What Baffles You?

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So I have come across this a few times. I am holding a straw to a persons lips and they drink and drink and drink and pretty soon they are waving their hands for me to stop. Stop what?! You don't have to keep sucking on the straw just because it is in your mouth. I think the universal sign of I'm done please remove the straw should be to stop sucking on it and open your mouth! I have had a few people have to catch their breath and make comments about me giving them too much! What? I don't get it.

Specializes in ICU, OR.

I'm baffled when people go in for surgery FROM HOME who have not bathed or showered or even washed their hands in a sink... apparently in a week. Seriously?

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
Another baffling question - why do folk 'ooh & aah & oomph' when they sit down or get up when they have aches & pains? It's not like making the noises make them get well.

No but Mythbusters found it helps if you yell in pain. ;)

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
I'm baffled when people go in for surgery FROM HOME who have not bathed or showered or even washed their hands in a sink... apparently in a week. Seriously?

^^^^^this

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.

Why fully abled people cannot wipe their hiney's. Suddenly their arms aren't long enough.

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

I want to know how a six pound baby can produce seven pounds of poop into one newborn sized diaper.

Seriously- just call me The Poop Whisperer....

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I want to know how a six pound baby can produce seven pounds of poop into one newborn sized diaper.

Seriously- just call me The Poop Whisperer....

or drink an ounce and spit up 3!

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Specializes in Emergency/ICU.

Moo ha ha - I am still cracking up from the OP's post! So true and so funny and I still don't know why they do that. Perhaps it's along the lines of: They have given full control of their destiny over to the medical establishment? Including sipping because a medical person places a straw there? I don't mind helping and I really appreciate the trust patients put in me, but it is pretty funny!

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Oh, man. This cracked me up. I've had patients do the same thing lol... I don't get it!

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What baffles me is why you are holding the straw for someone who can wave their hands around.

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What baffles me is why you are holding the straw for someone who can wave their hands around.

If that someone had unsteady hands that could still wave, but would most likely spill if trying to hold the cup, I'd be holding it too.

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Specializes in Medical Oncology, Alzheimer/dementia.

LMAO at this thread, especially about the water. I've been accused of "trying to drown" my patients when all I'm doing is holding the cup...maybe sometimes the straw, but still I'm not controlling their ability to stop drinking.

Even a newborn baby knows when to stop...

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Specializes in retired LTC.
Can't explain it, but it just happens. Just you wait....:yes:
Oh, I'm there already. That's why I asked.:roflmao:
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