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I am a nurse that is new to the city of New Orleans. I arrived in September. It's been an amazing time here thus far. After Mardi Gras, which was absolutely amazing, rolled through I asked one of my native New Orleans patients;
"So, now what happens? I mean we had Halloween, then Thanksgiving, then Christmas, then New Years, then Mardi Gras. It's been 5 months of amazing parties and parades... now what happens? What's next?"
He smiled at me and said "Now we have Easter!"
I looked him confused. "Easter? Is that a thing? I mean I know Easter is a thing but are there parades/parties for Easter too??"
He laughed, his eyes lighting up, and said, "Child, you CANNOT go around sinning for that long and NOT have to repent. No, child, now we have Easter. Now we repent!!"
We both laughed at that.
Now in hindsight..... New Orleans is one of the countries hot spots for COVID-19, maybe we didn't repent enough? ? I wish I could ask him so we could have a good laugh over it again.
RN in hospital bed. Having blood draw from a tech I was acquainted with. She said “sorry honey, I’m gonna have to stick you”. Without missing a beat I said “that’s OK, I’ll return the favor”. She’s now my wife.
“I need to check into the ER... ever since this corona virus started circulating I’ve been more gassy than normal and I’m starting to become concerned I may have caught it from someone”
Had a patient once in his late 70’s who had an above the knee amputation following severe burns to his leg. A few days post op, he called out needing help to the bathroom. I went in his room and helped him up and steadied his walker. He moved the walker forward, hopped on his good leg and then would stop and kind of shake his residual limb. He did the same thing for the next 3 steps. I finally asked him, “Henry”, why do you keep doing that? He turned and looked at me and said, “If this thing was a little longer I might be able to walk better”. Then turned back and did another move-hop-shake.
"Oh, those boys! We thought they were crazy!" A new RN in the late 1980's, I was caring for a pt who was 8 years old when the Wright Brothers first flew an airplane. I asked if she remembered them, above was her reply.
As we started the induction process for a teen-aged boy's surgery, we attempted to relax him. On e of the nurses stated, "As you go off to sleep, try to relax and think about the last thing you did that you don't want your mom to find out about." The look on his face was priceless!
I was giving a patient her medications one night. She was always nervous about taking her pills, and wanted an explanation for each one.
When I held up her senna, I told her that it was a stimulant laxative. She asked me what that meant. I told her, "It kind of gives your colon a little kick and tells it to move."
She nodded very seriously and said, "Oh...so it motivates it!"
Specializes in Cath Lab & Interventional Radiology.
I was helping a male post op patient to the bathroom. He was having a little trouble going and was a little embarrassed. He looked at me and said "It's funny how pain can make an otherwise respectable johnson, shrivel up to the size of a cheeto".
Peachez1, ADN, BSN
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I am a nurse that is new to the city of New Orleans. I arrived in September. It's been an amazing time here thus far. After Mardi Gras, which was absolutely amazing, rolled through I asked one of my native New Orleans patients;
"So, now what happens? I mean we had Halloween, then Thanksgiving, then Christmas, then New Years, then Mardi Gras. It's been 5 months of amazing parties and parades... now what happens? What's next?"
He smiled at me and said "Now we have Easter!"
I looked him confused. "Easter? Is that a thing? I mean I know Easter is a thing but are there parades/parties for Easter too??"
He laughed, his eyes lighting up, and said, "Child, you CANNOT go around sinning for that long and NOT have to repent. No, child, now we have Easter. Now we repent!!"
We both laughed at that.
Now in hindsight..... New Orleans is one of the countries hot spots for COVID-19, maybe we didn't repent enough? ? I wish I could ask him so we could have a good laugh over it again.