What's you favorite redneck patient story??

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What's you favorite redneck patient story??

Specializes in Telemetry, Case Management.

I think I will join michelle95 in a nice big bowl of grits. And has anybody made some beans and cornbread and ham with red eye gravy?????? I am hungry!!!!!!

:D

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Originally posted by sbic56

mjlrn97

Hec, I live in Maine in a trailer and drive a pick up truck. I am probably more culturally related to the local rednecks than the rare upper class types we have in this state, but I'd be a fool to be insulted by your post, because I know there was not an ounce of malice in it.

OK. I gotta know, sbic: Have you read "Letourneau's Used Auto Parts" and the similar subsequent books about rural Maine? (i.e. "The Beans of Egypt, Maine?") Can you relate to the characters in these books? especailly "Letourneau's?"

I worked with a neurosurgery resident from Maine of whom I asked the same question--he was so totally down to earth, not a prima donna as some (MOST!) of the neurosurgery residents are. He said, yes, his family was VERY much like the characters in "Letourneau's"...he was the "success" story in a large family of what some of the other neurosurgical residents (in fact, what he himself) referred to as"trailer trash--" he said his brothers still shot deer out of season and sold it as their primary way of earning a living....

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Originally posted by KaroSnowQueen

I is a hillbilly and danged proud of it.

My sister was told at college (she went for teaching) that she had to lose her accent and they sent her to classes to rid her of it. I have to admit, I purposely made mine exaggerated and taught it to her kids just to aggravate her.

I have a fairly prounounced accent for Kentucky, but my mother's family all had really thick Eastern Tennessee accents, so guess I have picked it up. And for all you Yankees and PC people out there, yes, there is a difference in Southern accents by region!

Gosh, I hope your sister did NOT lose her Eastern Tennessee accent!

I was in Eastern Tennessee teaching last year (Knoxville---GO VOLS!!!!!) and fell in loooooove with all things Tennessee--bluegrass, mountains, Appalachia, local accents, local food, sweet tea, local hospitality, local food, grits, moonshine, local food, trees in the fall, Sonics, Krispy Kreme donuts--and, oh, did I mention the local food?

Nicest people I ever met. Soooo much more fun to be around than yuppies whose main topic of conversation is their latest purchase to keep up with the Joneses.

Think I'll go put on my orange Vols sweatshirt and play me some Appalachia bluegrass, heavy on the fiddle and the mandolin.

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Originally posted by kids-r-fun

Darn straight.

I know what Cottapinello is and make it at least once a week.

What IS Cottapinello? Typed it inot a couple of differnet search engines with no results.

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Originally posted by michelle95

Well, I live in a run down trailer with almost a dozen dogs in the yard, as well as a dozen cats. We have our own "junkyard" complete with at least a dozen cars and dozens of old appliances. I walk barefoot all the time (callouses like wood) and my cousin used to be my step-brother.

Yeah, I resemble a red neck...maybe I am. I have no problem with the jokes and can relate to a lot of them.

I tell you all that have a problem with it to lighten up. Do you never laugh at anything?

Sheesh. :rolleyes:

Michelle, sounds like you would be a lot of fun to hang out with. I can get into going to the local honky-tonk and knocking back a couple of long-necked Budweisers and maybe even some moonshine, and shooting some pool and listening to some Lynard Skynard and Marshall Tucker and Allman Brothers (I loooove Gregg Allman!) on the jukebox. Oh, and of course talking trash with the local good ol' boys.

I try to find people like Michelle to hang out with---I have had more than enough of wannabes who talk about nothing but how much money they have and all their various possessions----WHO CARES????!!!!! I like down to earth, non-phony people who are secure in themselves just the way they are.

One thing, though, Michelle---I do hope all those cats and dogs are spayed and neutered!!!! No reason to contribute to our pet overpopulation when so many are without homes in shelters!

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Specializes in Geriatrics, DD, Peri-op.
One thing, though, Michelle---I do hope all those cats and dogs are spayed and neutered!!!! No reason to contribute to our pet overpopulation when so many are without homes in shelters!

