Stupid things said by your non-nurse significant other

I came home one evening from my first nursing job, and DH was asking what all I had seen that night, so I told him about a case of cellulitis (no names, of course). He asked when they would have their sx, and I was confused until he expounded, "Well, aren't they gonna liposuction it out"?

I kinda saw where he got that idea, once I got up out of the floor from laughing....cellulitis-cellulite.

I havent seen her, this just happened but when I gave report I made sure to let the oncoming nurse know that the pt had a Left AKA...

I didnt tell any of the other nurses bc I didnt want to embarrass her.... lol... so its nice to finally be able to tell the story!!

Im in Hospice care and the ex (and there are a lot of reasons why he is an ex) said to me one time after a particularly grueling day... "your job cant be that hard, I mean you cant mess up because they all die anyways right?"

My husband and I were being friendly one evening... I said to him, " Stop kissing my medicine off." ( zit creame )

He looked at me very seriously and said, "Stop talking in medical terms."

Dumbfounded I looked back at him and laughed.

WHAT??? To be fair he was kinda busy and I'm sure only half listening to me.

Can't convince DH that women get kidney stones too. He swears it's only "a man thing."

You can tell him that I had one after my third child and my childless sister has had one too.

Ok have any of you ever watched the comedian Jeff Dunham? Anyways he has a puppet named Achmed The Dead Terrorist, he is a skeleton. Ok we were watching him on comedy centeral one night and Achmed made a joke saying that he was having a bad time and he thought he had Scoliosis. My DH breaks out laughing like it is the FUNNIEST thing he has ever heard. Well I know my husband and I said "Do you know what Scoliosis is?" to which he replied, " Yea it is a flesh eating disorder, Achmed is a skeleton dear, shouldn't you know this being a nursing student?!" And continues to laugh as hard as he can.......Had to set him straight on that one....

LOL, you got 2 laughs in one

I had a similar discussion with my husband once. I finally just referred to them as "those big blue pads." We had a leaky kitchen sink when we bought our first house and I lined the underneath area with Chux and then just changed them prn until it was fixed.

When my goddaughter was about 11, she went grocery shopping with me and was humiliated almost to tears when I added a RUMP roast and BREAST of chicken plus a box of Tampax to the cart. Final insult was when we got home and my husband unpacked and put away the offensive items. He's a MAN,
ya know...

Kathy
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