Last week, Amanda and I were in a patient's room for her initial PT evaluation. She had undergone a total hip replacement late in the afternoon the previous day. Needless to say, she was still pretty "drugged" from the anesthesia and morphine pump. Her sister was in the room with her when we entered. After we told the sister who we were and what we were going to do, this is the conversation that occurred:
Sister: (to patient) "Just say Jesus! and everything will be alright. It won't hurt a bit."
Patient: "What?!?"
Sister: (repeatedly to patient) "Just say Jesus! Just say Jesus!"
Then, the sister leans over to us and says in a very serious tone: "Just so you know, there will be no K-U-S-I-N-G."
(After about 30 seconds of a puzzled look from me, I finally realize that the sister is trying to spell 'cussing.' However, the patient doesn't catch on as quickly...)
Patient: "Kissing! Who's gonna be kissing!!!"
To which I immediately respond: "I promise there will be no kissing or cussing going on in this room."
- I guess you had to be there, but the rest of the evaluation went well except for the sister shouting 'Jesus' the entire time. I thought we were going to have a church service before it was over.
*Never a dull moment!
1 comment:
hehe...this is why we love our jobs, right? ;)
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