:hospital: healthcare fun (not the political kind)
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Another funny story.
I was in the ER for severe abdominal pain (years later it was diagnosed as endometriosis).
As a women in peak childbearing age (early to mid 20s) before any radiation they ask if you are pregnant.
They first did a lung x-ray. Then I was later prepping for a CT scan.
(nurse, radiology tech, med assistant, IDK) Are you sure you aren't pregnant?
(me) Well, I haven't had sex since the last x-rays.
Are you serious or are you joking?
Both??
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Another funny story.
I'm not sure if that's funny or not (maybe it's one of those "it gets funny when significant time has passed" things), but I would be a little fearful if they pushed that question on me...
Edit: Wow, I type worse on Desktop than mobile it seems... How else did "not" autocorrect to "now"?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I would be a little fearful if they pushed that question on me...
You're clearly a man. Women get asked this shit all the fucking time. Sometimes to the point where you're like, seriously, I'd fucking know, why are you pestering me?
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I would be a little fearful if they pushed that question on me...
You're clearly a man. Women get asked this shit all the fucking time. Sometimes to the point where you're like, seriously, I'd fucking know, why are you pestering me?
Yeah, I dropped a can on my toe and went to urgent care in case it was broken. My daughter was like 4 months. In order to x-ray they had to do a pregnancy test first. At that point I was like, I'd better not be.
My daughter was sick took her to urgent care. They thought there was a possibility of pneumonia. I elected to get the x-ray for her. One of my step-sons was with me and they preferred he be in the room with her rather than me.
Any time I've ever been nauseous...the first question is are you pregnant.
Asking my primary for Zofran because my daughter was already sick with a virus and that is what they prescribed her. Are you pregnant?
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I would be a little fearful if they pushed that question on me...
You're clearly a man. Women get asked this shit all the fucking time. Sometimes to the point where you're like, seriously, I'd fucking know, why are you pestering me?
To be fair, he's 100% less likely to be pregnant than any given woman is...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Another funny story.
I'm not sure if that's funny or not (maybe it's one of those "it gets funny when significant time has passed" things), but I would be a little fearful if they pushed that question on me...
I actually thought it was funny at the time. I'm in pain, and I'm trying to make the best of it. Same thing when I was induced to have my daughter.
I read that singing helps handle some of the pain and give you focus.
The first part of the induction was to insert a balloon into the cervix so it will dilate. The doctor had a tough time with it. So my husband helped me to start distracting me with Eminem, I love the way you Lie.
When we get to this part in the song:
And right now there's a steel knife in my windpipe
We laughed because what they were doing was fairly uncomfortable.
My husband kept telling my OB that I had a high pain tolerance.
After we laughed they believed him. They said, no one ever laughs when they do that.
While childbirth can be a long uncomfortable process, I hate when women claim it is the most painful thing ever. Our bodies were made for that...impalement, amputation, gunshots, etc all seem to me to be far worse.
I have to say, I got a relatively small second degree burn on my finger (I put lava cake in the microwave for too long) and thought that was way worse. Burns absolutely suck.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The first part of the induction was to insert a balloon into the cervix so it will dilate.
Huh, TIL. They didn't do that when they induced my ex-wife, just a pitocin drip. But that was 22 years ago; I wonder if they do that routinely now. It might have helped if they had; she eventually wound up having a C-section because she never dilated enough.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I would be a little fearful if they pushed that question on me...
You're clearly a man. Women get asked this shit all the fucking time. Sometimes to the point where you're like, seriously, I'd fucking know, why are you pestering me?
I didn't say I'd be fearful for myself (as if it would be scary to find out like that) but that my doctor might suddenly decide I'm pregnant right shortly after asking the first time is a sign of distrust and possibly antagonism.
Think of it this way: doctor asks "does your ankle hurt when you twist it?" I say "no" , takes an x-ray, he asks "are you sure it doesn't hurt when you twist it?". What do you think at that time? Are you nuts? My answer doesn't change just because you took a picture!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
that my doctor might suddenly decide I'm pregnant right shortly after asking the first time is a sign of distrust and possibly antagonism.
