I love it when I have patients that make me smile and laugh. They
make the night go by so much faster. One patient in particular had me
about in fits and it wasn't even my patient.
The nurse I was
working with asked me to go in and see if I could get some blood
cultures on the patient. Now many times when getting blood cultures we
have to stick the patient twice...once on each arm. The patient was
upset and was complaining and trying to refuse. Normally I let the
patients refuse, however this patient was running a very high temp and
the blood cultures were important.
I asked the tech to come in
and help and asked her to distract the patient. As the tech was talking
to her, I tied the tourniquet and started to look for a good vein to
get blood from. There was nothing. I could not find a vein for the life
of me. Then the tech started to ask the patient about the men in her
life.
The patient started to tell us about a man named Willard
and another one named Ted. She went on and on and was blushing as she
was talking. It wasn't very hard to figure out that she had a crush on
these two guys (granted she was confused, but she was crushing on these
two). As she kept talking, her veins magically began to appear. Not
only did they appear but they popped out nice and big. I was able to
quickly get both of the sticks in and get the blood I needed. She was
so preoccupied with her guys that she was not even aware of when I stuck
her. It was a little amusing and made for a good laugh.
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