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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.

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Tall Tagalog Tale

A patient and her daughter complained to management about two nurses who came into her room and spoke in "their own language". The daughter overheard the exchange on the phone, the patient witnessed it first hand. There's just one problem, one of the nurses was me.

I can't imagine anyone accusing me of speaking Tagalog. I wish that I did speak it, I would fit in better if I did, but for me, it's English or nothing.

I do wish that I could understand why the accusation was made. The patient was drugged, so her I can excuse, but the patient's daughter, who is an RN, was presumably sober. At least we all got a good laugh over it.


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2 Comments:

At 4/13/2006 10:51:00 PM, Blogger Tati said...

Maybe your enunciation was a bit off key ;-)

 
At 4/14/2006 11:13:00 AM, Blogger Melissa said...

My tall stature, blonde hair and blue eyes might also have led them to think that I'm Filipino. ;)

 

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