Covered in Blood Date Friday, April 19, 2024 - 06:30 PM PST Topic Work 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~!!! :) This article comes from Shmeng http://www.shmeng.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.shmeng.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=323