As a multilingual person (primarily English and Spanish) I understand old Latin better than Italian Speakers too. We got colonized by the older Italians
Speaking as a nurse that nurse's nasty comments were not only unprofessional but completely uncaring and cruel. She should have been fired for this. We don't need people in the nursing profession who obviously are in it for anything but compassion.
I just had a surgical procedure, i compare my worst pain to child birth or passing a large kidney stone to a ten. After the surgery i felt like child birth again. I told my nurse it was close to a ten. She said no you're not, I'm like child birth. No she told me again a burn victim is a ten you're not in pain. That was one of worst interactions. So thank you for your kindness .
Unfortunately, depending on where the ER was, that attitude is pretty common among some medical 'professionals'. I live in a low-income neighborhood in NYC, and I've seen that in the ER a couple times, because the area is pretty rife with drug dealing. Some people will 'card punch' at the ER trying to get a fix (card punch as in '12 gets you a freebie' idea). Of course, the ERs tend to know the Card Punchers, since they tend to not have broken things, but there are some check-in nurses who will practically make people bleed out if the 'look like the type'. Whatever they've decided that means.
2nd Story: “I’m sorry sir.. I don’t know which ‘white language’ you wanted me to use, so I was trying all of them.” OP is brilliant! What a perfect and hysterical response to throw out at the crazy white man… Love it!
Funny thing to me is she could've gone right on speaking Spanish at him. It's a European language, after all. I'd be amused to see how people like this handle being in Europe.
@@phylliskress2296 Truthfully, I am a bit confused as to who these people consider the “white race”. Do they have a criteria? Or, is it white-skinned folk who agree with their non-beneficial racist and hateful rhetoric?
@@seanheath4492 I listened to a Reddit story once about a woman who went on vacation with her husband to Puerto Vallerta, Mexico. Wrote a review about, "We couldn't enjoy our vacation because no one spoke English."
I was accused of trying to get pain meds in the emergency room. So I left that hospital and went to a different one. After spending 12 hours in two emergency waiting rooms, I ended up having emergency surgery the next night. That was a VERY long day! After recovering for two days, I got home and immediately called back to the original hospital admin director and made a complaint against the doctor that falsely accused me. She got canned. Just because you’re incompetent as a doctor, that doesn’t mean a patient isn’t really in pain.
Story 4: I would have informed the doctor that if there was any extra damage he can blame the nurse for called OP a drug addict then demanded OP prove to her that it's broken. The nurse is REALLY lucky OP's parents did get her license revoked for say that too.
And a 13 year old?? I mean, sure, they COULD be addicts...but an ambulance just brought him in...and he's a kid! That nurse has become terribly jaded...she needs a new career.
That kid was really lucky he didn't do irreparable damage to his arm. I realize he was only 13 and his maturity switch wasn't on yet but even a 13 year old kid should realize that what he did was ridiculous, to say the least. As to the nurse, she didn't call him an addict. She said that she had kids coming in for drugs and that they needed an X-ray to determine for sure that his arm was broken. That said, she could have used her hands to determine that, although it would have caused the kid quite a bit of pain to do so.
@@slactweak He came in on an ambulance with EMT's that verified the injury and how it occurred. The nurse refused to give pain medication because she thinks he "may be" a drug addict but without any direct reason from THIS patient.
@@gregorythomas333 She couldn't have given him pain meds even if she had wanted to do so; she wasn't a doctor. She should have triaged him and bumped him up the line, if there was one, in the ER but the medication thing wasn't her call because she couldn't prescribe anything on her own say-so.
I will never ever understand how people get so bent out of shape about someone speaking one European language over another European language in a country that actually has no recognized "official" language. It's cookoo behavior. "Free" my behind 😂
Story 4: Oh gosh, I had an ER doctor claim I was there for drugs and it was just a UTI. I told him over and over again that it couldn't be it, that wasn't where it hurt, I was in way too much pain for a UTI, I was on antibiotics, that I had just had surgery and something must have gone wrong, but he wouldn't hear it. Thank goodness I went back later, because I had been literally dying from an infection that oral antibiotics couldn't reach due to it being in my uterus and had to be hospitalized. Got tested for a UTI just in case because of idiot doctor. Guess what? No UTI. Should have sued the jerk, but was in way too much pain to remember anything other than what I've written here.
@@SoManyRandomRamblings I mean, I get it, going to the ER for drugs is super common, but refusing to even do the right tests before shooing a person out who's obviously in a ton of pain, that I don't get.
While I was in college I had some intense pain before my 9am. It was a video call so i emailed my professor saying i wasn't feeling well but would be present to take notes, no camera. She expressed sympathy and allowed it. My roommate watched as I slowly started to curl into myself and take a second dose of pain meds. my lower back up to my shoulder and into my chest were in stabbing pain. i have a chronic pain condition and thought this was just a really bad day. after the class my roommate helped me into my bed and i fell asleep. i woke up to urinary incontinence and pain so bad i thought i was actually dying. my roommate got me into the shower and called campus emergency for me. once i was out of the shower she handed me the phone as she got clothing and my meds in an overnight bag for me. at the hospital they said i was pregnant. the only issue was, yes i had sex within the last month but i don't think two vaginas can make a baby without major medical advancements :/ went home with no diagnosis my mom and I's theory was a really bad UTI or kidney stones
I had period cramps so bad I couldn't move and my sister called an ambulance. I told *everyone* it was period cramps and that it happens *every month.* The nurses seemed sympathetic, but the doctor, who *barely looked at me,* insisted it was a UTI and wanted me to get out of the bed to pee in a cup. No amount of explaining that this was a *monthly thing* helped. Or saying that the only reason I was even *here* was that my sister found me collapsed in the doorway of her bathroom. Otherwise I'd just suffer through the life-ending pain like I had for the last 15+ years. Nope. Had to pee in a cup.
@@BeefMeisterSupreme Suömmi is how Finnish people call to their own language. And you're right, for Tolkien followed the rules of euphony to make Sindar to evolve of the first Quenya.
Story 4: Yeah it's something we see and discuss, but not something you can confront a patient over. Not only is it bad patient relations, but if you are wrong like that nurse you can be in a lot of trouble.
Story 4: my wife gets chronic ear infections. We aren’t talking like take some Tylenol ear infections, we are talking about head splitting, migraine inducing hospital visit ear infections. A few years ago she had the monster of ear infections. She went to the ER and the nurse was like “how do you plan to pay for this visit?” My wife said “our insurance pays 100% if I’m admitted to the hospital so I don’t think I’ll have to pay. The nurse got all condescending and said “awe honey, no one would be admitted to the hospital for a little ear infection” Long story short my wife was in the hospital for 2 months and the nurse apologized profusely. Probably scared of a law suit
Well lawsuit, and the loss of a medical license, meaning years and thousands of dollars in investments just poof, gone alongside you're only revenue stream. Or at least the main one. Yikes. But play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Ear infections aren't something to mess around or joke with. Chronic recurring ear infections can cause cholesteatomas, and if those aren't caught in time your looking a permanent hearing loss as that can dissolved the stapes and cochlear nerve if left unchecked
TD!! Did you ask if said "nurse" was an LPN or an RN? Hint: Nurses don't care anything about payment arrangements! The RECEPTIONIST handles that information. That could be a teenager with no more than a GED or high school diploma. Shame on you for ASSuming every female in a hospital is a nurse. We get far too much grief from an ignorant public as it is. NURSES go to school for training and education then must pass state boards to be licensed! We also must take Continuing Education classes to keep our licenses. Contrary to public opinion, we don't just put on some white or scrubs and declare we are nurses. 😠
@@shadowsnake5133 TD! Probably NOT a nurse. NURSES don't ask and don't care about payments!! The first desk is nothing more than a receptionist trained to fill out paperwork. So no lawsuit, NO medical license to lose, no education or spent money to lose. Even IF by chance that receptionist did lose her job, she would be orienting at a new one the next week. More likely she would simply get talked to for ten minutes about a better way to say things or what not to say.
@jalyc so I'm an ass for relating a story second hand from my wife from years ago? Sounds to me like you were ASSuming that i was putting down all nurses instead of this one ignorant person. Maybe if you would not take things so personally you wouldn't be so upset all the time
No doubt that OP is telling the truth about the nurse & pain meds. It was around the time pill mills were cracked down on, and the pendulum swung way to far the opposite way. I started experiencing symptoms of my Crohn’s disease around the same time. My boyfriend had taken me to the ER about 2am, couldn’t stand up straight due to pain, fever of almost 102, heartburn so bad I thought I was having a heart attack, and vomiting stomach bile and blood. I was given a GI cocktail (numbs throat, stomach, and upper small intestine), a prescription for a UTI, told to drink Maalox, and take Tylenol, oh and a $250 bill. Around 8am I called my parents, 1) because I was on dads insurance & I didn’t pay the bill 2) just to let them know what was going on. My dad was out & mom called his cell, our place was on his way home, he walked into my room, I was curled up in a ball crying, w/a puke bucket, and heating pad. He called mom, they too me back to the ER. Unfortunate for the ER Dr I’d seen earlier, he was still there. Once my IV was placed, and I was given Dilaudid, I was able to better explain what had happened earlier. The Dr came in to check on me, and my daddy asked if they could talk in the hall. I heard my dad in his pissed off, I will hurt you, deep tone, “I’m not questioning if you actually graduated from medical school, I’m just saying someone has to graduate at the bottom of every class, and you must be that someone”. You didn’t mess with daddies princess! I would love to say that all patients aren’t treated as drug seekers anymore, but that would be a lie. 😔
I once had a nurse sneer at me and tell me she’s not giving me drugs so don’t bother asking. About five minutes later the ER doctor rushed by my bed and stopped to tell her I need Vicodin because I was there for a spine injury. She looked like she’d eaten ten pounds of lemons, she was so angry. I asked her if I look like a crackhead but she wouldn’t answer me.
@@TheRickaboo I know nurse & Dr burnout happens. It’s also a job where you can’t afford to be like that. The Dr, hospital, and I are very lucky I didn’t end up w/a perforated colon. It’s like ppl that aren’t addicts, feel pain too, crazy I know.
It's not like racists are known for their critical thinking skills. I'm supposed to loathe someone because their skin, hair & eyes produce more of the exact same chemical as mine does? I'm supposed to hate them because their eyes come in a different shape? I have ridiculously big eyes that I've never seen on anyone that wasn't related to my father in some way & my skin is a sort of uncommon mixture because I'm of both French & Norwegian ancestry (olive underneath very pale white). I also somehow have ridiculously thick very curly hair that nobody else in my family really has & stylists have no idea how to cut. I'd literally have to hate everyone if I found it at all productive to hate people for differences they can't change. It would be stupid & exhausting. Othering people is about the dumbest activity modern humans engage in. We don't live in tribes anymore. We live in global multicultural cities for the most part.
You really need to be maybe a bit more respectful... the only real language we should really respect is the language of Jesus Christ! ... English of course!!!
@@wfcoaker1398 that is a real good one ,Oxford or Cambridge English , it was in Latin but that still doesn't matter it all just bovine biowaste anyway , your just so funny 🤣🤣🤣
XD 'white person' language.... yeah, Spanish is a languagespoken by a country of white people, too. Props to op in that story for knowing words in so many languages XD
Story four: as a career ER nurse I am appalled by the way that "nurse" treated her patient. Fluff is absolutely correct that this person behaved in an unprofessional and outright nasty manner.
