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

[JEHORAPHA]

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.

[yvonnemuse, BSN, RN]

We taught our son the proper names for everything and tried not to be embarrassed when he used these words publicly and LOUDLY, Like the time I was expecting his brother and he announced at church,"Mommy has a baby in her ludacris and it is gonna come out of her pajama" i wanted to die.

[chris_at_lucas_RN, RN]

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

Maybe because it had parted a red sea? (sorry, just couldn't help myself with that one......)

[tencat]

"Mommy has a baby in her ludacris and it is gonna come out of her pajama"

Out of the mouths of babes!

[RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN]

Maybe because it had parted a red sea? (sorry, just couldn't help myself with that one......)

[Zee_RN, BSN, RN]

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."

I had a patient who called the urinal "a duck" too! And every time I hand a man a urinal, I think of it as a "duck." He told me he learned to call it that when he spent a year in a TB hospital run by the nuns when he was a child.

I've heard many of the same expressions posted herein. But I've only once had a man refer to his privates as "my cats!" We had about six nurses holding him down as he was going through violent DTs. We, of course, inserted a catheter at this time too ... and he kept screaming at the top of his lungs..."What are you doing to MY CATS!! Let go of MY CATS!!"

[Josifek]

In parts of Eastern Europe you'll hear a member often refered to as "the third leg" or sometimes a name that is translated into "Robert". I dont think I've ever heard these terms used in America.

[ShayRN]

I have nothing to add, except:roll :chuckle

[Danianne]

Here is a good one I was at the mall during christmas and there was a HUGE line up and my daughter who is 3 said Mommy Jakie has a member right? I said yes. Daddy has a member too right I said yes, you have a gina right? and then she got really really excited about getting all the "parts" right and said realy loudly I HAVE A POJO.

This guy at work calls them his boys

[RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN]

Here is a good one I was at the mall during christmas and there was a HUGE line up and my daughter who is 3 said Mommy Jakie has a member right? I said yes. Daddy has a member too right I said yes, you have a gina right? and then she got really really excited about getting all the "parts" right and said realy loudly I HAVE A POJO.

This guy at work calls them his boys

Oh my!

[RNstudentBrian]

I had a man refer to his genitalia as "Wedding Tackle"

&

member= "Who Who Dilly"

& lady parts = "Cha Cha"

My four year old daughter started calling it her "bum bum" at two.

Couldn't figure out for a bit. But we taught her that her rear end was her bum. She took it the next step.

Ahhh.... Kids.

[stpauligirl]

This is from a blushing pre-nursing student: The first thing my husband did after our son was born was check out if our baby boy had all his, what he called "important equipment". I'll never forget about it because he was so serious about it and I also never forget how relieved he was when he discovered that everything was there the way it was supposed to.

[kadokin, ASN, RN]

Have you ever heard a lady parts called Molly or Suzanne? Someone told me these were common terms, the later referring to an experienced one, the former to a virginal one.

Life is rich, huh?