What's The Dumbest Thing A Patient Did Upon Leaving The Hospital ?
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The woman who got a hysterectomy, I don’t think she was the one who “wanted” to have sex when she got home from surgery. She needs to never go near that man ever again.
Yeah. I worry about that too
I was thinking that also
Same for the women who show up for their 6 week PP appointment and find out they’re 3-5 weeks pregnant
Yep. Lots of stories on new mom boards of women whose partners are begging the second the kid is out.
Fun fact: Sleeping is good for you.
Nahhh cap 🧢
Bull shit I never sleep and I’m just fine whenever I sleep which hasn’t been for years I always felt tired when I got up and after staying up for an hour I was just fine like I am now
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IK, but it's not my fault if i cant sleep.
With our sleep you would be working 12-16 hours
Dude, as someone who had a hysterectomny..... You wouldn't physically be okay enough even with pain meds for sex. You can't even cough without it causing excruciating pain and there's stitches in that cave. I feel like they had to have been pressured into it because you'd be in too much pain to even enjoy it.
I was looking for this comment, after cringing into oblivion this was my first thought
I remember the brief time I worked as a pizza delivery guy and a grandma answered the door, cigarette in her mouth, cannula in her nostrils, oxygen bottle at her side.
Followed immediately by mom and dad and then the grandkids.
The giant step backward I took couldn't be missed. I accepted not getting blown up as my tip.
Sounds like you met my aunt
@@lisatolliver2866 and at least one of my pts
I have a story, obligatory sorry of any mistakes english is not my first language.
A few year ago I had eye surgery to help me with my eyesight (I was blind as a bat). At the end of the surgery my doctor put this huge black eye patches over my eyes, those things were thick and hurt a ton when I removed them, I'm pretty sure one of them kept half of my eyebrow. I had to have those thing for a couple of days.
On my next appointment I asked my doctor what the f with those patches, they were mega overkill. He told me that they were actually not necessary and I could have left my surgery without them with no problem, but before he started using them 9 out of 10 times patients went out to celebrate their new eyesight, they went out to restaurants, clubbing, hiking, drinking, dancing, working out, even one guy went to swim in the ocean and obviously when they returned to thier next appointment the have completely ruin their surgery or had worst infection ever.
So my doctor decided to get the aggressive patches to scare his patients so they stay quiet at home and not move a lot. And he make the glue so bad so that patients thought twice before trying to remove them.
Conclusion: my doctor has seen stupid.
For the story with the hysterectomy: We don't know if the woman is to blame for the intercourse. It is possible that her partner coerced her.
Maybe but she could’ve said no…. I hope
@@steph8030593 she might have said no, but again, her partner might have coerced her.
We had to modify our discharge instructions for patients post hysterectomy patients from "intercourse" to "intercourse or other penetrative acts" after a patient was readmitted with torn stitches. She thought it was okay if her partner used a "toy" instead.
OW. I had a hysterectomy a few months ago and I can't imagine how she even WANTED to do that, let alone thought it was a good idea 😰 Like don't get me wrong, six weeks pelvic rest is kind of a bitch, but I did NOT want anything inside me rotfl.
@@tamar7065 sometimes the guy wants to do and the other person doesn't/can't say "NO".
@@bradup I will permit a victim to answer, they have already though on other comments (if you're truly interested).
@@tablescissors nvm
@Tamar I once had a patient who had a new colostomy. For whatever reason, her hubby had to explore the "forbidden passageway". I never would have thought I would need to give discharge instructions as to no penetration/intercourse via the colostomy. She became very ill due to this via an infection. He prostituted her colostomy to some friends and she almost died because of it. Who knew a colostomy would be sexual to some people?
So the woman that had sex right after having a hysterectomy, you made the assumption she had a choice. Some spouses are difficult.
I was the dumb patient. Broke my big toe and it was hanging by a thin strip of skin. ER set it, stitched me up, and gave me a "boot" since they don't put casts on toes. I went out to a crowded nightclub, where someone stepped on my toe and popped my stitches, sending me right back to the ER.
😲
Cant really call that one your fault.
My mom was a nurse for years. She had a constant struggle trying to get my dad to properly take care of his diabetes. He died at 63 with organs comparable to a man in his 80s.
A more exciting and less dismal story for all y’all was the time she took charge during a fire caused by an elderly patient who decided to smoke in bed. She ran outside and led the other staff in breaking the windows out to help the patients get outside right through the windows. She used her nursing scissors and later brought them home (they were covered in notches and scrapes) as kind of a trophy. She also got a special award from the mayor, I think it was, in a ceremony, for her heroism. So that was pretty cool. However… as you can imagine, the smoker didn’t survive. But thanks to my mom, everyone else did. So karma’s harsh but at least no one else paid for that person’s mistake.
Sugar and food addiction are also important topics, thank you for sharing those stories.
Fun fact, apparently microwaving bagels produces the smell of burnt popcorn. I know this because when I was working security for the small ED (mentioned in another comment), one of the staff came up to me and asked if i smelled something burning, I followed them and yup, i could smell it. We traced part of it to the breakroom area for a bit (fun fact, apparently either smells move around or there's a ghost at that facility that will move the smell around so you can't pin point it, god that was frustrating) and it smelled a bit like burnt popcorn. We asked everyone if they had made any popcorn, everyone answered no so we called the fire department (i swear the whole station showed up as it was two trucks, and a Supervisor SUV) and they couldn't detect anything indicating a fire but then someone mentioned they had microwaved a bagel and that's what caused it. Ah fun times.
