Odd interactions

[remotefuse]

Some interactions are just plain odd. What's one that will stay with you forever?

Mines is I had a 34 y/o female pt. She would always put her light on to tell us that she had just used her diaper. She had been there about a week using diapers. She has also been DEMANDING us to put in a foley. So early on in my first day with her as I'm changing her I ask her how she uses the bathroom at home. "I just walk" She was in for a lap chole. So I ask her if she can use the restroom right now and she just jumps right out of bed and goes to use the restroom. Turns out she just really really really didnt want to get out of bed. After that she was still very insistent on getting a foley.

[sevensonnets]

If I told all the weird encounters I've had we'd be here all night! Had a patient once that I caught eating a styrofoam cup and she fought me like a wildcat when I tried to pry it out of her hand. Had a patient once when I worked nights that slept peacefully all night while I sneaked in and hung 3 different antibiotics. Never even stirred. Went in the last time at 4 am and all of a sudden she goes "Do you know anything about the Portuguese language?" I almost wet my pants?

[whichone'spink, BSN, RN]

Had a little brat of a patient who I was recovering after having jaw surgery. She refused to respond to me, even when I sternal rubbed her. I thought given she was less than 120 lbs, all that she got in OR was still in her system. I didn't even want to give her the small amount of Fentanyl I gave her even though I knew she was having pain. Later, this ruse kept on going well after I stopped giving her narcotics. Turns out she was just being a little b****. She didn't want to respond because she didn't want to. Later, after I handed her off to my coworker, her behavior got worse, and she left AMA.

[mercurysmom]

When my sisters and I were young, my Mom worked nights at a little nursing home/rest home type facility. Our babysitter usually went on vacation for a few weeks in the summer, and we spent the night sleeping in the back of our huge green station wagon. The patients knew the three of us kids, and the cook used to make us breakfast around 6:00. (This was in the late 70s/early 80s, and no one complained or thought it was odd.) Until one morning...

Do you remember Figment, the purple dragon from the old Imagination ride at Epcot center? My grandparents had just come back from a trip to Florida to see the brand new park, and brought back a hat for my 6 year old sister. Purple hat with huge googly eyes and yellow horns. She was wrapped up in a patchwork quilt, with the hat perched on top of her head. My Mom noticed a lol with a very puzzled expression on her face, and asked "What's wrong, Mabel?" Mabel took a few more seconds to stare at my sister, drew in a deep breath, and said...

"I don't know what kind of animal that is, but it's eating a kid!" [emoji33][emoji33][emoji33]

[friggasdistaff]

Lap choles are commonly 23 hour admits. So...you get them overnight.

Wow! I had a lap chole myself last month. I was in and out of the hospital in about six hours.