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“The Hardest I’ve Tried To Not Laugh”: 30 ER Employees Share The Most Comical Moments Of Their Jobs
Working in medicine is so stressful, high-risk, and potentially traumatic that you can’t survive for long without a stellar sense of humor. When things get tough, you laugh to keep morale up. In some cases, though, the situations you encounter are so bizarre and wild that you can’t help but share them with the world.
Doctors and nurses who work in emergency rooms took to a handful of online threads where they revealed the most hilarious things that have ever happened to them. Keep scrolling for a good laugh. And don’t forget to share these with anyone you know who works in medicine. They’ll find a lot to relate to.
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#1
Not ER, but once I took care of the same 2 patients for 3 days in a row, and they were separated only with a curtain. On the third day the nice old man gets distraught and goes "Nurse! Nurse! I'm so worried I haven't had a bowel movement in 3 days!!" I go "what do you mean? You just had one yesterday." And he relaxes and smiles and says "oh, I guess I forgot." From behind the curtain my other patient yells "I REMEMBER!!!" 😂.
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#2
Not the nurse but the subject of the story.
I shattered my ankle and was waiting in emergency for next steps. The nurse comes in all business, tells me 'I need to take off your pants.'
My immediate response was 'shouldn't we at least have dinner first?'
She paused, turned bright red, then spun on her heel and left the room. About 30 seconds later I hear the nurse's station erupt. I do sometimes wonder if she still tells the story.
Gadaffi Duck 1 month ago
I'm a girl, I went to hospital one sunday after excreting nothing but blood all night and passing out. Dr gave me me a poke and prod around my abdomen and said a G.I will come in shortly for further examination. Half hr later the G.I walks in, pushes my knees to my chest and sticks a finger straight up my b*m and says 'yup, colitis' I flew up that bed and said 'you could have at least bought me dinner first' To her credit she returned a few minutes later with a prescription, bunch of pamphlets on colitis and a cheese sandwich for me.
#3
Not my story, but heard it from my cousin. She was training for her nurse diploma at the time at a local hospital. So there is this old guy (70-80) coming in the ER with a big wound on his leg and he had to go for surgery. My cousin tried to prepare him for the surgery and asked him to remove his boots and clothes, so he can change into proper clothing. The old guy started yelling and cursing because he didn’t want to get his boots off. Several doctors came by to calm him and he started to fight them too. After some time when he calmed down they injected him some anesthetic in order to remove his boots without him flipping over. It turns out he was ashamed to take them off because he had his nails painted red.
Though laughter is good for your physical and mental health, the stress that doctors and nurses deal with in emergency medicine is no joking matter.
As one study points out, a whopping 7 to 10% of physicians are disabled by depression, dark thoughts, substance misuse, or unhappy marriages. Emergency medicine professionals, in particular, have a higher risk of developing substance misuse issues.
Focusing on developing a culture of resilience and proactively preventing these issues doesn’t just help the medical staff in their personal lives. It also has a positive knock-on effect on their professional lives and the care of their patients.
#4
I'm a CNA. Once I was sitting a patient (one-on-one care for really bad cases, essentially babysitting), 40-something guy with necrotic pancreatitis/alcohol withdrawal. He was completely out of it, thought he was at a construction job. Really all I did for him all night was make sure he didn't pull out his catheter/PICC line/tele monitors and/or get up and wander away. Anyway, he was super pissed at me for making him stay in bed when he thought he should be working. He thought I was his male coworker, didn't know it was three in the morning, didn't know that he was completely naked. At various points, mind you, I had to physically wrestle this 200-something pound naked guy back into bed while his lines were stretched to the breaking point, just barely still in his body. Also, he thought his bed was his truck at one point, kept trying to start his bed and drive it away. "This is the strangest construction job I've ever been on," he kept telling me. Me too, buddy.
Upstaged75 1 month ago
My mom had spinal fusion about 20 years ago and she was so wacked out on meds that someone had to be with her in her hospital room at all times. My dad and I took turns. She was constantly trying to unhook all her monitors and get out of bed for the weirdest reasons - like she needed to do some ironing or she was going to go play tennis. In reality she couldn't even walk - she had staples all the way down her back and several surgical drain tubes. It was a rough time as my dad was worried she had a stroke or something and would be permanently addled. Nope - she was just high as hell. 😂😂
#5
It was before I got into medical school, I was volunteering in the ER. I walked in one night, and a tech was scrubbing a guy with road rash down his arm, his body, and his leg. It looked really painful, and I asked the patient what happened.