I'm worried this will be my husband's diabetes outcome. We eat the same meals, both diabetic, but my a1c is 5.8, his is 8.2, he snacks all the time. He's been diabetic for 20 years, I'm worried about his health, but he doesn't listen to me.
Friend is podiatrist. Amputated half a guy's foot. Guy tried to walk on it next day. Passed out from blood loss (in ICU)
Left against medical advice 2 days later.
Went home and tried to walk pass out from blood loss but no one was there so he died
Oh my goodness, that's terrible. Some people don't realize the doctors give postoperative and post discharge instructions for their own health and safety reasons. That's a sad situation, but he wouldn't listen. I've had patients tell me to shut up, totally ignore me, etc, When giving discharge instructions. They sign that I went over them and they fully understood them, but then after they arrive home, they are calling me multiple times asking several questions that I already went over. If they had only listened the first time, we wouldn't go through this.
All I can say on this:
" Natural selection "
At its finest
Guy left his room against the wishes of the doctors but couldn't stop him. Afterwords they sent me his room to clean up and get ready for the next patient. While cleaning, I look out the window, and the same dude is at the sidewalk near the entrance of the hospital with 5 cops surrounding him. Apparently he was not mentally stable to discharge so they forced him back into the hospital. In the exact same room that I had finished cleaning too.
People that leave AMA never cease to amaze me
Just a small point though about Quality of Life vs. Length of Life in some rare cases. Sometimes people will drink, smoke, etc., because it gives them a small amout of pleasure even though they know it is bad for them.
Dad was a paramedic and I remember one story about a guy in his late 80s, former miner, smoked like a chimney since before he had long trousers - you get the idea. He had stage 4 lung cancer and was being taken in to hospital for, what he probably knew, was the last time. The family were adamant that this would be he turning point that he gave up smoking; he kept asking for one last cigarette before they took him. When dad said they couldn't stop him the family began arguing with the old man that he should quit. Dad said he looked at the guy, looked at his information and stats, and just thought "Why?"
I did that same thing on my way in for a dentist appointment a few years ago, the only difference is, rather than being hit in the face- since the sign was taller than me- the bottom edge scraped my head because I was looking the wrong direction and thus didn't move away from it
I was a patient with *two* dumb as heck doctors. I was four and already had a recorded history of tonsil issues, but the doctor said they couldn't be removed until I had a certain number of documented strep cases. Less than a week later, I go into my parents' room in the morning and say there's juice on my face. Yep, one of my tonsils had *ruptured* *in* *my* *sleep*, and we were told I was lucky I'd coughed up the blood instead of aspirating it. Needless to say, they were removed after that.
Then I woke up on the first day of second grade with a stiff, swollen neck (I couldn't even lift my head). Mom brought me to the hospital and I had time for a freaking nap before the doctor *finally* came in. He couldn't figure out what was going on and decided shoving his finger down my throat was the next thing he should try. He then admitted he was stumped and called a nurse, and all she had to do was press on the roof of my mouth to figure out I had an abscess. I spent that whole week in the hospital and another seven with the PICC line in my arm, still have the scar twenty years later and also still gag when I smell latex.
Oh my goodness, that must have been very traumatic for you as a child
Not really, given how young I was, but I did develop a fear of needles thanks to the PICC line.
@Undead Ladybug my mother had a PICC line when she had her last hospitalization. She had sepsis and it developed an access, it was really bad. Her nurses and the doctor didn't see any of it
I hate tonsils. Theyre supposed to be part of your immune system but they made me so sick so often I was on a first name basis with most of the doctors at the hospital until I had them removed.
I'm kinda on the fence on the subject of being super honest to your doctor. Couple of years ago I went twice to a hospital with a massive sudden stomach/chest pain. First time after eating greasy food, the second time after having a shot of brandy on Friday night. The second time the doctor asked how much I drink, gave him a completely honest and a very accurate answer (gist of which was basically "a lot on weekends but only on weekends"), checked the bloodwork, found pancreatitis, assumed that I actually drink 24/7 but lied about it, put the whole situation down to my alcohol use and wouldn't have it any other way.
In reality it was a gallstone. The sudden pain died down that night (and they sent me home), but kept lingering and very slowly got worse again. After two weeks I'm back at the hospital, still had pancreatitis and now also an impending hepatitis. Had I downplayed how much I typically drink during weekends, he might've actually done some further testing.
Just not the best medicine tbh, in my hospital we'd always ultrasoundpatients with pancreatitis regardless of what we thought the cause was
that's malpractice, even if you said you drank once a year that doctor probably wouldn't have had you tested. they shouldn't have been given a license please be honest with all doctors despite this incident
Honestly yeah some doctors are dumbasses and will like... hear one thing you say or notice one aspect of your health/body/etc., and then stick to that one impulse as their final diagnosis like their life depended on it. There's a balance of not withholding information out of embarrassment, but also being willing to stand your ground and demand better treatment/testing if they try to push you aside. A helpful phrase is, "I would like it noted in my chart that you have chosen not to run further tests."
I work as a janitor in a medical center and trust me, doctors and nurses are just as presumptuous and ignorant as anyone else because, fun fact, they are just anyone else. They aren't special - stand up for yourself.
I scent a bit of medical sexism, as well. Not that doctors don’t assume they know all when it comes to men, too… but it’s a famous issue with women for doctors to not take their pain seriously.
For the hysterectomy one, sometimes it’s a man that pressures a woman into having sex so soon. They do that a lot even after women have birth. Men don’t want to wait the six weeks. She literally has an open wound and they don’t give two shits know obviously, this is not the case every time and yes, sometimes woman is in the mood for it. But many times the man is pressuring them to have sex.
