Thursday, July 16. 2009

the proposal

I love being in charge when the tasks I delegate turn into conversations like this one:

Hey Bonnie, you can go ahead and take out Bed Seventeen's drains. The one in his neck and the one in his manly parts. [Yes, I edited that particular piece of anatomy, for the sake of you non-nurses out there.]

(Several minutes pass while Bonnie works behind a curtain. She finally reappears and sits down next to me at the desk.)

So. Yeah. I took out the drains. After I took out the manly-bit one, he asked me to be his wife.

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Repeatedly.

(Which is when we both lost it and laughed until we were teary-eyed.)

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in patient stories at 15:28 | 1 Comment

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Ah yes, Florence Nightingale syndrome is alive and well

#1 Maggie on 2009-07-16 20:28 (Reply)

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