"I was on my Harley, and I was being chased by the cops. I went around a corner, hit some gravel, and laid my bike down."
I noticed the man's wife in the corner of the room roll her eyes.
"How does that story sound?" He asked.
"Sounds great," I said. "What really happened?"
"I was on my scooter going downhill and I fell off."
"Stick with the first story.".
Charl Marx 1 month ago
My husband had a herniated disc in his neck that required surgery earlier this year. I now have constant headaches from having to roll my eyes so hard every time he tells people his neck scar is from having a d**g-fueled knife fight with a monkey in Thailand.
#6
We had one woman come back again, and her chief complaint was constipation. Going into her chart I saw that she had been previously given some suppositories to take, and in the triage note she said her meds weren't working and she wanted some different ones.
So the doc is asking her questions, making sure nothing else is wrong, and they get to the part about the meds. She says "Well yeah, the pills I got last time were huge! I have to break them in half to swallow them!"
And then we had to explain that suppositories are not meant to be eaten, and that was why her medication was not relieving her symptoms. She thought Suppository was the name of the medication, like Tylenol is for acetaminophen.
I still cant forget the doctor explaining to her how to actually use her medication.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago
What should you do with your suppositories? You can go shove them up your a**e for all I care.
“The relationship between factors such as fatigue, burnout, poor health, emotional exhaustion, lack of meaning, poor social support, and poor camaraderie with critical outcomes such as clinical performance, ability to learn, empathy for patients, and avoidance of medical errors is intuitively obvious. What we are beginning to learn now, however, is that greater attention to one's personal wellbeing may in fact be associated with better patient care.”
There’s more and more evidence to support the link between physician wellbeing and decreased medical errors, lower rates of burnout, and improved empathy.
Emergency healthcare work can be very rewarding, but it is also demanding and challenging. One major issue physicians in this field face is burnout, which then potentially leads to divorce, physical unwellness, self-harm, substance misuse, etc., Medrecruit warns. Some of the main symptoms of burnout include:
- Exhaustion
- Cynicism
- Sleeping problems
- Frustration
- Mood swings
- Feelings of isolation
- Depression
- Digestion problems
- Headaches
- Ulcers
#7
I don't work in the er but have been there many times. Once I was having chest pains and they hooked me up to a eeg/ekg? Machine. I've had this done before. The doc was teaching a younger doc where/how to apply the electrodes. When they were done the younger doc turned the machine on and i convulsed like i got a shock. The younger one shrieked and panikced. Me and the older doc laughed so much!!! Good times until i learned i have a heart murmur.
#8
This homeless dude comes in after being hit by a car. His CT shows he has a pretty significant head bleed. He's already drunk so this guy's just having a great time. We get him undressed and start trying to clean up when he bursts into song "YOOU AAARE SOOO BEAUTIFUL" He keeps going on with the same song for half an hour, but it made it 10 times better when a female nurse came in to help and he immediately stops singing and goes "Hang on... I forgot the second verse" he sits for a few minutes and then goes right back at the same part he's been singing. That's probably the hardest I've tried to not laugh in my life.
#9
Or that time a nice fella taking a colonoscopy prep overdid it, and got to vomiting ... just when the diarrhea kicked in. Eventually, exhausted and empty, but feeling better, he thought he'd try to get approved to go ahead with the colonoscopy instead of wasting the prep. GI said ok, if he went to the ED and got checked out for dehydration/ infection. He hopped into the shower, cleaned off in a hurry and came to see me. Having failed to notice that he used his teenaged daughters fancy silly glitter body wash. This big, macho muscular conservative looking 50 year old man, glittering like Edward from Twilight. Once he heard the workup was ok and he was clear for the scope, we all had a great laugh.
Burnout can be caused by a variety of factors, including the mortality of patients, long work hours, sleep deprivation, exposure to diseases, unpredictable workloads, high-stress environments, and the pressure to be perfect.
Other factors that negatively impact your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing include things like poor nutrition, a lack of exercise, a feeling of lacking control over your work, threats of violence in the workplace, and administrative demands.
However, you are not powerless. You can be proactive and avoid burnout or take steps to manage it once you’re in the deep end. Some of the main tools in your arsenal, as an ER physician, include mindfulness and meditation practice, regular physical activity, support from your peers, self-care (sleep, time off, accepting limits, setting boundaries, good social life, etc.), and seeking professional help.