My friend had a pushy husband and went back to her 6 weeks checkup pregnant. My husband was nagging me 10 days post delivery
23:05 Working out can *very much* be an addiction. Like, not just a habit-forming behavior, but an actual chemical dependency. A hard workout floods your system with endorphins, and for some people it becomes the only reliable way they *can* get those feel-good chemicals to happen. They push harder because they need to keep upping the dose. It’s really sad. I know people who use exercise to combat depressive episodes, but I always worry about what’ll happen if they become dependent on it, because people *do* self-destruct that way.
…I mean, they’re *physically* a hell of a lot healthier than my couch-potato ass, but still.
As a nurse, there was a regular patient, always admitted because of drug overdoses. Once, on the same day he was discharged, he had an intentional overdose. When asked why, he said it was easier to have access to drug dealers at the hospital than at his home....
My nana was in a home and was determined to smoke in her own room. A lot of the residents did that too so not just her. She lit up once and a worker came in to tell her again that she couldn't smoke in her room and offered to take her to the smoking room. My nana said (with a lit cigarette in her hand) "I'm not smoking"
I don't think smoking is good or anything but with the elderly, especially the ones that sit in a home all day because they are physically unable to do anything or go out without help and it is the only happiness they have left just let them. yes, it will probably kill them sooner but being miserable kills people even faster.
@@velvety2006 I worked in aged care and always told my fellow nurses to chill out because the time the cigarettes would take off their life was so tiny at that point it was kind of pointless. That being said we don't want you smoking in your room because fires are a thing, and when you have two, perhaps 3 people caring for folks, many of whom are not ambulatory, fire is an incredibly dangerous thing.
@@Resavian i agree that own room smoking is a bad idea, also because there will be a new person taking that room and it sucks if you're a non-smoker.
Obv I don't know the situation, but re: the hysterectomy: the fault may lie far more with the husband/partner, and it's worth considering that the woman may be in an abusive relationship.
County hospital, early 2000s. A criminal comes in with a penetrating chest tube due to a stab wound. He decides he doesn't want to pay (he didn't have to, but he didn't want to sign a payment plan), so he decides to leave THROUGH THE WINDOW of the FOURTH FLOOR, CHEST TUBE STILL IN PLACE. Obvious overestimates his strength and stamina, falls on the roof of the hospital laundry building, breaks two legs and COLLAPSES HIS OTHER LUNG, and the ER staff has to go collect him, operate on an emergency basis, bring him to ICU and keep him first sedated and later HANDCUFF him to the hospital bed so that he wouldn't do it again. Charges were pressed for destruction of property as well.
Was he attempting to kill himself??
Ok. I fasted for 12 hours, not just 8, before my ED and my stomach was still full. It was my dinner from the day before. I found out I have gastroparisis. It is not because I didn’t follow directions.
ETA: I could barely walk after my hysterectomy, for weeks. If my boyfriend had come near me I would have hit him over the head with a frying pan! Then again, I had to take him to my post-op exam and have the doctor explain to him exactly why we couldn’t get busy until I healed completely. Stubborn men.
Apparently some women after giving birth get super horny due to the oxytocin release and nurses very often have to give their partners a very strong lecture on no matter how much she asks, you leave her be
Just throwing it out : the hysterectomy woman might not have actually been in the mood, but may have had a pushy/manipulative partner.
Obviously I could be wrong, though
Or her man was her pimp or john, that's right we have no idea what the story may or may not have been.
That was my thoughts as well.
One of a thousand reasons I couldn't work for any medical service - I'd be fired so fast for yelling at someone like this or just being like: "No, I ain't treating you! I told you this was gonna happen and now it has! Apparently my advice wasn't good enough last time, so why d'ya want it now? Figure it out!"
When working as a nurse, or in any medical capacity, you have to hold your tongue so many times! So many times I have felt like going off on so.eone for being an idiot. Being a nurse has taught me the discipline of patience
Sounds like one part of the job I can handle. Ive been told I have the patience of a saint.
@@jaredcrabb you would be tested many times over and question your life choices
@@lisatolliver2866 I already do so thats nothing new.
My mom is a nurse and this is her story.
Patient was deathly allergic to shellfish
Family brought in shrimp for the patient.
Patient had allergic reaction.
Patients family: "You said she was allergic to shellfish, not shrimp!"
My mom: Losses faith in humanity.
To be fair, it IS something different. Not everybody is aware that it counts as "close enough".
@@Milkymalk Apparently not. My landlords late son was able to eat shrimp fine but was allergic to other shellfish, as well as normal fish.
@@jaredcrabb A lot of people allergic to peanuts are also allergic or at least intolerant to nuts, even though peanuts are not nuts. Sometimes it's "close enough", sometimes not. Better be safe than sorry though, get tested first.
Dumb: using an old space heater in a mobile home. Smart: Taking your 8yr old to Brownies where she learns fire safety from a fire Marshal and saves her entire family from the blaze. She received the biggest award Girl Scouts have! I was the Service Unit Awards person. Local Council probably still has indentations in their backs from me stomping over their heads to Headquarters in New York.
my nana had cancer due to smoking. she did not take the meds as the doctor directed. she had to have a double masectomy, a pacemaker, and she died due to her lungs filling with fluid. she lived in pain the last ten years of her life with dwindling brain function because she neglected to take meds that would treat her cancer. I listen to my doctors because of what I saw her go through. I saw her slowly die over the course of a decade and my last memories of her where of a sick and mentally declining old woman.