Yes. That happens to women. A lot.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
doctor asks "does your ankle hurt when you twist it?" I say "no" , takes an x-ray, he asks "are you sure it doesn't hurt when you twist it?".
That also happens to me, but mostly because I have a chronic pain condition; you get a lot of weird questions and people suddenly doubting you when you admit to having chronic pain.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The first part of the induction was to insert a balloon into the cervix so it will dilate.
Huh, TIL. They didn't do that when they induced my ex-wife, just a pitocin drip. But that was 22 years ago; I wonder if they do that routinely now. It might have helped if they had; she eventually wound up having a C-section because she never dilated enough.
They did actually start with pitocin. They needed to do a contraction stress test because the reason I was being induced on that day was due to her having heart rate decelerations. If she failed that...it would be straight to c-section. (I was scheduled for an induction 4 days later...she apparently wanted to be be born sooner--I think she gets her patience from her mother.)
The balloon foley is supposed to mimic the head of the baby on cervix. I'm not sure how new it is and I am sure it depends upon specific situations.
They had trouble because I have a cyst (completely benign) on my cervix and they had trouble getting past it.
Here is a little more detail about it:
I also joked with the docs that my husband could help ripen the cervix. They didn't get it right away.
**Hormones in semen can encourage cervix ripening
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I elected to get the x-ray for her.
How does that work?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Huh, TIL. They didn't do that when they induced my ex-wife, just a pitocin drip. But that was 22 years ago; I wonder if they do that routinely now. It might have helped if they had; she eventually wound up having a C-section because she never dilated enough.
My wife was induced about 7 years ago for our first. They only did the pitocin drip.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
My daughter was like 4 months. In order to x-ray they had to do a pregnancy test first.
Read this without looking back a sentence. Quite a moment.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Yes. That happens to women. A lot.
I was asked by a doctor if I was pregnant once.
Once.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I was asked by a doctor if I was pregnant once.
Once.
So you told the doctor that no, you were pregnant multiple times like most adult men?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I was asked by a doctor if I was pregnant once.
Once.
"After I violently murdered the doctor, flayed him and wore his skin, no mortal man dared to ask me that question again."
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
While childbirth can be a long uncomfortable process, I hate when women claim it is the most painful thing ever. Our bodies were made for that...impalement, amputation, gunshots, etc all seem to me to be far worse.
To be frank, though: Some women seem to misinterpret that insofar as women have generally a high pain tolerance all the time, higher than men. :)
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
women have generally a high pain tolerance
Not my ex-wife. Also, pain was binary; no pain or unbearable agony, nothing in between.
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@HardwareGeek This stuff is not funny.
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@abarker said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I elected to get the x-ray for her.
How does that work?
I took her to urgent care. Doc listened to her lungs, didn't think it was pneumonia because her lungs sounded clear. He gave me the option to get a chest x-ray for her.
She had gotten suddenly very sick the day before (Sunday evening) with a pretty high fever; I took her in first thing Monday morning.
The x-ray showed pneumonia.
My guess is we caught it early enough that her lungs still sounded ok.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek This stuff is not funny.
So stop reading and go play with Blakeycat, or something.
Filed under: My phone has learned to autocomplete Blakeycat and Blakeyra, but not Blakeyrat.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
women have generally a high pain tolerance
Not my ex-wife.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
While childbirth can be a long uncomfortable process, I hate when women claim it is the most painful thing ever. Our bodies were made for that...impalement, amputation, gunshots, etc all seem to me to be far worse.
To be frank, though: Some women seem to misinterpret that insofar as women have generally a high pain tolerance all the time, higher than men. :)
Yeah, and I roll my eyes when most women bring it up.
Not sure how accurate, but I recall reading somewhere women have more endurance for pain but men can handle higher acute pain.
Labor is more of an endurance event. It also has respite.
A horrible nurse was nasty to my dad when he was in the hospital with a kidney stone. "Now you know what childbirth feels like."
Not even fucking close.
