Where Do People Dream This Stuff Up?

[BabyRN2Be]

I don't do this too much, but recently I watched part of an afternoon TV show (Steve Wilkos). I didn't get the whole story, but a woman's stepmother wanted to get custody of her stepdaughter's two children. One had a bad case of FAS. When confronted on why she was drinking during her pregnancy, the stepdaughter denied any ETOH use during her pregnancy. Steve asked, "Then why does your baby have FAS?" The girl said (and I am not making this up), that her doctor told her that if the father is doing drugs/alcohol, then the baby may be affected by FAS. She swore that this happens very, very rarely, but it can happen.

I think that was trying to CYA and said the first thing that popped into her head, whether it made sense or not.

Of course, the show called the CDC and confirmed that it's not possible for a child to contract FAS in this manner.

Fortunately, the woman did sign custody papers to her stepmother, I hope it holds up because some lawyer might say that she did it under duress.

Anyone else have any strange theories by patients?

[cebuana_nurse]

"Eating food while standing up causes gas pains."

"Please tell the nurse I need a pain pill (it's a 10), when you enter the room, they are so much in pain that they are dozed off and snoring."

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

"No, you dont understand. I'm not like the people in your books from school. You nurses want to categorize everyone. I'm am telling you, my doctor said my blood sugar should stay in the mid 300's. Whenever I go below that at all, I bottom out and end up in the hospital. Please, I'm the expert of my own body. Get me a regular Coke like I told you to. My blood sugar is only 270 and if I dont raise it up now, I'll become very ill and be in the ICU."

You had that patient as well? My sympathies.

I also had this gentleman - "I know I'm diabetic but I need regular Coke. If I have any artificial sweetner, my blood sugar drops to zero!" (Yes, I wanted to slip him a diet Coke just to see what happened!)

And this lady - "My Dilantin is ordered 200 mg PO BID but I take it 200 mg QHS because that's what I'm supposed to do. Every time I come to the hospital, my Dilantin level ends up being low, so they put me on the BID schedule. Then I go back to the QHS when I go home."

And of course..."Dilaudid IV makes me really nauseated but only if it's pushed slow. The faster it's pushed, the less nauseated I become. I still need my Phenergen though."

[RetRN77]

=retrn77;4623056]indeed. my son has complex partial seizures after a tbi. most of the time, we can't even tell he is having them. he has to tell us. once we realized he'd been having a seizure, or was in the middle of one, when he was walking around the kitchen, trying to get milk from the fridge. he had a dazed look on his face, his speech was extremely blurry, and he was somewhat ataxic.

lol, i meant "slurred." should not post without sleep.

[HeartsOpenWide, RN]

My mother in law always tries to tell me their are only false negative pregnancy tests and not false negative. As if because she had 13 children she knows more than me who is an OB nurse. I get this all the time with family members, they assume that because they have had kids and I have not they know more than me even though I work OB. I am not denying they know more about parenting through experience or some of the parts of labor that I can not experience as a nurse that has not had children, but they argue me on the medical points, like a family friend argued with me that I am going to have a baby at advanced maternal age because I am almost 30. I tried to tell her it is not until 35...but she just acted like I was stupid,.

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

My mother in law always tries to tell me their are only false negative pregnancy tests and not false negative.

You mean only false positive and not false negative, or the other way around?

[HeartsOpenWide, RN]

You mean only false positive and not false negative, or the other way around?

Opps typo. She tries to tell me there are only false negatives and not false positives.

[caroladybelle, BSN, RN]

And of course..."Dilaudid IV makes me really nauseated but only if it's pushed slow. The faster it's pushed, the less nauseated I become. I still need my Phenergen though."

Well, per a few of my pts, if you put the Dilaudid in as an IVPB rather than push, their MD told them that it metabolizes in their arm and never makes it to the rest of the body.

And if they throw up within an hour of IV narcotics, they vomit out the drug and need a repeat dose.

I must have missed that day in AP