So a bit of backstory - I danced for 15-16ish years and only stopped last season (august to may, plus summer workshops, so stopped in august 2022) and about 9 or so years ago I had an earring torn part of the way through my right ear while taking a headpiece off during a performance for a costume change. This rip caused infection and after healing and being re-pierced, a subsequent cyst formed, which caused me to have them heal closed again and leave it that way for years. We went to a plastic surgeon about 3 years ago, and the only time they could get me in for removal was also the first day of our performing company (competitive dance) choreography workshop, which was mandatory, only sickness or other serious excuses were allowed to let you be absent. So I obviously thought that I would not be going, even though I wasn’t out under, the doctor made me be sure to keep my head above my heart and not jar my stitches. I was wrong, because at that point we were already in a rough spot with the studio head due to my mental health issues caused by bad medicine reactions, so after my mom mentioned that we both were like ‘yep, have to go’. So I get there, people ask about the stitches in my ears, I tell them, and they asked me why I was there. I explain to my close friends, and tell the others that the workshop is mandatory, I have to be there. I tell the instructor, who is a bit worried about me from what little I know about her as she was new, and she tells me to take it easy. I did not. My ear was still thankfully numb, but my stitches did end up rubbing and pulling apart a bit, causing quite a bit of bleeding considering it’s my earlobe, and I only notice when I feel it on my neck. So I get up, run over to the tissue box, grab a few and hold them on my ear to stem the bleeding, and go right back to dancing because I’m a textbook people pleaser and thought that the instructor would be mad at me (at this point we’ve met maybe twice, but she’s honestly the sweetest thing) and the bleeding gets worse. Eventually, two friends tell me to sit and let my heart rate come down bc I have a naturally high heart rate already, and slowing it down will help with the bleeding. I ended up sitting out the rest of the class and thankfully only had that one that night. The next day my ear was scanned over enough that it didn’t bleed much, if at all, which was good. But yeah, def not smart on my part, could have gotten infected or something and worse things could have happened.
Addictions are bad, but someone has to WANT to break the addiction before there ever is a chance of it happening.
I had a family member who went to the hospital due to a gunshot wound. They were admitted to the hospital but they didn't want to go to jail so they jumped out of the window and went home IV still in. They used said IV to do H and it got infected. They ended up back at the hospital and in jail after.
This reminds me, I used to work as a Security Officer posted at a small ED in the country. One night we were exceptionally busy, we had a full lobby when I walked in, about an hour or two later the lobby was mostly empty (most of those patients were in the back now). We had 3 people arrive by ambulance (usually get one every few hours if any so this was a rarity by itself) and then all of a sudden the lobby filled up about halfway again. Most folks waited but a few people waited 5 minutes before saying "it's taking too long" and how they're gonna just go elsewhere. I would tell them that the back is full, we are short staffed (seriously, the one night this happens we have about half the nursing staff we normally have, like wtf? What nurse pissed off the gods?!) and we just had 3 people brought in by ambulance (this isn't a main hospital and of course anyone brought by ambulance gets priority over people waiting in the lobby most of the time). A few people left (one with a kid, poor kid) and one person walked in right after we got the 3 by ambo and the half full lobby, All she wanted was some piece of paper printed out. She waited (I kid you not) MAYBE 30 seconds before huffing and puffing about how it's taking too long (for a piece of paper, mind you when there are people with legit medical emergencies being treated so all our staff are floored at the moment) and storms out in a fit. Lol some people just don't seem to get it. The funny thing is, even if it takes an hour to get seen, it's 1,000 times faster than walking into the main hospital downtown. I kid you not, one night I worked the Adult Entrance and there was someone that was there before I got there, and 8 hours later when I left, they were still there waiting. And yes I could tell they were waiting to be seen, not waiting for a family member.
Actually the reverse, sister was dismissed from hospital when the doctor in horror realised he hadn't given her grommets removal date and ran to tell Dad.
Grommets=tubes to help drain an ear infection (in this case, a bop on the head by accident)
I got into a bike crash on an asphalt track. Jumped and ramp and crashed kneecaps first into a turn in the track right behind the ramp. What do I do after 5-ish minutes? I bike the mile home. My right knee both ached and felt like it was on fire. I go up to my room to try and sleep off the pain, something that's helped me in the past. When I wake up, I move my knee and it was the worst pain I've ever felt. 9 months later, it still hurts while sitting on long road trips. For those who will ask, no, I still haven't gotten it checked by a doctor. I am not smort.
Nicotine is a stress management tool. During a stressful situation, lighting up can feel like popping a Xanax, other than the relief is instantaneous. Smoking also encourages slower, deeper breathing, which is also calming.
I was never a heavy smoker, but I do understand why a person who was deathly ill would still want to smoke. That’s when I’d crave nicotine the most!
Even a decade after quitting, all I want to do after a stressful event is hide in my room with a cigarette and a glass of scotch-last time I did that was upon coming home from the hospital 5 days after a traumatic labor and emergency c-section. I fricking earned it.
I was recovering in the hospital for a burst appendix, my roommate had just had major intestinal surgery. We were both told that drinking water was expressly forbidden and were only allowed to suck on wet q-tips. He had some visitors that night and kept croaking for water. I told them water was forbidden but he was relentless. Despite my warnings his idiot family gave him a big glass of water and he gulped it right down. An hour later he went code blue from water leaking out through his fresh stitches and about six doctors and nurses wheeled him straight back to the operating room. They were pissed when I told them what happened.
Wet Q-tips?!
@@Lunar994 Yes, but instead of cotton, they were tipped with little sponges and you could dip them in water and then suck the water out of the tip.
@@tikitavi7120 And how long would this last for?
@@Lunar994 I seem to remember it being about three days before I could start taking small amounts of food like jello and pudding. You see, I was getting all my nutrition/hydration intravenously.