#10
Not a nurse but an MA and I once had a patient that was a catholic priest that developed a skin rash...he was treating it with that spray Clorox cleanup solution which of course only made it worse. When asked about the rash, he said he caught it from his wife and then pleaded with us not to report him to the head guy at his church since he’s not supposed to be married. Obviously we can’t report things like that due to privacy laws. Turns out his “wife” was a lady of the night that was also one of our patients (unbeknownst to either of them). FYI/ Clorox spray, when applied liberally and directly to your genitalia WILL cause burns. What an idiot.
#11
We had a dad bring his kid in, cause she had weird red areas on her belly. He screamed at us, cursed and made a BIG scene, claiming his kid would 'fade into unconciousness" and we are just watching her losing her life. Don't get me wrong, if she'd had altered mental status I'd have been concerned, but the kid was dancing around the examination room and had no signs of problems whatsoever, while we had actually sick kids waiting. Well, dad insisted to get an ultrasound for his kid with internal bleeding. When the ultrasound gel was applied, we wiped off the red colour that she probably got from a new shirt or toy or whatever...
He was embarrassed. At least.
#12
Not a doctor or nurse but a firefighter. Got a call and the guy was DOA, passed away sitting on his couch. We're all hanging around waiting for the ME to show up and one of the guys I'm working with, an old salty firefighter, gets tired of standing around so he sits down on the couch next to the body. An EMT walks in to tell us that a family member just showed up, the guy on the couch slaps the body on the shoulder and says "hey, people here to see you".
Chihuahua Mama 1 month ago (edited)
You can tell who hasn't had to work in a job where you see A LOT of awful stuff, based on the comments. Having a sense of humor is often the best way to cope with these. Also, it doesn't sound like he did this in front of the family member, but just other EMTs (edit: forgot a word)
Which of these stories did you enjoy the most? Do we have any doctors or nurses here with us today? Have you ever worked in the emergency room before? What is the funniest or weirdest thing that has ever happened to you at work?
No matter your profession, how do you deal with all the stress? If you feel like sharing, drop your thoughts in the comments section at the bottom of this post.
#13
Once when I was on the ward, an elderly patient surprised me by gleefully exclaiming 'beep beep!' in my ear. He was walking with a zimmer frame, so he must have spent a fair amount of time sneaking up on me (not exactly silently) and I was still none the wiser. Not exactly a WTF moment, but it made my day, especially as he looked so pleased with himself afterwards.
Uncle Panda 1 month ago (edited)
I worked in a nursing home and one morning I went to wake Herman. He had been a large man earlier but when I knew him, he had a barrel chest, gangly arms and legs, etc. Anyway, as I approached the bed his eyes popped open and he burst into, "Welll, if I knew you were comin', I'd a baked a cake!" in a remarkable deep baritone. He been laying in wait for me and we laughed all the way to breakfast.
#14
I was in charge one day and was called to rescue my tech who had been pulled to sit with a psych pt. I go down and hes pale and shaking, and his patient is straining at his leathers and screaming.
I told the patient to calm down a sec so I can talk to my tech just to be a smarty pants and he actually did! I told my tech to chill and call me if he needs me. I then told the patient I was done talking and he could go back to making a ruckus if he wanted. The meds had kicked in though, and he just called me "fat Mary Poppins" as I left.
#15
My sister works as a nurse in delivery ward. One couple wanted to name their kid a pretty interesting combination. The dad liked "Sirius" and the mom liked "Unique." Their last name was fairly ordinary (like Smith or something) so they basically wanted to name their kid Sirius Unique Smith.
One of the nurses advised they give the kid another, less creative middle name as an alternative they could use when they got older in case the kid didn't like those two names. So they decided to go with Lee and that was how my sister ended up helping deliver a baby named Sirius Lee Unique Smith.
#16
Not a medical professional in any way but my mom was a nurse. One time she had a woman come in who was complaining about “funny smells from down there”, so my mom takes her to a room to inspect and pulls out what she said was the nastiest looking tampon that she had ever seen. I’m a dude so I don’t know how long it would hypothetically take for one to go bad but my mom said it had turned green and all sorts of other colors by that point. When my mom explained to the woman what the cause of the smell was, she responded “Oh that’s so funny, the same thing happened to my mother. It must be genetic.”.
