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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.

Sunday, January 08, 2006

Bleeding Eyeball

The patient had surgery on his right eye, but he came back from OR with his left eyeball bleeding. Concerned that the wrong eye might have been operated on, the patient wanted the surgeon called to find out what happened. The surgeon explained that the correct eye had been operated on, but he had also injected something into the other eye. We assume that he had a good reason. I'm not sure which is more disturbing, seeing an eyeball bleed, knowing why it's doing that, or looking in the chart and not finding a consent for the eyeball injection.


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1 Comments:

At 1/09/2006 11:55:00 AM, Blogger Melissa said...

The good eye had been operated on two weeks earlier, but was healing slowly, so the doctor injected a steroid into the eye to help the healing process.

 

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