I went to a funeral once of a man who was a smoker. The picture they used for his funeral card (or whatever the name is for the brochure you get that shows a picture of the person the funeral is for and talks about their life, and might have their obituary in it) was of him with a cigarette in his hand. I am not certain what the cause of death was for this person, but given his age and that he was smoking up to his death, I would not be surprised if smoking played at least some part in it. To the other people there, it was a "sentimental" reminder of the person he was as a great deal of the people that attended the funeral were also smokers. To me, it just seemed in poor taste when it wasn't meant to be at all.
I had a friend who had an Uncle who worked in the ER, so this is a second-hand story, I don't remember what the idiot came in for but apparently after being released he ended up coming back into the ER later that same day for doing the exact same thing, apparently he "was sure it would work this time."
While going in for my monthly blood test, I recall seeing a woman saunter into the lab with a bag of Tim Hortons. No, she was not a staff member. She was a patient who had to reschedule her test because it required her to fast for 12 hours and she clearly didn't do that!
I knew a guy that was a hardcore drug addict. He had almost lost his mind at one point. One day after shooting up his arm and hand started hurting really bad. He went to the ER but they sent him home after drawing blood and finding out he had heroin in his system thinking he was drug seeking. He went home but the pain wouldn't stop. He went back to the ER and this time they kept him. He had a severe infection in his arm and hand. They had to operate and amputated a finger. He was lucky. They told him they might have to amputate the entire arm. He spent 23 days in ICU. He told me the day he got out of the hospital he went home and shot up again. Luckily nothing serious happened that time. He's clean and sober today and his mental problems have gotten better too. Lucky guy.
After all of the smoking stories, it makes me glad my mom stopped smoking before I was born! On the downside, we lost my grandma to cancer because of her smoking; it'll be the 17th anniversary this April.
I always thought it was interesting - my Mom was a smoker when my sister and i were born. Sister born in 1954 and me in 1958. If smoking causes low birth weight Mom was lucky she smoked. SIster weighed 10 pounds 6 ounces and I weighted 10 pounds and 12 ounces. She quit when I was 4 because cigarettes went up by 2 cents to 19 cents per pack!
My mom was told to smoke a little during her pregnancy of me otherwise she would get a neurotic kid
@@velvety2006 My Mom smoked too and said the doctor was fine with it. Also she had 2 10 pound + babies so apparently it did not harm us!
8.52: Reminds me of a Classmember of mine (I am a German teacher in adult education for refugees): This woman had her gallblader taken out on Friday. ON TUESDAY she was back in class, because she didn´t want to miss any lessons ....!
My collegue and I took one look at her (standing there pale in the face, despite beeing arab, shaking wildly) and decided I would take her to see her doctor because sth clearly was wrong I think she had a high temp too.
When the doctor saw her and heard her complaining about belly pain , she (the doctor) said with an expression of disbelive and said: "Well Mrs Al fakenamemed , you had a major operation 5 days ago, you were asigned sick leave (this means she doesn´t lose any lessons (ppl in German classes have a certain amount of lessons they have coming to them) and bedrest!!!"
She then got medication and went home with her husband. She came back to class 2 -3weeks later, fully recovered.
Still shaking my head
Yet you hear about others that refuse German lessons. 😬
@@tablescissors well duh (little percentage) I dont see what this has to do with my comment though
sure you do lol
it's called irony "duh" (I have family in Germany as well and come from immigrants)
@@tablescissors I seee
I was hospitalized with pneumonia and when I already was feeling a bit better, another patient was rolled into my room. He had had a heart attack and the nurse told him to stay in bed, not get up, just move as little as possible. Also got an IV. As soon as the nurse had left the room, he climbed out of his bed and took a long stroll around the room, pulling his IV rack behind himself as he walked. The bag was hung low so his blood pressure was pushing his own blood into the tube instead of receiving the solution from the bag.
When the nurse came back and saw him walk around, she was angry and told him to STAY IN BED!
"I couldn't stand it, I had to move around a bit" was his reply.
He wasn't even senile or something, he was in his 30s.
He also tried to start conversations with me all the time when I was still hardly able to breathe and exhaling more slime than air.
Story time: I had heart surgery to fix endocarditis infection i had got when visiting a water park. Was wheeled into ER and kept a close watch on me in and out of natural amd medical endured coma, I got depressed as doctors told me sooo many times I'd most likely die either before during or after the much needed surgery and once stable would be on dialasis due to left side of Heart and both kidneys failing. I survived but refused to stretch and walk around to ensure chest bone and muscle was good. Was stuck using a walker for 3 months and required assistance when I was anything more then laying down even needed a crane to move me to a lazy boy when they needed to change bedding. Doctors had repeatedly told me of consequences but I ignored them
Tldr: Heart surgery, didn't listen to doctors and had to have a crane help me up and use walker to move around for 3 months after.
Side note: due to chest setting and not being as flexible 5 years later it's audible to hear a pop from my chest when I sneeze
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I dislocated my shoulder in July 2020. I did rehab for the shoulder. I refused to lift anything over 20lbs for a year .
@Viviane Yang It seem like the doctor was trying to get me into surgery. I was like no thank you.
My fiancée has knee surgery and the next day went to the renaissance faire. She ended up with a major infection in said knee 🤦🏻♀️ mind you, that was years ago and she’s fine now
🤣 I'm glad she is fine now, happy marriage! 😁
How very… medieval. Please say leeches were involved in her recovery!
@@katiefrankie6 yeah, she won’t go that far for faire. She did basically bathe it in alcohol when there so it was a torturous process but she made it. As an EMT at the time she realized it was getting infected and got treated. Twice. 🤦🏻♀️ She’s as stubborn as our kiddo and husband so life is rarely ever boring here.