#17
My patient was sedated and screamed that "Roy Halladay is a vampire reincarnated as Duke Ellington."
I'd never had to try so hard to not laugh. I still have random bursts of hysterical laughter about it.
#18
I was a volunteer transporter at this time, and I had just finished moving a patient to the CT scan room. I hear an announcement that said “Code Security, CT scan hallway.” I peak my head out the room, and flying past me is a very young teenager sprinting down the hall, flailing his arms and screeching. He gets to the end of the hallway and out of nowhere an absolutely massive security guard spears this kid with the force to take out a bear. It happened so quickly that I just started losing it laughing.
Found out later the kid was tripping and had escaped from the emergency department.
Sara Frazer 1 month ago
I'm sorry I don't want to be that person but lately I notice a lot of people putting "peak" when it should be "peek"...I just wonder if it's a result of more people using talk-to-text and not looking at it? Genuine wonder
#19
Not a nurse but I bet she told everyone... because she was cracking up at my innocence.
I had the need for a poison ivy shot and my dad told me they shoot your butt. Im like 15. So nurse says “time for your shot, can you
Me: pants down; butt out
“Pull your waistband down.”
The funny part is I kicked my shoes off as well. Like I was about to get all naked and comfortable for a one second shot. We all laughed real hard at that. She had the pants down before but never the shoes kicked off.
Margaret Shannon 1 month ago
I needed an injection in my buttock, and the nurse told me to just lower my clothes a little bit. “I don’t need a full moon” she said “just half.”
#20
EMT-B here, the funniest thing I was involved with was when I was still in EMT school. I was doing a clinical rotation in the ER when the doctor called me over to where he and a group of nurses were congregated. He asked me "Son, what do you think this is?" as he pointed to an xray of some bodily region. As I take a closer look at this snapshot into some strangers anatomy I see an obvious large white mass and reply "Umm...is it a tumor?", he smiles and says "Nope....it's a golf ball".
The patient was a high school cheerleader who had been admitted into the ER after slipping in the bathroom and "falling" on one of her fathers golf balls after taking a shower (talk about a hell of a water hazard). One of the ER nurses told me later the nurse who had dealt with the patient advised her to "use a string next time" lol.
tl;dr While in EMT school I saw an xray of a female patient who had a golf ball up her hoo-hoo.
Tyranamar Seuss 1 month ago
Never stick anything spherical up an orifice. They're nearly impossible to get out.
#21
Not a human nurse, but a vet nurse-
A hysterical man came in carrying his dog, and we prepared for an emergency situation, except he then tells us the following: that the dog went over the fence in his yard and into his neighbor’s house (a neighbor who doesn’t like them very much to begin with), climbed on top of his desk and ate the code-device for his bank. Now he would like to get it out and replace it before the neighbor took notice 😂.
Uncle Panda 1 month ago (edited)
"Let me see if I have this right... I lift Bowser's left ear up and down for the cursor, scratch his left ear to enter a one (1), right for a two (2), tickle his chin for three (3)... and when the code is complete, gently boop his nose to hit enter?"
#22
Not a doctor, but I was at the hospital for a check-up and the guy behind the curtain next to me had a broken ankle because "Some guy was hitting on 'mah girl so I threw him down and kicked him so hard my foot snapped." Class act, that one.
#23
You've gone to the hospital multiple times for cutting your thumb with a butter knife while trying to cut an ice cube? Was one time not enough for you to learn your lesson?
Sara Frazer 1 month ago (edited)
It would be cheaper to buy an ice tray with smaller compartments! Or in my case I do buy bagged ice, and like it in smaller pieces..the flat side of a meat hammer works great, or even a coffee mug. Or the good ol' WWE throw onto the floor
Nuku Nyara 1 month ago (edited)
Lol, I also use the flat side of a meat hammer 👍🏼 I don't recommend using a coffee cup as I've broken one that way 😅
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Don't listen to me 1 month ago
Why is anyone trying to cut anything with a butter knife? Those are by definition not sharp knives, for spreading only.
Evolbeky 1 month ago
Agreed. And how does one manage to cut themself badly enough with a butter knife for the ER??
