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Articles: Covered in Blood |
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MorteAscendo on Tuesday, May 07, 2002 - 04:01 AM PST
Hospital work is not all fun in games. One fateful night I was working, the only tech on because the other tech "hurt" her ankle and couldnt walk that well. So I am busting my ass all night (because all nurses in the Navy abuse Corpsman) doing all the duties and taking vital signs. So whe when 1am hit the clock, BAAAAM!!!! Vital signs time. So I walk down the hall like a typical night and take VS like its no big deal. My last one, thank god im almost done. But I hear a fuss behind me and then...
"BAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRFFFFF" I turn around thinking someone got sick, but no, this young man had just puked up close to 400cc of bright red blood, not even thinking but reacting I pick up the Emesis (puke) bucket and hold it to his mouth and then " SPEEEEEW" more blood comes all over my arms, hands and uniform. I admit, i have never in my life been scared, nauseous around or fainted because of blood, but when you are covered in it, that is a whole nother story.
I run to the Nurses station where I find a Nurse playing Scrabble on the computer, She looked at me, looked back down at the computer and said (I shit you not) "Is everything OK?" I stuck my hand covered in blood in front of her face and say "NO!" So we start running down the hall and we find the guy who just puked up 500cc + of blood on the floor of the bathroom passed out. We yell for the other nurse (who was also on the computer) to get down there and put him in bed. When the guy wakes up we asked what he was doing, and he states, "I had to pee real bad"
So in the middle of this there was another patient that went critical on me too. He has a disease called Crones Disease. And he started to bleed out at the same time. So me, the only tech, has to prep this man for surgery, so that means putting in a second IV in, Cathing the poor guy and getting paper work together, while at the same time doing paper work for the other patient who tossed blood, and transfering him to the ICU.
So after i finish preping the guy for surgery, the Doc comes up and just orders 2 Units of blood to be infused at the same time and no surgery. I was flammin pissed. So when I finish everything, I had to do all the paper work, all the transportation and what not, its 5am and my nurse turns from the computer and says, "Hey, draw the labs and do the vital signs.... It's Time."
But hey, I love the Military~!!! :)
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Re: Covered in Blood
by Mara (maraisgod@yahoo.com)
on May 07, 2002 - 08:50 PM
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Ewwwwwwww...... if that was me, I would have rub my hand in that nurse`s face.o0(*smack* Bad Mara!)....I hate nurses! .......sorry to many bad experinces with nurses
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Re: Re: Covered in Blood by Rogue (Rogue@skew.org) on May 08, 2002 - 12:02 PM (User info | Send a Message) | As many bad experiences as I have had with medical people, I have kept a pretty good ratio of giving back bad experiences. Once I had committed suicide and was lying in the ER just listening to my body being totally silent (and the obligatory obnoxious machine screaming a flatline) and pondering my next move, waiting for the light, listening to people's thoughts, all that fun stuff, and this nurse comes in training another nurse and announces "these machines just do this sometimes, you just turn them off for a few minutes and they'll be better in a minute". This display of raw incompetence annoyed me and her interrupting my exploration of death infuriated me, so I restarted my body and projectile vomited on her back as she was walking away from the foot of the bed...without spilling a drop on myself or the trainee. She'll remember that one for a while, I'm sure, since it smelt of ethylene glycol and I painted her with it like Tom Sawyer.
That was the most normal part of that experience, but I won't bore you with details except to say that the treatment for ethylene glycol poisoning is ethyl alcohol on an I.V. drip which will make you sweat Jim Beam and keep you drunker than you had previously thought possible, and that they really should tell you how to properly remove those huge catheters in case you decide to up and walk out one day AMA. :-D
So does the alcohol qualify this as a drunk story? |
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Re: Re: Re: Covered in Blood by Mara (maraisgod@yahoo.com) on May 08, 2002 - 03:08 PM (User info | Send a Message) http:// | For some reasom the Exorcist is replaying in my head :-)
My personal nurse story isn`t as awful since only involved a stupid nurse who didn`t notice I have 2 ARMS!!!, a needle and a disappearing vain .o0(I HATE NEEDLES!!!!) but my mom comes home with plenty since she work as a CNA in a low grade nursing home (nursing is the last thing they do) and some are so disturbing they put yours to shame(no offence) |
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Covered in Blood by Schizo on May 09, 2002 - 05:37 AM (User info | Send a Message) | Mara, your story about the needle makes me think of all my needle horror stories:
The shot a nurse tried to give me as a child, when her hand slipped and left the syringe dangling from my arm...
When a nurse tried to take a blood sample from me just last year. She jabbed me in one arm, missed the vein, then proceded to tell me how nervous and unconfident she was with drawing blood! They brought in another nurse, she jabbed the other arm, and all was well...