@@mamanope1678 Hahaha, well, glad she is on the mend! It’s crazy how tough and yet how fragile our bodies are, huh?
The story about the teen with a broken arm, then arm wrestling, had me thinking of my brother. He was a little younger than the writer I believe, when he spent about the whole summer in a cast/splint because he didn't take it easy (was still trying to climb trees, for example) with the first cast so it didn't heal properly and they needed to put it back on. Even after it came off they told him to wear a splint/brace and a sling for a while to try to limit his movement with it.
I witnessed first hand some of this stuff while waiting in the ER with my dad after he broke his leg. One though looking guy with bruises all over and bleeding through his clothes was having a shouting match with the doctors because he "was fine" and wanted to go home while the doctors tried to explain that his brain is bleeding inside his skull and if he leaves he'll be dead in a few hours. Another time some people rushed in to see their friend who had some life threatening condition and couldn't find him. neither could the doctors. They called his mobile and it turned out he was bored waiting in the ER so got up and went home.
So the issue with recovery is that in the US they genuinely refuse to ALLOW us recovery time. I almost dies from pneumonia, have lung damage and was forced back to work in a week. I'm still suffering.
Meanwhile, I've known tons of bums and liars on "disability".
I'm so sorry.
2:00 Have a client exactly like this. She was having a nurse visit and yup, specifically smoked before and after the nurse came so the Nurse wouldn't know she was smoke
The Nurse knew.
People who smoke can't smell as well. This client is mentally well, but upon returning from a long stay away from home, I went through her fridge with her to toss out items that had gone bad. She couldn't smell that the rotting lunch meat was off.
Story 14: maybe her partner was insistent and she just gave in. Some people can't set boundaries, even at the risk of their own well-being. Couldn't be ME, but I know some this scenario would have applied to.
MAN, just say it, her man. And some people are in abusive relationships.
I've had many episodes when I would love to call patients some really bad names, but it is very frowned upon. I had plenty of my own examples while listening to stories, but now I'm drawing a blank. Many times when I worked behavior sciences, the respiratory therapy dept would come by to give patients their breathing treatments. They, as well as I would tell them if they chose smoke break, they would not come back to give them the breathing treatment. The smoke break was always chosen. They had to get that nicotine. After the smoke break, here comes all the smokers, one at a time, wanting that breathing treatment. I had to remind them they chose smoking. They would get so rude with me. I hated that so much, they made the decision, it was not my fault smoke time coincided with respiratory therapy rounds on our unit. FML!
I just stubbed my toe so hard that It peeled half the skin back. Nothing better to ease the pain than hearing about other people who have it so much worse
Not a hospital worker, but something I did see related to this. This occurred when I was back in college. They would have a blood drive once a semester. I decided to volunteer and help work in a bloodmobile. There was one large guy who was muscular. After donating blood, it was common practice then to ask them to wait 30 minutes after donating to see if any problems occur. Well, this large guy was in a hurry because he wanted to go meet his girlfriend. After about 5 minutes of waiting. he shouted "I'm perfectly fine!" and stood up he got out of the bus and then collapsed about three steps away from the bus, and we had to have three people drag him back into the bus to administer first aid to him. He ended up spending about an hour with one of the nurses trying to revive him. As they say, there are reasons behind the rules, and ignore them at your peril.
I'm a doctor in urgent care. A patient comes and not even says hallo and tells me I want an infusion... I'm asking her what is wrong. She says I want an infusion my doctor told me to come here and get an infusion. I say no. She leaves calls people...get to the top guy in the hospital. They come down and ask me why I'm refusing here a treatment. I said I'm not refusing anything I'm asking what is wrong. She turns to him and say - told you he is mean. He looks at her weirdly and says. Madam what is your problem? She says YOU TOOOO ..slams the door and leaves. Me and the boss are looking at each other in question marks.... He never said anything ever to me again or trusted other people about stupid complains.
If I ever end up working in a hospital, I'm gonna tell the patients some of these stories to discourage them from making the same dumb mistakes.
That sounds like a good idea
Won't work. Patients don't get it even if you explain it ten times in words a kindergartner could understand
Had a patient having a vasectomy reversal. When surgery finished, we were attempting to put a padded dressing on his scrotum - still intubated (an intubation tube down his airway that helps him breath while under anesthesia) he sat strajght up and yanked the tube from his airway!! (The tube has a small baloon on it, INSIDE the airway so as to stay in place). When the patient pulled out his own airway, it was still inflated! He had cocaine in his system and when we took him to recovery-right away, he insisted on smoking a cigarette!! The supervisor appeases him in lighting one, IN THE HOSPITAL BATHROOM. We just wanted the guy to leave the premises as soon as he was cleared. Older men with younger wives is usually THAT clientele. He didnt even look like he'd been under anesthesia he was so wired. A nomination for father of the year 😂
my nana would continue smoking despite my papa being on a oxygen tank
My papa also lit his oxygen tank on fire by sticking a screwdriver in it because he didnt have enough air. Before anyone asks why he did that: He was out of it on hospice
When I was doing my EMT clinicals, there was a guy who was brought into hospital...he was homeless and had fallen while drunk...he was released..on our next call, guess who it was...same guy with the bracelet from hospital still on, but he fell onto curb and called us again...the firefighters were not happy
Addiction is a hell of a disease. My grandmother passed away at 72 years old from her second bout of lung cancer (after being in remission over a decade), she had half a pack of cigarettes in her belongings. Never stopped smoking, not once.
