This thread is started in honor of my darling husband, who told me this morning that he almost woke me early because he had a bowel obstruction.
I said, "A bowel obstruction? Really? Tell me more about it, honey."
He said, "Well, I had a hard time moving my bowels this morning. It took a long time and when I was done, I had this huge, hard stool, one of the biggest I've ever seen!"
As if that was something I'd be hopping right outta bed to see! I told him, "Honey, if you had a bowel obstruction, you'd be headed in for surgery. You'd be in pain. You wouldn't have just had the most humongous stool of your life. You didn't have an obstruction. You didn't even have an impaction, which I would NOT have removed for you, no matter how much I love you. You were constipated. In other words, you were simply full of ****. BTW, lay off the cheese!" The love of my life can eat a half pound of cheese in one sitting and wonders why he gets constipated!
Of course he's not a nurse!
Anyone else have stories about stupid, funny, silly things said by their dear non-nurse significant others, friends, family members? Please share! I can't be the only one!
when i was single and renting and worked 7pm to 7am, then drove 37 miles home again, i had a landlord who understood absolutely nothing about working nights. when anything had to be repaired, he'd tell
me he'd scheduled the repairman for around noon. prime sleeping time.
Recently I renewed my BLS. (most of the attendees were either nurses or cnas as well as a few other hospital employees). The instructor asked what the difference was between a code and a rapid response. An x-ray tech piped up and said "A code is for patients and a rapid is for visitors."... There were a few chuckles throughout the room....
my husband just came back from taking the dog to the vet for bad allergies. the vet's oldest daughter just graduated with a b.s.n. in december. she takes the nclex soon.
he said when he got home, "she has a job at ____. once she passes the nclex, she won't have
to work any weeekends, will she?"
:rotfl:
how come i worked all those weekends i worked then?!
At Thanksgiving dinner my sister was sharing about her latest checkup. Very straight faced she informed everyone that your bp should always be whatever your weight is over 80. She's a know it all that weighs 120lbs, it took me a while to stop laughing before I could explain her mistaken assumption.
Ok this is kinda corny but I get these clothing catalogs in the mail all the time for all kings of clothing, uniforms, kids, mens etc... We my hubby happened to be on the throne flipping thru some and yelled out hey "Hon....they have a good sale on "Nursing" bras 2 for 29.95.... and they are....sexxxxy, easy access pannel and all!":cool: As I heard him saying this I was on my way over to where he was and had to give him "the Look":nono:....I replied now why on earth would I need nursing bra's? He said....well duhhh your a Nurse arent ya? I swear men are sometimes clueless.
I had an ex boyfriend who liked to try to talk about things he had no clue about to make himself sound smart. He came over to my grandparents' house one Christmas for dinner and proceeded to tell my grandma (who was a proper southern lady) about the PENILE gland in the brain. My face turned 20 shades of red and I about choked on a bite of food. But God bless my grandma she just smiled and nodded and let him go on a rant about the penile gland. Hahaha
Ok this is kinda corny but I get these clothing catalogs in the mail all the time for all kings of clothing, uniforms, kids, mens etc... We my hubby happened to be on the throne flipping thru some and yelled out hey "Hon....they have a good sale on "Nursing" bras 2 for 29.95.... and they are....sexxxxy, easy access pannel and all!":cool: As I heard him saying this I was on my way over to where he was and had to give him "the Look":nono:....I replied now why on earth would I need nursing bra's? He said....well duhhh your a Nurse arent ya? I swear men are sometimes clueless.
:lol2:You just won the internet with that one. (My husband would think the easy access panel was sexy too!)
NewAggieGrad09
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i am currently going through this....