Things my patients have taught me NOT to do...

Continued from above.....

* If your cracked out on Meth and have Graves Disease and are non compliant with your thyroid meds, don't go walking your two very hyper pit bulls at the same time, only to fall down a set of porch steps break your hip and be put in bucks traction because you cant have surgery till the doctor gets your big ole goiter on your neck under control first. And then don't get mad at the docs because your lying in agony for days!!!

* Don't go "running around in the baked potato patch" at night. You Might "trip and fall on a baked potato" and have to have it surgically removed.

* Do not see several doctors and get prescriptions for Ambien from each, then go park your car someplace and take all of them, wake up in an ER, and tell the staff, "How did I wake up? I did all this research on Ambien!" And then, don't make it worse by asking the ER doc, "Can you tell me what kind of sleeping pill will kill me?"

* If you get yourself drunk and decide to drive and roll your car, do not look up at your nurse in the ER and say "How come I never get the cute ones?" Your nurse will say, "Let me see what I can do," and go ask her older, overweight, balding, and bearded coworker to help her out......which he will do, gladly, when he finds out what you said.

* Don't smoke 4 packs of cigs a day for 35 years and then get mad at us when the doc suggests that lump on you chest X-ray is probably cancer. Do not then threaten to sue us because we can't fix it. Don't then have your wife yell at us that you just need a cig and you'll be fine, especially when you are on 100% O2 with sats in the 70's. If you then decide to take off the O2 cause you feel fine, don't expect to be standing long when you take that hike down the hall at full speed. You will get a tube in your airway!

* If you decide to shoot up crack, and you happen to be eating cantaloupe, don't accidentally mix the crack and the juice from the fruit together before you shoot up. You will get a big rash, chest pain, and might loose the arm!

* Don't get mad when the doc asks you if you would like him to "change the batteries while he's in there" in the 9 inch toy that needs to be surgically removed from your anus.

* Red delicious apple ARE FOR EATING, not gratification. Ditto for cucumbers, carrots, and zucchinis...

* If you decide to stop your anti-hypertensives because they make you impotent, keep the benefits of that decision between you and your wife. If you decide to take a mistress, you will have your stroke in her bed.

* When your big brother tells you that duct tape over your nose and mouth will force you to breathe out of your ears, don't believe him.

* Don't turn off your pump and remove the tubing becouse the machine is beeping. Then don't open the clamp becouse you decide you really need that med. You Might end up with a 20,000 unit heparin bolus in 20 minutes. You are now at risk for H.I.T (Heparin-induced Thrombocytopenia)

* Do not hang out, reading the Bible on the porch of the local house that you really honestly didn't know was a Crack house, at 3:00 AM, absolutely minding your own business....because "Some Dude" will come along and and shoot you for no apparent reason!

* Never get drunk and play William Tell ( put an apple on your head, stand in front of the barn door and let your drunk brother shoot the apple off your head with his brand new cross bow with steel tipped arrows.)

* Never build a pipe bomb in the middle of your living room with a lit cigarette sticking out of your mouth.

* Never use the veins of your penis to shoot meth.....or heorin... or coke. You'll end up with a staph infection in said appendage and then wonder how you are going to tell your wife, your girlfriend and the chick you are cheating on both of those women with

* If you decide to committ suicide, try to put your WHOLE head in front of the shot gun....not just your nose.

* When trying to look cool to all your homies, do not put a loaded automatic weapon down inside your pants.....or they might just call you "stubby" from now on.

* Never tattoo the name of a one night stand on your body.....or an ex-husband....or someone named HITLER.

* Try not to wash baby bottles out in the windshield wiper solution where the squeeges rest at the gas station.

* Never attempt do-it-yourself bovine artificial insemination. Some things are better left to the professionals...

* DO NOT step on a rusty nail, then go wading in a rancid creek and wonder why you end up with a REALLY nasty wound on the bottom of your foot.

* Never stab yourself 8 times in the chest/abdomen with a meat fork and then expect the nurses to be dumb enough to believe you "accidentally fell on it". Oh and then don't complain about how bad it hurts...

* Never ever drink turpentine from a whiskey bottle without checking what's in it first. If you do, you will do the dance of your life, and every time you burp for the next 6 months, you will taste that nasty turpentine.


Until next time folks.... :hatsoff:
 
This one deserves a post of it's own:

* Never, ever masturbate with an opened glass coke bottle...it may get stuck due to the vacuum one has created. And that could prove to be a problem due to the fact that the bottle is made of glass and you need a special drill bit to get rid of the vacuum and not break the glass!!!

cheers,
 
It's been a while. I thought I'd send up an update with contributions from my colleagues from around the world:

* Just because someone dares you to insert the handle of a wooden kitchen spoon into your penis doesn't mean that you are obligated to...and you definitely shouldn't.

* If your boyfriend has a genital piercing and you are on your period, do NOT forgot this tiny fact and try to have sex anyway while your tampon is still in place. You won't find it amusing, but the ER staff sure will.

