Name that part. Words patients use for their own anatomy.

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Ever searched in a patients' room for what you thought she said she needed to "watch her pocketbook" , she staring at you and you staring at her. Then finally saying, mam what color is your pocketbook because I don't see a pocket book here. Only to have her say, no get my washtub out of the drawer, my washcloth and soap. I always like to wash my pocketbook before I go anywhere. Especially down for tests. And close that curtain, too. Then you say, Oh. ;)

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This is an old thread but caught my eye because just recently I had a patient tell me she needed her "doopuh" washed.

I have a coworker that uses this word as well, says it is Polish slang or a derivative thereof.

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If a child is old enough to grab your breasts and scream "boobers" in the middle of the grocery store, it's time to stop breastfeeding...... :rolleyes:

This is NOT true!! I thought about just keeping my opinions to myself, but since this was here, I decided not to. I could give a whole lecture why breastfeeding into the toddler years is very beneficial to toddlers, but anyone that can google could just look it up. It is opinions like this that keep our nations children from being as health as they could, and should, be. Not trying to start a debate, just couldn't let that comment stay out there all by itself, for the world to see, without addressing it.

Now, back to the fun, my toddler calls her lady parts her "hiny", and her bottom her "butt", so when she wants me to come clean her up after using the bathroom she says I need to clean her "hiny-butt". Got it from my mom (her grandmom), my mom would never actually say the word "lady parts", so she had to call it something different, lol.

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While at my local grocery store, I saw a two year old screaming "Boobers" while grabbing his mother's shirt. I must have been staring, because his red faced mother explained to me he was hungry.

Hahahah. You know it's even worse if a child knows sign language because then they want "boobers" in two languages. 2 years ago on a plane trip I sat next to a nice mom and her little girl. The girl was about 15 months or so and was whining and signing frantically while mom was trying to get all her luggage settled. The child turned to me and started signing. I had no clue. Then the kid yelled out nummies or something like that. The mom then sat down and said "I'm sorry she still breast feeds for comfort and if I don't give her them fast she signs to the nearest woman for their breasts. She thought all breasts=milk.

I was like WOW then we just laughed and it turns out the mother is a linguistics teacher and thought it would be cool to teach her baby sign language. Little did she know this child would use it to sign for milk to any woman within a foot of her. All I could think of was the movie "Meet the Parents." It was just so funny it was unreal.

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P.S. the plane lady said the MD told her to try and breastfeed the kid on the plane even though she can talk in two languages. He told them it would keep the ears from popping and offer the child it's most familar form of comfort in an unfamilar environment.

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I did have elderly female patient complain that her Susie was hurting.

I've also heard lady partss referred to as "Lucy" , "pocketbook", and "monkey"

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P.S. the plane lady said the MD told her to try and breastfeed the kid on the plane even though she can talk in two languages. He told them it would keep the ears from popping and offer the child it's most familar form of comfort in an unfamilar environment.

If chewing gum works for adults, why wouldn't breastfeeding work for a child? It's not like the child was 8, was she?

We taught our son sign language, though not a lot. He used it til he was about 20mo, then his language skills exploded & he no longer needed it. Just a few signs - more, finished, milk.

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Was the nurse in the room one day with a 97 year old patient with lady partsl bleeding, the lady (in stirrups) waited until all 7 residents were in the room with the attending until she shouted at him "just how many people are you going to call in here to look at my twat today??? "Two of the residents couldn't help but chuckle until she also, very loudly passed a very healthy episode of gas when the whole room erupted in laughter!!! She promptly stated, 'serves you right for looking!"

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:lol2: When I was a nurse tech, before I was done with school, I took care of a lady on a surgical floor. I was helping her with her bath on the morning of her discharge and she said... I'll wash as far down as possible," I said, "ok." Then she said, "you wash as far up as possible." I again said, "ok." Finally, she told me she'd wash "possible!" :lol2:
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Had one patient refer to her private parts as "my pretties." :chuckle

Male pt called his member 'Mr Pinkie' ... more like Wee Willie Winkie LOL

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If chewing gum works for adults, why wouldn't breastfeeding work for a child? It's not like the child was 8, was she?

We taught our son sign language, though not a lot. He used it til he was about 20mo, then his language skills exploded & he no longer needed it. Just a few signs - more, finished, milk.

I apologize I think my OP came across like I had a problem with breastfeeding. I have no problem with it all and was breastfed myself as were my sister and brother. My mom wasn't covering up her breasts in her own house since I"m the oldest of 3 I saw it all. I also have a friend who has two little ones on the "tap" as she calls it and they are at my house all the time. One is 24 months old and the other is almost 4 months.

I don't care if the kid is on a plane, at home or what or if they can walk talk, have teeth and are still being breast fed. That's between mom and kid. I just was ignorant at the time of this incident and it never ocurred to me think about a baby's ears on a plane at all.

I was only amused that the little girl signed to any woman for milk if mom wasn't fast enough. I was like wow what a little traitor. (I mean that with humor as well) It just amazed me that she was ready to ditch her mom for any other woman so quickly.

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Had a lady complete a health questionnaire and stated she had had "a hysterical rectum". Imagine my relief when I learned she actually had had a hysterectomy.

:chuckle

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i had a patient in clinicals recently who called his scrotum his "cabbage". wow.

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