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Oct 9, 2018 11:46 AM
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Talligan
Everyone here is assuming he's a nurse. I'm betting vampire
YouJustGotRickRolled
Yeah man, so socially awesome to say a little early to be cleaning
SelfPleasureRobot
Yeah, smooth grandma. Now nurse-not-racist is going to "miss" your vein a few times.... Enjoy that.
kissmyassets
At that time in the morning I would think janitor too. They could be a flying purple people eater and I'd be like "come back later to clean"
MrPhukett
OOOPSIE!
RJMacReadyTheThing
Seems like a normal request/question for why someone just woke you the fuck up at 4 am. Shes an angel compared to what I'd ask him.
Canofminus
I don't believe you, because everyone Grandma's are up at 3am.
Tinkrr
Did she know they were coming to draw her blood? If I saw a person randomly enter the room, I'd assume they're there to clean or somethin D:
AlexanderReave
I'm here to draw first blood!!
Chirikain
what does she call broken bottles?
Supapandaninja
Hospitals the most unrestful place.
ChickenChickenBurningBright
Did she at least call him "that colored man" in front of him?
GDSTEVE
What does his race have to do with it?
Opportunist
Because he's black, she presumed he was there to clean, when he was actually a professional nurse there to draw her blood.
GDSTEVE
Seems like O P might be the racist. unless she used a racial slur the only one assuming his race is a factor is the Poster, not granny.
beardedbovel
At my old job we had to do that to handle all the daily bloodwork. It really sucked...
MindOfMobius
Bit early for casual racism ain’t it?
thyfartismurder
What kinda shade of red you draw her blood
BrontTheGoodBoy
Tarantino Red.
HouseoftheRisingWaffle
originalone
Dookie
KinderSurpriseMF
Just drain all her Racist blood and put baby blood in her.
EricFromAccounts
This man is a bloodologist
Josesharlo
He studied at the prestigious Bloodology Institute
Operational117
Considering the word “hemoglobin” (the oxygen-carrying part in RBCs), I’d call him a hemologist.
ChampionChains
My half brothers grand mother was in the hospital a while back and needed blood. She's gotta be about 80. She requested "no n****r blood" ?
SexualConsent
That's horrible and hilarious at the same time
humanturret
Too early? Time of day is nothing to those in the medical field. Moslty cause they never sleep.
onlywisehermit
Fucking vampires.
Hayashima
I thought there was both a book and a movie series about why that is a bad idea...
GodEmperor0fMankind
Hey hey hey! Whoa whoa whoa! There are a lot of hateful stereotypes about vampires, but w- they aren't all bad.
SaltyInternetPirate
Hey, man! They're just trying to survive, too. It's a biological necessity.
OneHandedComent
Well they are hot
phoebear12345
My mom is a phlebotomist (takes blood for a living), and we all call her "the family vampire"!
thrudgelmi
I always get a stink eye from bioengineers when I call them vampires. I think it has something to do with it being early in the morning..
Alrightyouwin
I was in a treatment center as a child. That’s what we called them. They always came at night so we’d be too groggy to care.
thrudgelmi
It's funny how we DGAF when we're tired. Sometimes I sneak in at night and give my patients antibiotics, sometimes even IV drip. And they'll
thrudgelmi
be like "You were here around midnight? I didn't feel a thing.." I'm a nurse in oncology, working in Norway.
Alrightyouwin
Yeah it seems like the best time. You get a bunch of kids afraid of needles but they’re too tired to notice.
copingcabana
Fucking artists.
NyQuilDaydream
You think that's bad? My 78 year old dad was telling his African American nurse about a "negro boy" that played on his baseball team....
jkeezie
quick question to those relevant: do you prefer "African American" or "black"?
eviade
Why is racism the positive part
spacecatexplorer
My grandad was in hospital when a black nurse came in the room, he said "what are you doing, shouldn't you be up a tree somewhere?" Awkward
Hellstorm99
Red scrub tops are cleaning team at the hospital I often book my rooms in. Lab techs all wear lab coats. Problem solved.
GryphonHunter
He's lucky she didn't think he was robbing her
MrParticleboard
If it was in America, it wouldn't be far from wrong
Chereazi
He was trying to steal her blood tho! It totally was a robbery!
