I work in neuro. the land of confusion. I spent my entire evening last night in an abortion clinic (according to my patient)...
Its a unique thing when a pt. that looks so intact says something so off such as: did ya know if you name your kid something less than 5 letters its free but if more than 5-you pay more taxes. Or the lady who when asked her PMH on the admission forms says: i died twice, the drs brought me back to life with toothpaste and extracted the devil from my rectum....right.....
she kicked the OB-Gyne, suddenly stood up and ran around the room screaming that she doesnt wanna do this anymore and she wanted out..we called 2 male nurses to bring her back to the delivery table and try to pin her down to safely deliver the baby.as we did that she then sang our national song.
Oh my God. That's just about the funniest thing I've ever heard :lol2:
OMG! :lol2: I can't stop laughing about this one!!
I was putting a foley in this cute lol and well, we all know everyones anatomy is different..I was searching for the right spot...I apologized and assured her we would be done in a minute.... she says..."its ok, play with it a little, no one else has in a long time!"
Needless to say operation foley cath was aborted at that time.
I was putting a foley in this cute lol and well, we all know everyones anatomy is different..I was searching for the right spot...I apologized and assured her we would be done in a minute.... she says..."its ok, play with it a little, no one else has in a long time!"
Needless to say operation foley cath was aborted at that time.
I had a patient with Sundown Syndrome. I walked into her room around 7am and she was sitting in her chair with your legs spread out and her head slightly tilted back staring out of her window. I greeted her and asked her how she was doing. She told me she was a lizard basking in the sun. She said something about having dry scales and being cold. I didn't think much of it but at the end of the day i was cracking up because this lady really thought she was a lizard.
I had a male resident who would be upset that someone spilled something in the chair he sat in and he didn't know it and now his pants were all wet.
Aww, thats a sad story, no funny. Poor guy! You never know, one day..........that may be any one of us. The very reason I work with neonates and not in care of the elderly. My heart would be broken on a daily basis.
I had an elderly, deeply confused gentleman who kept up an incredible running commentary for well over an hour in the ER the other night, just nonstop and bafflingly intricate. He had a huge vocabulary and was talking about a vast range of subjects ranging from automobile shopping to African politics to preposterously kinky sexual suggestions to classical music to stuffed animals, barely taking a breath between sentences, sometimes talking about several of the above topics in the same sentence.
The clincher was when he asked one of the nurses "Do you have a book about whores? Open it up to the inside front cover, and write down your great-grandmother's middle initial", then moved on to say something about a completely different subject. She was mad, but you really couldn't blame the poor guy, he was way out of it.
Aww, thats a sad story, no funny. Poor guy! You never know, one day..........that may be any one of us. The very reason I work with neonates and not in care of the elderly. My heart would be broken on a daily basis.
I know, right? NOBODY understands when I say that sick old people make me so much sadder than sick babies. I truly believe that somewhere, deep down, no matter how demented or confused they are, the elderly know what they're losing.
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EmmaG, RN
2,999 Posts
Oh my God. That's just about the funniest thing I've ever heard
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