Re: Strangest thing you've heard a co-worker or patient say?
Before I became a nurse I was a phlebotomist for a county lab. A couple of teens, (under 15 if I remember right), from a group home, (severe mental illness), were driven in. 1st draw is fine, not eventful. The second one- well, I wish someone could have been there to witness..
This kid had a very odd way of speaking. He would ask a question, sometimes repeating the last word several times and then answer his own question. Except, he should not have known so many odd personal things about me.
He asked me how I liked the city I JUST moved to-specifically naming it, and then asked how my boyfriend was liking his new move to a different city-specifically naming it. And then asked about my daughter and instead of naming her directly, he named her by naming a nearby lake, that happend to share her name.
I asked him how he knew so many things, he never answered me. He just kept asking and answering all these questions about me.
I was so flustered and shaking, I actually missed his vein the first time- got it on the 2cd, and he was apologizing to me.
It was a strange encounter I have never been able to forget, or explain.
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