And worst of all, when I was in first grade (and young for my grade and small for my age) I had acute appendicitis. They tried to put the IV in before the operation. I remember lying on a hospital bed in a pool of blood, both arms as riddled with holes as a swiss cheese, and not caring at all. You know a kid is in pain when it lies inert during an attempt by a lot of medical personel to turn them into a colander. They gave up. And put the IV in while I was under.
Is it any wonder I hate needles now? |
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The Stupid Nurse,the Needle, and the Disappearing Vein by Mara (maraisgod@yahoo.com) on May 09, 2002 - 08:26 PM (User info | Send a Message) http:// | Sounds just like my story expect the nurse who was tring to draw blood kept losing the vein (i`m too sick for my own good) and stad me in the same are 4 times!!!(this is after I spent 20mins giving him good reasons why I don`t need blood drawn) before he remembered that I had another arm by then I was screaming at my mom to make him leave....
and they don`t believe me that the hospital is out to get you |
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Re: The Stupid Nurse,the Needle, and the Disappearing Vein by Schizo on May 10, 2002 - 04:39 AM (User info | Send a Message) | Seems to me like hospitals are filled a volitile mixture of the best and the worst people on the face of the earth!
OB-GYN wards seem to be among the better places to be in the hospital. Then, again, maybe my hospital just has an exceptional OB-GYN. |
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Re: Re: The Stupid Nurse,the Needle, and the Disappearing Vein by Mara (maraisgod@yahoo.com) on May 10, 2002 - 08:47 PM (User info | Send a Message) http:// | its the hospital just has an exceptional OB-GYN
I`ve been to a hospital GYN.....the evil bastard yelled at me for screaming and I told him to bite my ass! thankfully the nurse was my friends mom who reminded him that was only 15!!!!
I`ve had way to many bad hospital visits |
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Re: Re: Re: The Stupid Nurse,the Needle, and the Disappearing Vein by Schizo on May 11, 2002 - 05:59 PM (User info | Send a Message) | It IS an exceptional OB-GYN. The whole maternity thing is run very well here, in spite of being a small town hospital. They even won an award for being in the top 10 in the country a few years back! |
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Re: Covered in Blood
by Zander (zandriod@aagothic.net)
on May 07, 2002 - 11:53 PM
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My mother works for a mental health facility, she works in the atu unit.
most of her shifts were graveyard at thais time. she had a man in there who claimed to be possesed. and she has spent time with some crazies, wacko's, nut jobs,
and out-there's.
but in this man's presence she had felt a sort of chill to the nerves.
sometimes she gets held up at work when things go wrong and she ends up staying there 4 extra hours, writing reports all night.
but she does audit charts better than anyone else in there.
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Re: Covered in Blood
by Dolorosa on May 09, 2002 - 06:35 AM
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Oh yeah, gotta' love it.
Body fluids...mmm...nuthin' goes down with your corn flakes like a big glass of serro-sanguinus fluid, yummy...
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Morphine Dreams and other things.
by Dolorosa on May 09, 2002 - 11:16 AM
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Morte and I, up on the ward (We work in the same place) Are pretty good with our needle work. I pass out at the sight of a needle going into me, and he just doesn't like hurting people for no good reason. Generally, when blood is needed to be drawn, or an IV put in...we're the two people call on. He has a lot more finesse than I do, and I specialize in talking, joking around with and relaxing the Patient. I've heard, seen and been part of the incompetence that runs rampant in the shmengy medical world...but hey, for all the horrors you've had to withstand. Know that there's people out there who genuinely want to fucking help, and we know how horrible the whole deal is.
Still, for one of the single best medical systems in the world, America's health care is seriously fucked. Ever wonder why they call medicine a "practice"?
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Re: Morphine Dreams and other things. by MorteAscendo on May 09, 2002 - 12:37 PM (User info | Send a Message) http:// | Dolo and I had onced danced for this poor girl to make her calm down...this girl was about 9 and she was scared out of her whitts....so me and Dolo proceed to do he Happy Dance.. as from the movie BaseketBall....and this girl is now starting to calm down from laughing at us...we take her back to her room and i know from here we help the girl...."its an IV, Dolo and I are very good with what we do. So the scared little girl cooperated and i put a 22g IV Cath into her left AC. and all is well.....The Happy Dance saved the day!!!!!!!
ps....that took my 20 min to write cause im fucked up...heh |
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Re: Re: Morphine Dreams and other things. by Dolorosa on May 09, 2002 - 03:00 PM (User info | Send a Message) | I 'member that...weren't you wasted then too? drinky drinky...whew! |
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Re: Re: Morphine Dreams and other things. by MorteAscendo (corpsmanwix@aol.com) on Aug 26, 2002 - 02:44 AM (User info | Send a Message) http:// | It is always funny to read things that you wrote when you where trashed..lol..oh man... |
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