Lady calls 911 because her middle-aged son is on meth. Obviously emergency services are required. Anyway. So PD and EMS show up for good measure, guy is found to be hypertensive and tachycardic, what with all the meth smoking, and is transferred to Hood Hospital. YAY.
So, he of course arrives with a HR of 150, denies meth usage or ever trying meth, because he didn't have all the symptoms of meth use, and his vitals signs weren't totally consistent with someone hopped up on meth, and he wasn't jumping all over the bed and spazzing and generally acting like a fucking crack pot like every other meth user I've ever seen, or-no, wait, cancel all of those things, he WAS. Oh, and EMS found also found the crystal meth sitting right next to him when they picked him up. But yeah, okay, great, of course you've never used before. So can you go ahead and grab us a urine sample? Okay, great, the doctor will see you in a minute, bye.
I go in with the doctor for his exam and find him yanking at his penis furiously. Like, going to town. Gross.
"Hey man, what are you doing? Leave that thing alone!"
"Oh, this. Uhh, I'm trying to get a urine sample."
"Dude, that's not how that works. Put the mouse back in the house."
I wasn't buying the excuse, but he clearly thought he had come up with a winner, because he spent the entire rest of the night "trying to get a urine sample" regardless of whether staff members were present or not. Shit, even after we straight cathed him for a urine sample, he continued to try to get one for us. He was anything if not persistent. Luckily, thanks to the meth, he never reached the correct, um, condition to obtain any sort of sample. Thanks, meth.
My coworker and I had a conversation about it at one point in the night. "Ew", she said, "I would rather get like, a gallon of pee on me than get semen on me. That's disgusting." I agreed."Yup. If someone's going to do that, I at least want to make the same kind of money that those girls on the internet get. I KNOW they're making better than nurse cash."
Those internet girls get a lot of money to get peed on too! A helluva lot more than nurses.
ReplyDeleteI never thought of it this way. We witness a lot of events and see a lot of bodily fluids- all for a mere nurse's salary.
ReplyDeleteLOL! Sometimes we just don't get paid enough!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely not lol! I'm afraid semen is going to have to come at a higher rate than pee!
ReplyDeleteMaybe if someone brought a camera into the E...nevermind. ;-)
ReplyDeleteOk that beats my crazy meth bitch mom from the weekend. Ewww!
ReplyDeleteNastiness. Restraints, I say!
ReplyDeleteoh that is ALL kinds of NASTY!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteGross. Reminded me of a funny story. My husb and I are going through infertility treatments. We needed go give a sample. You can do at home as long as its under an hour old by the time u get to lab and you keep it body temp. We were flying and I have a cup in between my boobs. We live about 45 min away. Of course we get pulled over, my h tried to explain without details. Finally he was like she's got my juice in a cup and we have like 12 min to get to lab. The cop was so grossed out. He wished us luck and let us go. Lol
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Love you blog, keep up all your good works!!
No idea how I happened upon your blog, but I just spent the better part of a rainy day off and on reading your posts - definitely speaks to me on many levels - thanks for sharing. So awesome, Had to pass along to my RN buddies :)
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