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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, June 17, 2006

Head Bonk And Shredding Allergy

The patient had slid down in bed, again, and needed to be pulled up. This was complicated by her substantial size and unconscious status. Although not dead, she was dead weight. So that we wouldn't be fighting gravity, we positioned her bed so that her feet were a couple of feet higher than her head. Four of us grabbed the sheet under her and on the count of three, yanked her up. A loud bonking sound was the next thing we heard. That was the sound of her head hitting the headboard.

They really need to give us beds with padded headboards. This isn't the first time this has happened. (They were going to give her another MRI of the brain anyway. I hope there aren't any changes.)

Another patient had shredded coconut listed as an allergy in the chart. Since it specified shredded coconut, is it okay to give the patient sliced or ground coconut? What about coconut milk or oil?

Isn't that like saying someone is allergic to sliced bread or diced eggs?


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