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Health knowledge made personal
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Health knowledge made personal
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 Image found on Chronic Holiday. Over on Chronic Holiday , I have been reading posts by Donimo about the very strange things that people have said to folks with chronic illness. After shaking my head and tsk tsk tsk-ing, I realized something. In my previous life as a nurse, I have have said some pretty stupid things myself. Those years spent as a student nurse were especially atrocious. So it's confession time: This said with otoscope in hand as I pounded on the bathroom door of my patient; a nun with tumors in her sinus cavities: "Sister? Can you come out so I can look up your nose?" To a quadriplegic, who had no sensation capabilities below his neck, hypodermic syringe at the ready: "Now, you're going to feel a little discomfort," to which he replied with a twinkle in his eye, "Young lady, I sure wish I would!" There's probably many more examples, but thankfully I can't remember them. I only hope my patients don't remember them, either. |
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Posted by Julia O.