@@Catti003 but there’s also the undergoing issue of how long do we keep an employee until they’re too old and bitter for us to consider them as a reputable employee, because I feel as you get older depending on how you were raised you become more bitter and that could lead to aggression towards others so I firmly believe the retirement age for people that have been employed a long time is around 60 or 70 possibly 80 if they’re a kind well-meaning employee but then again that’s not really my decision to determine but it would be nice
A huge, HUGE TD to you! If, and only IF, you were even a nurse you would know most receptionists at the first desk are NOT nurses. They are more secretaries than anything. Real nurses get furious when the public calls everyone in a hospital or doctor's office from a teenager in high school to the janitor "the nurse". If someone has not gone to school AND gotten a nursing license, they are NOT a nurse! Shame on you for perpetuating that myth.
I was an ER nurse for about 10 years before I was diagnosed with cancer and could no longer handle being in my feet for so long, i saw many nurses and doctors who treated everyone who needed pain management as if they were drug seeking. It wasn't the majority but there waa a high number.
Broken bone like that for over an hour that you play merely set yourself with no meds, the pain had dropped from nine to a constant five .. he just took it back up to a 10 and got some morphine. Ballsy little SOB.
That was one hell of a story. OP was probably somewhat in a state of shock. One could say the nurse is at fault if OP damaged her arm even further. The nurse took advantage of OP’s condition due to the severity of OP’s broken arm and provoked OP. The nurse merely had to have a conversation with the EMT’s who brought OP in for the real deal… Sheesh…
First story: "Did I yell? Yes. Was I petty? Absolutely." Turnabout is fair play. Third story: I would have laughed out loud when Anne opened the box of potatoes! I'd have taken one, too ;^D
Oh, FFS, Spanish IS a "white" language. It comes from Spain, a white, European country. Not that it matters. Where I live, you may hear English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and two or three different Native American tongues just going to the supermarket.
In this country, according to some, Spanish is not "white". And not too long ago, neither was "Italian" nor many other languages that now qualify as "white". We have become very exclusive in this country.
@@kenkahre9262 No, we've always been this way. The Irish, the Italians, name a white immigrant group and they've been considered "not White" and treated like dirt before being accepted. Apparently, that acceptance is still conditional on total assimilation into the dominant White society.
English is actually a world language with more speakers of color than white speakers. Gaelic is a much whiter language, but had been outlawed centuries ago. Good luck finding a white language.
4th story: When I was 18, I suddenly got a lot of pain on a small spot on my back. It felt like a extremely painful bruise, so painful I sometimes nearly passed out. Of course the first thing I did was take some over the counter painkillers and ask my mom to look at my back. She could not see the bruise, but also could see nothing strange there. I took the painkillers for about a week and had to conclude that they did nothing to the pain. I had also treid some other things to stop the pain, but nothing worked. After a week of this we called in to the doctor's office. Important here is that my family doctor had just very suddenly stopped working and an other doctor had taken over his patients, whilst also having her own patients. This left her with too many patients and too little time. So I could only see this doctor about two weeks out. This doctor barely looked at my back (didn't even feel for anything) and told me to take the over the counter painkillers I had already taken. Even after my mom and I both explained to her this did nothing for my pain, she stood her ground. She sent me away with these words: "If the painkillers work, the pain should be gone in about 1,5 month. If the pain is not gone by then, you should come back since then it is most likely cancer." Cue me panicking and my mom being angry whilst we were rushed out of her office. My mom luckily didn't accept this and walked up to the reception area to make a complaint and a new appointment with an other doctor. A month later I was diagnosed with and treated for a disease in my nerve, that had caused this pain. The most imporant aspect of this disease is that for unknown reasons no normal painkillers will work to stop this pain, I had to completely numb my nerve to make the pain be bearable. Oh, and it is not cancer. We told the second doctor, and she inmediately checked to see if she could find cancer when we got to see her.
The nurse story reminds me of the story for my brother. So My brother broke his arm when was younger, then when he got the cast off he broke it again right after. My mom brought him to the hospital but since he wasn't crying the nurse didn't believe his arm was broken. Just then the doctor who treated him last time walked by saw him and told the nurse to send my brother to get xray,
I didnt know there were age restrictions to _pain,_ like whatta hell.. Some doctors are definitely on the wrong job, good on you for seeking out someone actually willing to help! Hope your doing better now.
@@janemiettinen5176 thanks Jane. Yeah, I wasn't too thrilled about it. My GP now is much better, she listens to me and does what I need. But my pain is chronic and can only be managed unfortunately. Good days, bad days, great days and days where I can barely register what species I am. But I have my girls (the dogs), my adult son and the most amazing best friend who does anything she can to help us out. So I have to say that I'm not doing too bad 😉
The one with the broken arm, I heard his story before and I think he said that he was told if he hadn’t set it back the first time he would’ve lost the arm
Story #3 - I actually like raw potatoes 🤣🤣🤣🤣 but I thought the same as you Fluff, that OP was bringing in rock hard donuts 🍩 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Story #4 - I am a Registered Nurse and the nurse in this story makes all good caring nurses look bad!! Pain is subjective and it's the 5th vital sign so if OP was in pain, that nurse needed to ask: "on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the worst pain ever what is your pain level?", "where is your pain?" (If it's not obvious) and "describe your pain - is it throbbing, sharp, dull, does it radiate (go from one spot to another?, etc".......she didn't need to accuse him of drug seeking because not every patient coming to the ER that's in pain is looking for drugs Karen, keep your opinions to yourself 🙄 and Fluff that's the screws AND the plate
Story #3: I thought I was the only one!! Kinsman! Story #4: Unfortunately, even when they ask those questions, I don't think they always believe the patient. I live with *constant* pain and have to *fight* to get any kind of test. Apparently, if I have full mobility, I can't be in pain. Then again, it took an ER trip while I was in the middle of a dizzy spell for someone to *finally* realize I have vertigo. I've got a neurology consult to check for why I'd have vertigo *so often.*
Be careful with eating raw potatoes. They contain solanine, which is toxic, which gets destroyed by cooking. Normally it´s not in a high dose, so you are fine if you eat a few I guess, but you shouldn´t have too many. Also, never eat them raw when they are green or sprouting, as then the solanine levels are way higher. Can make you seriously sick.
Raw potatoes ❤ Whenever Im peeling spuds, Ill have to have couple smaller ones on the side, that I can snack on. Ive groused out several people in my 46 years, but hey, more for me :)
Story 3: I witnessed a very similar power move in high school between some of the dudes in the video game club, it involved a snack stealer and possibly the most justifiably petty person I've ever known. Snack Stealer kept stealing Dude's stuff so one day came to club with just a pack of red peppers. When Snack Stealer complained about it Dude just grabbed one and took the biggest bite out of it. Snack Stealer never took his stuff after that. It was amazing.
Story 2: I had a similar experience two years ago. I am Chinese but grew up in Austria, so I can speak Chinese and German, including English (which I learned in school). My mum and I usually speak Chinese to each other, especially if we are talking about something when we are on a walk that is none of the public business. One day, when we were on a walk and we chatted in Chinese, a couple that was my stepdad´s age (60), said to each other how dare we speak Chinese and we should speak German. What they don´t know, is that when I speak German and I am furious, I am going to sound like a South-Styrian farmer. So I told them in my very very Styrian dialect, that they should mind their own damn business. Well, you could see that their eyes widened in shock because they didn´t expect that a dialect would come out of my mouth. As my mum was dragging me, I also said that they need to watch their mouth. I think never in their life, were they being called out on their racist behaviour. Calling racists out in my South-Styrian dialect is usually my tactic. The faces they are making are very satisfying.
I understand the pain of OP in the fourth story since I have broken *AND* dislocated *both* of my arms at the elbows I can also understand that the bullshit op heard from the nurse. I was getting registered or whatever and I had to force through the pain to grab my wallet and pull out an ID for the woman. And let me tell you, it was so painful to move my arms and yet, I was expected to move my *broken* arms to show some ID and give a signature.
Exactly. And later on often they claim that because you were able to manage x,y,z through the pain, that somehow that means you actually aren't in that much pain. It is sick and twisted how commonplace complaints just like yours are, and worse too. You are lucky they didn't cause you more injury. Sorry you went through that B.S.
I grew up speaking German in the US. I have learned the local Spanish in order to get by. A customer went off on me for speaking Spanish, so I started speaking to him in German. My “native white language.” He walked out screaming. Asshat. The older folks also speak Norwegian. I have tried to pick up as much as I can, if only to greet customers in their own language. It brings a smile to their faces. Customer service jobs suck. At least you can try to learn something on the job. The racist asshats you meet are often offset by the nice ones who appreciate the effort and are willing to teach you their language in order to serve them better. Everyone wins.
Last story is absolutely correct. When a contract stipulates that a party is liable for damages to property, the other party is within their rights to put a lien on said party’s property. They cannot sell that property until that lien is completely cleared INCLUDING interest. As far as I know, no government will allow any owner to pass that debt on to a new owner. I can say for sure this is true of the U.S., Canada and Great Britain. Other countries laws I’m not as familiar with, however I would think it would hold true.
I'm not completely sure about it, but I believe that you cannot do it without court involvement in Germany. Keeping the property within your posession while you have it, is a different situation. Then you are not actively taking it away, you are simply withholding it. Property in ground is strongly regulated in Germany, it is listed at court and buying and selling needs a special lawyer and registering it in the public ground register. Other property might get sold without ever mention somebody else's rights.
question is, if they could have filed a claim that the neighbours house was on unstable ground and should be condemned anyway which would make the redesign of the sewer line into a moot point, and to have them charged with destruction of property for even connectibg with the shared line in the first place.
I was sure when OP mentioned that the sewer line was the HOA's responsibility that they would have gotten the HOA involved in this one. They have really good lawyers and I'm sure they'd want to know about a house that tapped into their sewer line.
The nurse one is 100% how they act. Screaming in agony from a suspected kidney stone. I was screaming and crying for a few hours. Other patients were begging them to help me. I was treated like an actual criminal until the CT showed the 9mm stone. Still made me wait 3 days in agony for surgery.
My wife had a kidney stone that blocked the duct because it was too big to pass. First trip to ER she was told that nothing was wrong, even with pain and high fever. Three days later had to go back because of fever and our job insisted we have a covid test. That's when they finally did an ultrasound and saw the stone. However, by that time she had already started to turn septic. They transferred her to a different hospital in a city 45 minutes away where she stayed for a week. Not everyone looking for pain relief is drug addicted.
Kidney stone pain is the worst pain that I had ever experienced. Passed out from the pain several times before I was finally given some pain meds. Kidney stones are pure evil. 👿
What the nurse said is horrible but I've heard many stories and experienced first hand that nurses would rather you be in pain under the assumption your a drug addict rather than giving you meds
Yep, I had that happen just hours after major surgery when I was in horrible pain. The nurse basically laughed at me. I had to call my doctor in the middle of the night. He got me some pain meds right away and I lodged a complaint with the hospital and said I did not want her anywhere near me. And I ended up filing a lawsuit because she had put drug seeking in my chart and refused to remove it.
Dude this happened to my sister. We're both tatted up and kind of gothy looking and my sis ended up having some severe abdominal and back pain and couldn't even pee. They shoved her in the corner of the waiting room and she was a bit like OP saying stuff like "please I'm intense pain, please can you get me back or give me something it's been a couple hours?" She was basically brushed off identically, turns out she had a damn cyst on her ovary that had exploded. My mom and I have also the same issues with ovarian cysts and it pissed us both off that she was treated like that.
Story 4: I used to work in an ER. You would be surprised at how calloused the triage nurses could be at those who truly hurt but the opposite at those who sought painkillers.
