Freaky female anatomy

[Nurse Ratched]

I'm starting to get a complex. In recent cath attempts, I keep running into patients who have stuff prolapsed, holes in strange places, and generally not at all textbook anatomy. I confirm with a fellow nurse, who marvels at my ability to get patients whose urethras refuse to reveal themselves. Am I the only one?

[semstr]

Well, FGM was performed on "hysterical girls" till shortly before WWII, in a lot of "modern" western countries.

[Maryan]

Have you ever cathed an old lady in acute pulmonary edema, orthopneic, restless, etc? You are really working blind here!

[sunnygirl272]

Originally posted by Maryan

Have you ever cathed an old lady in acute pulmonary edema, orthopneic, restless, etc? You are really working blind here!

in nursing school we had to cath an alzheimers patient...she was screamin for the cops..convinced we were raping her...was sooo sad...

no freaky anatomy there though...was an easy cath other than the battle....

[bewbew]

I also seem to strike the non-textbook variety..........

[Lausana]

Does this thread make you wonder if you're "freaky"? :chuckle I would assume I'm not nearly as freaky as these, no uteri here, but still, I'm curious & will probably get a weird response out of the NP when I go for my yearly next month

[OBNURSEHEATHER]

Originally posted by Lausana

Does this thread make you wonder if you're "freaky"?

Well, why don't you check things out yourself? You don't know if you're freaky or not?

Heather

[Nurse Ratched, RN]

Originally posted by OBNURSEHEATHER

Well, why don't you check things out yourself? You don't know if you're freaky or not?

Heather

(Husband) (knocking on bathroom door) "Babe, you almost finished in there?"

(Me) (struggling with hand-held mirror and a certain lesser degree of flexibility than a few short years ago) "Just doing a little scientific research!"

Dammit, I'm normal!

[Lausana]

Originally posted by OBNURSEHEATHER

Well, why don't you check things out yourself? You don't know if you're freaky or not?

Heather

:chuckle Well I think I'm normal, but I bet the people coming into the hospital do too :chuckle

[OBNURSEHEATHER]

Didn't y'all see Fried Green Tomatoes?

Y'all need to become one with yer lady partss.....

Heather

[Nurse Ratched, RN]

Originally posted by Lausana

:chuckle Well I think I'm normal, but I bet the people coming into the hospital do too :chuckle

My patients all think *they're* normal.

Heather - loved that movie!

[zudy]

Went to see a Bette Midler movie while in LPN school( before I had done my fist cath). While Bette was speaking of something COMPLETELY different from our subject, she said," The question before us is where's the privy parts?" I took that as my mantra, and never missed a cath while in school! however, since that I have seen many situations where that didn't apply. Nothing like standing on your head to get someone cathed.

[live4today, RN]

originally posted by nurse ratched

(husband) (knocking on bathroom door) "babe, you almost finished in there?"

(me) (struggling with hand-held mirror and a certain lesser degree of flexibility than a few short years ago) "just doing a little scientific research!"

dammit, i'm normal!

attention nurses:

nursing lesson part i:

1. turn on bright overhead light in bedroom to give yourself plenty of light to see well.

2. lie flat on back in bed with mirror in hand.

3. bend legs so both feet will be flat on bed.

4. take mirror and hold between legs....open legs wide.

5. raise head off bed...okay to prop head with pillows for better view.

6. examine own peri area for future reference when discussing where parts are on yourself.

7. okay to teach daughters to do the same thing so they will know how they are made there.

hope these nursing instructions prove anatomically useful to you.

stay tuned for part ii: physiology of the peri area.......