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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.

Monday, January 23, 2006

Does This Look Like A florist Shop?


A visitor came with a bunch of flowers and asked if we had a vase. This happens all of the time and no, we don't have vases. This is a hospital, not a florist shop.

I handed the visitor a container that we use for measuring urine and vomit. You would think that she would have been satisfied at that point, but no, she also wanted me to trim the stems of the flowers. It may seem hard to believe, but I did have more important things to do than be her servant girl.

I handed her my scissors, so that she could do it herself. What a mistake that was. She broke my scissors. So, did she at least offer to buy me another pair? No, she asked if I had another pair that she could borrow. What?!!! She wanted to break those too if I had them? That was my only pair of scissors and now I have to look for new ones. I can't believe the gall of some people.


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