For all us ancient ones, how about remembering an oldie - aramine IV drip!
Was watching an oldie TV channel and Dragnet, Squad 51 (can't remember the real name, but it was with firemen/paramedics Gage & Desoto) and then Emergency came on. Some snakebite pt had bottomed out and was in the ER. All nurse Dixie McCall was doing was taking a manual blood pressure, handing the docs meds (that docs administered) and making phone calls.
No specific directions; just "an aramine drip".
I got the biggest kick watching the nurses walking around in their white uniform dresses and their white heeled shoes (beige pantyhose) and wearing their caps. (I am an antique nurse who loves nursing caps!).
So for you all you nurses out there, what are some of the obscure and oft forgotten meds that we all used to use at some time can you name???
Aramine precipitated this thread, but I also offer that oldie, aldomet. Any others???
When I was a kid, we bought flour in big cloth bags; it had a "free" kitchen towel attached to it. All of our dish cloths and kitchen towels came from flour and cornmeal bags. Milk came in glass containers, not plastic.
The doll that I had with the push-button on her belly, that made the hair grow long or short, was called "Tressy." Appropriate name! Tressy still lives in my attic, along with her sidekick, Skipper. Skipper wore white Keds and had freckles. I still have the original Kenner's Easy Bake Oven, too! I got it for Christmas when I was 11. I did have an original Barbie, but she only has one leg now. Never could find the other one. I would be scared to plug-in the oven, it is at least 46 years old.
The doll that I had with the push-button on her belly, that made the hair grow long or short, was called "Tressy." Appropriate name! Tressy still lives in my attic, along with her sidekick, Skipper. Skipper wore white Keds and had freckles. I still have the original Kenner's Easy Bake Oven, too! I got it for Christmas when I was 11. I did have an original Barbie, but she only has one leg now. Never could find the other one. I would be scared to plug-in the oven, it is at least 46 years old.
I thought the name was Krissy. I had her little sister Violet. I think she is still tucked away somewhere.
Thanks for the comebacks re the dolls with the grow-able hair. But the names just don't seem right to me.
I thought Skipper was in the Barbie doll family?!? There was a Midge in the group too. My sister had an old Ken doll that she black magic-markered some mutton-chop sideburns and tattoos on. (This was in the '60s.)
Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
Rotary phones
In my area the local phone companies keep a large stock of rotary phones. The dairy farmers use them in the barns. They don't get clogged with dust and stop working like push button phones.
Any of you gals out there remember the card-board inner tubes from toilet paper (and wax paper/paper towels) being used as hair curlers??? Back in the '60's it seemed to be a trend. The tubes had to be wrapped in scotch tape because the cardboard would get damp & soft. Those rollers worked really well for the soft page-boy hair styles that were all the vogue those days.
And there were those soft little rubbery 'spoolies' that were used to make for tighter curls.
Does anybody today use frozen concentrated orange juice from those little cans? Like for real drinking orange juice? I've used those concentrates for making tropical fruit punches but otherwise I buy OJ in the 64 oz bottle or carton.
walkingthecow
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I actually had a pt this year who was on a lidocaine drip because amio didn't work.