"I feel like I'm gonna puke"

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These are my standard answers to this after determining no fever and they don't look green, pale or sweaty:

"And....?"

"What would you like me to do about that?"

"What are you looking for?"

"I can't send home every kid that says they feel like they are going to puke. There would be no one left in school."

I'm bored with these answers and looking to shake it up a bit.

What do you say when not-really-sick kids tell you they feel like they are going to puke?

Nurse! Nurse!

I suddenly seem to have a Pedal-Epiglottal Impaction! I don't think a salty cracker will help. Can I lie down on the cot for a while?

This happens to you often, methinks.

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methinks.

Yez do?

And how does that make you feel, hmmmm?

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Yez do?

And how does that make you feel, hmmmm?

Like I'm gonna PUKE!

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

And, in the end, you're back where you came from, only THIS time, you know it.

...Quoted from The MAGUS by I can't remember who until I go to the search-bar and ask....

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And, in the end, you're back where you came from, only THIS time, you know it.

...Quoted from The MAGUS by I can't remember who until I go to the search-bar and ask....

I read that!

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The author is John Fowles.

This is one of those books that I thought was very well written, and I think I enjoyed reading it (well it was probably ~ 40 or so years ago) but when I got to the end, I threw the book across the room in disgust. Anybody that'd try to teach me The Lessons Of Life and How To Know Myself, as was done to the guy in the book.....well, I was gonna say I'd shoot'em, but I think that phrase should be stricken from the vernacular, as it sure isn't 'funny' anymore!

So what did YOU think of The MAGUS?

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The author is John Fowles.

This is one of those books that I thought was very well written, and I think I enjoyed reading it (well it was probably ~ 40 or so years ago) but when I got to the end, I threw the book across the room in disgust. Anybody that'd try to teach me The Lessons Of Life and How To Know Myself, as was done to the guy in the book.....well, I was gonna say I'd shoot'em, but I think that phrase should be stricken from the vernacular, as it sure isn't 'funny' anymore!

So what did YOU think of The MAGUS?

I liked it. A LOT. Up until the last page when I threw the book across the room.

It made me want to PUKE.

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I tell them to go in the bathroom and puke. Very rarely does it happen. LOL

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