I don't do this too much, but recently I watched part of an afternoon TV show (Steve Wilkos). I didn't get the whole story, but a woman's stepmother wanted to get custody of her stepdaughter's two children. One had a bad case of FAS. When confronted on why she was drinking during her pregnancy, the stepdaughter denied any ETOH use during her pregnancy. Steve asked, "Then why does your baby have FAS?" The girl said (and I am not making this up), that her doctor told her that if the father is doing drugs/alcohol, then the baby may be affected by FAS. She swore that this happens very, very rarely, but it can happen.
I think that was trying to CYA and said the first thing that popped into her head, whether it made sense or not.
Of course, the show called the CDC and confirmed that it's not possible for a child to contract FAS in this manner.
Fortunately, the woman did sign custody papers to her stepmother, I hope it holds up because some lawyer might say that she did it under duress.
Anyone else have any strange theories by patients?
All my baby needs is to warm up and he will be alive again. I saw it on the Discovery Channel, this kitten was dead and they put it on the radiator and it came back to life.
You can take some of my brain cells and transplant them into his brain and he will be alive again.
Both from the father who put his 4 month old premmie in a head lock to make him stop crying. For the last comment we all thought that the kid was better off dead than having his father's brain cells if that is how he thought things worked.
All my baby needs is to warm up and he will be alive again. I saw it on the Discovery Channel, this kitten was dead and they put it on the radiator and it came back to life.
You can take some of my brain cells and transplant them into his brain and he will be alive again.
Both from the father who put his 4 month old premmie in a head lock to make him stop crying. For the last comment we all thought that the kid was better off dead than having his father's brain cells if that is how he thought things worked.
Sometimes I feel when pts dont control their BS (like above), its borderline just as bad as doing drugs or alcohol.
I work in an ALF, and a fair number of residents have diabetes. Some regularly have FBSs above 200, but one always eats dessert (not the sugar-free kind), and one drinks a lot of juice, but rarely eats dinner. One has been fighting tooth and nail for weeks about her right to eat cookies and Rice Krispie treats every night. I hated Med-surg, but I saw enough patients damaged by long-term uncontrolled diabetes to realize how much danger they're in. They just don't seem to care.
It's amazing how many people think eating sugar causes diabetes.
I used to work with a very self-righteous woman who believed that everything could be cured by prayer, cod liver oil, or both. My old job didn't offer paid time off, so people often came to work sick. During one office epidemic, she shouted, to no one in particular, "It's a good thing I'm taking my cod liver oil, and not letting my guard down." Two weeks later, she was in the hospital with pneumonia.
The same woman snapped "I pray over my food!" when I said a GI bug was going around.
Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.
No, 99.5 is a high fever for me because mine normally runs low.........
For the record, this one can be true!
I've had some weird endocrine problems for almost two decades, and one "side effect" is improper body temperature regulation. My "normal" can run anywhere from 95.5 - 97.5. When I go to the doc for a sinus infection (not nearly as often the last few years, thanks to the wonders of sinuplasty!), if I get a new nurse doing vitals, I have to point it out to her. She of course won't believe me, then she'll look through my chart at all my past temp readings at my well-visits and "do the math" to compute my actual fever, because, yes indeed, I *was* running a high temp.
And another side note -- low thyroid can really mess with someone's entire body. I have recorded BPs as low as 54/??? in my doctor's office in the past. (Yes, I used to pass out a lot when I stood up!) If someone tells you that their BP usually runs low, and their chart shows they rarely hit 100/70, you really DON'T need to pump the cuff up to 180!
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All my baby needs is to warm up and he will be alive again. I saw it on the Discovery Channel, this kitten was dead and they put it on the radiator and it came back to life.
You can take some of my brain cells and transplant them into his brain and he will be alive again.
Both from the father who put his 4 month old premmie in a head lock to make him stop crying. For the last comment we all thought that the kid was better off dead than having his father's brain cells if that is how he thought things worked.