It's hard to live with a nurse because...

[Brian]

1) When you forget to flush the toilet, you get a complete analysis with a plan on how to correct any noted problems.

2) Thanksgiving dinner comes in pre-cut small pieces because she doesn't want to have to perform the Heimlich maneuver and be reminded of work on the only holiday she's had off in years.

3) You've been awakened from a dead sleep in the middle of the night to find her shaking you because your breathing patterns were a little too close to a Cheyne-Stokes rhythm.

[mattcastens]

Originally posted by bonde0613

I am marrying into a family with a CV ICU nurse (my fiance), an ED nurse (Mother-in-law) and an EMT (Brother-in-law). My future father-in-law (a pastor, but that's a whole 'nother point(!) and I find dinner time particularly fascinating......I didn't think I had a steel stomach, but I guess I was wrong.

When I first started dating my fiance, I would catch him not holding my hand - but - taking my pulse.....

It's true ... I've also held her hand and thought, "Great veins!"

[From bonde0613's fiance]

[countryair41]

One night when I was working the ER my son called complaining that his eyes were "itchy" and red. I said it's only allergies take some Benadryl you'll be fine. He called back about a half hour with the same complaint I told him stop being such a wimp just go to sleep. 10 min later my mom called and said did you know he was welding today without safety glasses! Needled to say he burned both eyes. As we were leaving the er with both eyes patched i let him walk into a door to make sure he learned his lesson.all he said was "Mom you have more sympathy for your pt's than you do your own son" Guess what he's never weld without safety glasses again!

[Sleepyeyes]

Originally posted by ganurse

I couldn't stop laughing!!

My husband also gets upset with me, especially since he's started working out. What is it with men and their enormous---veins!! I was sitting in the movie theater the other day, just holding my husband's hand (or so I thought) but he quickly pulled away because he said I was feeling for his veins!!

I could hit those without a tourniquet AND blindfolded!!

Ganurse, this is tooo funny!! In the same "vein," when I was doing 12-hour shifts on MS, I finally got to enjoy an action flick with my hubby. As we're sitting there holding hands during the exciting chase scene, he casually turns to me and says, "Look, if you wanna hold hands, fine. But quit taking my pulse, ok?"

[psnurse]

My daughter doesn't come to me to tell me about her sore throat without a flashlight She never calls to come home from school because her brother set the go back to class example.

[jeezlawheeze]

Not only have I been asleep and have asked my husband if he needs help turning over, but my then 4yo daughter would listen to me on the phone when I was on call for Hospice. She had heard me more than once telling a family member what to do for their agitated loved one,ie.Ativan. One day after picking her up from her preschool her teacher was telling me Shelby was definately the daughter of a nurse. Apparently a little boy had been acting out that day a Shelby said to the teacher "Ryan is agitated, give him some Ativan." Oh the things they say. :)

[nursechris1]

Well,I also subscribe to the theory, no temp, no emesis, no coming home from school.

But, I do get tired of my husband whining,and not doing anything about his s/s.

He went thru a long pd of chest pain, told me he was dying. I told him to see a dr. He did, they gave him rx for muscle relaxer, no ekg done. I told him to GO BACK and get an ekg. He did, comes home says ekg was normal. Now what, I ask. He says dr didn't offer anything else. AAAAAHHHH. I sent him back one more time, this time I told the md that I wanted him to have an upper endoscopy. Surprise surprise,,, hiatal hernia, NO sphincter tone, stomach acid has free path up the pipe. Had surgery No more chest pain. If it weren't for me, he would still be suffering and whining. Who needs doctors when you have nurses.!!

[NurseRachet]

Living in a neighborhood of elderly people and on a "killer curve" we have had several accidents across the street from my home and illnesses in the neighborhood - and yes, guess who do they come and get??? One night at 3 am, we had a horrible motorcycle accident in front of our house (one of many accidents that have occurred there). Of course, everyone came to get me up. I asked them where was the driver - they said they didn't know, nor could they find him..I replied, well just call an ambulance, I am sure he is fine. I went back to bed. Soon, my husband said, get up - you have to go see where the guy is. I climbed out of bed, put some clothes on and dragged myself across the street. Well the guy was up in the pine tree. I crawled in to find him, he fell off of the limb right in front of me. I dug pine needles out of his mouth, nose and ears and assured that he was breathing. Later I found out that he had a broken neck, back, both arms and both legs. He survived and came back to thank me for staying with him during the ordeal. If he only knew what I originally said when my husband wanted me to get up.....oh well, he survived.

[flpednurse]

Originally posted by juliab

My husband and I are both nurses. Cardiac nurses no less. We are a blended family with 4 girls, 16,15, 11, 5. One day when the older girls were watching TV my 5 y/o walked through the living room as the 15 y/o was saying "what are they doing?" my 5 y/o paused briefly looked at the TV and said "Geez, his heart has stopped so they are defribrillating him!". She also monitors smokers telling her grandpa that if he continues to smoke he will get lung cancer, bronchitis, yellow teeth and look much older than he really is.

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Julia A Bennett

It's so nice to see that I'm not the only one in the world of nursing where their kids talk medical...LOL ..I have three children and one day they where outside, when my son fell. My oldest ( daughter ) took c-spine control and told her other brother to call ME.....When this happen my daughter was only 6 years old. I am a nurse, CPR Instructor and also used to be an EMT for a rescue squad. It's really easy to find out which parents of the children are in the medical field. Just listen to them talk.

[mockiern]

when i was in nursing school, my than 9 yr. old son peter walked up to his teacher and announced i have to "emesis". since she had no idea what he meant he did it all over her.

[RN2B2005]

My personal theory of parenting is, if the baby isn't choking and isn't on fire, then he's probably OK.

My sister-in-law is seriously uptight about her children eating 'normal' food, playing in the dirt, or doing anything else children do. My 18 month old son was eating M&M's and so I gave some to his cousins. My sister-in-law promptly took them away and proceeded to lecture me on the choking hazard posed by hard candy. Rather cavalierly, I said "Well, if he chokes, everyone in the room knows the Heimlich, and two of us are good at it." If looks could kill...

[cricket913]

Oh yeah, I hear ya! I pick ER and medical shows to death! Since I'm an OB nurse the worst are deliveries on TV. The woman has 10 minutes of labor, sweats a lot, moans and groans quietly, pushes twice and pops out the kiddo. The most amazing thing is after they deliver this grimy newborn ( yeah right) covered in cream cheese and strawberry jam everyone forgets to deliver the placenta! Think about it - have you ever seen them deliver a placenta?? How many women are running around with retained placentas? Pleezze!

[flaerman]

When I was married my wife and I who are both nurses would rag all the medical shows and discuss things at the dinner table that would just drive her kids up the wall. We'd always hear, "all right guys, you're not at work". My girlfriend now gets on me when I hold her hand telling me I don't need to take her pulse, and when she tells any type of pain complaint she has I try to question her like a pt(where,severity,radiation,etc). And I still have a problem in public not looking at large bulging veins on someone thinking, "I could hit that easy, no problem".--Paul