This thread is along the lines of patient lingo, but I have to share complaints I have heard this week.
Girl comes in and states "I stopped taking my birth control pills 3 days ago and now i'm bleeding".......
Elderly man chief complaint "I had leg cramps last night and now my bowels are locked up"......huh?
Woman with c/o fever. When asked if she had taken anything for the fever.......she replies "I haven't taken any pills, but i've done all the other things you're supposed to do to bring your fever down. I've drank a coke and some unsweetened tea, I smoked a menthol cigarette, and I cried......but just regular tears. I couldn't make any acid tears"...........(did i miss that day in nursing school?)
Not one person EVER has EVER had a bad outcome from the morning after pill, and one can get it (thankfully) OTC in some pharmacies in California. Nausea is the worst that will happen. Take a Benadryl.
But MANY have (later) been harmed by grown offspring from unwanted pregnancies...
spread the word to the laypeople...the morning after pill is NOT the abortion pill. it prevents pregnacy (fertiliziation), it does not terminate it...
I asked a woman the other day why she had not given her child anything for the child's fever. Her reply? She didn't want to give her child any medication since she didn't know what was wrong with the child! And she looked at ME like I was the dumbs#$@ for even asking her the question!
I asked an obviously well-to-do(well dressed, address in the "best" part of town,professional) father if he had given his 3 year old son any Tylenol.(Child's temp is 105) The father tells me,"Well I tried, but he told me he didn't want it." I explained to him that many,many times children don't want to take thier meds, but they have to anyway. The father said in a horrified voice,"You mean FORCE him to take it?
Last night I think every child in our town conspired not to poop. I fielded 4 calls on constipated kids, two had just not gone in the last few hours. Parents decided at 2am this was something to be concerned about and we could tell them what to give or run out and buy to use. I told them to leave the kids alone as long as they were eating and drinking they would poop. Poor kids...
A neighbor was telling me how upsetting it is to have a full hyserectomy because you are considered a man afterward. They actually change your sex on your chart from "female" to "male".
Uh huh...it's true...she SAW IT!!!!!!
:rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Kinda like another neighbor who insisted that hamsters spontaneously change sex from male to female.
What you are about to hear is true.... just the facts mam'.
girl comes into the er for uti like complaints. first urine is a dirty specimine according to the doc so he orders a straight mini cath.
i go in to the girls room and explain the proceedure. she gets that deer in headlights look and says, "but i have my period." and i say "yea, that is fine we can still do it."
then she starts to cry and says "you don't understand. i have a tampon in and i don't want to take it out for this test." i asked her "well, in that case, how do you pee with your period?" another dumb founded look.
well, i left the room and after i stopped laughing, i went in to explain. i literally had to draw her a picture on the sheet to show her the anatomy and that she could indeed leave her tampon in and i could still get the specimine.
:rolleyes: 
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Two thumbs up, Sean!