Say What??????!!!!!!!!!!

SpaceCoastRN · Feb 7, 2012

One of the more interesting responses I have heard was to the question "Do you have any history of medical problems?", to a young female in her late teens. Mom of early 30's and grandma in her 50's were at bedside. Grandma replies that there is a history of cervical cancer in their family that has effected most of the women...

Kunzieo · Feb 7, 2012

And there was the nice 56 year old woman I was getting a history on-"well, I was in the hospital about a year ago, I had to get my hysterectomy removed"

morte, LPN, LVN · Feb 7, 2012

I am not getting your point on this one. This would certainly explain the early motherhood issue that you pointed out....I knew someone who had three kids by age 21, then ended up with a complete hyst for cervical Ca and was hard put to tell her 17 yr old daughter not to start her family at a similar age......

One of the more interesting responses I have heard was to the question "Do you have any history of medical problems?", to a young female in her late teens. Mom of early 30's and grandma in her 50's were at bedside. Grandma replies that there is a history of cervical cancer in their family that has effected most of the women...

hikernurse · Feb 7, 2012

the other day one of my patients thought the admit board was a television, asked me to change the channel, I was like nope that is not a tv lol

Uh oh--there are a lot of days I want to change that channel, too. :rolleyes:

AngelfireRN, MSN, RN, APRN · Feb 8, 2012

I am not getting your point on this one. This would certainly explain the early motherhood issue that you pointed out....I knew someone who had three kids by age 21, then ended up with a complete hyst for cervical Ca and was hard put to tell her 17 yr old daughter not to start her family at a similar age......

I think the joke was that it affected most of the women, as opposed to affecting the men. As in Granny did not know that only women could get cervical CA. Just guessing.

morte, LPN, LVN · Feb 8, 2012

y'all bein' more charitable then I.....

I think the joke was that it affected most of the women, as opposed to affecting the men. As in Granny did not know that only women could get cervical CA. Just guessing.

AngelfireRN, MSN, RN, APRN · Feb 8, 2012

Maybe so...what can I say? Tis been a long day, and I don't think I could work up a snit if I tried.

sillywilly · Feb 8, 2012

Just the other day I had a sweet little old man come up to me with tears in his eyes. I asked him what was wrong and he said "I am worried that if I accidentally tighten my Cpap straps too tight they will cut off my coronary artery and I will get a heart attack"

Poor guy

cmomof3RN · Feb 9, 2012

I recently had a patient and his wife in their early 40's. The man had an IV which was saline-locked, and a small amount of blood began migrating into the extension. This worried the patient, and he sent his wife to find me. The equally alarmed wife explained that he "was afraid that the blood might go back into him and give him AIDS or something."

RockingItInTheER · Feb 9, 2012

hmm . . . while putting a foley in for a patient who was going to have a translady partsl ultrasound "how are they gonna examine mewith that thing up my cooter"an elderly patient refusing to wear her nasal cannula:"I don't want to get addicted to that oxygen"and a family member when told his mother had been put on a ventilator: "you put my momma in a giant bubble?"(he was thinking of an incubator)

RockingItInTheER · Feb 9, 2012

forgot one: I was checking pulses in an elderly womans foot when she looked at me and said"are you my paperboy?"

RockingItInTheER · Feb 9, 2012

oh wait here's anotheran elderly patient praying in her bed in the ER at the top of her voice"please dear lord Jesus, please let them give me some dilaudid"