Tonight's Treasures

I've never come across a patient who I wanted to date, but you never know, it could happen. As part of my nursing assessment, I always assess whether any of my patients are potential boyfriend material. It's rare that I get a male patient around my age and even rarer when such a man is single. If he is single, he's invariably covered with tattoos, has a braid down his back and lives in a trailer out in the desert with his mother who supports him. Not exactly my type.

So tonight it was with great pleasure that I discovered my nice clean-cut, well mannered patient was single. Of course, as with all of my patients, I read his medical history and saw the deal breakers. He's a heavy smoker, recovering from heroin addiction, has a psyche history and has been unemployed for several years. Dang. It's always something.

Later, I needed to get his blood pressure and had to lean over the young, pretty blonde in his bed. Too bad that she didn't have the benefit of a chart to screen him before becoming involved with him. But then again, perhaps she doesn't care. He is good looking and polite. For some women that is enough.

Oh, I was introduced to one other gentleman tonight by his mother who was my patient. He had possibilities and then I saw in her chart that he was under investigation for elder abuse and is an alcoholic. Are there any normal men out there who aren't already taken?

I'm sure glad that men are luxury items and not necessities. I'd be in big trouble otherwise.