The Joys of Work!

It has been awhile. My motto lately has been work all winter and play all summer. So basically I've been picking up a lot of overtime at work. It has been fun, but tiring. Labor Day weekend was full of laughs. Seriously, I was laughing so hard I was crying. And remember when you were a kid and you would start laughing and be unable to stop. Than the next thing you know you don't even remember what you were laughing about. It was like that. I hadn't done that in a long time.

Unfortunately I can't disclose too much information due to privacy laws with health care, blah, blah, blah. But I'll give you some brief details of some of the things I got to laugh about. The first being the 20 something year old that came by ambulance because he tried to kill himself. Not so funny, right? As he is lying there sobbing, I ask him how he was trying to kill himself. He said that he was allergic to apples so he had been eating apples all night. For the most part I am able to contain myself and act professional in front of people, but I couldn't. I seriously busted out laughing, which lead to more and more laughing while this guy is laying there crying like a girl. How unprofessional!!

My second story is probably only super funny to me because you have to know the people I work with and you probably had to be there. I don't know why it is so funny when people fart. Out loud, in front of people, at inappropriate times..... We have this older nurse who was in helping the doctor sew up a guys leg. There were 2 teenage boys in the room at the time, probably 14 or 15 years old. Just as the doctor pushes the needle into the patient, she farts. It was quiet when she did this, and it really came out loud. The kids eyes got big and everyone is trying not to laugh. Than she says in her little squeaky voice, "On that note, I'm going to leave." That is when everyone busted out laughing. We made fun of her for the rest of their visit. They said the whole situation was worth the trip in. I was laughing so hard I was crying and I couldn't even retell the story it was so funny. Just thinking about it right now, I'm laughing.

Good times!