Not all nurses are that cruel. I have had to deal with a lot of them over the years, and most were really nice. The bad ones tend to stick out more because they are not common. I have several health issues, so I see a nurse at least 15 times per year, often more. I prefer to remember the nice ones. I also make sure they know they are appreciated, at least I appreciate them and the work and care they give.
@@jenn8179 Thank you for sharing. I hope your babies are doing well, and the nurses who helped you are doing just as well. I remember when I was giving birth, one nurse asked another who should "catch" if the doctor didn't show up in time. I was too busy screaming to open my eyes to see them, I actually did rip a little, it wasn't just me being dramatic. The doctor had gone to lunch, thinking I'd be a while. He did show up a minute or two before my son exited my body. The nurses had done 99% of the work before, and he barely touched my son before the nurses took over again and did almost all the work after. I now mostly deal with Nurse Practitioners, not doctors.
The nurse that dealt with my sister definitely believed my sister broke her foot because it also had a massive bruise there and it just didn't look normally shaped.
Story 3: People who try to get free Food are always Choosingbeggars, they always try to force people to give them the food that they want (unless of course it's from a place that actually gives out free food, didn't think of that)
I would have taken stale, moldy doughnuts and told Karen, "They were fresh when I got them but you insisted on not wanting the while they were fresh.."
Karen: SPEAK WHITE TO ME DAMN IT! Me: OK...White, White, White, White, White... Karen: ... Me: Do you have any other Brain-Dead-Stupid Requests? 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
That story had so many implied bad jokes in it, i applaud Dark Fluff to refrain from childish behaviour like that, we all already made up atleast five bad puns while listening to the story. 😜
The story about the nurse reminds me of several encounters I have had. I know some people lie to get drugs, but I'm not one of them. I have to take medications, but I take as little as possible. I still remember the time, when I was just hours out of ICU and had been telling a nurse that I felt awful and that something was very wrong, she told me, and I quote, "Shut up, go to sleep, and don't hit the call light 'til morning." That's the last thing I remember before waking up paralyzed from the neck down. I was having spinal ischemia, the doc said it's like a stroke in the spine. I have recovered some use of my upper body, but I have been a paraplegic for over a decade now. I still have chronic pain, which unfortunately means that some people see me as a drug seeker. I don't want drugs, I also don't want to be in blinding pain. I don't even expect them to get rid of the pain, just bring it down to a manageable level. I hate being seen that way because I am a straight arrow type.
3rd story: I would TOTALLY have just saved the donuts from Monday and brought them in Thursday instead. :) 4th story: Quite oftenly.. sprains hurt even more than breaks! I hope that bitch got a talking to, I would have filed a complaint.
Story 4, I had a similar nurse that triaged me in the ER I had walked in on my own stream and when she asked why I was there I told her my foot was broken. She said it's probably sprained, I told her I'd been walking on it for two days and I'd had sprains before and it was definitely broken. She proceeded to walk me to a room about a block away, came back in about 30 minutes later and resentfully brought a wheelchair, wheeled me to x-ray. Grumpily wheeled me back to the examination room. About 30 minutes later she came in sobbing because she saw my X-rays and my meta tarsal (main weight bearing bone in the foot) was broken clean in half. She was horrified that she'd made me walk on that drastically broken bone. She said I should have been sobbing and unable to walk with that severe of a break. I told her she shouldn't assume everyone's pain threshold is different. I think she felt bad, but was also worried that I'd put in a complaint. I just told her in the future don't just assume since everyone is different. I never even mentioned to the hospital that she had purposefully made me walk on it to prove it was only a sprain. Hopefully she took that lesson to heart and didn't repeat it with anyone else.
Every high school has at least one “Anne” but often more than one. I’m sitting here blissful in the knowledge that I’ll never see my Anne again. I never intended to go to the reunion anyway, but I’m guessing it was canceled due to the pandemic (but I neither know nor care). I’ve only kept in touch with a handful of people whom I actually like. If I had to bet, our school’s Anne would have been so disappointed that she didn’t get to be the center of attention and boss everyone around, which makes me giggle.
Broken arm story. Nurses like that, yeah seen them. I've had and handled enough accidents to recognize when something is beyond "just let it rest and it will be fine". Plus it doesn't take much to check if a pain is real or faked. My own personal record was: *Doctor prod*, *doctor prod*, *white blinding nothing. All of reality being gone*, *doctor prod*. The doctor already suspected what the cause was based on my description. The 3 "doctor prod" was just checks on how good and truthful my description was.
I will be so happy when they invent something that they can hook up to us that shows pain spikes.....so that we don't have to suffer through their callous disbelief.
I had a Karen nurse too. I think I was her last patient as she was rushing her job like she was about to go on break or go home for the day and just kept rippping my staples out. Trust me it hurt like hell I asked her "can you slow down and give me a minute?" After she did three of them. She just glared at me and said "no." So I had to sit there as she ripped out twenty or so more staples. Also every time I winced in pain she just said "stop moving your leg you big babby."
The broken arm? Give him something and then find out he's allergic to it. You call family first or better yet call the camp to find out if he's allergic to anything.
Yea ghats exactly why i thought the emts didnt give something for pain. They didnt have parental permission and a good idea of what he may have been alergic to and figured risk was worse then not giving it to him and just wait the drive to the hospital and they can do it
I have conversion disorder and there was a period that ems had to transport me several times a week one time they were having to suction me (as in my case the conversion disorder manifests as paralysis) i couldn't swallow my own saliva, the charge nurse told the medics that I was faking and just put me in a chair, the medics stood up for me and advocated for me
As someone who grew up with a nurse for a mother, the fourth story made me wince so much (please oh PLEASE, if you ever break your arm like that, DO NOT try to force it back, you can do a lot of damage) And HOLY FUCK, what kind of nurse is that? That's the worst bedside manner I've ever heard of.
Not sounds like, he IS..also, the term "racist" is a power dynamic, a "racist" is someone with majority power in society who discriminates against someone based on their race. People of color therefore cannot be "racist" anyways. They can be "prejudice" but never "racist." And yes, ALL racists are of course hypocrites, their claim that it's another races fault for x, x and z when in fact it's THEIR fault for being an ignorant, foolish, repugnant "person" who will never admit accountability for their own (in)actions and just blame others. ALL racists are just trash, period.
@@ghostwriter720 Oh please! You still stuck in the times of Woodrow Wilson? That was a century ago. By your logic, the racist dogwhistles coming from the GOP would mean nothing, because they are the "Party of Abraham Lincoln" after all, right?!
Funny thing is, I'd probably *enjoy* eating a whole raw potato. Every time Mom pealed potatoes for a meal when I was a kid, I'd run up and beg for a slice of potato. She'd often roll her eyes and call me a "weird kid," but *always* gave me my potato slice.
Then Im a weird kid too. Ive got odd looks here and there, but the best was when my ex hit the slice out of my hand, like I was going to eat poison! Dont judge until you taste it :)
@@brigidtheirish It just got him so off guard, he realized it immediately. He said it felt just about as “natural” as if Ive taken a bite out of a dishrag, one of those “what are you DOING?!”-moments. I couldnt stop laughing, he “saved” me from a potato.. And I read thru the comments, theres few of us weird kids, so we are definitely not alone. You can tell your mom I said hi :)
Story 4: I know exactly how that kid feels. I broke my hand the exact same way (except while I was running in gym class), and then the school nurses just thought I was trying to get out of class even though my hand was swollen and bloody. Those nurses didn't really give a crap about kids.😑
I had a triage nurse tell me that my shoulder didn't dislocate, as on the ride into the hospital it popped back into place.....she said since I never had a dislocation before, that I wouldn't know what it was. I just told her that when I can't feel that my arm and shoulder aren't attached, I'm sure it was. I told the treating doctor about it, so when I got the X ray to prove that it had been dislocated, he made sure she knew about it. So she had to apologise to me, best apology ever.
Hospitals can be a mess at times. I had a bad concussion once and the doctor refused to even see me until I was drug tested. This was a college town in the US and about 3am so I can get the suspicion, but I have a long history of seizures (which was in my file that was pulled up when I came in) and head injuries are surely an emergency in those cases. I was so dizzy I kept falling out of the waiting room chair and eventually just laid on the floor while I waited (which I got yelled at for)
I was in a car wreck that literally broke my seat free from the car, I woke up the next morning and couldn't feel my legs. Brought in with an ambulance I didn't ask for any pain meds, I want a scan of some sort to see why I couldn't walk. I mean I couldn't feel anything so meds were the last thing on my mind. I caught the nurse saying I was just some junky looking for meds and they should just kick me out, I laughed all the way to her bosses office and laughed even harder as she was called in and fired on the spot. Never let nurses get by with shit like that, they have to follow the rules too.
tbh if I was the op in story 3, I would've just told them "If my donuts I bring on Monday aren't going to count as my contribution then maybe I should stop bringing donuts on Monday and bring a different snack on snack day instead" and watch as the whole class glares at Anna for causing you to stop bring donuts.
When i was 14 and in hospital a nurse talked laudly in her phone in my room. Well it woldnt been that bad but she talked abaut, "adult activities" in my room,while i was awake.
Yuck. 🤢 even an adult shouldn't have had to been subjected to listening to others' private lives. Let alone a child. Poor you, and sick twisted lady who probably had some kink she was fulfilling by forcing someone to overhear. 🤮
Note: I am NOT young and its obvious I'm past child bearing years, plus due to blood pressure meds, my SO had been rendered impotent (thankfully it wasn't permanent), so no sex for quite awhile . This is important. I went to ER for a bad bladder infection and the nurse wanted me to get a pregnancy test (which cost $258!) I told her that there was no way I'm pregnant or would ever be. She kept insisting, I kept refusing. Finally, she got mad and tried embarrassing me by loudly saying, 'HOW DAN YOU BE SUYRE YOUR NOT PREGNANT?' Pissed as HELL, I said, 'BESIDES MENOPAUSE, YOU HAVE TO HAVE "SEX" TO GET KNOCKED UP!!!' The look on her face........🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
I don't speak any language other than English (UK). I love listening to people speaking Spanish, because even if I don't understand more than a few words, it has always sounded to me like one of the most 'musical' languages on the planet.
Definitely invite him to the yard sale. And when he gets there, tell him that anything he buys TODAY will be at a discount. Instead of charging him 100% asshole tax, you'll only charge him 75% asshole tax. Of course, this only works if you don't put price tags on things, and everyone has to ask you "How much is this?" Unless, of course, you put the price tags as such: "Assholes: X. Non-assholes, 1/2 X"
I hate when doctors and nurses just go "Yeah yeah clearly doing this for attention." I don't care how many times it really DOES happen, you do not have the right to assume a person is faking before you've actually evaluated and determined that is the case.
The 2nd story reminds me of an older Entitledparents story I heard four or five years ago. I don't recall it in immense detail but I'll paraphrase: OP's mom is Welsh so she was on the phone with her mom (OP's grandma) an entitled parent overheard and told her that since she is in America she should speak English. When Op's mom responded to her in English the Entitled parent said her English is terrible, and where did she learn it. OP simply replies, England. The Entitled parent waddled away pretty quickly.
Ooooh, the broken arm story, back when one could get morphine as a painkiller. I'm lucky I'm not allergic to any meds I know, and that I can tolerate narcotics. I once got Demerol, right in the vein, after being diagnosed with kidney stones. I felt like I was floating an inch off of the bed. Only time I ever needed that much painkiller.
