Crusty Old Bats Will Remember... (part deux)

[Davey Do]

Remember when you could get FREE stool samples in the mail?!

[Davey Do]

being taught to check for Homan's sign in nursing school and doing this in clinicals

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I posted this in the Original "Only Crusty Old Bats will Remember..."

But this cartoon is "brought to you in living color"!

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[Davey Do]

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[Davey Do]

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[No Stars In My Eyes]

Remember the gasps from back in the days of cold, metal bedpans? And the reverberations when you dropped one on the floor?

[Davey Do]

Remember the gasps from back in the days of cold, metal bedpans? And the reverberations when you dropped one on the floor?

Or other reverberations:

After awakening from a 3 week coma back in '76 when I was 19 years old, I was constipated. The Nurses gave me something and sat me on a bedpan.

My Girlfriend waited outside of the curtains and said my BM made a gong sound as it hit the bedpan!

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[Orca, ADN, ASN, RN]

I remember glass IV bottles, and the unmistakable sound (usually followed by cursing) when the IV nurse dropped one of them.

I remember dialysis equipment that looked like a giant washing machine.

I remember wiping glass rectal thermometers with a cloth, then soaking them in alcohol for reuse. Oral ones just got the alcohol bath.

I remember my mother (RN) boiling glass syringes and needles on the stove before giving me one of the many antibiotic shots that I got for tonsillitis when I was growing up.

[No Stars In My Eyes]

Hey, Orca, my mom was an RN and she had a set of the glass syringes, too she had 3-4 different sized needles and had to file/sharpen them because they would get 'burs' on them. She gave my younger brother allergy shots for his asthma.

And those glass IV fluids bottles! We sometimes took a break in a fairly large, but seldom used treatment room. There were IV bottles of every type and size stored in there. One evening immediately after we walked out of the room, an entire big cabinet above a sink, loaded w/ the biggest IV bottles, just ... let loose from the wall and crashed into the middle of the room sending tons of glass EVERYWHERE. We all kind of gave each other the side-eye, because if we had been any slower leaving the room, there could have been some awful injuries.

The people from the floor below us came rushing upstairs to see what had happened, and one said "It sounded like a bomb went off!" Of course, in those days the likelihood of a bombing happening was pretty much zero to none. But it was certainly an exceptionally loud crash!

[Orca, ADN, ASN, RN]

Hey, Orca, my mom was an RN and she had a set of the glass syringes, too she had 3-4 different sized needles and had to file/sharpen them because they would get 'burs' on them. She gave my younger brother allergy shots for his asthma.

I also remember the filing and sharpening of the needles. I wish that I still had those glass syringes. They have become quite the collector's item. I'm guessing that my mother probably tossed them out years ago.

[Davey Do]

When I went through the LPN program, I use to joke that I felt like half my brain was taken.

I felt like more was taken after going through the RN program:

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[No Stars In My Eyes]

I remember the days of those scary-looking --BEYOND Crusty -- old supervisors. Their appearance on the wards or floors struck FEAR in the hearts of the staff. There was a phoned warning from the ward-clerk on one floor when the supervisor had left there and was on her way to the next. Supervisor alert!

Squinty-eyed, mouth-pursing old bats looking to find something, anything wrong, ready to POUNCE at the possibility of the slightest infraction. They were scarier than the doctors!

[No Stars In My Eyes]

I remember the days of those scary-looking --BEYOND Crusty -- old supervisors. Their appearance on the wards or floors struck FEAR in the hearts of the staff. There was a phoned warning from the ward-clerk on one floor when the supervisor had left there and was on her way to the next. Supervisor alert!

Squinty-eyed, mouth-pursing old bats looking to find something, anything wrong, ready to POUNCE at the possibility of the slightest infraction. They were scarier than the doctors!

[No Stars In My Eyes]

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