My cousin successfully completed rehab from h*roin, had a pregnant fiance, was taking care of his younger brother. Life looking up. One needle later and his younger brother was the one who found him. He never met his son.
#4: People have an instinctive need to feel liked by everyone, especially authority figures. Doctors/ nurses fall into that category. People lie to them so that the professional will think they're being good and will like them. Yes, it's stupid on so many levels, but it's natural. There's a huge known issue with bias in psychology since so many surveys are dependent on asking people questions and then having to control for how respondents might change their answers. There have even been studies where participants have been handed a sheet of basic questions (easy, general knowledge stuff) but the "researcher" changes. People will answer questions differently when the "researcher" -- who isn't even looking at the paper -- is attractive, male vs female, well-dressed vs sloppy, etc. It's fascinating but seriously annoying.
As an American, I feel these are all in my country. I have a medical condition that sends me to the hospital a lot, and I see so much stupidity.
Im going to have tons of stories when I finally graduate and work as an ER nurse XD
And we wanna hear them all. I hear many a dude has to get things removed from his butt!
Sixteen years old, tore tendons in my ankle on a trampoline and wound up in a boot. Wore it for two days only. Now I'm 46 and I have severe stability issues in said ankle. Smdh at myself.
I disagree with your commentary on story 14.
NO ONE who just got split open is even THINKING of initiating sex. I'm 99% sure she was pressured into it.
You have NO IDEA how many L&D nurses have walked in on women getting MOUNTED by their boyfriends and husbands RIGHT AFTER GIVING BIRTH, because "he just couldn't wait!" 🙄
I'd bet my entire bank account that her husband was excited about being able to have sex without worrying about a pregnancy, and "just couldn't wait".🙄😒
Putting drugs in IV lines is pretty common for drug addicts. It's an easy route directly to a vein when most addicts lost their veins
Reminds me of the story about how Mel Blanc was put on oxygen near the end of his life. He didn't technically didn't need it, his family was just trying to get him to stop smoking. He didn't. Between recording sessions, he would go outside. Lit cigarette in one hand, O2 mask in the other. At least he had a sense of humor about it. He would joke with other VAs that one of these days, in the back alleys of the Warner lot, they'd hear a big "BOOM" followed by a "That's all, folks!"
The lady that had the hysterectomy I don’t think it was her decision to have sex. There’s actually a plethora of stories of men, demanding sex after surgical procedures and deliveries.
Leaving against medical advice is also bad financially since plenty of healthcare plans will refuse to pay your bill if you left AMA.
Not my smartest decision. When I was a kid, I went to the dentist to get a cavity filled. I hated it so much that on the same day I got it, I went home and pulled it out before it could settle. I have never seen my dad look more disappointed.
Seeing the title of this reminds me of an episode of Untold Stories of the ER, where a patient came in with an asthma attack, and once he was able to breathe normally, decided to leave AMA so that he could rob the hospital gift shop. He ended up having another asthma attack while trying to get away, and was forced back into the ER (as well as under arrest).
I get that addiction is tough but what’s the excuse for the people enabling them? don’t bring someone drugs in a hospital parking lot
about coffee: i start feeling bad after second cup. my personal best was 3 cups of sweet capuccino evenly spread in the day, and by the end of the day i felt like i was dying - heartrate going haywire, but feeling generally tired. didn't have to call for ambulance though, finished my day on schedule and went home as if nothing had happened. never had more than two cups a day after that.
My best friend was acting indignant the other day when he had told me he bummed some benzos off a coworker (no prescription, no pysch eval, nothing!) after his most recent breakup. Knowing what I already knew about benzos, and that heartbreak can't be 'cured', I completely lit into him. Self medication is no joke, and Benzos are probably one of the worst drugs to get addicted to. Decididing, with medical advice, to take them for an anxiety attack is one thing, but heartbreak? That's how you ruin your life, and possibly sustain brain damage.
Seeing this just reinforces what I'd already said. I love the man like a brother, I couldn't handle watching addiction tear him apart.
I've been on benzos. Quit them cold turkey twice (once because I freaked myself out, then calmed and took them again a week later. Second time was when I found out the massive issues)
Found out after that quitting that hell drug cold turkey should have killed me. Both times. Like it's a miracle the only side effect I had was a few nights of bad sleep
Both my doctor and I were horrified on reading the latest research revealing all this about that evil med
In short, f that drug. I might have a natural resistance to addiction, though, which probably saved my life from that evil drug. Just my luck to have been on it *before* this crap was known... HAD to be on it when it was new
I would be the person that was dumb, but it was before I got to the ER and during my ER visit. I have really bad OCD and at the time I was taking 22 credit hours at college while doing 40 hours a week at work. This is around the time that I was so broke that I could barely eat every two to three days, and all I did was cram study. On finals week I had a final every day of the week Monday through Friday, some back to back with each other. I had been experiencing severe amounts of back pain and fainting spells. I actually fainted at school outside of my class and my professor told me that I needed to go to the ER RIGHT NOW. She mentioned calling an ambulance, but I couldn’t afford that, so while dealing with pain and delirium I drove myself to the ER (30 minutes away) and was admitted. The whole time I was telling them to leave me alone because I had finals going on. Turns out I had a life threatening kidney infection, and the doctor told me if I hadn’t have come in when I did it could have been fatal. The whole time I said whatever, just let me get to my final. My best friend had to sit me down and say “Shut the f*** up, you’re sitting here to get treatment. Finals are not worth your life.” Easy to say that was an eye opener and I relaxed a bit more about grades after that. 😂
The hysterectomy SENT MEEEE
Story 47:
Fun fact:: Anything can become an addiction if it gives you a rush of chemicals regardless if those chemicals are ingested, injected, or natural occuring. Dopamine, adrenaline, nicotine, alcohol, pheromones, oxytocin, melatonin, caffeine and more.
