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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.

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Who's The Pervert, Now?

A couple of days ago, I mentioned a mentally challenged patient who was concerned that I might be a sexual pervert when I needed to catheterize him. Well, today he walked out of his room with his gown balled up in his hands so that he was exposed from the waist down. I was thinking, "Who's the pervert, now?" I walked over to him and yanked on the gown to try and cover him up. It was wet.....with urine. He said that he was holding it so that it wouldn't drip on him. He had had a little accident. I just love getting pee on my bare hands.
I was given a form to fill out today and the first question asked, "Can you read?"The choices were yes and no. This was not somebody trying to be funny. They were serious, which just makes me laugh that much harder.
At the beginning of the shift, I handed out the narcotic keys and gave the lizard to the float nurse. She was so upset that she started to remove the lizard from the key ring. To try and appease her, I offered her the dolphin and she didn't want that either. Reluctantly, she finally agreed to take the seahorse. People can be so strange. Everyone knows that the dolphin is the best one.

We have a new young patient who decided that it would be a good idea to jump off of his motorcycle while traveling at 60 miles per hour. He was practicing a stunt. Now he's going to be practicing walking with a walker. Testosterone does strange things to a young man's brain.


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7 Comments:

At 11/08/2005 10:47:00 AM, Blogger Running2Ks said...

Can you read? LOL!!!! They couldn't be serious. Oh no :)

 
At 11/08/2005 10:54:00 AM, Blogger Melissa said...

I had to take a picture of the form and post it because I didn't think that anyone would believe me. They don't mean to, but my employer gives me so many reasons to laugh. :)

 
At 11/08/2005 12:39:00 PM, Blogger Sarah said...

I think you should have answered no and then continued on to take the rest of the survey. I bet no one even reads that crap!

 
At 11/08/2005 12:52:00 PM, Blogger Melissa said...

Too bad that I didn't think of that. It would have been fun to test it.

 
At 11/08/2005 04:02:00 PM, Blogger Mary said...

I was going to say what Sarah suggested! I would have answered "no" for sure. LOL

Of course we all know that blogging on Blogger has introduced us to a new kind of "can you read?". My verification word this time is humsnemq.

I think it means "let me decide if I'm going to post your comment or eat it."

 
At 11/08/2005 10:53:00 PM, Blogger Tati said...

Why would she be upset about the lizard? It's not a real one. Sheesh.

 
At 11/09/2005 12:54:00 AM, Blogger Melissa said...

Mary, I think that the blogger verification test is getting to be a bit much. The number of letters keeps getting longer all of the time. I wish that I could get rid of it.

Lisa, I'll have to remember that if I ever see that question again.

Karen, that was my reaction too. I even teased her about it not actually being a live, disease carrying lizard. See if I ever offer her the dolphin again!

 

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