My dad got kidney stones frequently. They had to dope him up each with morphine and sent him home with morphine pills and a little strainer to pee thru. I'm so glad I only had a kidney stone one time and it passed before I got to the ER.
Regardng the story of the broken arm: this is the treatment every ok be in pain gets when they go to the ER. I went to the ER about 5 years ago because I was passing a kidney stone. I went to the desk and said that I was in emense pain and the nurse was very rude. As she was chastising me I passed out and hit the floor. I don't remember any of it but when I came to, I was in a bed in the ER and my mom was sitting next to me. I am still in emense pain with tears streaming down my face. I was 48 years old at the time this happened and this was the 23rd kidney stone over an eight year period of time. My mom got the nurse and she came in the room telling me that I was overreacting and not to be such a big baby. My good southern soft spoken christian mom proceeded to do something I have never seen her do before. She calmly asked if the nurse had ever passed a kidney stone and she said no. Mom said "Well I have and it hurt way more than when I gave birth so shut the F*CK up and do your damn job!" My head turned so fast to look at my mom I forgot I was in pain for a brief moment because I was in shock by what she said! I have never heard my mom use profanity but when that nurse talked ugly to me, she went off like a Roman candle. The doctor walked in and heard everything that was said and told the nurse to leave the room. He apologized to me and said that they have a lot of drug seekers. I worked at that time for a pharmaceutical manufacturer and I was over the lab narcotics vault. I had more access to drugs than the hospital. I said if I don't take them at work, why the hell would I try here. He looked at my charts and saw the number of times I have been in the hospital for kidney stones. He apologized profusely and brought the nurse in and made her apologies to both me and my mom.
second story: spain is full of white people. and they speak spanish. so it is a "white" language. it's just a weird ruling in the US that defines hispanics as not white.
Hispanics are not classified as non-white in the US. Check their birth certificates. Mestizos are classified as being mixed Spanish and indigenous American, but are still not classified as non-white unless they are Asian or Black.
well, remember that anything that are outside the US borders does not exist to them. pretty sure that if I, a french person, would speak my language there, most people would have the brain fried. also, important notes: 1) the United States does not have any official language at all. you can speak anything there actually. 2) the most spoken language in the US is not english, but spanish. ye...second story's "gentleman" clearly is an idiot here, and uncultured
Story 1: my wife did exactly the same thing once. She was living with her brother, and they had just moved in to the house a few days prior. Then her brother moved in his new girlfriend. She kicked out my future wife, and demanded that she get all of her stuff out of the house. She did. Plates, silverware, light bulbs, furniture, even the last role of toilet paper. Then she took it a step farther, and had the lights turned off, since they were in her name, and talked to the landlord and got the lease nullified, since she wouldn't be there anymore, and it was in her name. That left her brother and his new wife paying to replace nearly everything, including a new deposit for the rent and the lights. And it was especially great for me as the new girlfriend was my now ex wife. She left me to hook up with the brother, so I was definitely feeling vindicated that she was getting some karma for being such a bitch. I married the petty, maliciously compliant woman and we've been together for 11 years now. Definitely worth it.
Story 1: I guarantee you that ex was getting triggered from having to be around his ex and have feels. He likely was more ok with losing all the stuff than put up with her presence.
I broke my wrist roller skating this past August. And just like the kid at camp, it was VISIBLY broken. They didn't offer me anything for the pain. My husband had to ASK them for an ice pack as I sat waiting and watching it swell up. What's up with that?? Even after the x-rays showing my ulna snapped in half, and the surgery scheduled 4 days later, I still left the ER with no pain medication!
DarkFluff, THANK you so much -- you bring so much laughter and head shaking and ( lol ) disbelief to my life when I read your posts! I just absolutely love them! I am going through a very tough, hard time right now, and the stories, these posts really really make my day, they make me smile through my tears -- thank you so much, DarkFluff, please keep it coming! Love ya!
I got news for you, Mister. Spanish is, originally, a "white" language. From Spain. They brought it over and taught it to the natives they conquered in Middle and South America.
Try having chronic pain....good luck getting help. Everyone thinks you're a drug seeker, even if you never ask for any drugs...just a reason for it with a solution. Simply being in as of yet unexplained pain is plenty.
9:20 Bro eating a raw potato 🥔 while making AND keeping eye contact is just priceless 🤌, I almost can't hold myself together that's hilarious 🤣🤣☠☠ A round of applause for OC 👏👏
Story 3. Anne was an idiot! And as you said, who put her in charge? Op good on you for getting back at her like that. Oh by the way. I actually LIKE eating carefully washed and peeled Raw potatoes. Don't like them so much if they aren't peeled though, so I no longer eat many raw potatoes. I haven't actually peeled a potato in over 25 years! I cook, and we eat them, with the peelings on them. Most of my family peels them though, and husband's family too.
I just want to say that OP from story 4 definitely has the highest pain tolerance that I’ve ever heard of. He’s a freaking MACHINE! I love how he handled that nurse😂! Good for him👏👏
In defense of the nurse (not her attitude or how she spoke to him), they would have to ensure they have consent to treat, check for any allergies, etc.. before administering a pain medication or provide any treatment for a minor.
Actually it's very common for nurses to think that way especially because of people who are addicted to painkillers. Unfortunately it screws everything up for anyone else who actually requires it because of injuries or whatever. The emergency room where I live treats everyone who goes in complaining of being in pain as if they are all drug addicts. They give you dirty looks, talk down to you and basically just treat you like shit. They think everyone is faking it to just get high. I had gotten hurt by my boyfriend's tow truck had blood running down my leg and they still acted like I was faking it lol. Love your videos Peace and love to you and your family 💙💚💙💚💙💚
I had an accident and broke my toe once, my knowledge of my state's laws allowed me to lodge a very effective formal complaint about nurses mistreating patients with my audio recording.
It's twisted the way they treat people, when they collect all these accolades for going into a field because they "care" about helping supposedly. Most of them are actually narcissists who went into the field for those 'pats on the back' and being able to have the facade of caring for others.
Story 4 infuriates me. I hope they reported. I had similar situation. Several years ago every month I'd be hospitalized due to a bowel impaction non stop vomiting even vomiting feces. It made me go septic one time, one of the last times I had that problem I went in and there was a new doctor AND their system was down. Immediately told me I was drug seeking because I was begging for zofran and even if they had to sedate me, do it. (It's the worst pain I've ever felt and I've had some horrible health conditions) and they drug tested me which is normal I was fine with it, at the time I was on tramadol for a chronic health problem and it came back in my system thy said "see! I told you you're drug seeking!" My mom told them to check the system and they refused and done some realky fucked up traumatizing things to me to where I just signed a AMA and left. I know for a fact they checked after I left because anytime I saw the nurse that accused me she instantly drops her head and looked guilty. Thanks to them I went home and got extremely sick for about a month. And like OP I sadly didn't report them. They now have a whole new crew and management so it wouldn't even do any good. I like the doctors there now I even recently had a really good experience with them when I went in for a TBI. But thanks to that Dr and nurse, I'm traumatized. I shake, have high BP and turn red anytime I have to go to the ER.
Story 1 reminds of my break up with my last ex. My ex and I were forced to live together after the split because of living costs in Honolulu and trying to find up with last minute deposits is next to impossible there without planning. It was all going fine until I woke up and he was trying to kidnap the cats because he refused to let them go with me. Police came and I provided all documentation as proof of ownership. I left that night from Honolulu to Houston. I left him with the top mattress (no box spring and bo bed, a couple pots and pans and a couple dishes plus the tv. I agreed to leave what he paid for alone. I did. Everything else I put down the trash chute and if it didn’t fit, I put it in the elevator lobby with a sign “free take me!” on it. Groceries. Spices. Soap. Silverware. Etc. all of it. Trashed or given away. He came home to an empty apartment and I am sure he was passed about it. Was it necessary? No. Was it worth it? Absolutely. I am a super chill dude and he could’ve kept everything, but F with me and my critters and that is the same as pushing the “activate petty mode” button.
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Isn’t it ironic with all these racists that they forget is that Spanish is a European language directly descendent from Latin.
Yes!!!!!
As a multilingual person (primarily English and Spanish) I understand old Latin better than Italian Speakers too. We got colonized by the older Italians
Wanna REALLY mess with them? Use German...XD
Well, they also forget that they where coming all from immigrants from Europe and that English is NOT a native language in Amerikkka.
What always bothered me is there were Spaniards living in southwestern US long time before there were "white".
Speaking as a nurse that nurse's nasty comments were not only unprofessional but completely uncaring and cruel. She should have been fired for this. We don't need people in the nursing profession who obviously are in it for anything but compassion.
I just had a surgical procedure, i compare my worst pain to child birth or passing a large kidney stone to a ten. After the surgery i felt like child birth again. I told my nurse it was close to a ten. She said no you're not, I'm like child birth. No she told me again a burn victim is a ten you're not in pain. That was one of worst interactions. So thank you for your kindness .
Unfortunately, depending on where the ER was, that attitude is pretty common among some medical 'professionals'. I live in a low-income neighborhood in NYC, and I've seen that in the ER a couple times, because the area is pretty rife with drug dealing. Some people will 'card punch' at the ER trying to get a fix (card punch as in '12 gets you a freebie' idea). Of course, the ERs tend to know the Card Punchers, since they tend to not have broken things, but there are some check-in nurses who will practically make people bleed out if the 'look like the type'. Whatever they've decided that means.
2nd Story: “I’m sorry sir.. I don’t know which ‘white language’ you wanted me to use, so I was trying all of them.” OP is brilliant! What a perfect and hysterical response to throw out at the crazy white man… Love it!
Funny thing to me is she could've gone right on speaking Spanish at him. It's a European language, after all.
I'd be amused to see how people like this handle being in Europe.
@@seanheath4492 They don't they end up in the US cities of the same names as the European originals...
I can think of a few other European languages: Russian, Yiddish, Serbian, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Gaelic... I could go on, too.
@@phylliskress2296 Truthfully, I am a bit confused as to who these people consider the “white race”. Do they have a criteria? Or, is it white-skinned folk who agree with their non-beneficial racist and hateful rhetoric?
@@seanheath4492 I listened to a Reddit story once about a woman who went on vacation with her husband to Puerto Vallerta, Mexico. Wrote a review about, "We couldn't enjoy our vacation because no one spoke English."
I was accused of trying to get pain meds in the emergency room. So I left that hospital and went to a different one. After spending 12 hours in two emergency waiting rooms, I ended up having emergency surgery the next night. That was a VERY long day! After recovering for two days, I got home and immediately called back to the original hospital admin director and made a complaint against the doctor that falsely accused me. She got canned. Just because you’re incompetent as a doctor, that doesn’t mean a patient isn’t really in pain.
Story 4: I would have informed the doctor that if there was any extra damage he can blame the nurse for called OP a drug addict then demanded OP prove to her that it's broken.
The nurse is REALLY lucky OP's parents did get her license revoked for say that too.
Yeah, never dare a teenager to prove it. They're as close to invincible as humans get, and they're stupid enough to prove it to a doubting adult.
And a 13 year old?? I mean, sure, they COULD be addicts...but an ambulance just brought him in...and he's a kid! That nurse has become terribly jaded...she needs a new career.
That kid was really lucky he didn't do irreparable damage to his arm. I realize he was only 13 and his maturity switch wasn't on yet but even a 13 year old kid should realize that what he did was ridiculous, to say the least. As to the nurse, she didn't call him an addict. She said that she had kids coming in for drugs and that they needed an X-ray to determine for sure that his arm was broken. That said, she could have used her hands to determine that, although it would have caused the kid quite a bit of pain to do so.
