C'Mon Now!

[OyWithThePoodles]

Had a kid bring his wet, bloody tooth and plop it right on my desk.

C'mon now!

Or the kid that did running knee slide into my office.

C'mon now!

The ones old enough to cover their mouths but choose to cough right in your face instead.

All together: C'mon now!!

Some things just make me shake my head.

[Ice keeper]

I just had the original post in this tread play out in my office. Bloody tooth and bloody tissue plonked down on my desk...

[Dattebayo, RN]

We've come full circle! Shut it down. ?

[tining, BSN, RN]

I need daily c'mon now! Like more cowbell.

[amoLucia]

1 hour ago, Dattebayo said:

We've come full circle! Shut it down. ?

OH NO! This is one of the best-est threads around!

[BeckyESRN]

5th grader: I think I'm allergic to the soap in the classroom. My left eye twitched after I used it.

me: eye twitch is not a symptom of an allergic reaction. We'd know if you were allergic to the soap, it's been the same since kindergarten. It's in all the classrooms and the restrooms.

5th: I've never washed my hands at school before today

[OyWithThePoodles, RN]

On 3/11/2020 at 1:14 PM, BeckyESRN said:

5th grader: I think I'm allergic to the soap in the classroom. My left eye twitched after I used it.

me: eye twitch is not a symptom of an allergic reaction. We'd know if you were allergic to the soap, it's been the same since kindergarten. It's in all the classrooms and the restrooms.

5th: I've never washed my hands at school before today

The Coronavirus is good for something, scaring people into washing their hands when they otherwise wouldn't.

[NutmeggeRN, BSN]

Had a little kids hoop tourney over the weekend here...kids comes off the floor and is short of breath, coach calls for another kids inhaler...fortunately the trainer says...

"Staaahp." and asks the player "Do you use an inhaler?"

The answer is a big fat no! The trainer then proceeds to listen to the girl and talk to her, get her a drink of H20, not a wheeze to be heard, denies a history of asthma (maybe a little deconditioned) from anywhere...oye...

[cooties_are_real]

Oh, my! How I have missed this thread. 

[KittyKatRN]

Here is one, preschool kiddo, developmentally delayed especially in speech, just waiting in the bathroom stall. I'm in there as a second adult with the teacher. We ask if he is finished and peak in, he is just standing staring at the dirty toilet. Then immediately reaches in hand in, grabs his cloth mask - which has been stewing with his recently evacuated waste - and immediately hands it to the teacher. She looks at me with the most fear and disgust I have ever seen a preschool teacher have. 

All I could say is I took that friend to get a new mask while the teacher spent a good three minutes performing the closest thing to a surgical scrub as you can get in a school setting. 

[Cas1in72]

4 minutes ago, KittyKatRN said:

Here is one, preschool kiddo, developmentally delayed especially in speech, just waiting in the bathroom stall. I'm in there as a second adult with the teacher. We ask if he is finished and peak in, he is just standing staring at the dirty toilet. Then immediately reaches in hand in, grabs his cloth mask - which has been stewing with his recently evacuated waste - and immediately hands it to the teacher. She looks at me with the most fear and disgust I have ever seen a preschool teacher have. 

All I could say is I took that friend to get a new mask while the teacher spent a good three minutes performing the closest thing to a surgical scrub as you can get in a school setting. 

Sorry for your friend, but I have to say that we  need more of our C'Mon Now! stories more than ever.  This gave me a good laugh.  2020 is something else!!

[JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN]

Yesterday, we had a student that was having the all-to-common issue of pulling his mask down every time he wants to talk. His defense was "they can't see my mouth!"

Okay. So I got him a smile mask - the one with the window in it that I have available. 

Kid looks at it and tells me he can't put it on because it is not a "name brand" mask.

[k1p1ssk, BSN, RN]

C'Mon now! COVID Edition:

Dad calls in a student sick last week; no specific symptoms noted on the message, so I follow up. Dad reports student woke with a fever and cough. Ding Ding!

I explain the testing vs. 10days out rule and he says, great we'll keep you posted! I tell him I'm going to be emailing a form with all that we discussed and the plan marked out clearly. I send the email with the plan. Additionally, I planned to follow up today to see if testing was done/planned.

Flash forward to this Morning at 0811, where I open my email to find one from the student's Mom that states that her symptoms were not what had been reported and that she'll be in school today. Cut to: ME FREAKING OUT.

I call the family and speak with dad again. He explains that he LIED about her symptoms because he was worried that THE ALLERGIC REACTION she actually had was not enough to keep her home from school. 

TL;Dr: Dad falsely reported COVID-19 symptoms to the school because he didn't think the actual symptoms his child was experiencing were enough for her to get an excused absence.