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. ;)

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:

my oldest daughter once told us that her china cabinet hurt. i don't think i have ever laughed so hard in my live. she was taught the correct term for this, but for some reason decided to call it her china cabinet.:rotfl: :rotfl:

other terms for member i've heard: mr. happy and tube steak.

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I'm not a nurse yet but.....

when I use to work as a dietitian for WIC I remember a lady telling me all about her "urinal tract infection" she developed after delivering her baby. :rolleyes:

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I moved from up north down to Texas about 5 years ago, and got pregnant fairly shortly after moving here. When I went to the ob/gyn initially, the nurse told me to "go tee-tee in the cup." That kinda shocked me, lol, I thought she was patronizing me! And I'd never heard "tee-tee" in place of urine before, pee, sure, but not tee-tee. Later I mentioned this to my husband and he told me that was just a really common saying in the south, no offense was meant, he was sure! :rolleyes:

And another note on regional differences, back north "weiner" is quite common among kids where I grew up to refer to male genitalia. Down south one of the common things to have for dinner is beans and weiners! Everytime I hear that mentioned I crack up, and I tell everyone in the house that's not a very polite word. Husband and (southern) MIL just think I'm silly. :rolleyes:

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How about "Mr. Rogers"? That just creeps me out. Also, one eyed snake, Mr. Winky. Heard one old lady say, "don't put that in my lady flower". We were trying to insert a catheter.

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Years ago, I had an eldery hospice pt who referred to his member as "rosebud". I got to know him and his wife pretty well, and she told me "As you can see, his member is really small, reminds me of a rosebud, so that's what we call it."

One day he rang the call light and said "I can't get rosebud into the duck". I just stared at him. His wife started laughing and said "Oh no, honey, 'duck' is the word they use for a urinal in the military."

All three of us had a really good laugh over that one.

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Specializes in Family.

Had a pt call the office one day saying that her "woody cat" hurt. :chuckle

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Family from Kentucky referred to the lady parts as "flap jack"

Husband refers to a member as: Purple headed warrior, One-eyed slobber bobber and Yogurt slinger

Personally I call it "keep it on your side of the bed" :rotfl:

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The most funniest term I have heard was when my grandmother-in-law called her front part "elizabeth" I started laughing right when she said it. I taught my kid sister to call hers "betsy".

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I think it would be appropriate to chart what the patient said as it would alert the next caregiver as to how she referred to her genitals.

hehehe... I was helping a fellow student chart the other day, when she asked me if this was ok... "Patient stated her 'cookie' (lady partsl area) itched due to the soap..." Took all I had to keep from laughing! I told her that I didn't feel that was the best way to chart that. Even though it was her exact words, I looked at from this view...If I were in court, and I had charted that, what would the judge/jury think of me! We changed it and left of the "..." marks and put it as 'Patient complained of her genitals itching...
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I get a chuckle any time I hear a male patient take about his "prostrate" problems! Yeah, if you have serious problems with your "prostate", you could end up in a "prostrate" position!

This is kind of along this topic, but when I was working OB, we had a woman who was getting ready to deliver. When we put her in the lithotomy position, we discovered a tatoo on her upper inner thigh that read "Ed's Meat". The really funny part was that the baby's father was NOT named Ed!!!

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When I worked in this one particular nursing home around two years ago, I took care of a lady with rheumatoid arthritis. She couldn't really do much for herself in the way of personal hygiene due to her hands and arms hurting her, so whenever she was incontinent or if we were giving her a bed bath, she would look you dead in the eye and with all seriousness, exclaim:

Girls, make sure you wash that moosie good, now, you hear?

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A friend of mine calls hers her "Lucy" and when I was younger, we were taught that it was your "do-do" whether you were male or female and so for awhile when I was little I thought that we were all the same because everyone had a "do-do" On Sex and the City, Charolotte calls hers her "Rebecca" and her husband calls his his "Schooner" or "John Thomas" I thought that was pretty funny. My husband calls his "Coach" :chuckle

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