Funny, yesterday, never considered coming home early, despite discomfort throughout. A long day, all the rooms ran late, mine won for "latest." I had offers of relief, but really, simple discomfort is not enough reason to beg off, and that's all it was by then. Even when the back pain/herniated discs were at their worst (four years ago), until it brought me up short by clamping down on a bit of my spinal column and affected my gait, I kept going.
New scrub tech, first week, military guy (stereotypically so), sent home because he tried to tough it out while passing a kidney stone. They sent him to pre-op, gave him a liter of fluid through IV, probably a Rx for pain meds, and sent him home. We all discussed him, as we do, and nurse Sher, who has two children, mentioned she'd had a kidney stone. So I asked, "Would you have another baby, or a kidney stone?"
"Oh, baby, anytime, baby was EASY."
Says it all really.
4 comments:
One usually forgets the pain of childbirth. That is, you know there was pain, but the body doesn't recall it.
On the other hand, the body remembers every second of kidney or bladder or back pain...every blasted second.
You are too droll!
I appreciate your use of the word 'gait', it is rarely used.
Phil,
Physical therapists use it, as well as neurologists, in diagnosis.
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