Technically, they aren't my animals. Hubby and I live on the same land as his family. It's his aunt's animals. And, nature has a way of taking care of things....the dogs and cats breed, the population goes up, then, the animals disappear. I don't know....there's always been something about "dem dare wuds".

:eek: :roll

As I speak a daddy long legs is climbing on my desk. Man, where is Jeff when you need him? :D :chuckle I don't know how more redneck I can get!

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I'm an old yankee and we've been at the end of jokes and what not for years So what. My brother is living in the Delta and I have a niece in Fort Polk. We've spread ourselves all over

. In our house we have a magnet on our fridge shaped like a banjo. When you press the button it plays the tune from deliverence. Everytime one of us does something really hokey we hit the button and laugh...at ourselves. Our friends from manhattan also picked one up because everyone has a little 'deliverence' in them.

Life is too short.

So here are some 'redneck haikus' that my friends sent us.

> > DESIRE

> > Damn, in that tube-top

> > You make me almost forget

> > you are my cousin

> > DRAMA

> > Set the VCR

> > Dukes of Hazzard Marathon

> > At 9 O'Clock

> > NO SIGNAL

> > White noise, buzzing static

> > Call Earl; satellite dish

> > needs new descrambler

> > PRIDE

> > Grinning, he displays

> > The nine hundred beer cans

> > Filling pickup bed

So as to be balanced I will also post this jewish haiku that my dear jewish friend sent to me:

Beyond Valium,

> > > >> The peace of knowing one's child

> > > >> Is an internist.

Hard to tell under the lights.

> > > >> White yarmulke or

> > > >> Male-pattern baldness?

Lacking fins or tail

> > > >> The gefilte fish swims with

> > > >> Great difficulty.

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Originally posted by sbic56

mjlrn97

Please don't take what purple [psychomachia] says as anything but the sanctimonious drivel that it came across to me as being.

I agree!

mjlrn97,

Don't quit posting! I always look forward to reading your intelligent, insightful posts.

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Originally posted by EastCoast

. In our house we have a magnet on our fridge shaped like a banjo. When you press the button it plays the tune from deliverence. Everytime one of us does something really hokey we hit the button and laugh...at ourselves.

We have the same banjo magnet at my house! My husband is from "Virginny" That's Virginia to us non-rednecks. I play the Dueling-Banjos magnet whenever my dh does somthing kind of red-neck like.

He is a PhD research scientist, but still a red-neck @ heart, lol.

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HellooooNurse,

That's so funny. I even find that we will sometimes hum the tune to one another and it has become a term of endearment of even a signal to our friends that they truly are a member of our family.

I think the other day when i watched my husband 'fix' the sump pump while my son was running around in his sisters pink pig slippers it was actually going through my head.

My brothers equivilant of the banjo is a Nascar magnet that says 'gentlemen...start your engines'.

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Specializes in Obstetrics, M/S, Psych.

I need one of those banjo's for my already overcrowded refrigerator doors! Helllllo Nurse, East Coast...I salute you!;) Hicks rule.

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Ok, I know this is 'rebumping' an old thread but just found it. I'm from the CRNA group and I am checking out some other areas.

We, as the United States of America, evolved from many cultures. And if anyone wants to split hairs about who was here when, let's not forget the native Indians. Don't want to start any heated discussions about who was here when, where, why, that's in the past, learn it, understand it, and live in harmony. And while we're doing that, appreciate what other cultures have to offer. This spirit was evident in the situation where one was attempting to take care of the patient, having to effectively handle the family's inquiries of the patient's care in addition to actually PROVIDING the requisite care. Ain't easy.

Bottom line, we need to keep ourselves open to others' cultures beliefs and respect them. That was evident in the post "Couldn't help but admire her dignity..." That's empathy in nursing care.

On another note, I watched Jeff Foxworthy and Company's Blue Collar Comedy with my red-neck brother-in-laws, nephews, sisters, et al and we had a great time laughing at OURSELVES!

If you ever want a good laugh, look at yourself! Wlecome to America,

PG

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