It's Hard to Live with a Nurse because....

I can't help but evaluate everyone's veins... whether I know them or not. We can be out shopping and I might look and say.."I would LOVE to start an IV on that person!" I'm sure that gets annoying. I also have to analyze anything anyone says to me medically, but something that annoys me is everyone calling and asking me questions. I don't mind the regular questions but when you call and ask "hey my kid has a rash what do you think it is? uhhh it could be a lot of things! I also have a dear friend who will call and ask "hey so&so just hurt his hand will you come over and see if its broken?" Sure thing... let me get my x-ray goggles out!

I feel sorry for my poor Mother when we have family dinners since between my brother and I conversations seem to go something like "I saw brain fluid being drained" "Well I found two dead bodies this week"... I'm a nursing student, younger brother is a cop and to make things worse my Dad is a retired paramedic that chimes in with his own stories...

Although having grown up with Dads stories over dinner did gain me a reputation as the nursing student with the best gross stories to tell

My favorite way to deal with a cousins squabble at an extended family get-together isn't to try to sort out who did what, as my sis in law and bro in law tend to do. I poke my head in, be sure everyone's breathing, and tell them to call me if there's blood, a lot of it.
My oldest daughter seems to always bump into something or stub her toe or whatever every time she gets upset, and then sits and mopes and cries until she gets sympathy. She gets a glance over, and a "you're fine, quit being a drama queen".

i gave my poor boyfriend a sternal rub the other night.... he came home from a night of drinking with the boys and was snoring - he never ever snores, so i repositioned his head and opened up his airway, nothing helped. i nudged him to roll over, nothing. i starting talking to him, nothing. he usually is a very very light sleeper. so i shook him, got nothing! that man got a firm sternal rub (my own hr was high, i was starting to get really worried!) -- that woke him up!!!