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Misadventurous Melissa

Everyday is an adventure, or misadventure as the case may be. It is the latter that makes for the best stories, inspiring the name of my blog. I'm a nurse and an attorney (and way too silly sometimes). I am retired now. WELCOME to my blog! This is a work of fiction inspired by true events. The patients I refer to are a patchwork quilt of various patient's problems mixed together. If you think you recognize someone, you are wrong. These people do not really exist.

Saturday, November 05, 2005

Funny Lotion Sounds And Where's The Hole

My coworker was pumping hand lotion from the container that our employer provides, when she commented, "I don't like the sound that this is making." We stopped and listened for a few seconds while she continued to squirt lotion and than realized what she meant. It was a sound that I have not heard in a very long time, the sound of two people having a very good time. Of course we all laughed and laughed some more every time anyone got lotion. It was so bad that one of the patients asked if we were laughing at him. (People tend to think that everything is about them.) It had to be explained that the lotion bottle was making funny sounds. I'm never going to be able to keep a straight face again when getting lotion.

One of my patients tonight was mentally challenged and he needed to be catheterized. While I was setting up, he asked if they screen nurses for being sexual perverts. I said that that's not really a problem with nurses. He replied that it's a problem with priests. He then asked if I was a pervert. I told him that there is nothing sexy about helping people to go to the bathroom and that's mostly what we do. He seemed satisfied, but I was determined to get the procedure over with as quickly as possible, so that he wouldn't get the wrong idea.

Everything started out fine, he was normal in appearance and then I ran into a big problem. I couldn't find the damn hole. There was an opening where it should be, but it was false channel. I started examing him more closely, I turned the lights on, put on my glasses and I still couldn't find the hole. I was so embarrassed, surely he must have thought that I was a pervert for sure with all of the handling I was doing. I figured that he had to have one, so I just started poking him gently at random to see if it would go in anywhere. I got lucky. There was a tiny slit half-way down the shaft that the catheter slid into and a good amount of urine came out the tube. I hope that he doesn't think that I molested him.


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4 Comments:

At 11/05/2005 08:45:00 AM, Blogger Sarah said...

Too bad there wasn't a male nurse working you could switch him to.

 
At 11/05/2005 11:08:00 AM, Blogger Running2Ks said...

I have said it before, and I will again, you are a saint for what you do (and no, not a priest).

 
At 11/05/2005 04:37:00 PM, Blogger Melissa said...

Sarah, I wish that more men would become nurses, but they never seem to last long.

Brandy, I've said it before, and I will again, I am not a saint. :)

 
At 5/22/2009 10:01:00 AM, Blogger Sir Paul said...

The County that I live in seems (to my way of thinking) to have a lot of abnormal ppl. Apparently if you are a male born in this county in 1980 there is a 1 in 40 chance that you were born with the hole in your penis in the wrong place!!!!!!!!!.
Now I was born in '61 so I'm thinking all the guys that were born in this county in the 60's must have a greater chance of being born with that peculiarity 9my reasoning being that there was less control of pesticide use etc back in those days) So whenever I am out somewhere and I see someone about my age head for the men's room I find myself wondering if he has to face in a funny direction in order to pee in the urinal.
Fortunately for me I was not born here so I can pee facing in the right direction.
Anyway is that a weird way to think about things ? lol.
Oh the reason I heard about the weird location thing is a neighbour was proudly telling me how "this county has the highest rates of cancer than any other place in the USA". I kept expecting to run into Erin Brokovitch at any moment.
Still enjoying your blog, all the best to you .
GG

 

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