Story archives - tag: "medical"

Kirsty

"What on earth is that?" are not words that inspire confidence when you're undergoing a colonoscopy.

tags: medical humour health [add]

2008-09-15 11:45:53 / Rating: 134.5 /

Bottoms Up

It figures: the one time I get a hot-looking nurse, it's for my colonoscopy.

tags: humor medical nurse embarrassment [add]

2008-07-29 13:52:30 / Rating: 234.25 /

J

Did the nurse really have to laugh when my mom said her nine-year-old had dropped a toenail in his eye and we couldn't find it?

tags: medical child toenail humor embarrassment [add]

2008-07-22 12:23:17 / Rating: 125 /

Say Aaaahhhh

The vet and I laughed until we cried when my boyfriend almost fainted because she took his cat's temperature rectally.

tags: medical humor cats boyfriend vet [add]

2008-07-03 12:00:13 / Rating: 190 /

Ferox

After all the books, classes and hours of study there is such great satisfaction in drawing blood.

tags: medical study acomplishment [add]

2007-12-11 11:29:08 / Rating: 94.25 /

-j

When the catheter tore through my mother's heart, it tore through absolutely everything.

tags: heart family trauma medical [add]

2007-12-07 15:05:55 / Rating: 250.25 /

revscrj

While the doctor talked about the pain my father was likely to experience after the back surgery, I noticed he had an erection.

tags: sadism medical arousal parent pain masochism [add]

2006-09-29 22:00:58 / Rating: 201 /

Johnny Luddite

As the porter wheeling my gurney down to the operating room took a corner too tightly, crashing my arm into the wall, I reflected that my last utterance on this earth might well be a profanity.

tags: medical bad day profanity hospital [add]

2006-09-14 07:13:46 / Rating: 675.25 /