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TheWickedOne 1 month ago
When I was like 5, I almost cut the end of my finger off with a knife trying to cut a straw, because we did not have tooth picks and I wanted to twirl it around in my mouth like the guy in the movie Uncle Buck, I thought it was cool. My uncle was babysitting me and I snuck off when he was on the phone, I knew what I was doing... My mom wasn't too happy with him. Whoops
Gracie Mae 1 month ago
geez, or at least hold the ice cube under running water until it's the size you want...just use cold water so you don't injure yourself again
#24
Someone had an allergic reaction, and for some reason brought in live mussel for us, which hr thought he had reacted to. In a little jar full of water. Like a goldfish or something. We kept our little mussel friend for most of a day in the charting space. He did not contribute meaningfully to the workup or treatment plan.
Uncle Panda 1 month ago
Dude... you missed the quest marker for Journey to the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys! It was inside the clam!
#25
I went to the ER to get stitches once.
The guy next to me was drunk, and was dared to shove 20--some tictacs up his nose. He did. He just sat there, cussing, crying and being drunk.
Auntriarch 1 month ago
Aren't you supposed to get that trick out of your system when you're in kindergarten
#26
I was working in Triage where we check patients in when a mid-30’s woman came up trying to explain her symptoms. She kind of leaned over and whispers, “I got dem skittles down there. You know?”
As I’m trying to see if she’s serious, trying not to laugh, she says she has to go to the bathroom. I’m boggled and just more or less like, ‘What does that even mean? Skittles in her... never mind.’
My coworker came up to me to relay something while skittles lady came back from the bathroom and said, “Never mind, don’t have to worry about dem skittles, they gone.” And she walked out of the ER, leaving me there while I’m trying not to bust out laughing.
My coworker looked horrified. Another day in Triage.
#27
I had a manic guy on a psych hold who eloped. Ran like a gazelle out to triage barefoot in only his underwear Once there, he stopped and weighed himself. Then, faced with his choice of two convenient doors out to the lobby, he instead climbed up onto the counter and thru the little triage window, ran outside (still barefoot) and stole a police car.
Brian Droste 1 month ago
If he was in pysch ward wouldn't he been locked in a room or in an Area that would be locked away from other patients or from other areas of the hospital?
#28
Not a nurse but i’m pretty sure a nurse and some paramedics told this story.
i walked in w a tampon lodged in my nose.
she ripped it out and laughed at me and the paramedics were laughing in the background
QUICK TIP TAMPONS EXPAND SO MUCH
i had a nose bleed and that had to be 10x worse than just waiting it out.
Kathy Brooke 1 month ago
Next time fold and roll a tissue to tamponise the nose. Actual menstrual tampons are designed differently. But yes, tampon is the term used for shoving absorbent material up the nose to stop a nose bleed. Done right it also applies gentle pressure to the bleed.
#29
My ex was a nurse and she once attended an emergency surgery of a guy who had been stabbed with a spork- the spoon-terminus, mind you- and the instrument was still stuck in his chest when he arrived at the hospital. For some reason, on the fork-side of the spork there was a little piece of Wiener Wurst attached. The surgeon's hand trembled from laughter during the whole operation. When asked during recovery about what happened, the guy said he'd slipped while eating dinner and fell on the spork but the authorities suspect there was something more sinister going on.
Laura Gillette 1 month ago
I don't think that is a spork. That is an eating implement with a fork on one side and a spoon on the other. A spork is a spoon with shallow notches cut into the tip so it can also be used a a fork.
#30
This happened to me... Not very WTF but I'll post it anyway.
I came into the hospital and told them that I had gotten hit by a spotlight weighing several hundred pounds. They gave me a huge 'how the hell did you manage that?' look. Got 14 stitches and a Harry potter scar for that.
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Otto Katz 1 month ago
I had a GI doc who was hysterical, always making jokes, he was great. I loved him. One time, husband went in for a colonoscopy, doc asked him if he was comfortable, husband says 'I make a good living...' Doc says 'Hey, I make the jokes around here'. It was hysterical. The timing. exquisite. He retired, I miss him.
Mel in Georgia 1 month ago
Surgeon met with my teenage son pre-op for a hand wound. Asked what happened. My son said, "It was a dry ice bom b." Surgeon said, "Let me guess - your last words were 'Watch this!'" Son: "Nah, it was 'Ok, I'll do it.'" Stupid kids were throwing dry ice bom bs in the woods (dry ice in plastic liter bottles with a little water) and one sat by a path unexploded. Son thought it was too dangerous to leave on the path so he picked it up to move it - BOOM.
Philly Bob 1 month ago (edited)
I told my gastroenteroligist when he did my colonoscopy and my gastroendoscopy while just going under on Feb 14th that I'm "taking it up the āss on Valetines Day! " He still tortures my āss about it! LOL!