@@slactweak
He came in on an ambulance with EMT's that verified the injury and how it occurred. The nurse refused to give pain medication because she thinks he "may be" a drug addict but without any direct reason from THIS patient.
@@gregorythomas333 She couldn't have given him pain meds even if she had wanted to do so; she wasn't a doctor. She should have triaged him and bumped him up the line, if there was one, in the ER but the medication thing wasn't her call because she couldn't prescribe anything on her own say-so.
I will never ever understand how people get so bent out of shape about someone speaking one European language over another European language in a country that actually has no recognized "official" language. It's cookoo behavior.
"Free" my behind 😂
Sounds like England. We have a de facto language.
@@tonycrayford3893 Florida in England ???
@@barbaraosarek1986 no the real England not a fake American one.
@@tonycrayford3893 but in the video Florida is mentioned
@@barbaraosarek1986 I replied to op comment in regards to the USA not having a recognised official language.
Story 4: Oh gosh, I had an ER doctor claim I was there for drugs and it was just a UTI. I told him over and over again that it couldn't be it, that wasn't where it hurt, I was in way too much pain for a UTI, I was on antibiotics, that I had just had surgery and something must have gone wrong, but he wouldn't hear it. Thank goodness I went back later, because I had been literally dying from an infection that oral antibiotics couldn't reach due to it being in my uterus and had to be hospitalized. Got tested for a UTI just in case because of idiot doctor. Guess what? No UTI. Should have sued the jerk, but was in way too much pain to remember anything other than what I've written here.
And what's worse is your story is super common.
@@SoManyRandomRamblings I mean, I get it, going to the ER for drugs is super common, but refusing to even do the right tests before shooing a person out who's obviously in a ton of pain, that I don't get.
While I was in college I had some intense pain before my 9am. It was a video call so i emailed my professor saying i wasn't feeling well but would be present to take notes, no camera. She expressed sympathy and allowed it. My roommate watched as I slowly started to curl into myself and take a second dose of pain meds. my lower back up to my shoulder and into my chest were in stabbing pain. i have a chronic pain condition and thought this was just a really bad day. after the class my roommate helped me into my bed and i fell asleep. i woke up to urinary incontinence and pain so bad i thought i was actually dying. my roommate got me into the shower and called campus emergency for me. once i was out of the shower she handed me the phone as she got clothing and my meds in an overnight bag for me.
at the hospital they said i was pregnant. the only issue was, yes i had sex within the last month but i don't think two vaginas can make a baby without major medical advancements :/ went home with no diagnosis
my mom and I's theory was a really bad UTI or kidney stones
I had period cramps so bad I couldn't move and my sister called an ambulance. I told *everyone* it was period cramps and that it happens *every month.* The nurses seemed sympathetic, but the doctor, who *barely looked at me,* insisted it was a UTI and wanted me to get out of the bed to pee in a cup. No amount of explaining that this was a *monthly thing* helped. Or saying that the only reason I was even *here* was that my sister found me collapsed in the doorway of her bathroom. Otherwise I'd just suffer through the life-ending pain like I had for the last 15+ years. Nope. Had to pee in a cup.
@@brigidtheirish please tell me you have gotten that treated because that is not what period pain should be like
Karen: "SPEAK WHITE LANGUAGES!"
Me: cursed in Elvish
You cursed in African mumbling
@@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 tolkiens elvish is literally just butchered scandinavian
@@BeefMeisterSupreme I just wanted to piss OP. But Tolkien's Eldar language is based on Suömmi, one of the few npm-Aryan languages still existing.
@@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 there are two elvish languages, sindarin and quenya, sindarin is based off of welsh and quenya is finnish
@@BeefMeisterSupreme Suömmi is how Finnish people call to their own language. And you're right, for Tolkien followed the rules of euphony to make Sindar to evolve of the first Quenya.
If his forearm bent that bad, that's two broken bones. He's lucky he was young enough that he was just entering his adult phase of growing.
Story 4: Yeah it's something we see and discuss, but not something you can confront a patient over. Not only is it bad patient relations, but if you are wrong like that nurse you can be in a lot of trouble.
Story 4: my wife gets chronic ear infections. We aren’t talking like take some Tylenol ear infections, we are talking about head splitting, migraine inducing hospital visit ear infections.
A few years ago she had the monster of ear infections. She went to the ER and the nurse was like “how do you plan to pay for this visit?” My wife said “our insurance pays 100% if I’m admitted to the hospital so I don’t think I’ll have to pay. The nurse got all condescending and said “awe honey, no one would be admitted to the hospital for a little ear infection”
Long story short my wife was in the hospital for 2 months and the nurse apologized profusely. Probably scared of a law suit
Well lawsuit, and the loss of a medical license, meaning years and thousands of dollars in investments just poof, gone alongside you're only revenue stream. Or at least the main one. Yikes. But play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Ear infections aren't something to mess around or joke with. Chronic recurring ear infections can cause cholesteatomas, and if those aren't caught in time your looking a permanent hearing loss as that can dissolved the stapes and cochlear nerve if left unchecked
TD!! Did you ask if said "nurse" was an LPN or an RN? Hint: Nurses don't care anything about payment arrangements! The RECEPTIONIST handles that information. That could be a teenager with no more than a GED or high school diploma. Shame on you for ASSuming every female in a hospital is a nurse. We get far too much grief from an ignorant public as it is.
NURSES go to school for training and education then must pass state boards to be licensed! We also must take Continuing Education classes to keep our licenses. Contrary to public opinion, we don't just put on some white or scrubs and declare we are nurses. 😠
@@shadowsnake5133 TD!
Probably NOT a nurse. NURSES don't ask and don't care about payments!! The first desk is nothing more than a receptionist trained to fill out paperwork. So no lawsuit, NO medical license to lose, no education or spent money to lose. Even IF by chance that receptionist did lose her job, she would be orienting at a new one the next week. More likely she would simply get talked to for ten minutes about a better way to say things or what not to say.
@jalyc so I'm an ass for relating a story second hand from my wife from years ago? Sounds to me like you were ASSuming that i was putting down all nurses instead of this one ignorant person. Maybe if you would not take things so personally you wouldn't be so upset all the time
No doubt that OP is telling the truth about the nurse & pain meds. It was around the time pill mills were cracked down on, and the pendulum swung way to far the opposite way. I started experiencing symptoms of my Crohn’s disease around the same time. My boyfriend had taken me to the ER about 2am, couldn’t stand up straight due to pain, fever of almost 102, heartburn so bad I thought I was having a heart attack, and vomiting stomach bile and blood. I was given a GI cocktail (numbs throat, stomach, and upper small intestine), a prescription for a UTI, told to drink Maalox, and take Tylenol, oh and a $250 bill. Around 8am I called my parents, 1) because I was on dads insurance & I didn’t pay the bill 2) just to let them know what was going on. My dad was out & mom called his cell, our place was on his way home, he walked into my room, I was curled up in a ball crying, w/a puke bucket, and heating pad. He called mom, they too me back to the ER. Unfortunate for the ER Dr I’d seen earlier, he was still there. Once my IV was placed, and I was given Dilaudid, I was able to better explain what had happened earlier. The Dr came in to check on me, and my daddy asked if they could talk in the hall. I heard my dad in his pissed off, I will hurt you, deep tone, “I’m not questioning if you actually graduated from medical school, I’m just saying someone has to graduate at the bottom of every class, and you must be that someone”. You didn’t mess with daddies princess!
I would love to say that all patients aren’t treated as drug seekers anymore, but that would be a lie. 😔
I once had a nurse sneer at me and tell me she’s not giving me drugs so don’t bother asking. About five minutes later the ER doctor rushed by my bed and stopped to tell her I need Vicodin because I was there for a spine injury. She looked like she’d eaten ten pounds of lemons, she was so angry. I asked her if I look like a crackhead but she wouldn’t answer me.
@@TheRickaboo I know nurse & Dr burnout happens. It’s also a job where you can’t afford to be like that. The Dr, hospital, and I are very lucky I didn’t end up w/a perforated colon. It’s like ppl that aren’t addicts, feel pain too, crazy I know.
I just have to point out that Spanish *is* a "white language." Most Spaniards are just as light-skinned as their French neighbors to the east.
It's not like racists are known for their critical thinking skills. I'm supposed to loathe someone because their skin, hair & eyes produce more of the exact same chemical as mine does? I'm supposed to hate them because their eyes come in a different shape? I have ridiculously big eyes that I've never seen on anyone that wasn't related to my father in some way & my skin is a sort of uncommon mixture because I'm of both French & Norwegian ancestry (olive underneath very pale white). I also somehow have ridiculously thick very curly hair that nobody else in my family really has & stylists have no idea how to cut. I'd literally have to hate everyone if I found it at all productive to hate people for differences they can't change. It would be stupid & exhausting.
Othering people is about the dumbest activity modern humans engage in. We don't live in tribes anymore. We live in global multicultural cities for the most part.
You really need to be maybe a bit more respectful... the only real language we should really respect is the language of Jesus Christ! ... English of course!!!
@@Kevin-bl6lg great joke , a brown skinned middle Easterner , who had never heard of English
@@martinabcbeers If God didn't want us to speak English, He wouldn't have written the Bible in English. Lol
@@wfcoaker1398 that is a real good one ,Oxford or Cambridge English , it was in Latin but that still doesn't matter it all just bovine biowaste anyway , your just so funny 🤣🤣🤣
XD 'white person' language.... yeah, Spanish is a languagespoken by a country of white people, too. Props to op in that story for knowing words in so many languages XD
Ironical right? Spanish is probably one of the whitest languages out there hahaha
@@lXlDarKSuoLlXl Some of the first ancient humans in Europe inhabited Spain
Spanish came from Latin which also created a lot of white languages
Story four: as a career ER nurse I am appalled by the way that "nurse" treated her patient. Fluff is absolutely correct that this person behaved in an unprofessional and outright nasty manner.
They are not all like that but I have met a couple, just makes you appreciate the good ones, cannot be an easy job for sure.
@@Catti003 but there’s also the undergoing issue of how long do we keep an employee until they’re too old and bitter for us to consider them as a reputable employee, because I feel as you get older depending on how you were raised you become more bitter and that could lead to aggression towards others so I firmly believe the retirement age for people that have been employed a long time is around 60 or 70 possibly 80 if they’re a kind well-meaning employee but then again that’s not really my decision to determine but it would be nice
A huge, HUGE TD to you!
If, and only IF, you were even a nurse you would know most receptionists at the first desk are NOT nurses. They are more secretaries than anything. Real nurses get furious when the public calls everyone in a hospital or doctor's office from a teenager in high school to the janitor "the nurse". If someone has not gone to school AND gotten a nursing license, they are NOT a nurse! Shame on you for perpetuating that myth.
Did you not notice the quotation marks I used in "nurse"? Those are generally used to denote irony, you know. @@jalyc
I was an ER nurse for about 10 years before I was diagnosed with cancer and could no longer handle being in my feet for so long, i saw many nurses and doctors who treated everyone who needed pain management as if they were drug seeking. It wasn't the majority but there waa a high number.
The broken arm one. That is the most metal malicious compliance I ever heard.
Badass
Brutal
Damn epic
Broken bone like that for over an hour that you play merely set yourself with no meds, the pain had dropped from nine to a constant five .. he just took it back up to a 10 and got some morphine. Ballsy little SOB.