A woman I know had completely natural childbirth twice and a kidney stone. She said the kidney stone was much worse. Plus it is constant pain.
My husband had a small (luckily) kidney stone. I had gone to bed before him and woke up to use the bathroom and just saw the pain in his face.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
you get a lot of weird questions and people suddenly doubting you when you admit to having chronic pain.
Yeah, I don't go to doctors for the generic answers I always seem to get. "You're too fat, exercise more, stop eating!"
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I was asked by a doctor if I was pregnant once.
Once.
So you told the doctor that no, you were pregnant multiple times like most adult men?
Nah, he told them after a few seconds, "No, but I ended the pause before it did."
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
A horrible nurse was nasty to my dad when he was in the hospital with a kidney stone. "Now you know what childbirth feels like."
Not even fucking close.
A woman I know had completely natural childbirth twice and a kidney stone. She said the kidney stone was much worse. Plus it is constant pain.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek This stuff is not funny.
Fine. @mods, can we get a jeffing for the "Doctors asking weird questions" thread?
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@Karla that still doesn't explain how giving you an x-ray helped diagnose her pneumonia.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Labor is more of an endurance event. It also has respite.
A horrible nurse was nasty to my dad when he was in the hospital with a kidney stone. "Now you know what childbirth feels like."
Not even fucking close.
A woman I know had completely natural childbirth twice and a kidney stone. She said the kidney stone was much worse. Plus it is constant pain.Plus when labor is over you have something to show for it.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@abarker said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I elected to get the x-ray for her.
How does that work?
I took her to urgent care. Doc listened to her lungs, didn't think it was pneumonia because her lungs sounded clear. He gave me the option to get a chest x-ray for her.
She had gotten suddenly very sick the day before (Sunday evening) with a pretty high fever; I took her in first thing Monday morning.
The x-ray showed pneumonia.
My guess is we caught it early enough that her lungs still sounded ok.
On initial reading, it sounded like you were being x-rayed in her place.
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@abarker said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@abarker said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I elected to get the x-ray for her.
How does that work?
I took her to urgent care. Doc listened to her lungs, didn't think it was pneumonia because her lungs sounded clear. He gave me the option to get a chest x-ray for her.
She had gotten suddenly very sick the day before (Sunday evening) with a pretty high fever; I took her in first thing Monday morning.
The x-ray showed pneumonia.
My guess is we caught it early enough that her lungs still sounded ok.
On initial reading, it sounded like you were being x-rayed in her place.
I can see how that could be interpreted that way.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
My daughter was like 4 months. In order to x-ray they had to do a pregnancy test first. At that point I was like, I'd better not be.
Pfft. My kids were 45 weeks apart.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
They didn't get it right away.
That's funny because usually they know about that one.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
They didn't get it right away.
That's funny because usually they know about that one.
To be fair, I was in the high risk ward (as things can get serious real fast...they may have less of a sense of humor). Also, this was the overnight shift, my OB went home. They were less familiar with my sense of humor.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Pfft. My kids were 45 weeks apart
My wife and I were discussing how soon after childbirth it is physically possible to get pregnant again. We figured a month for the next menstrual cycle but didn't think that sort of thing actually happened...
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@FrostCat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
My daughter was like 4 months. In order to x-ray they had to do a pregnancy test first. At that point I was like, I'd better not be.
Pfft. My kids were 45 weeks apart.
I missed this earlier.
Irish twins.
The pregnancy was tough another one was potentially more dangerous. I couldn't do it again. I wanted two.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@FrostCat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Pfft. My kids were 45 weeks apart
My wife and I were discussing how soon after childbirth it is physically possible to get pregnant again. We figured a month for the next menstrual cycle but didn't think that sort of thing actually happened...
The first ovulation is before the period. So you never know when you are fertile again.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I missed this earlier.
Irish twins.Yup. We figured that #2 was concieved when #1 was 3 weeks old.
And then he was 4 weeks early.
The pregnancy was tough another one was potentially more dangerous
Both of ours were very risky. We wanted another, but couldn't.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I missed this earlier.
