Quote of the Night
An elderly woman was brought to the ER by her husband because she seemed a little confused. She was answering my questions correctly for the most part until I asked her how long the two of them had been married.
"Fifty years," she said.
I looked at her husband, and he was shaking his head with a smirk.
"It's only been 49 years," he said. "One time she left me for a year."
"Fifty years," she said.
I looked at her husband, and he was shaking his head with a smirk.
"It's only been 49 years," he said. "One time she left me for a year."
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posted by scalpel at 5:50 AM
7 Comments:
Now you've stirred up some real trouble. :-)
My "quote of the night"
"how's your chest pain now?" (after giving morphine to a very strange 30 yr old man with c/c CP).
"Well, since you shot me up with that morphine shit, I don't have it anymore, but that doesn't mean it isn't there."
wtf!
Crispy Nurse,
The way it has been explained to me is that the morphine does not get rid of the pain, but makes it so that you don't mind the pain. That would be consistent with your chest pain patient's comment.
They gave me morphine when I had mastitis and went to the ER. It took the pain away completely, but burned like crazy on the way in. I don't like morphine. All I really needed was some serious antibiotics. The fever was making me shake so badly, my teeth chattered, and the triage nurse kept getting mad at me.
That's funny Scalpel! They sound cure. :)
I thought morphine and dilauded would make me vomit incessantly because I did when I had them and a nurse told me the drugs were making me sick. Demerol works well though and I don't react negatively to it.
Turns out we now know the kidney stones caused the vomiting. I recently found out that Dilauded only gives me a headache but if they counter it with toradol it's ok. And I did great on the Morphine but by almost 24 hrs into it I kept waking up with unbelievable itching and couldn't stop scratching..everywhere. Ha! I thought I picked something up from the OR!
I don't understand why Demerol isn't the 1st drug of choice.
A nurse recently told me that they use demerol in post-op if a pt has severe chills because it works well on that but they use it only if they have to. Oh and that it isn't a good drug for the elderly population.
Does this drug have more risk factors than dilauded and morphine?
Scapel.. I meant to say they sound cute!
Amy...shame on that triage nurse for getting mad at you! What the heck? You were obviously ill.
Too funny.
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