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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Pronounced "Who who" aka member. :) Also tallywacker.

steph

I overheard an OBGYN refer to it as a woo-woo! :chuckle

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I have gotten such a laugh out of this thread!!!! So, I thought I would add a little to the pot.

I had a patient once, older lady, who called her genitalia her "kitty kat". I was helping her bathe and she said "Can't forget to wash the kitty kat"......oh my.

And, the other day while I was asking my pre-op questions to my 15 year old patient (while his parents were standing there)...he says to me "Henry has to go"....who's Henry (thinking it was a family member). Well, aparently Henry IS a CLOSE member of the family :chuckle I just couldn't believe that he was say it in front of his mom.

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LOL, I had to chime in on this one. Many yrs ago when I was working as a home care aide, I had one lady who called her lady parts her "butterfly", then had one call it her "possible" and her bottom her "impossible". Keep in mind these ladies were of very sound mind and both in their 80's. :chuckle

I have heard a lady call them possible and impossible too. I have heard another nurse refer to the crotch as the po-po

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This just raise a question in my mind. How in the world a doctor, nurse, or other health workers who is from a different country know all these different terms? Do they have a reference book or soemthing? I mean some of these terms, I have not heard of, I probably can figure it out if it was use given I have a context.

I can just see in nursing school, student will have to remember all the mappings between clinical terms and all the other terms...

-Dan

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Had A Pt. Called His member Moses. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

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i once had to cath an older lady. i took my mom, who is also an lpn, to help hold her legs. the patient kept saying something about her pocketbook. i kept telling her it was beside her on the bed. i thought she meant her purse. when we finished and left the room, my mom laughed so hard and said "she was talking about her lady parts". that is the only time i have ever heard it called that. lol.:chuckle

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Pronounced "Who who" aka member. :) Also tallywacker.

steph

That's what we call it in my house (Who Who, that is). I would never use that expression outside of the family though!

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Specializes in ICU, PICC Nurse, Nursing Supervisor.

We had this 500lb lady in our facility one time and it took 3 people to give her a bed bath .. So one day the nurse and 2 aides were about to attempt the impossible when the lady started giving directions... She was pointing at both the aides and said "Ok you two (aides) each of you take a leg and hold them open and now you (nurse) get that rag and wash my kitty cat... I almost went pee pee in my pants when I heard that...:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

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As a parent I did not always do things the right way-especially when refering to body parts. We referred to our sons member as his 'boo boo' (I have no idea why we thought that was a good idea ?) One day we were at the lake and a small child went crying to her mother and said "Mommy I have a boo boo on my arm." Joshua asked us why she had one on her arm!!! We corrected our behavior right then and there:imbar

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my brother, and hence, all of his daughters, call any member a "ding-a-ling." because their mom is filipino, they call their own lady partss a "pek-pek," what i assume is the filipino version of lady parts. on the other side of the family, we have my sister, married to a pediatrician, who tried to teach the "correct" names, but because my niece couldn't pronounce it properly, lady parts became "china." i've heard some residents call memberes "the one-eyed wonder worm," or "the love snake." :rolleyes:

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I have gotten such a laugh out of this thread!!!! So, I thought I would add a little to the pot.

I had a patient once, older lady, who called her genitalia her "kitty kat". I was helping her bathe and she said "Can't forget to wash the kitty kat"......oh my.

And, the other day while I was asking my pre-op questions to my 15 year old patient (while his parents were standing there)...he says to me "Henry has to go"....who's Henry (thinking it was a family member). Well, aparently Henry IS a CLOSE member of the family :chuckle I just couldn't believe that he was say it in front of his mom.

Does Henry have a middle name? :rotfl:

:imbar :chair: Sorry . . . couldn't resist!

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Specializes in MDS coordinator, hospice, ortho/ neuro.

We had someone who used the phrase "Mr. Happy"................I laughed myself silly when the house computer geek refered to the administrator as " Captain Happy":rotfl:

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