Stupidest comlaint of the night award...

Mini-Murse · Jul 8, 2011

my husband was hospitalized yesterday. he's in isolation and stuck on bedrest with his foot and leg elevated. he's being given iv morphine q2 and is fuzzy, to say the least.
his complaint when he just called me? gravity makes using a urinal in that particular position impossible!
two very nice nurses cleaned up without laughing or even cracking smiles, he reported.

elevated leg in isolation and on strong pain meds and he doesn't have a foley? why's that? (curious as a new student)

No Stars In My Eyes · Jul 8, 2011

my husband was hospitalized yesterday. he's in isolation and stuck on bedrest with his foot and leg elevated. he's being given iv morphine q2 and is fuzzy, to say the least.
his complaint when he just called me? gravity makes using a urinal in that particular position impossible!
two very nice nurses cleaned up without laughing or even cracking smiles, he reported.

mean ol' mr. gravity!

sharon.parrish · Jul 8, 2011

Hehehehehe......cotton fluff.....how about sheep ticks that had gotten attached to someone's orifice and were so large they thought they were hemmorhoids and finally came in........

sharpeimom · Jul 8, 2011

my husband was hospitalized yesterday. he's in isolation and stuck on bedrest with his foot and leg elevated. he's being given iv morphine q2 and is fuzzy, to say the least.
his complaint when he just called me? gravity makes using a urinal in that particular position impossible!
two very nice nurses cleaned up without laughing or even cracking smiles, he reported.

elevated leg in isolation and on strong pain meds and he doesn't have a foley? why's that? (curious as a new student)

i'm not sure why. i think the very thought of a foley might have made him walk home on his hospital gown!! :eek: i wondered that same thing. :confused:

Natkat, BSN, MSN, RN · Jul 8, 2011

Elevated leg in isolation and on strong pain meds and he doesn't have a foley? Why's that? (curious as a new student)

Because there isn't any medical justification for possibly giving a patient a life-threatening infection for the sake of convenience.

Natkat, BSN, MSN, RN · Jul 8, 2011

Dumbest complaint I've heard.....

"Why do they keep sending me Cheerios? I told them I want Rice Krisipes".

sharpeimom · Jul 8, 2011

because there isn't any medical justification for possibly giving a patient a life-threatening infection for the sake of convenience.

thank you! if i had had more than catnaps since tuesday night, i'd have remembered that.

Mini-Murse · Jul 8, 2011

How big of a risk of infection is there in a non-immuno-comprimised adult in isolation? I know there is always a risk, but I'dve thought that for immobilized patients who can't easily use a urinal that a foley would be almost standard.

anne5274 · Jul 8, 2011

And then there is the patient who boarded an international flight to receive medical treatment in the U.S.; his chief complaint--vibrating fecal impaction.

caregiver1977 · Jul 8, 2011

How big of a risk of infection is there in a non-immuno-comprimised adult in isolation? I know there is always a risk, but I'dve thought that for immobilized patients who can't easily use a urinal that a foley would be almost standard.

Ok I have to ask...but shouldn't something be done to keep her husband from leaking and having to be cleaned up by nurses whenever he goes? That can't be good either (if for nothing else but his dignity).

No Stars In My Eyes · Jul 8, 2011

:eek:

Hehehehehe......cotton fluff.....how about sheep ticks that had gotten attached to someone's orifice and were so large they thought they were hemmorhoids and finally came in........

EEEeeeeeuuuuuuuwwwwww! OMG! ACK-ICK-Bbblllllleeeeeeaaaarrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh:smackingf:barf02::grn: :eek:

No Stars In My Eyes · Jul 8, 2011

And then there is the patient who boarded an international flight to receive medical treatment in the U.S.; his chief complaint--vibrating fecal impaction.

Seems to me that.......well, maybe we ought not to go there. Never mind!