I am Expecting:
Walked out of the hospital recovered from a pulmonary problem lights up a cigarette.
Edit: I was not disappointed.
Due to my asthma I sometimes have to visit the lungs-and-heart-building of my local hospital. The large amount of smokers, some in their hospitals gowns, outside the entrance will often cause an asthma attack. This is a problem when my doctor wants to see my normal lung function, without extra medicine.
Next time I have been instructed to enter the child-and-maternity-building, and be guided by a porter through the underground labyrinth to the right building. That entrance has hardly any smokers.
2:36 depends on the lie, you NEVER admit to certain things because it pretty much immediately removes you from donor lists, not being able to donate, but receiving them. there are many things where yes, this profession should keep a secret, but they dont due to a need to report that you just do not take the risk as long as it's not immediately killing you.
I only work as EVS but it's still amazing how many of these things I can understand clearly.
I feel ya, work there too and the stuff you see can make a whole book.
What is EVS?
@@michaelbujaki2462 Environmental Services. We're the housekeepers and cleaners of the hospital.
@@cupcakesimulationyou guys deserve more recognition for putting up with stuff like that
Story 12: this reminds of the time where I was told to drink contrast for a CT scan....to find out why I had difficulty swallowing. Turns out I have
achalasia so severe that I was losing so much weight in a short amount of time but go ahead, tell me to drink something that can't go down!!!!
Jeepers. Some people's mindset on recovery man.. iv had 10 heart surgeries. 6 open 4 keyhole.
Keyhole takes a month to be back 100% and any open surgery anywhere from 6 months to 3 years depending on surgery.
My latest surgery for my 2nd endocarditis emergency surgery (infectious bug in heart) took me 5 years to fully recover. Energy, ability to eat enough and movement not feeling stiff
28:08 Oxygen does not burn. _It makes things burn._
Which is objectively a bigger problem.
After my hysterectomy I was in intense pain for the first two weeks. I couldn’t even sleep. How the hell did she even want to have sex!?
Maybe she didn't really want to.
My guess is the man was pushing her I to sex. After delivery and hysterectomy, my husband was very pushy and had intercourse around the 10 day mark. He even pushed himself on me the night my father died.
Likely wasn’t the woman recovering from a hysterectomy’s idea to have sex.
Story 44 - Well to be fair to that guy, he DID have a traumatic brain injury. Probably not in the best state to be making sound decisions
The dumbest thing cops did when a woman left the hospital was yell at her while she had a stroke and died
I'll never understand why people smoke, especially cigarettes/cigars and I really doubt anyone will ever get me to understand because it's just so damaging
However to smoke while on oxygen?
Really???
Guy had jaw and throat cancer. Had his jaw remived and would visit for encology treatment. Would sneak out to smoke throughout his cancer treatment and worked out how ti smike....with no lower jaw, bandages, stutches and nerve damage to the face.
The collarbone story isn’t dumb. That’s just plain bad luck
Story #30: If the addict doesn’t want to get clean, even the best rehab will not work.
Former Home health nurse Had a pt with sickle cell disease( incredibly painful, and pts typically build up a tremendous tolerance to most pain meds). Pt was self administering non prescribed thru the port (under the skin metal access). While in the hospital the pt dosed themselves and was found dead.
My brother broke his arm rollerblading. He fell on the ramp. He got it in a cast. Next day he was back to have it replaced since it had cracked open. He thought he couldn't possibly fall again so he was back on the same ramp on his rollerblades, and he fell again. The nurse cursed him out and he didn't go back out on the rollerblades after having been scolded by her.
Back when I was working as a cosmetologist, I had people who could not go without a cigarette long enough to get a perm(the 80s) or color their hair. The processing chemicals can cause the hair to catch fire 🔥
I used to smoke cigarettes and I had to get my wisdom teeth removed they said I couldn't smoke or use straws for a week or I would get dry sockets. So I stopped for a week and went right back lol.
Have you ever had a dry socket? It's the worst pain I've ever experienced
About story 6, forcibly detoxing someone who didnt want it is unfortunately a waste of time, money, resources, and effort. If someone doesnt want to quit, no amount of help will make them. You can absolutely never help a person who doesnt want help. And an addict with no desire to quit, isnt going to because of a near death experience. It might make them think about it the first time, but until at least 2 to 5 times it will only be a passing thought. Sure treat the person of course, but dont bother detoxing them. The best way to help an addict isnt by force. The best way to get them to quit is just refuse to ever give them money or anything. And in the position of a medical employee, give them something that would have similar effects on the body, but be far less potent. Fun fact hospitals DO have drugs with similar effects to all illegal street drugs. So it wouldnt be hard to give someone something far less potent, and super safe, and it would be while they're under medical supervision if the nurses and doctors are competent. But forcing an addict to detox like this is actually cruel in many ways, and they may have even been the reason the alcoholic had such a serious reaction when they got home and drank again. That second time ending up in the hospital the doctors and nurses are equally at fault for, if not more.
There is a song I mostly agree with. It goes, God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy. This video proves people are crazy.
I don't get how ,,get hit by a car" is supposed to be a dumb thing to do
"why do they think the healed after leaving"
well, because you expect that you kept in the hospital after a major event for the time you really need observation and care, but of course, it is not an option when you have to pay a five star hotel room price for cold bed and shitty food not covered by insurance in 'some' countries.
It's also not necessary in many situations. As many people take months and months to heal. All they really need to do is follow directios.
You have my respect for that idiocracy quote!