That was one hell of a story. OP was probably somewhat in a state of shock. One could say the nurse is at fault if OP damaged her arm even further. The nurse took advantage of OP’s condition due to the severity of OP’s broken arm and provoked OP. The nurse merely had to have a conversation with the EMT’s who brought OP in for the real deal… Sheesh…
First story: "Did I yell? Yes. Was I petty? Absolutely."
Turnabout is fair play.
Third story: I would have laughed out loud when Anne opened the box of potatoes! I'd have taken one, too ;^D
Oh, FFS, Spanish IS a "white" language. It comes from Spain, a white, European country. Not that it matters. Where I live, you may hear English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and two or three different Native American tongues just going to the supermarket.
In this country, according to some, Spanish is not "white". And not too long ago, neither was "Italian" nor many other languages that now qualify as "white". We have become very exclusive in this country.
@@kenkahre9262 No, we've always been this way. The Irish, the Italians, name a white immigrant group and they've been considered "not White" and treated like dirt before being accepted. Apparently, that acceptance is still conditional on total assimilation into the dominant White society.
English is actually a world language with more speakers of color than white speakers. Gaelic is a much whiter language, but had been outlawed centuries ago. Good luck finding a white language.
that sounds like fun. it is always fun trying to guess what language people are speaking from the cadence.
4th story: When I was 18, I suddenly got a lot of pain on a small spot on my back. It felt like a extremely painful bruise, so painful I sometimes nearly passed out. Of course the first thing I did was take some over the counter painkillers and ask my mom to look at my back. She could not see the bruise, but also could see nothing strange there. I took the painkillers for about a week and had to conclude that they did nothing to the pain. I had also treid some other things to stop the pain, but nothing worked.
After a week of this we called in to the doctor's office. Important here is that my family doctor had just very suddenly stopped working and an other doctor had taken over his patients, whilst also having her own patients. This left her with too many patients and too little time. So I could only see this doctor about two weeks out. This doctor barely looked at my back (didn't even feel for anything) and told me to take the over the counter painkillers I had already taken. Even after my mom and I both explained to her this did nothing for my pain, she stood her ground. She sent me away with these words: "If the painkillers work, the pain should be gone in about 1,5 month. If the pain is not gone by then, you should come back since then it is most likely cancer." Cue me panicking and my mom being angry whilst we were rushed out of her office.
My mom luckily didn't accept this and walked up to the reception area to make a complaint and a new appointment with an other doctor. A month later I was diagnosed with and treated for a disease in my nerve, that had caused this pain. The most imporant aspect of this disease is that for unknown reasons no normal painkillers will work to stop this pain, I had to completely numb my nerve to make the pain be bearable. Oh, and it is not cancer. We told the second doctor, and she inmediately checked to see if she could find cancer when we got to see her.
The nurse story reminds me of the story for my brother. So My brother broke his arm when was younger, then when he got the cast off he broke it again right after. My mom brought him to the hospital but since he wasn't crying the nurse didn't believe his arm was broken. Just then the doctor who treated him last time walked by saw him and told the nurse to send my brother to get xray,
I had a doctor tell me that I was too young to be in so much pain.... I said, so why not investigate the cause?
She's no longer my doctor
I didnt know there were age restrictions to _pain,_ like whatta hell.. Some doctors are definitely on the wrong job, good on you for seeking out someone actually willing to help! Hope your doing better now.
@@janemiettinen5176 thanks Jane. Yeah, I wasn't too thrilled about it. My GP now is much better, she listens to me and does what I need. But my pain is chronic and can only be managed unfortunately. Good days, bad days, great days and days where I can barely register what species I am. But I have my girls (the dogs), my adult son and the most amazing best friend who does anything she can to help us out. So I have to say that I'm not doing too bad 😉
That damn nurse needs to evaluate her attitude! You don't just tell a kid you don't need anything for pain just because she's had a bad day.
The one with the broken arm, I heard his story before and I think he said that he was told if he hadn’t set it back the first time he would’ve lost the arm
Story #3 - I actually like raw potatoes 🤣🤣🤣🤣 but I thought the same as you Fluff, that OP was bringing in rock hard donuts 🍩 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Story #4 - I am a Registered Nurse and the nurse in this story makes all good caring nurses look bad!! Pain is subjective and it's the 5th vital sign so if OP was in pain, that nurse needed to ask: "on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the worst pain ever what is your pain level?", "where is your pain?" (If it's not obvious) and "describe your pain - is it throbbing, sharp, dull, does it radiate (go from one spot to another?, etc".......she didn't need to accuse him of drug seeking because not every patient coming to the ER that's in pain is looking for drugs Karen, keep your opinions to yourself 🙄 and Fluff that's the screws AND the plate
Story #3: I thought I was the only one!! Kinsman!
Story #4: Unfortunately, even when they ask those questions, I don't think they always believe the patient. I live with *constant* pain and have to *fight* to get any kind of test. Apparently, if I have full mobility, I can't be in pain. Then again, it took an ER trip while I was in the middle of a dizzy spell for someone to *finally* realize I have vertigo. I've got a neurology consult to check for why I'd have vertigo *so often.*
Be careful with eating raw potatoes. They contain solanine, which is toxic, which gets destroyed by cooking. Normally it´s not in a high dose, so you are fine if you eat a few I guess, but you shouldn´t have too many. Also, never eat them raw when they are green or sprouting, as then the solanine levels are way higher. Can make you seriously sick.
Raw potatoes ❤ Whenever Im peeling spuds, Ill have to have couple smaller ones on the side, that I can snack on. Ive groused out several people in my 46 years, but hey, more for me :)
Story 3: I witnessed a very similar power move in high school between some of the dudes in the video game club, it involved a snack stealer and possibly the most justifiably petty person I've ever known. Snack Stealer kept stealing Dude's stuff so one day came to club with just a pack of red peppers. When Snack Stealer complained about it Dude just grabbed one and took the biggest bite out of it. Snack Stealer never took his stuff after that. It was amazing.
Story 2: I had a similar experience two years ago. I am Chinese but grew up in Austria, so I can speak Chinese and German, including English (which I learned in school). My mum and I usually speak Chinese to each other, especially if we are talking about something when we are on a walk that is none of the public business. One day, when we were on a walk and we chatted in Chinese, a couple that was my stepdad´s age (60), said to each other how dare we speak Chinese and we should speak German. What they don´t know, is that when I speak German and I am furious, I am going to sound like a South-Styrian farmer. So I told them in my very very Styrian dialect, that they should mind their own damn business. Well, you could see that their eyes widened in shock because they didn´t expect that a dialect would come out of my mouth. As my mum was dragging me, I also said that they need to watch their mouth. I think never in their life, were they being called out on their racist behaviour. Calling racists out in my South-Styrian dialect is usually my tactic. The faces they are making are very satisfying.
I understand the pain of OP in the fourth story since I have broken *AND* dislocated *both* of my arms at the elbows I can also understand that the bullshit op heard from the nurse. I was getting registered or whatever and I had to force through the pain to grab my wallet and pull out an ID for the woman. And let me tell you, it was so painful to move my arms and yet, I was expected to move my *broken* arms to show some ID and give a signature.
Exactly. And later on often they claim that because you were able to manage x,y,z through the pain, that somehow that means you actually aren't in that much pain.
It is sick and twisted how commonplace complaints just like yours are, and worse too.
You are lucky they didn't cause you more injury. Sorry you went through that B.S.
@@SoManyRandomRamblings thanks man. You wanna know the reason why/how I broke both arms at the same time?
@@jamiegladwell8770 I do!!!!
@@jamiegladwell8770 yes, I definitely do
@@headishome8452 I fell down four concrete stairs
I would've kept bringing the donuts on monday and sharing with everyone except Anne. What goes around comes around.
I'd have just kept bringing the donuts in;
I grew up speaking German in the US. I have learned the local Spanish in order to get by. A customer went off on me for speaking Spanish, so I started speaking to him in German. My “native white language.” He walked out screaming. Asshat. The older folks also speak Norwegian. I have tried to pick up as much as I can, if only to greet customers in their own language. It brings a smile to their faces. Customer service jobs suck. At least you can try to learn something on the job. The racist asshats you meet are often offset by the nice ones who appreciate the effort and are willing to teach you their language in order to serve them better. Everyone wins.
Last story is absolutely correct. When a contract stipulates that a party is liable for damages to property, the other party is within their rights to put a lien on said party’s property. They cannot sell that property until that lien is completely cleared INCLUDING interest. As far as I know, no government will allow any owner to pass that debt on to a new owner. I can say for sure this is true of the U.S., Canada and Great Britain. Other countries laws I’m not as familiar with, however I would think it would hold true.
I'm not completely sure about it, but I believe that you cannot do it without court involvement in Germany. Keeping the property within your posession while you have it, is a different situation. Then you are not actively taking it away, you are simply withholding it. Property in ground is strongly regulated in Germany, it is listed at court and buying and selling needs a special lawyer and registering it in the public ground register. Other property might get sold without ever mention somebody else's rights.
question is, if they could have filed a claim that the neighbours house was on unstable ground and should be condemned anyway which would make the redesign of the sewer line into a moot point, and to have them charged with destruction of property for even connectibg with the shared line in the first place.
I was sure when OP mentioned that the sewer line was the HOA's responsibility that they would have gotten the HOA involved in this one. They have really good lawyers and I'm sure they'd want to know about a house that tapped into their sewer line.
Broken arm: that nurse wasn't a medical professional since she didn't take the word from the EMTs since they were the on scene medical professionals.
The nurse one is 100% how they act. Screaming in agony from a suspected kidney stone. I was screaming and crying for a few hours. Other patients were begging them to help me. I was treated like an actual criminal until the CT showed the 9mm stone. Still made me wait 3 days in agony for surgery.
Yup. Exactly how it goes.
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My wife had a kidney stone that blocked the duct because it was too big to pass. First trip to ER she was told that nothing was wrong, even with pain and high fever. Three days later had to go back because of fever and our job insisted we have a covid test. That's when they finally did an ultrasound and saw the stone. However, by that time she had already started to turn septic. They transferred her to a different hospital in a city 45 minutes away where she stayed for a week. Not everyone looking for pain relief is drug addicted.
Kidney stone pain is the worst pain that I had ever experienced. Passed out from the pain several times before I was finally given some pain meds. Kidney stones are pure evil. 👿
What the nurse said is horrible but I've heard many stories and experienced first hand that nurses would rather you be in pain under the assumption your a drug addict rather than giving you meds
So true.
Yep, I had that happen just hours after major surgery when I was in horrible pain. The nurse basically laughed at me. I had to call my doctor in the middle of the night. He got me some pain meds right away and I lodged a complaint with the hospital and said I did not want her anywhere near me. And I ended up filing a lawsuit because she had put drug seeking in my chart and refused to remove it.
Dude this happened to my sister. We're both tatted up and kind of gothy looking and my sis ended up having some severe abdominal and back pain and couldn't even pee. They shoved her in the corner of the waiting room and she was a bit like OP saying stuff like "please I'm intense pain, please can you get me back or give me something it's been a couple hours?" She was basically brushed off identically, turns out she had a damn cyst on her ovary that had exploded. My mom and I have also the same issues with ovarian cysts and it pissed us both off that she was treated like that.
I have been to the hospital for a fractured nose thought it was broke they asked me if I wanted anything for the pain I told them no
you would think if your a nurse you could tell tj difference from faking it to a real broken arm.
Blew my knee open in a motorcycle accident my JR year in HS. The body filters out a lot of pain automatically. Good on OP.
Adrenaline.
