Medical Work Can Make You A Little Nutty
BIZARRE, MEDICAL OFFICE, NURSES, USA | HEALTHY | MARCH 8, 2021
I’m at my orthopedist’s office to treat an inflammatory injury to my hand. They assess the damage and decide to give me an anti-inflammatory injection to treat it. I do extremely poorly with shots and realize at the last second that I’ve forgotten to eat breakfast, which makes it worse. Shortly after the injection, I have one coherent moment where I look at my nurse and tell her I think I’m going to puke before I go mostly incoherent and nearly black out.
When I’m feeling a little more lucid, I notice there’s a different nurse than my original nurse, who I find out got freaked out when she realized I might faint and got another nurse to take care of me.
Nurse
#2 : “Yeah, she was freaking out. Halfway through, she says, ‘Her lips are blue! They’re blue! They’re blue!’ I had to tell her, ‘Yeah, she’s passing out. They’re gonna do that. She’ll be okay.'”
Me: “Ha, I don’t even remember that… Um, am I able to get some water?”
[Nurse
#2 ] calls out the door to [Nurse
#1 ].
Nurse
#2 : “Can you get her some ice chips, please?”
After a few minutes, the original nurse comes back in and starts to hand me a cup of ice, but she yanks it back from me at the last second.
Nurse
#1 : “Wait! Are you allergic to peanuts?”
Me: “Uh… no?”
Nurse
#1 : “Oh, good. That’s the last thing we need! I went to get the ice as quick as I could but I realized none of it was crushed so I grabbed a jar of peanuts to crush it with but I broke the jar and got some peanuts on the ice.”
Me: “Oh… thanks.”
[Nurse
#2 ] and I stare at her as she leaves the room and I turn to look at my ice, which isn’t crushed and is in giant pieces. I feebly scoop out a giant ice cube with my hand since she didn’t bring me a spoon. [Nurse
#2 ] looks exhausted as she sighs.
Nurse
#2 : “Let me find you a spoon.”
Me: “Thanks. Oh! There’re— She wasn’t kidding. There are peanuts in this ice.”