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Date Posted: Sat, October 16 2021, 20:56:26
Author: Betsy BFS
Subject: QOTD for Sunday 10/something/21

This afternoon, several of the RNs and CNAs that worked nights together in the hospital had a gathering. None of us are employed there anymore, so we got to get down and dirty about the organization we worked for, but mostly we laughed and laughed until our sides hurt. The very best story we reminisced about was a patient who was in the throes of detoxing. His doctor had writted the order to give him no medication AT ALL. By 10PM the patient was combative, yelling at the top of his voice, and hallucinating. His nurse, a very seasoned nurse, called the doc to ask if perhaps he might consider giving us an order for something. Giving him "nothing" wasn't working. "NO!" said the doc and slammed the phone down. 1AM, the nurse (seasoned nurses aren't too intimidated by many doctors, espicially new ones, called the doctor again. 'Your patient is now sitting on the floor in the middle of the nurses' station, incontinent." "SO is that so bad," asked idiot doc. "No. we can deal with that. He's sitting here in the middle of the floor wacking off." "He's WHAT?" "Wacking off, jerking off, masterbating....successfully and repeatedly. Can we have anything to calm him just a bit now? Or maybe some saltpeter??"

I wasn't the nurse taking care of him, I was the night supervisor at the time, but I saw and heard the interaction. We ALL laugh Really Hard every time someone mentions it.

Laughter truly is the best medicine. Friends are better than therapy. A good snort of single malt isn't too bad, either.

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The following quote is from 'Written In My Own Heart's Blood,' by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 80, "Pater Noster." Copyright © 2014, by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

"You might have done worse," his uncle observed after a moment. "In the way of sires, I mean."

"Oh, really?" William said coldly.

"Granted, he is a Scot," the duke said judiciously.

"And a traitor."

"And he is a traitor," Hal agreed. "A damned fine swordsman, though. Know's his horses."

"He was a fucking GROOM, for God's sakes Of course he knows horses." Fresh outrage made William jerk upright again, despite the thunder in his temples. "What am I bloody going to do?"

His uncle sighed deeply and put the cork back in the flask.

"Advice? You're too old to be given it and too young to take it." He glanced aside at William, his face very like Papa's. Thinner, older, dark brows beginning to beetle, but with that same rueful humor in the corner of his eyes."Thought of blowing your brains out?"

William blinked, startled.

"No."

"That's good. Anything else is bound to be an improvement, isn't it?"

He rose, stretching, and groaned with the movement. "God, I'm old. Lie down, William, and go to sleep. You're not in any condition to think." He opened the lantern and blew it out, plunging the tent into warm gloom.

A rustling as he raised the tent flap, and the searing light of the sinking sun outlined the duke's slender figure as he turned.

"You ARE still my nephew," he said in a conversational tone. "Doubt that's much comfort to you, but there it is."

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[> My burning question is, Did she give him anything or did he just wear himself out? 🤣. What a great gathering that sounds like. Reminds me of the dinner table on Call the Midwife. I agree with you that laughter truly is the best medicine and we don’t have enough. The Grey’s dry humor got me early this morning: Hal, “ Knows his horses 🤔”. William, “He was a fucking GROOM…..”. There is SO much material for Bees, so many new/changed/skewed relationships and I’ll be learning more about my Revolutionary War history as a bonus. -- Kathy in PA, Sun, October 17 2021, 3:32:41

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[> [> P.S. About medical care - does anybody watch The Good Doctor? The last episode about business vs medical care in today’s world was scary. -- Kathy in PA, Sun, October 17 2021, 3:35:30

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[> I like Hal more and more over the years. Betsy, we must have a dram together soon. --

kgp, Sun, October 17 2021, 6:05:46

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[> Rx for saltpeter. 🤪🤪🤪 As for William, well he will just have to... Well I don't know what he will have to do but it will be interesting. -- JamesG, Sun, October 17 2021, 11:06:37

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[> [> JamesG, I agree; it's going to be interesting! I'm really looking forward to his "reunion" with Bree and her take on having a brother. -- DianaH, Mon, October 18 2021, 8:25:12

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[> I do LOVE Hal's remarks here. The wry humor is such a Grey characteristic! -- DianaH, Mon, October 18 2021, 8:27:35

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[> Betsy, my mom was an OR nurse; my aunt (who lived this us for most of our growing up years) was an LPN who worked 11pm - 7am for 25+ years. The stories they told us could be touching, funny, heartbreaking, or sad. We learned a lot about life and medical care around the dinner table. Auntie passed a number of years ago, but Mom still gets together occasionally with some of her OR friends and they laugh for hours. -- DianaH, Mon, October 18 2021, 8:31:44

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[> My mother in law was an ER nurse for 25 years. Little small town hospital and oh how she loved gossip but had to be discreet enough to leave out the names....but EVERYBODY knew everything anyway. She wouldn't general relate stories to me since I was a newcomer, but she's tell my husband or my sister in laws and then I got to hear. Her most lurid tale was when a grown man who was cheating on his wife came in with his skin tight jeans stuffed to look better endowed after a car wreak. It wouldn't be shocking at all in a big hospital but back then, disco days and all, but she was scandalized. It was more her shock and dismay than that he did that. Hahaha. We all still laugh about it. My sister in law was an ER nurse for 10 years or so at a bigger hospital a few miles away from her mom. Now she had some truly weird stuff to relate. And she always volunteered to inform the families and ask if they wanted the inserted object returned. Yikes! Love the quote. I am a Hal fan too. -- Marcie, Tue, October 19 2021, 19:54:27

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