* When angry because the ER doctor refused to write you a script for narcotics (which you requested by proper pharmaceutical name), don't take your shoe off and proceed to stick your foot in the elevator and wait for the door to close. Seriously, the narcotics are not worth it!

* When someone in the hospital has called to inform you that your girlfriend has been stabbed in the abdomen, your reply probably shouldn't be "Which girlfriend?"

* When 8 months pregnant, do not ride on the back of your new boyfriend's crotch rocket, especially if you aren't going to bother to wear a helmet. And after you make it to the ER, don't tell them that the reason you didn't wear the helmet was because it would mess up your hair.

* When angry because you've been sitting in the ER waiting room for 5 hours just to try and get a work excuse because you'd rather have a 3-day weekend to spend drinking in Mexico, it's not advisable to vent your anger by throwing lukewarm coffee on the Unit Clerk. She'll get revenge.

* When you go to a waterpark all day in florida, wear sunscreen. Blisters are not fun. Trying to pop them is not going to make it heal faster, it is not like peeling. Peeling 3 times and still having a sunburn is very painful..

* Russian Roulette is not fun if you or your friend get the bullet.

* Just because you are a minister/pastor of a church does not give you the right to beat your wife and tell her to refuse her Chemo because you can't hide your character and you are mad we know how evil you really are.

* Be careful at construction sites, the rebar is not a good place to fall on your butt. You could end up with a colostomy and one less testicle.

* If you think you have a compression fracture, do not allow your friend to "crack your back", it will not go back into place.

* If you attempt to pierce your friend's eyebrow and you have no idea what your doing, the eye twitching that suddenly started may not go away.

* It's better to have a dentist pull out your teeth instead of your friend. Especially if you are 12 and you're still not sure if the 7 teeth she already pulled out were/are the baby ones.

* Clorox bleach is for clothes. You use different bleach for hair.

* Speaking of Clorox: Clorox was never intended to be used as a douche or enema so you can feel "really clean down there"

* Sticking your hand into a running printing press is usually not a good idea either.

* $50 is not worth scalding your tesicles when dared to stick them in a mug of hot water - perhaps You Misinterpreted the meaning of "teabagging?"

* If you have previously dislocated your shoulder, setting up a 'fight club' in your dorm lounge might not be a good idea.

* For the love of all that is holy, drink water and eat regular meals when you are traipsing about in hot, humid weather. It will freak people out when you and five other students pass out. In front of a Senate building. Next to the Capitol Police. They will call the Mass Casualty Vehicle to transport you. News crews will show up. Your advisors will be annoyed when you are asked what you had for breakfast and you reply "Diet Coke."


Until later folks....

cheers,
 
Wow. Suddenly, my relatives seem normal.
 
Another great installment, Roughneck!!
 

Kil4Thril

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* Sticking your hand into a running printing press is usually not a good idea either.

Witnessed that one in action 3x thus far. It ain't pretty at all. I've been lucky- I can still count all the way to 10 with my shoes on. :thefinger
 

Theopolis Q. Hossenffer

I am in America, not of it.
I had forgotten this thread. God, the things people do. I also haver seen the Printing Press issue twice. Plus two finger tips neatly removed. Stay awake around machinery folks.
 
:glugglug: roughneck for another great post.
 
I had forgotten this thread. God, the things people do. I also haver seen the Printing Press issue twice. Plus two finger tips neatly removed. Stay awake around machinery folks.

I have seen better than that. I was working an R. Kelly show last December, and one of the road guys was running a motor chain out so we could raise some truss in the air. When you run chain out you're supposed to let the chain run on your hand before it goes into the motor to make sure that there aren't any kinks or twists in the chain that would cause the motor to stop working, but you should never look away from what you're doing in case something happens.

Anyway, the guy was running out the chain and bullshitting with someone, when a kink in the chain went through the motor. As a result, the motor jumped a little and pulled more chain than it normally does. That would not have been a major problem, except for the fact that the guy who was running out the chain was feeding it too close to the motor, and his finger got caught in the chain when the motor jumped. Since he wasn't looking, he didn't react in time to release the button that operates the motor that he was pressing with his other hand, and the motor pulled off the tip of his index finger. The kicker is that, when this happened, he calmly called the production manager over the radio and asked if there was a runner available to take him to the hospital because he had just severed part of his finger. He made about as much fuss as if he would've stubbed his toe on a case. Had that happened to me, I would've been screaming bloody murder.

Before taking him to the hospital, though, they had to get the piece of his finger that was severed. That proved to be quite a challenge, since it was stuck inside the motor between the chain and the gears that drive it. Someone was able to pull it out with some needle nose pliers, but that screwed up the motor, and it had to be replaced. It was a 2 ton motor, which weighs close to 200 pounds (anybody who rigs can tell you that 2 ton motors are a bitching pain in the ass to put up).

Moral of the story: if you're operating something that can pull harder than your body can, and is made of a material that's harder than your body, pay attention to what you're doing. ;)
 
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