5 West Nursing

Have you ever seen anything like this?… And I thought that Halloween was over!

As I came in the patient’s room, this creepy sight caught my attention. Towards the end of the shift, my CNA apparently was cleaning up (as they usually do) and threw her blue gown into the trash bin. Unfortunately, she didn’t do a complete job and left me with this scene out of a horror movie. It’s not everyday you see something like this so I took a snapshot with my trusty iPhone. I’d love to save this for the next shift… but, we had to do what we had to do. Let the poor “disembodied” arm go with the rest of itself.  I’m just glad that it wasn’t one of them syringes with the needle sticking out of the sharps bin which unfortunately, sometimes do happen especially when labs get done.

On the same note, I couldn’t help myself and took a shot of this freak of medical technology. Can you seen anything wrong with this picture?

Yep, from here it looks like an innocent Y-tubing… something you’d use for a blood transfusion. But if you look at it closely, one of the tubes have an extra “appendage”. Look closely…

Did you see it? It’s like a chicken with a third leg. I guess this extra roller clamp slipped out of quality control and made it through packaging and distribution. Like I said before, it’s not everyday you get to see something like this.

You’re probably thinking… “he’s got too much time on his hands”. Not at work I don’t. But sometimes I’d like to make some time… you know… to stop and smell the roses once in a while. After all we deal with the good, the bad, the ugly, and the stuff that stinks (both metaphorically and literally), everyday at our line of work, and quite frankly, even if I don’t smell the roses… I’d like to imagine them anyway. How about you?