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While working in the emergency room I was taking care of a 90 year old lady who came in by wheelchair from a local rest home. Her complaint was right leg swelling and we found an obvious deformity of the femur but she denied any pain. An x-ray revealed a femur facture and the orthopedist was called. It was quite a long wait and I heard the patient call out "nurse come in here". I went to her and she asked me to get her up into her wheelchair, I explained to her that her leg was broken and she needed to stay in bed. She replied very seriously "only one of them is broken I can still scoot around in my chair now get me up out of this bed!"
A mother comes in with her son to ED, and tells me at triage the following, as I perform the VS on her son.mother= “I tried to detard him" (mother notices the baffled expression on my face and states) "That’s when you un-tard a retard, Needless to say, I failed.” ...Aloha~
Omg lol that's awful, but hilarious!
Obviously the mom's parents were also unsuccessful lmao
orthonurse55
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I was in the dining room at our LTCF and all of a sudden heard an elderly woman yelling. I turned and looked and she was waving her menu in the air screaming " Son of a *****, is that all I get paid for all the work I did?" I almost died laughing. Then she started crying like a baby. It was sad at that point, but have to admit we've all felt this way at times!