Story 4: I used to work in an ER. You would be surprised at how calloused the triage nurses could be at those who truly hurt but the opposite at those who sought painkillers.
Not all nurses are that cruel. I have had to deal with a lot of them over the years, and most were really nice. The bad ones tend to stick out more because they are not common. I have several health issues, so I see a nurse at least 15 times per year, often more. I prefer to remember the nice ones. I also make sure they know they are appreciated, at least I appreciate them and the work and care they give.
The nurses helping me when I had my babies were the BEST! They do all the hard work 🥰
@@jenn8179 Thank you for sharing. I hope your babies are doing well, and the nurses who helped you are doing just as well. I remember when I was giving birth, one nurse asked another who should "catch" if the doctor didn't show up in time. I was too busy screaming to open my eyes to see them, I actually did rip a little, it wasn't just me being dramatic. The doctor had gone to lunch, thinking I'd be a while. He did show up a minute or two before my son exited my body. The nurses had done 99% of the work before, and he barely touched my son before the nurses took over again and did almost all the work after. I now mostly deal with Nurse Practitioners, not doctors.
@@shadodragonette that's what I'm talking about! The nurses do everything! God bless them!
The nurse that dealt with my sister definitely believed my sister broke her foot because it also had a massive bruise there and it just didn't look normally shaped.
Malicious compliance stories are my favorite ☺️
Story one: And at the yard sale you suggested, put up a sign that says "Ex-Boyfriends pay double" lol
Story 3: People who try to get free Food are always Choosingbeggars, they always try to force people to give them the food that they want
(unless of course it's from a place that actually gives out free food, didn't think of that)
Instead of potatoes... I would have had spring onions, and whole jumbo carrots.
@@j.rbry.8990 uzy:Jay
I would have taken stale, moldy doughnuts and told Karen, "They were fresh when I got them but you insisted on not wanting the while they were fresh.."
Even homeless people at soup kitchens?
Karen: SPEAK WHITE TO ME DAMN IT!
Me: OK...White, White, White, White, White...
Karen: ...
Me: Do you have any other Brain-Dead-Stupid Requests?
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
... Colorless, milky, chalky, pasty, snowy, cloudy, bleached...
Sewer story: Idiot neighbors proving yet again, in more ways than one, that 💩 truly does roll downhill.
That story had so many implied bad jokes in it, i applaud Dark Fluff to refrain from childish behaviour like that, we all already made up atleast five bad puns while listening to the story. 😜
That first one ! Had me cackling. Took the lightbulbs , toothpicks, sponges new and used. Perfectly petty. He deserved it😂
Grabbing a broken arm and moving it? That takes balls!
The story about the nurse reminds me of several encounters I have had. I know some people lie to get drugs, but I'm not one of them. I have to take medications, but I take as little as possible. I still remember the time, when I was just hours out of ICU and had been telling a nurse that I felt awful and that something was very wrong, she told me, and I quote, "Shut up, go to sleep, and don't hit the call light 'til morning." That's the last thing I remember before waking up paralyzed from the neck down. I was having spinal ischemia, the doc said it's like a stroke in the spine. I have recovered some use of my upper body, but I have been a paraplegic for over a decade now. I still have chronic pain, which unfortunately means that some people see me as a drug seeker. I don't want drugs, I also don't want to be in blinding pain. I don't even expect them to get rid of the pain, just bring it down to a manageable level. I hate being seen that way because I am a straight arrow type.
3rd story: I would TOTALLY have just saved the donuts from Monday and brought them in Thursday instead. :)
4th story: Quite oftenly.. sprains hurt even more than breaks! I hope that bitch got a talking to, I would have filed a complaint.
Story 4, I had a similar nurse that triaged me in the ER I had walked in on my own stream and when she asked why I was there I told her my foot was broken. She said it's probably sprained, I told her I'd been walking on it for two days and I'd had sprains before and it was definitely broken. She proceeded to walk me to a room about a block away, came back in about 30 minutes later and resentfully brought a wheelchair, wheeled me to x-ray. Grumpily wheeled me back to the examination room. About 30 minutes later she came in sobbing because she saw my X-rays and my meta tarsal (main weight bearing bone in the foot) was broken clean in half. She was horrified that she'd made me walk on that drastically broken bone. She said I should have been sobbing and unable to walk with that severe of a break. I told her she shouldn't assume everyone's pain threshold is different. I think she felt bad, but was also worried that I'd put in a complaint. I just told her in the future don't just assume since everyone is different. I never even mentioned to the hospital that she had purposefully made me walk on it to prove it was only a sprain. Hopefully she took that lesson to heart and didn't repeat it with anyone else.
Every high school has at least one “Anne” but often more than one.
I’m sitting here blissful in the knowledge that I’ll never see my Anne again. I never intended to go to the reunion anyway, but I’m guessing it was canceled due to the pandemic (but I neither know nor care). I’ve only kept in touch with a handful of people whom I actually like.
If I had to bet, our school’s Anne would have been so disappointed that she didn’t get to be the center of attention and boss everyone around, which makes me giggle.
Broken arm story. Nurses like that, yeah seen them.
I've had and handled enough accidents to recognize when something is beyond "just let it rest and it will be fine".
Plus it doesn't take much to check if a pain is real or faked.
My own personal record was: *Doctor prod*, *doctor prod*, *white blinding nothing. All of reality being gone*, *doctor prod*.
The doctor already suspected what the cause was based on my description. The 3 "doctor prod" was just checks on how good and truthful my description was.
I will be so happy when they invent something that they can hook up to us that shows pain spikes.....so that we don't have to suffer through their callous disbelief.
Story 1: Step 1; Dump Stupid Ex
Step 2; Take what rightfully belongs to you because you payed for it
Step 3; Profit
I had a Karen nurse too. I think I was her last patient as she was rushing her job like she was about to go on break or go home for the day and just kept rippping my staples out. Trust me it hurt like hell I asked her "can you slow down and give me a minute?" After she did three of them. She just glared at me and said "no." So I had to sit there as she ripped out twenty or so more staples. Also every time I winced in pain she just said "stop moving your leg you big babby."
"But, sir, spanish IS a white language. The people in Spain are mostly white."
The broken arm? Give him something and then find out he's allergic to it. You call family first or better yet call the camp to find out if he's allergic to anything.
Yea ghats exactly why i thought the emts didnt give something for pain. They didnt have parental permission and a good idea of what he may have been alergic to and figured risk was worse then not giving it to him and just wait the drive to the hospital and they can do it
I have conversion disorder and there was a period that ems had to transport me several times a week one time they were having to suction me (as in my case the conversion disorder manifests as paralysis) i couldn't swallow my own saliva, the charge nurse told the medics that I was faking and just put me in a chair, the medics stood up for me and advocated for me
Thank God they stood up for you, not getting suction could have killed you, or left you with horrific brain damage.
The largest concern was aspiration pneumonia
As someone who grew up with a nurse for a mother, the fourth story made me wince so much (please oh PLEASE, if you ever break your arm like that, DO NOT try to force it back, you can do a lot of damage)
And HOLY FUCK, what kind of nurse is that? That's the worst bedside manner I've ever heard of.
1) Way to go OP.
2) Good one OP.
3) I like this one.
4) Ouch! But good for you.
5) LOL
6) That was great.
My husband and I do that all the time we speak to each other in the five languages we know and people around us think we're insane.
I LOVE the garage sale idea from the 1st story- it's petty af! I love it!!! And I love you fluff💜☺️
Story 2: He sounds like a Hypocrite, accusing someone of being Racist while being Racist himself
Not sounds like, he IS..also, the term "racist" is a power dynamic, a "racist" is someone with majority power in society who discriminates against someone based on their race. People of color therefore cannot be "racist" anyways. They can be "prejudice" but never "racist." And yes, ALL racists are of course hypocrites, their claim that it's another races fault for x, x and z when in fact it's THEIR fault for being an ignorant, foolish, repugnant "person" who will never admit accountability for their own (in)actions and just blame others. ALL racists are just trash, period.
Is mental illness innit?
like a democrat?
@@ghostwriter720 or an RINO.
@@ghostwriter720 Oh please! You still stuck in the times of Woodrow Wilson? That was a century ago.
By your logic, the racist dogwhistles coming from the GOP would mean nothing, because they are the "Party of Abraham Lincoln" after all, right?!
Funny thing is, I'd probably *enjoy* eating a whole raw potato. Every time Mom pealed potatoes for a meal when I was a kid, I'd run up and beg for a slice of potato. She'd often roll her eyes and call me a "weird kid," but *always* gave me my potato slice.
Then Im a weird kid too. Ive got odd looks here and there, but the best was when my ex hit the slice out of my hand, like I was going to eat poison! Dont judge until you taste it :)
@@janemiettinen5176 Oh wow! Maybe he had heard it *was* poison? Seems a bit extreme, though. I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one!
@@brigidtheirish It just got him so off guard, he realized it immediately. He said it felt just about as “natural” as if Ive taken a bite out of a dishrag, one of those “what are you DOING?!”-moments. I couldnt stop laughing, he “saved” me from a potato.. And I read thru the comments, theres few of us weird kids, so we are definitely not alone. You can tell your mom I said hi :)
@@janemiettinen5176 Ah, yeah, I can see that. lol I will!
Story 4: I know exactly how that kid feels. I broke my hand the exact same way (except while I was running in gym class), and then the school nurses just thought I was trying to get out of class even though my hand was swollen and bloody. Those nurses didn't really give a crap about kids.😑
I had a triage nurse tell me that my shoulder didn't dislocate, as on the ride into the hospital it popped back into place.....she said since I never had a dislocation before, that I wouldn't know what it was. I just told her that when I can't feel that my arm and shoulder aren't attached, I'm sure it was.
I told the treating doctor about it, so when I got the X ray to prove that it had been dislocated, he made sure she knew about it. So she had to apologise to me, best apology ever.
Hospitals can be a mess at times. I had a bad concussion once and the doctor refused to even see me until I was drug tested. This was a college town in the US and about 3am so I can get the suspicion, but I have a long history of seizures (which was in my file that was pulled up when I came in) and head injuries are surely an emergency in those cases. I was so dizzy I kept falling out of the waiting room chair and eventually just laid on the floor while I waited (which I got yelled at for)
I was in a car wreck that literally broke my seat free from the car, I woke up the next morning and couldn't feel my legs. Brought in with an ambulance I didn't ask for any pain meds, I want a scan of some sort to see why I couldn't walk. I mean I couldn't feel anything so meds were the last thing on my mind. I caught the nurse saying I was just some junky looking for meds and they should just kick me out, I laughed all the way to her bosses office and laughed even harder as she was called in and fired on the spot. Never let nurses get by with shit like that, they have to follow the rules too.
tbh if I was the op in story 3, I would've just told them "If my donuts I bring on Monday aren't going to count as my contribution then maybe I should stop bringing donuts on Monday and bring a different snack on snack day instead" and watch as the whole class glares at Anna for causing you to stop bring donuts.
When i was 14 and in hospital a nurse talked laudly in her phone in my room.
Well it woldnt been that bad but she talked abaut, "adult activities" in my room,while i was awake.
Yuck. 🤢 even an adult shouldn't have had to been subjected to listening to others' private lives. Let alone a child. Poor you, and sick twisted lady who probably had some kink she was fulfilling by forcing someone to overhear. 🤮
@@SoManyRandomRamblings
There where other kids in my room to the youngest i think was 13.
And it wasnt even that late (9 pm)
Story 2, isn't Spanish a white language as spoken in Spain which is in Europe?
Average conservative IQ is being questioned
@@stewart2589 And he probably flunked 5th grade Social Studies!