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 month ago
I'd lost a lot of weight in hospital and the blood pressure cuff kept slipping, sliding down my arm... Okay not so bad except the machine then would make a siren type noise... The nurses must've gotten fed up with rushing in expecting to have to use the paddles on me!!! Me - "Okay, already died twice, been resuscitated... Pretty sure I'm alive but I'll let you know when I'm not!"
SkyBlueandBlack 1 month ago
I hate needles. When I have to have an injection, I just keep repeating "I'm an adult, I'm an adult" and the nurse laughing usually distracts me enough to get through it with some dignity intact!
Deson Bowenford 1 month ago
Once I was in the ER and they had a EKG hooked up to me since I was feeling dizzy. After the staff left the room I pulled out a little hand held video game system and a couple of leeds came off. Within a minute or so a DR and two nurses came barreling into the room worried that I had flatlined! Much relief was spread all around.
BrunoVI 1 month ago (edited)
My family still chuckles over when I was eight years old in an emergency room, and the nurse comes over all smiley, "So how are we doing today?" to which I replied, "Well, we're in a hospital, so how do you think I'm doing?" Not sarcasm, just full blown Young Sheldon (not to compare my intelligence to his). My parents answered, "she's trying to be nice." To which I, still in full sincerity answered, "you can be nice and smart at the same time." In all fairness, all smiles doesn't communicate empathy as well as a lot of people who deal with children think it does.
Crissy Newbury 4 days ago
I was waiting to have some blood taken when what I presumed to be a newly qualified technician come over to me. I told him I was fine needles didn’t scare me. He ten said they scared him and we had a good laugh about it.
Otto Katz 1 month ago
I had a GI doc who was hysterical, always making jokes, he was great. I loved him. One time, husband went in for a colonoscopy, doc asked him if he was comfortable, husband says 'I make a good living...' Doc says 'Hey, I make the jokes around here'. It was hysterical. The timing. exquisite. He retired, I miss him.
Mel in Georgia 1 month ago
Surgeon met with my teenage son pre-op for a hand wound. Asked what happened. My son said, "It was a dry ice bom b." Surgeon said, "Let me guess - your last words were 'Watch this!'" Son: "Nah, it was 'Ok, I'll do it.'" Stupid kids were throwing dry ice bom bs in the woods (dry ice in plastic liter bottles with a little water) and one sat by a path unexploded. Son thought it was too dangerous to leave on the path so he picked it up to move it - BOOM.
Philly Bob 1 month ago (edited)
I told my gastroenteroligist when he did my colonoscopy and my gastroendoscopy while just going under on Feb 14th that I'm "taking it up the āss on Valetines Day! " He still tortures my āss about it! LOL!
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 month ago
I'd lost a lot of weight in hospital and the blood pressure cuff kept slipping, sliding down my arm... Okay not so bad except the machine then would make a siren type noise... The nurses must've gotten fed up with rushing in expecting to have to use the paddles on me!!! Me - "Okay, already died twice, been resuscitated... Pretty sure I'm alive but I'll let you know when I'm not!"
SkyBlueandBlack 1 month ago
I hate needles. When I have to have an injection, I just keep repeating "I'm an adult, I'm an adult" and the nurse laughing usually distracts me enough to get through it with some dignity intact!
Deson Bowenford 1 month ago
Once I was in the ER and they had a EKG hooked up to me since I was feeling dizzy. After the staff left the room I pulled out a little hand held video game system and a couple of leeds came off. Within a minute or so a DR and two nurses came barreling into the room worried that I had flatlined! Much relief was spread all around.
BrunoVI 1 month ago (edited)
My family still chuckles over when I was eight years old in an emergency room, and the nurse comes over all smiley, "So how are we doing today?" to which I replied, "Well, we're in a hospital, so how do you think I'm doing?" Not sarcasm, just full blown Young Sheldon (not to compare my intelligence to his). My parents answered, "she's trying to be nice." To which I, still in full sincerity answered, "you can be nice and smart at the same time." In all fairness, all smiles doesn't communicate empathy as well as a lot of people who deal with children think it does.
Crissy Newbury 4 days ago
I was waiting to have some blood taken when what I presumed to be a newly qualified technician come over to me. I told him I was fine needles didn’t scare me. He ten said they scared him and we had a good laugh about it.
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