This just made my day!!!!

Published Sep 27, 2008

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I usually don't have much time to browse here but I had to post this!

Yesterday, I got pulled from my medical floor down to the orthopedic surgery floor (yikes!!). I was really sweatin' it since my anxiety tends to spiral once out of my comfort zone.

Anyhoo,,,, I had three d/c orders all at the same time. I was nervous about teaching recent sx pts but did my best. My first one, a total knee, went ok until my CNA came out with his toilet seat extender. They'd only been gone five minutes.We didn't have a cell phone number and they lived 150 miles away!! Calls to the family proved fruitless. Sure, they could have obtained one another way but at considerable expense and time.

After beating myself up for a while, I was teaching my third d/c pt and she happened to mention her good friend/neighbor just had the same surgery and was going home, as well. I asked who it was and it happened to be the first pt I had discharged!!!!!!!!!

I said," You live close to them?"" She said, "Oh yes, about a mile away. We grew up together." Now the obvious question: "Would you mind dropping something off for them on your way home?" Of course, she was more than happy to!!!

What are the odds that two of my d/c pts would be neighbors so far away?!

Just had to share that!! It made floating a little less painful!!!