And it is spoken in 21 countries
Story 1: As I'm hearing the whole long list of items the OP took, what I heard in my head was "she even took the last can of Who Hash". 😄
Note: I am NOT young and its obvious I'm past child bearing years, plus due to blood pressure meds, my SO had been rendered impotent (thankfully it wasn't permanent), so no sex for quite awhile . This is important.
I went to ER for a bad bladder infection and the nurse wanted me to get a pregnancy test (which cost $258!) I told her that there was no way I'm pregnant or would ever be. She kept insisting, I kept refusing. Finally, she got mad and tried embarrassing me by loudly saying, 'HOW DAN YOU BE SUYRE YOUR NOT PREGNANT?'
Pissed as HELL, I said, 'BESIDES MENOPAUSE, YOU HAVE TO HAVE "SEX" TO GET KNOCKED UP!!!'
The look on her face........🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
I don't speak any language other than English (UK). I love listening to people speaking Spanish, because even if I don't understand more than a few words, it has always sounded to me like one of the most 'musical' languages on the planet.
I love linguistics, OP just made my day. Bravo
Definitely invite him to the yard sale. And when he gets there, tell him that anything he buys TODAY will be at a discount. Instead of charging him 100% asshole tax, you'll only charge him 75% asshole tax.
Of course, this only works if you don't put price tags on things, and everyone has to ask you "How much is this?"
Unless, of course, you put the price tags as such: "Assholes: X. Non-assholes, 1/2 X"
I hate when doctors and nurses just go "Yeah yeah clearly doing this for attention."
I don't care how many times it really DOES happen, you do not have the right to assume a person is faking before you've actually evaluated and determined that is the case.
Omg! The broken arm story! I almost fast forwarded thru it because I knew where it was heading... I'm glad my stomach was empty! OP was a trooper!!
Listen again it’s pure fantasy
The 2nd story reminds me of an older Entitledparents story I heard four or five years ago.
I don't recall it in immense detail but I'll paraphrase:
OP's mom is Welsh so she was on the phone with her mom (OP's grandma) an entitled parent overheard and told her that since she is in America she should speak English. When Op's mom responded to her in English the Entitled parent said her English is terrible, and where did she learn it. OP simply replies, England. The Entitled parent waddled away pretty quickly.
Ooooh, the broken arm story, back when one could get morphine as a painkiller. I'm lucky I'm not allergic to any meds I know, and that I can tolerate narcotics. I once got Demerol, right in the vein, after being diagnosed with kidney stones. I felt like I was floating an inch off of the bed. Only time I ever needed that much painkiller.
My dad got kidney stones frequently. They had to dope him up each with morphine and sent him home with morphine pills and a little strainer to pee thru. I'm so glad I only had a kidney stone one time and it passed before I got to the ER.
@@momcat5213able I feel sorry for your dad. Did he ever have a lithotripsy? I had four, and ended up losing my right kidney.
Regardng the story of the broken arm: this is the treatment every ok be in pain gets when they go to the ER. I went to the ER about 5 years ago because I was passing a kidney stone. I went to the desk and said that I was in emense pain and the nurse was very rude. As she was chastising me I passed out and hit the floor. I don't remember any of it but when I came to, I was in a bed in the ER and my mom was sitting next to me. I am still in emense pain with tears streaming down my face. I was 48 years old at the time this happened and this was the 23rd kidney stone over an eight year period of time.
My mom got the nurse and she came in the room telling me that I was overreacting and not to be such a big baby. My good southern soft spoken christian mom proceeded to do something I have never seen her do before. She calmly asked if the nurse had ever passed a kidney stone and she said no. Mom said "Well I have and it hurt way more than when I gave birth so shut the F*CK up and do your damn job!"
My head turned so fast to look at my mom I forgot I was in pain for a brief moment because I was in shock by what she said! I have never heard my mom use profanity but when that nurse talked ugly to me, she went off like a Roman candle.
The doctor walked in and heard everything that was said and told the nurse to leave the room. He apologized to me and said that they have a lot of drug seekers. I worked at that time for a pharmaceutical manufacturer and I was over the lab narcotics vault. I had more access to drugs than the hospital. I said if I don't take them at work, why the hell would I try here.
He looked at my charts and saw the number of times I have been in the hospital for kidney stones. He apologized profusely and brought the nurse in and made her apologies to both me and my mom.
second story: spain is full of white people. and they speak spanish. so it is a "white" language.
it's just a weird ruling in the US that defines hispanics as not white.
Hispanics are not classified as non-white in the US. Check their birth certificates. Mestizos are classified as being mixed Spanish and indigenous American, but are still not classified as non-white unless they are Asian or Black.
well, remember that anything that are outside the US borders does not exist to them.
pretty sure that if I, a french person, would speak my language there, most people would have the brain fried.
also, important notes:
1) the United States does not have any official language at all. you can speak anything there actually.
2) the most spoken language in the US is not english, but spanish.
ye...second story's "gentleman" clearly is an idiot here, and uncultured
That nurse could be fired and sued for profiling a patient. Especially since it's a minor.
Story 1: my wife did exactly the same thing once. She was living with her brother, and they had just moved in to the house a few days prior. Then her brother moved in his new girlfriend. She kicked out my future wife, and demanded that she get all of her stuff out of the house. She did. Plates, silverware, light bulbs, furniture, even the last role of toilet paper. Then she took it a step farther, and had the lights turned off, since they were in her name, and talked to the landlord and got the lease nullified, since she wouldn't be there anymore, and it was in her name. That left her brother and his new wife paying to replace nearly everything, including a new deposit for the rent and the lights. And it was especially great for me as the new girlfriend was my now ex wife. She left me to hook up with the brother, so I was definitely feeling vindicated that she was getting some karma for being such a bitch. I married the petty, maliciously compliant woman and we've been together for 11 years now. Definitely worth it.
This is one of the absolute best malicious complicance stories you, & Steve-O have ever done👏👏👏👏👏
Story 1: I guarantee you that ex was getting triggered from having to be around his ex and have feels. He likely was more ok with losing all the stuff than put up with her presence.
Snack story...I was literally chopping raw potatoes while listening. I'm making soup in my crockpot.
I broke my wrist roller skating this past August. And just like the kid at camp, it was VISIBLY broken. They didn't offer me anything for the pain. My husband had to ASK them for an ice pack as I sat waiting and watching it swell up. What's up with that?? Even after the x-rays showing my ulna snapped in half, and the surgery scheduled 4 days later, I still left the ER with no pain medication!
6:38 How dare you speak Polish to me!!!!!
DarkFluff, THANK you so much -- you bring so much laughter and head shaking and ( lol ) disbelief to my life when I read your posts! I just absolutely love them!
I am going through a very tough, hard time right now, and the stories, these posts really really make my day, they make me smile through my tears -- thank you so much, DarkFluff, please keep it coming! Love ya!
I got news for you, Mister. Spanish is, originally, a "white" language. From Spain. They brought it over and taught it to the natives they conquered in Middle and South America.
Try having chronic pain....good luck getting help. Everyone thinks you're a drug seeker, even if you never ask for any drugs...just a reason for it with a solution. Simply being in as of yet unexplained pain is plenty.
I've had a ton of doctors think I was pill seeking and were incredibly rude.
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Bro eating a raw potato 🥔 while making AND keeping eye contact is just priceless 🤌, I almost can't hold myself together that's hilarious 🤣🤣☠☠ A round of applause for OC 👏👏
That taught him a great lesson in life you don't bite the ha that feeds you
That so-called nurse needs to be “reviewed”, seriously!
Story 3. Anne was an idiot! And as you said, who put her in charge? Op good on you for getting back at her like that. Oh by the way. I actually LIKE eating carefully washed and peeled Raw potatoes. Don't like them so much if they aren't peeled though, so I no longer eat many raw potatoes. I haven't actually peeled a potato in over 25 years! I cook, and we eat them, with the peelings on them. Most of my family peels them though, and husband's family too.
I just want to say that OP from story 4 definitely has the highest pain tolerance that I’ve ever heard of. He’s a freaking MACHINE! I love how he handled that nurse😂! Good for him👏👏
In defense of the nurse (not her attitude or how she spoke to him), they would have to ensure they have consent to treat, check for any allergies, etc.. before administering a pain medication or provide any treatment for a minor.
Always enjoy spending time with DarkFluff and Steve. When DarkFluff lets him out of the basement, that is.
Actually it's very common for nurses to think that way especially because of people who are addicted to painkillers. Unfortunately it screws everything up for anyone else who actually requires it because of injuries or whatever. The emergency room where I live treats everyone who goes in complaining of being in pain as if they are all drug addicts. They give you dirty looks, talk down to you and basically just treat you like shit. They think everyone is faking it to just get high. I had gotten hurt by my boyfriend's tow truck had blood running down my leg and they still acted like I was faking it lol.
Love your videos Peace and love to you and your family 💙💚💙💚💙💚
I had an accident and broke my toe once, my knowledge of my state's laws allowed me to lodge a very effective formal complaint about nurses mistreating patients with my audio recording.
@@BeefMeisterSupreme smart of you to record. Thank goodness you were able to show the truth.
It's twisted the way they treat people, when they collect all these accolades for going into a field because they "care" about helping supposedly. Most of them are actually narcissists who went into the field for those 'pats on the back' and being able to have the facade of caring for others.
Story 4 infuriates me. I hope they reported. I had similar situation. Several years ago every month I'd be hospitalized due to a bowel impaction non stop vomiting even vomiting feces. It made me go septic one time, one of the last times I had that problem I went in and there was a new doctor AND their system was down. Immediately told me I was drug seeking because I was begging for zofran and even if they had to sedate me, do it. (It's the worst pain I've ever felt and I've had some horrible health conditions) and they drug tested me which is normal I was fine with it, at the time I was on tramadol for a chronic health problem and it came back in my system thy said "see! I told you you're drug seeking!" My mom told them to check the system and they refused and done some realky fucked up traumatizing things to me to where I just signed a AMA and left. I know for a fact they checked after I left because anytime I saw the nurse that accused me she instantly drops her head and looked guilty. Thanks to them I went home and got extremely sick for about a month. And like OP I sadly didn't report them. They now have a whole new crew and management so it wouldn't even do any good. I like the doctors there now I even recently had a really good experience with them when I went in for a TBI. But thanks to that Dr and nurse, I'm traumatized. I shake, have high BP and turn red anytime I have to go to the ER.
The broken arm one. What kind of 13 years old has balls like this 😭bro just bended his arm to prove a point
Story 1 reminds of my break up with my last ex. My ex and I were forced to live together after the split because of living costs in Honolulu and trying to find up with last minute deposits is next to impossible there without planning. It was all going fine until I woke up and he was trying to kidnap the cats because he refused to let them go with me. Police came and I provided all documentation as proof of ownership. I left that night from Honolulu to Houston. I left him with the top mattress (no box spring and bo bed, a couple pots and pans and a couple dishes plus the tv. I agreed to leave what he paid for alone. I did. Everything else I put down the trash chute and if it didn’t fit, I put it in the elevator lobby with a sign “free take me!” on it. Groceries. Spices. Soap. Silverware. Etc. all of it. Trashed or given away. He came home to an empty apartment and I am sure he was passed about it. Was it necessary? No. Was it worth it? Absolutely. I am a super chill dude and he could’ve kept everything, but F with me and my critters and that is the same as pushing the “activate petty mode” button.
9:31 reminds me of Eduardo from "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" Cartoon Network animated series. He always loves "Potèto".