***Disclaimer*** This is a complete and total VENT most likely spurned on by fertility hormones and or possible new pregnancy :)
I won't specifically pick on the call bell sitter I have at this moment, but man men age 30-40 seem to be the weeniest of patients! ("weenie" in my family means silly and sort of weak) I understand you had a lap appy and feel a little sore, but do I really have to pour your grape juice for you (under direction to do so) while you enjoy your Q2 Morphine and tap away on your laptop??
Grumble.
Ok I feel better.
P.S. By the way, to those of you warming up your keyboards to remind me that pain is subjective and individual, yeah I get it, I know it, I have it tattooed on my butt!
I also love the docs that keep the patient on a dilaudid PCA for 3 days after a lap appy. Yep, we've had that. I still can't figure out why that patient developed an ileus.
I recently had a guy that had a lap chole and he was rating his pain 2 out of 10 and was ****** because his surgeon told him he would be "totally pain free" after surgery!! WTH??? The same patient asked me how long patients are usually hospitalized after a lap chole and I told him that they're often done on an outpatient basis and he would probably go home the next day. I think he almost had a stroke when I told him that.....
And this is a little off the subject, but what's up with middle aged men showing off their junk?? When I need to listen to your bowel sounds, you really don't need to pull your gown up to your neck and throw your covers to the floor! I"m really not impressed!!!
While I agree severe (even moderate pain) can decrease/disable a persons ability to work/think/whatever, I can't help feeling that people today are so afraid of the smallest pain it has become ridiculous. If you can tap away on your laptop, you can pour your own juice, even if it hurts a bit
This of course is my private opinion, and I would never share it with a pt in pain.
I would, if he was tapping away on his computer, and called me to pour his juice.
Specializes in Acute Care Cardiac, Education, Prof Practice.
And this is a little off the subject, but what's up with middle aged men showing off their junk?? When I need to listen to your bowel sounds, you really don't need to pull your gown up to your neck and throw your covers to the floor! I"m really not impressed!!!
OMG! I totally know what you mean!
Sir I need to listen to your lung sounds...no wait...not that way around the gown!
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
with no comments toward the demographic generalizations, i'll concur with the pain intolerance. i love a pt who answers 9-10/10 for pain and is able to sleep or sit comfortably. i mean, your worst pain ever?? how about i take one of your fingers and bend it back until it breaks. there! that's probably a 6-7/10 for anyone who has ever experienced something *really* painful! :)
i concur with the "men are weenies" generalization . . . with a few exceptions.
my own dear husband is a gigantic baby, too, all the while telling me with great drama what a stoic he usually is, so i know this must really be bad or he'd be suffering in silence. (the man doesn't do suffering in silence!) when i went to the er with a herniated disk and sciatic pain so bad i couldn't sit, stand, lay down or walk but rather gimped around and around in circles because i didn't know what to do with myself, i told the er nurse it was "7/10" pain. dh pipes up "tell them it's a 12!"
i said, "no, darling. it's only one leg. a 12/10 would involve both legs and my arms, too!"
I find that every time I take out a needle all the male visitors run out of the room :)
I had this man in his 40's armed forces high rank go down stairs for a stress test, I got a call from the radiology department that he needed something to calm him down because he was afraid of the x ray machines it was not even an MRI machine I swear the man was in tears. All his test were negative and when all the other guys came to pick him up he was acting really tough and macho. I wonder what he does in the battle field.
In response to sharing of one's junk....the following would occur....
Me. Oh my, I wasn't informed of an amputation. Oh, wait, no...it is there. Sorry, I apparently need to take advantage of our vision insurance with the yearly exam.
I am only joking about this, but sometimes these guys need a reality check. Now, what kind of thread will we start about the female population. lol This is fun.
Some are of the mind that they are in the "patient" role and let loose with the drama! My mother-in-law revels in this role. She craves atttention anyway, but an illness ramps up the anti. You can't fight it. Some hopsital patients are so tough and others are complete and totally whiney babies. You just gotta go with the flow! I do tire of the "Iam sick, I cannot wipe my behind and oh when can you take me out to smoke?"
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I also love the docs that keep the patient on a dilaudid PCA for 3 days after a lap appy. Yep, we've had that. I still can't figure out why that patient developed an ileus.
I recently had a guy that had a lap chole and he was rating his pain 2 out of 10 and was ****** because his surgeon told him he would be "totally pain free" after surgery!! WTH??? The same patient asked me how long patients are usually hospitalized after a lap chole and I told him that they're often done on an outpatient basis and he would probably go home the next day. I think he almost had a stroke when I told him that.....
And this is a little off the subject, but what's up with middle aged men showing off their junk?? When I need to listen to your bowel sounds, you really don't need to pull your gown up to your neck and throw your covers to the floor! I"m really not impressed!!!