Hiynastrike
VAMPIRES!
mikeatike
Blackula
IfIKnewItWasThatKindOfParty
Nadyanilo
Fairly certain that was /s linking back to the officer who killed a man in his own home thinking he was in HER home in Dallas
Nadyanilo
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/09/us/dallas-police-shooting-investigation/index.html
CAntthenuclearapocalypsecomesoicanjustdiealready
My grandmother was at red lobster and told our waiter "youre so nice for a black"
Fuckme721
Ooooooohhhhhhhh.....
vaspap
"Little early to be robbing me"
RakingBenjamins
r/fowardsfromgrandma
secretoaster
Which he was... Of her blood. Ah. Ah. Ah.
wintersux
Everybody knows all janitorial staff are now Latino.
ThishasbeenmyTedTok
It is known
screemedtheStableBoy
smellyshorts
Who is going to clean your toilets Ms Osbourne
NihonJinLover
bowofnorth
We have a whole color flush: black, white, latino and asian.
MyTrueIdiotSelf990
KingTaminoNr1
Presidential declaration number 15?
Accountingcounter
Africans, or Asians
AdrocThurston
But I am a white dude on hospital janitorial staff... but you are correct as I am the only one who is not Hispanic on my shift.
Iloveanonymityandilovebeingnoticed
I am half Asian (But forget I’m not white) and the only non-Hispanic on my cleaning crew.
IncredibleNurse
Bienvenido bitch
Ilooklikeprimeminister
Heres a fellow "used to be non-hispanic" hospital janitorial staff. But now days im hispanic too.
sesamesnapsinhalf
FTFY. “Han-i-tor-io” staff.
DasPumpenStrasse
Check your DNA... Can't escape genetics
wehadtodrinkourwayout
You're hispanic now dude..
PsychedelicButterfly
This is how my white dad married into my Mexican family. Became a janitor 1st, then got introduced to "other Latinos" in the building.
TheShadowsLengthen
I now imagine OP being a ginger and saying "Holà amigos !" during his next workshift...
AdrocThurston
It’s more of a “mira no, por qué?” When I find out all the extra tasks have been added to my duty sheet.
macpall
You mean Filipino
IWouldLikeToGetOffThisRideNowPlease
Porque no los dos??
FilthyFrankAnimeHunter
“The Philippines is just the Mexico of Asia.” -A Filipino dude I knew
macpall
I’ve heard the same before too!
CumsInPies
He's right you know
Magus25
Could of been worse. I had a patient start shouting rape before. Real awkward conversation with the shift nurse later.. dementia patient.
Flyndaran
It's dangerous working with dementia patients, because everyone knows they're confused until management wants a reason to fire.
Flyndaran
It happened to my GF. Funny how the random accusations everyone got were suddenly believed about her when bosses found out she's bi.
InDubiousBattle
My mom was accused of "assault" for tapping a patient awake.
Magus25
I've had something similar moving patients from bed to bed. Luckily I live in a place where legal action is rare.
InDubiousBattle
Oy. Happily, no legal action for my mom. Just a nervous conversation with HR. Patient hadn't complained to her, so she didn't even know.
NameyMcUsername
Seems a bit early for that too
Blaidd13
You know you are really sick when you don't mind the 4am blood draws
Jantessa
It's so that results are back by morning rounds. Night shift wishes we weren't waking people up at 4-6am though...
ceej13
The vampires come in at all hours.
quicksilver1
Only if you let them in first.
HalcyonGlaze
Depends on issue. Sometimes blood gets drawn all the time at all hours.
KimWackySnacks
4am draws in hospitals are common. It’s called the morning draw. Drawing patients and processing the blood before the doctors get in
KimWackySnacks
Results would be processed fairly quickly and then the doctor would review them for the day.
ImNotAnOrange
If youre under observation they draw your blood every few hours. By the second day I was just sticking out my arm half asleep
ilhares
Shoot, my local hospital doesn't even open the labs until 6am. They do fast work, though.
dj5897
Nah, depends what she was in for. For my chemo they came in around 4-5am. That way your results were back that afternoon.
ImANurse
I draw routine labs at 5 am so they are ready for when doctors come in the morning for rounds
CandyCaneClorox
I start morning labs at 2:30 am
swatz
No, once you're stuck in the hospital you get used to them waking you up to poke you every 4 hours. Luckily they use condoms.