Irish twins.Yup. We figured that #2 was concieved when #1 was 3 weeks old.
And then he was 4 weeks early.
The pregnancy was tough another one was potentially more dangerous
Both of ours were very risky. We wanted another, but couldn't.
If I would have started earlier it might not have been as bad and I was 40 when I got pregnant with her.
We had been trying for two years. We were just about to do IVF in the next cycle. We were in a class to teach the process of the hormone injections, etc. I was unknowingly already pregnant and had a positive test 8 days later.
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@Karla YOU OBVIOUSLY UNDERSTAND THE PURPOSE OF THE FUNNY STUFF THREAD, why are you also posting stupid medical care bullshit? Is one of those medical procedures the one where the doctor cuts your left brain and right brain apart? Is that what's going on here?
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Is one of those medical procedures the one where the doctor cuts your left brain and right brain apart?
Sorry to break the news to you, but this guy is not a certified medical professional:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Yeah, I don't go to doctors for the generic answers I always seem to get. "You're too fat, exercise more, stop eating!"
update your browser!
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla YOU OBVIOUSLY UNDERSTAND THE PURPOSE OF THE FUNNY STUFF THREAD, why are you also posting stupid medical care bullshit? Is one of those medical procedures the one where the doctor cuts your left brain and right brain apart? Is that what's going on here?
Um, considering vampires aren't real (these rare disorders notwithstanding, http://www.livescience.com/28266-7-strange-ways-humans-act-like-vampires.html)...
I thought it was funny. Sorry you don't share my sense of humor. I didn't know this was the Official BlakeyRat Funny Stuff Thread.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Is that what's going on here?
No, we're waiting for you to ask for those posts to be Jeffed away.
You didn't even comment about the racism of the phrase "Irish twins". Except when I use it it's not racist because I'm part Irish.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Is that what's going on here?
No, we're waiting for you to ask for those posts to be Jeffed away.
You didn't even comment about the racism of the phrase "Irish twins". Except when I use it it's not racist because I'm part Irish.
Can confirm, part Irish too.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I didn't know this was the Official BlakeyRat Funny Stuff Thread.
Every thread can become a blakeyrant thread at any time. Same as any thread can and will become a political flamewar thread at some point.
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@Karla My point was, you posted a non-funny off-topic post followed directly by a funny on-topic post.
Therefore, you understand the purpose of the thread, you're just being a jerk anyway.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla My point was, you posted a non-funny off-topic post followed directly by a funny on-topic post.
Therefore, you understand the purpose of the thread, you're just being a jerk anyway.
OK so you weren't talking about the vampire post.
Not trying to be jerk...but I did think the story about not having sex since the last x-ray was funny.
The other stuff I was just responding to other posts.
I will be sure to stay more focused in this thread or else ask your explicit approval next time.
I thought staying on topic was here.
It's not like you've never engaged in thread drift on one of my threads.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/20252/karla-wants-a-new-avatar/53
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/20252/karla-wants-a-new-avatar/201
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
A woman I know had completely natural childbirth twice and a kidney stone. She said the kidney stone was much worse. Plus it is constant pain.
My husband had a small (luckily) kidney stone. I had gone to bed before him and woke up to use the bathroom and just saw the pain in his face.
There's also the fact that the male expulsion tube is quite a bit longer than the female one. >_<
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
A woman I know had completely natural childbirth twice and a kidney stone. She said the kidney stone was much worse. Plus it is constant pain.
My husband had a small (luckily) kidney stone. I had gone to bed before him and woke up to use the bathroom and just saw the pain in his face.
There's also the fact that the male expulsion tube is quite a bit longer than the female one. >_<
In addition, the expulsion tube for urine is not meant to be as flexible as the expulsion tube for babies.
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@Karla To be fair, any kidney stone that ends up making its way down the expulsion tube for babies has probably hurt a good bit beforehand.
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@flabdablet said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla To be fair, any kidney stone that ends up making its way down the expulsion tube for babies has probably hurt a good bit beforehand.
Since I cannot imagine how that could actually happen, if it does it will probably be pretty painful.