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The other day I overheard someone talking and she was saying that when she laid down in bed her B/P would go up real high, when she stood or sat it would go down again. It reminded me of a patient I had years ago who had a disease that did that. We had to keep the head of her bed elevated at all times. I had never heard of her diagnosis before and researched it. Now I can't remember what it was and its driving me crazy.

I once had a pt with a J tube that was always clogged on me, usually resulting in a spray of water. One evening I went in to give him meds and he and his son both opened up those little cocktail umbrellas to " keep themselves dry".

I'd need a lake full of whiskey too if I had to live in a LTC facility.

Not a nursing but a patient story, I had been in the hospital 5 months 3 months in ICU, when my Dad died. After I got out I was at my parent's house sitting in the living room all alone when I saw my Dad standing in front of me. I remember thinking it couldn't be him and I didn't want to address him as "Dad" because I thought I was seeing things. I simply said, "hey, what's up?". And he said "i just wanted to be sure you were alright" . Then disappeared.

I was helping another nurse pull a pt. up in bed. We must have had our Wheaties that morning because we bumped her head against the headboard, we both looked at each other feeling awful and the pt. said "go check the door, I just heard somebody knock". We laughed all day about that.

that site was awful,a fount of lies and half truths,I especially got upset with this pearl of wisdom " And not only that, many of the customers receiving a tattoo are drug-users, criminals, rock artists, deviants and homosexuals who just happen to be the major carriers of the deadly blood-borne diseases such as AIDS and hepatitis." I don't understand how the tattoos got into the original post,many people have tattoos and it's not a big deal.I do understand some of the other comments.I can't stand to work with my hair hanging loose.No telling what it might dip into while I'm doing care on a patient,Okay,I'll admit my hair does come almost to my waist.I don't see the big deal with make up,some people just like to wear more makeup than others.Fake nails get me,ewwwww no telling what's growing under those things.I used to work with a nurse who would come in wearing a tight little belly shirt,seriously? do you really want all that skin exposed to the stuff we work with all day?She didn't keep her job long though.

not ghosts at work but my oldest son was taking a picture of his girlfriend and her daughter and on the first pic there was a funny mark right next to them so he took another shot,same mark only bigger this time.He tried again and got the same mark but with the face of a woman with long dark hair hovering over the mark.Creepy.He also took a picture at his job of a car he had repaired and there were orbs around the car,his girlfriend uploaded?downloaded? the pics to their computer and enlarged the orbs.Each one turned out to be a skull and each skull was a different just like faces would be.I think his camera's haunted.

Probably a Photoshop picture, but still cool. What was it? I couldn't make it out,damn old eyes LOL

I'm HIV+ and have been taking Kaletra for years now.It's notorious for causing diarrhea.Most important,avoid all caffeine,coffee,tea,soda even chocolate.Try some immodium if it's OK with your Dr.I just add it to my med regimen,every other day I take one and it works.Avoid eating too much at any one time,once you get your appetite back.And try to eat some whole grain cereal ,bran or oatmeal every day.I know the meds are bad but I thank God for them every day.Yes your body does adjust to them after time (usually a month) but you'll be off by then.Good luck

My Dad and both brothers will do the same thing at the sight of blood.My older brother will manage to keep it together until he gets the person to the hospital ER if he has to but then...I swear you can see the little stars circling around his head just like in a cartoon and down he goes.

Not "going away",it was a coming home party

There are 10-15 hospitals withing a 25 mile radius of me,and no matter which one you mention somebody has a story about what a horrible place it is,how the Dr's and nurses don't have a clue what they're doing and the place should be/is going to be shut down etc.My advice would be to check it out yourself and make a decision based on what you see not what somebody else tells you.Unless of course the person you were talking to can show you some proof.

This wasn't actually the visitor but the nursing staff who did this one.We had a pt who had a stroke,she was starting to come around and we were trying to get her to remember our names and the names of her visitors.One day I was in her room with a CNA and a man came in,we started saying"Mrs Smith,who is this?"She wasn't sure,so we asked if he was her grandson,still not sure,nephew,still not sure,we ran through a couple of other possibilities and she kept looking at him,asked him to come closer so she could see him better but she couldn't place him.She did say he looked familiar though.So we asked him who he was,turned out he had accidently come into the wrong room and had no idea who she was either! Never seen anything quite like(the things nursing staff do)

Where to start,one time we had a Dr overhead page"will the family of the pt in room 123 bed A come to the room IMMEDIATELY".She had walked in the room to check her pt and found her asleep with an infant in her arms almost dropping the baby on the floor.It seems the pt's daughter came in to visit Granny bringing her newborn(week old)baby and a 2 year old,left the baby with Granny-on a vent barely awake-to baby sit while she took the 2 year old to the cafeteria for lunch.Doc blessed her out for that and even being out 1 week after having a c-section. another time,another family in to visit Dad,with a baby in a stroller,baby is pulling old vent tubing out of the red trash can and playing with it.Family couldn't understand why we got all bent out of shape about it.

slightly off topic but I found a drink recently called "Drank",it's supposed to be relaxing.I thought it was the soda version of chamomile tea.I shared a can with my grandson,he went to bed shortly after finishing his glass and slept for 14 hours straight.I took a nap too,looked at the label and the ingredients included melatonin! Just a warning to watch out for what's in some of the things you can buy over the counter that aren't even medicines.