I'm grateful for you crusty old bats

[SuesquatchRN]

Nowhere else is it permissible to crack up over a death. Nowhere else are gross things normal. Nowhere else can I vent about a ream of awful prima donna patients without being told I have no compassion.

Y'all know who you are. And thanks.

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[exnavygirl-RN]

Once reality sets in they become sour and hot headed. They have to get past the "I'm going to be a super nurse and everyone's gonna love me" phase. That's when they're gushing with sweetness. Slurp. cough cough

xtxrn said:

You must be getting some of the good ones. I've gotten some sour, a few hot (headed), and MANY bitter.... where are you doing your newbie hunting ?

[sharpeimom]

Typing upsidedown right now...*

esme12 said:

Just another old bat checking in!!!

Have a permanent bald spot where your hair was removed with your cap when pulled off you head!!

No, but my husband has been bald since grad school. Do I get partial points for that?

My hair finally grew back after a traction set-up attacked my cap, barette, and head/hair.

*about five months after we bought our house (rambling 152 year old) my husband got an academic research grant about 2500 miles away. He was gone all summer. I heard every creak and weird noise

That house made. I began to hear a hum and our house restorer checked it out. Nothing.

One night I came home about midnight, took the dog out, and went upstairs to bed. Our walk-in closet

Extends across the entire shorter end of the bedroom and is about six feet deep. We have rods for hanging things on two sides, a built-in dresser with very deep shelves over it that go to the top of the 11'

Ceiling. The fourth side is hooks and more shelves. I turned on the in-closet light, and began to hang up my clothes and/or put them in the hamper. Suddenly, I felt rather than heard that I wasn't alone.

Suddenly I was wide awake! Many many bats were hanging upside down all over the hanging clothes, things folded on shelves, in our shoes, and in the hamper. I'm not a screamer, but I think my

Scream was heard in the yukon territory! They just looked at me as if to say, "Turn out that light and close the door! We're sleeping!"

I called a contractor friend of ours and he came -- still in his pjs! That's a really great guy!

They had to be removed alive and relocated to a nearby state park by bat experts. Final count?

About 100. Turns out we had a nickel-sized hole near the ceiling over the dresser. The good news is that a local bat conservation group did the relocation and home owners insurance paid for repairs.

And I didn't collapse!

[Altra, BSN, RN]

sharpeimom said:

One night I came home about midnight, took the dog out, and went upstairs to bed. Our walk-in closet

Extends across the entire shorter end of the bedroom and is about six feet deep. We have rods for hanging things on two sides, a built-in dresser with very deep shelves over it that go to the top of the 11'

Ceiling. The fourth side is hooks and more shelves. I turned on the in-closet light, and began to hang up my clothes and/or put them in the hamper. Suddenly, I felt rather than heard that I wasn't alone.

Suddenly I was wide awake! Many many bats were hanging upside down all over the hanging clothes, things folded on shelves, in our shoes, and in the hamper. I'm not a screamer, but I think my

Scream was heard in the yukon territory! They just looked at me as if to say, "Turn out that light and close the door! We're sleeping!"

I called a contractor friend of ours and he came -- still in his pjs! That's a really great guy!

They had to be removed alive and relocated to a nearby state park by bat experts. Final count?

About 100. Turns out we had a nickel-sized hole near the ceiling over the dresser. The good news is that a local bat conservation group did the relocation and home owners insurance paid for repairs.

And I didn't collapse!

I almost shrieked just reading this!

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

That made my skin crawl!!!!!! All I could think of was "Holy Crap!!"

I remember I used to practictally glue the darn cap on my head and every drunk and baby made everyeffort to remove it several times a shift besides the times it would get tangled in IV tubing, pumps and those damn curtains.....I swore I had bald spots from all the hair pulled out with my cap removal by the local drunks....LOL That was one major plus when we stopped wearing them.... ?

[sharpeimom]

I broke out into a cold sweat remembering it and trying to get it typed!

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

I gotta tell ya.....it is quite the visual...LOL

[Lev, MSN, RN, NP]

I decided to revive this thread!

Thank you Crusty Old Bats...

[BrnEyedGirl, BSN, MSN, RN, APRN]

I'll take the "old bat",..but crusty?? Not usually

[sharpeimom]

I'm glad you revived the thread. Let's see... I'm a few years older now, therefore, I must be crustier, tougher, and eat more newbies.

I think we need a crusty ol' bat icon. Maybe something like this?

Plus a cap, cape, and starched or iron undies.

"When I am a crusty ol' bat

I shall wear purple..."

Anyone else old enough to remember that? "When I am an old woman

I shall wear purple.

Jenny Joseph wrote it back in the eighties. I won't quote it here, but it's worth looking up. I did a counted cross stich of it.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

YOU are welcome....

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

How do you guys DO that? I can never make my videos show, just the links, and not those cute little moving icons.

Think I'll go find some tender young thing upon whom to take out my frustrations. Garnished with blueberries. This is because I am a fruit bat. But I can't make the vampire in me go away ....

[sharpeimom]

GrnTea, all those batty teeths scared my little purple batty! She's still learning how to be crusty.

I found her by entering "bat icon" in the search bar. Some of my bats danced and some didn't.