A Bloody Penis and an Argument

With eleven patients and five nurses, it was a challenge to keep ourselves entertained tonight. I checked the computer to see if anything was going on in ER, but there was nothing terribly exciting there either, except for a man who came in with a bloody penis. I don't know what happened to him. It did remind me of the patient I once had who developed an infection on his penis. It required multiple surgeries to scrape away the infected tissue. By the time that I took care of him, most of the head was gone. It was just a shaft with a little scrap of tissue from the head left. He was such a young guy. I never found out what happened to cause that.

On a totally unrelated note, there was an amusing (to me) argument. One of our nurses has one of those voices that carry. She can be heard in every square inch of our unit. So, she was talking with a patient and apparently, one of the visitors had heard enough. The visitor marched into the patient's room and said to the nurse, "You be quiet." And then pointing to the patient, she added, "and you too." The nurse yelled back, "This isn't your room. Get out." End of discussion.