I'm Kelsy. I'm a nurse. I work the night shift on a crazy surgical unit and you would not believe the stuff that happens when sick people sleep. To hear more about that and other stories read on....

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Yet Another Proposal...

Not quite a proposal, but I've had a couple people make some forward statements to me in my small career thus far.  I've had an 80-yr old propose, "I'll marry you, if you'll have me."  He was so sweet.  Or the younger men, making comments like, "No, don't be done with your shift, I need you." or "You look good too." You all heard about that one.  I set myself up for it.  I should take it as a complement in the right atmosphere, but often it's just creepy.  I attribute it to pain meds, but that can't always be used as an excuse.
This one was good:
We'll refer to this one as Patient Too Confident.  Nice guy.  Good sense of humor, obviously, why else would he make it on my blog.  Broke himself doing something stupid, you know, like most men.  We got along from the start, but I could tell he was trying to impress, with his pictures of his fancy sports car or his career in Paris.   Hmmm, I wonder if that was all real?  I may be too gullible, we'll have to leave that one in the unknown because I guess I'll never know. Ah well.
It was about 0500 in the morning.  I had been dealing with a major major narcotic seeker all night, when Patient Too Confident put his call bell on.  He needed pain pills.  I thought, what's up with all these guys needing pain pills!  I don't pass them out like candy, oh wait, I do.  But come on, suck it up!  Just kidding, one of these patients was in legit pain and I was about to deal with it like a hard-core nurse....
I go in push the morphine, chat a bit and this is what comes about....
Patient Too Confident: "So uh, when I'm all better..."
Nurse K thought: Oh no he's not, he's going to ask me out while he's laying weak and painful in a hospital bed
Patient Too Confident: "Yeah, when I'm all better, do you like Italian.."
Nurse K: I can't tell a lie, everybody likes Italian...."Yes, I like Italian."
Patient Too Confident: "Maybe we could go for some pasta some time."
Nurse K turning bright red: "Well, unfortunately you're a little out of my age range." with a big smile on my face, so as to not hurt his feelings
Patient Too Confident knowing full well he was approx. 20 yrs my senior: "Age is just a number."
Nurse K: "This is true, but still.......So how is you're pain?"  Ha, I know how to change the subject like it's nobodies business.

Nice guy, but much much too confident.  If you learn anything from this story, let it be this: DON'T ASK YOUR NURSE OUT WHEN YOU ARE LYING IN A HOSPITAL BED AFTER DOING SOMETHING REALLY STUPID.  SHE WILL SAY NO!!  EVERY TIME!
Patient Too Confident got to have our wonderful male nurse for the rest of the day, yay for him!

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