Stupid things said by your non-nurse significant other

I always get a kick out of people asking me for health advice.

"My ears and my nose have been hurting so bad"
"yeah, you should see an ear, nose and throat doctor"
"but how do I know if its bad enough?"
"is it bad enough to call a doctor for?"
(in compliance with the thread topic, that was an ex asking me.)



Sure you could hon, you just gotta push a little harder

My brother-in-law's girlfriend called to update me on my mother-in-law, who had recently had pneumonia. She said they found cloudy spots on the chest x-ray on the same side as my mother-in-law's vasectomy 8 years ago. I asked her if she meant mastectomy (mil had breast cancer in the past) and she corrected me and said "no, VASECTOMY." I let just let it go and waited until I got off the phone to crack up. :-)
PS...MIL is fine so it is OK that it is funny.

Not a significant other, BUT...When I was a student, I got the opportunity to do a clinical with one of the students in the RN-to-BSN program. Since she was an RN, she was there to supervise the regular students. She started to tell me and a fellow student that cellulitis was an infection of the cellulite. No matter how many ways we tried to "suggest" that this might not be the case, she was insistent that cellulitis was a clear case of a cellulite infection.

That's OK, my DH is still convinced that you can in fact liposuction out cellulitis.