CandyCaneClorox
it depends on what They're looking for. most patients get drawn once a day if that at my hospital.
baturro
You sure you were in a hospital?
ThrowMamaFromTheTrain
Sounds routine to me.
probshouldntsayitbut
Yep, a hospital is the worst place to try to sleep!!! (Unless you get knock out drugs that is)
OddSoull
I remember my first night in the hospital after having a stroke and needing much needed rest, 2am, 3am, 5am, 8am HELLO WE NEED MOre BLOOD
AFelineMassofEyes
I joked once about my mom needing a transfusion from excessive sampling, but her oncologist said "No, that actually happens...."
MissAnny
Had a patient that needed a test requiring 20 tubes of blood drawn at the same time... Nurse wanted to see if they could draw less, so I /1
MissAnny
2/ Called the testing location. Due to the severity of the patients condition, they wanted 40 tubes of blood instead of 20....
AFelineMassofEyes
Crap on toast-!
kholli
No rest to be had in the hospital :(
LaraStraw
Ugh, this happened to me too, except I have small veins so they had to poke me 4 or 5 times each time they came in to get more blood :(
ImNotAnOrange
They didn't just stick a tap in your arm in receiving? Very first thing that happened to me was the tap guy came around and stuck me
LaraStraw
No because I had an IV line in, in the only easy vein I have.
LaraStraw
I also had to get a spinal tap, and they had 3 different doctors try before sending me to have it done under x-ray
ButteryCommissar
I was in got a broken spine and had to be rolled every 5 hours. I was fucking murderous after a week of it.
ADDGirl
Every 5? That's terrible. Pressure ulcers can happen much faster than that. At my hospital we turn patients every 2 hours.
ButteryCommissar
I had a broken spine in nine places, at a guess they weren't happy touching that constantly.
ADDGirl
We do it all the time, but we pre-medicate for pain before turns because we're nice like that. No one wants a broken back and a bedsore.
ButteryCommissar
Dunno, maye it being 18 years ago in the UK may account for worse practices. ":)
ButteryCommissar
*for a broken spine. They didn't break it for me there.
Meatwave
I work nights in an ICU. I apologize for how often I'm gonna be waking my patients up. Your sleep is not gonna be good. Stability > rest.
OddSoull
thank you for the hard work, all i remember is how grumpy i was. It was easy for me to feel I was ok because i didn't feel any symptoms 1/2
OddSoull
so i was irrationally upset when they kept coming in 2/2
MeepMeep19
Isn’t rest one of the best healers though? Genuinely curious if disrupting such an important process as sleep could be equally detrimental.
Meatwave
Most of the conditions that we treat there are potentially fatal within hours or even minutes if we don't keep a close eye on them.
Meatwave
You're not wrong but when they wind up in ICU it's because simple rest isn't likely to help. They can rest once we know they're stable.
TooOldToBeRealLife
Thank you for choosing the profession you did! You’re much needed but under-appreciated.
Meatwave
I just got home from staying late to help out on a code blue. She's a sweet lady who was supposed to be going home today. She's still 1/
REDS1X
It's not a resort, they are making sure you don't get another stoke or bleed out. you're welcome.
OddSoull
oh I know they took care of me very well, I was happy, but subconsciously tho you are all ahhh let me sleep
ImNotAnOrange
I swear half their fun is not warning you about the freaky side effects of the stuff they give you. Like giant solid white turds
imtheguyintecornerofpartieshangingwithhisintrovertfriends
Should have brought your poop knife
arcadia2000
0.o
lucindaattheParkview
Like from radiation? Or are there other things that cause that?
ImNotAnOrange
In hindsight I should have been expecting it after I drank a chalk smoothie for my xrays, but I was on a liquid diet and no consistent sleep
REDS1X
not radiation, probably from contrast. also hepatitis can do that.
REDS1X
Most hospital staff are insanely stressed and worry about important shit; like you not dying and if you get white poop who gives a damn.
ImNotAnOrange
yes, it was very stressful as they stood there and watched me take a couple minutes to drink a chalk smoothie
REDS1X
Great attitude to have toward healthcare workers.