Ok. I don't know how you guys will take this, but I'm still ROFL laughing about this when I remembered this one patient of mine today.
He's a 67 year old patient scheduled for back surgery on the 7th. He has COPD really bad, so the man has to use his accessory muscles to suck in the air. Amazing to me after 34 years of smoking & emphysema, his EKG is perfectly normal. But anyway, I digress.
At our hospital, when you are going to be admitted there is a long profile that each patient must fill out telling us everything about their medical history. Everything from meds, allergies, surgeries, last mammogram blah, blah, blah...
Of course there's a pain section, & when we asked what his pain felt like, i.e. Sharp, dull, burning, etc.. he puts down "like HEll!" Ok. Then, where it asks what makes it better we expect answers like a heating pad, laying down, repositioning, etc... He puts down "a pain pill & some good whiskey." I smile. This old bird's still kickin, huh?
Anyway, after he left, thank God!, I was initialing the bottom of the page. Where it asks you for a nutritional profile of yourself, have you gained/lost weight, is your appetite normally/currently good or poor, Are you breastfeeding? That old buzzard checked yes on breastfeeding & wrote down beside the checkbox "Every chance I get!" I just about choked. I laughed harder the more I thought of it. I showed it to everyone working around me. He brought a lot of humor into my Monday. I was not in the least bit offended.
Hope you guys thought it was worth a smile at least, too.
He's a 67 year old patient scheduled for back surgery on the 7th. He has COPD really bad, so the man has to use his accessory muscles to suck in the air. Amazing to me after 34 years of smoking & emphysema, his EKG is perfectly normal. But anyway, I digress.
At our hospital, when you are going to be admitted there is a long profile that each patient must fill out telling us everything about their medical history. Everything from meds, allergies, surgeries, last mammogram blah, blah, blah...
Of course there's a pain section, & when we asked what his pain felt like, i.e. Sharp, dull, burning, etc.. he puts down "like HEll!" Ok. Then, where it asks what makes it better we expect answers like a heating pad, laying down, repositioning, etc... He puts down "a pain pill & some good whiskey." I smile. This old bird's still kickin, huh?
Anyway, after he left, thank God!, I was initialing the bottom of the page. Where it asks you for a nutritional profile of yourself, have you gained/lost weight, is your appetite normally/currently good or poor, Are you breastfeeding? That old buzzard checked yes on breastfeeding & wrote down beside the checkbox "Every chance I get!" I just about choked. I laughed harder the more I thought of it. I showed it to everyone working around me. He brought a lot of humor into my Monday. I was not in the least bit offended.
Hope you guys thought it was worth a smile at least, too.
I hope I have a good sense of humor if I make it to that age. I fear I'll be a bitter, old woman. (God help me!)
