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Originally Posted by always2late
Ok...one more and then I'll stop because, trust me, I could fill up this thread with stories from by first year of nursing alone!
We had a 94 year old man come in, brought in by his family. Apparently, he had been driving and hit another parked car. He left the scene and went home. Because he sustained some bruises from the accident, his family brought him in. During his assessment, we realized that this man had dementia, nearly end stage. We brought this up to his family which they, of course, denied. Dad was just FINE! He still drives, and gets around ok, and he's fine! Yeah, he still drives...and hits other cars without even realizing it (thank god it wasn't a child!), and he doesn't speak...merely parrots back what he's asked (ex. What's your name? Reply: Your name. How do you feel Mr. X. Reply: Feel Mr. X.) We realized WHY his family was so anxious to have him released and so adamant that he was lucid, when they revealed that they just bought a new house and good ol' dad's social security check was paying their mortgage. *smh*
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Are you SURE you don't work at my hospital ???? West Virginia ?????
It sounds like we are conversing about the same people here !!!!!!
Ok one more What the ?+&%
80 year old mamaw brought in via back of pickup truck .
She was hanging laundry on the line outside .
Family drinking on back porch watching her some many yards away.
They hear her yelling help and screaming and flailing her arms about in the air and they see something on her arm which from a distance looks like a cable .
They run to her and a copperhead has bitten her arm and the fangs are snagged up in her sweater . They do the most sensible thing ( sarcasm )
They pick mamaw up, toss her in the tail of the pickup and drive her 45 min to our e.r. where she is now in cardiac arrest . The er cuts the snake in half and pries the fangs off and deals with that ordeal .
Lets leave the snake attached 45 min drive with her in the truck back gate . She comes to our unit bc its a trauma .
She arrests two more times and doesn't make it .
The family doesn't want to make funeral arrangements however they are irritated bc our e.r. discarded the copperhead bc they can use the snakeskin for sale to vendors ?????
What the !@#$