Down) and I was using the short tub with the deep foot well. so the sory goes I put the guy way way in the air and got his feet over the edge so far so good. slowly started pushing him forwards to the tub. he puts his feet into the water and lets out a blood curdiling yelp. I run over and thrust my hand into the water thinking that it was too hot but it felt fine. all the while he is waving his arms and gasping. i call to my partner and say somthing os wrong with ******* . she come over to assess the problem.. I had forgotten to hold up all the dangly bits that were hanging through the toilet seat type hole and had almost sheared the bits completely off. 
someone forgot to tell me that the chair only had 1/8 inch clearance aboce the side of the tub and when there was extreme dangliness (<-- not sure if this is word) to be careful and assist the dangliness over the side of the tub 
Only I'd have to be completely out of my mind, not recognizing where I was or who was taking care of me before I'd consent to be placed in a LTC facility today. The TLC is no longer there; Sadly, there are now too many residents to one nurse, or aide. Unfortunately, progress has led to too much automation, and dehumanization IMHO.
OMG have just absolutely creased up laughing, so did my hubby when I read it to him. Must tell them at work...it Will Appeal to the sense of humour in our NICU!! Thanks for the laugh! 
Look at all of those teeth...
