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Articles: Covered in Blood |
Posted by
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: 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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