Pluggers by Rick McKee for January 29, 2021

Old people excitement.

Wow. No one would believe him otherwise? “As if you’d ever be in the hospital! Prove it!”

Hey, it better than being woken up to be given a shot in the backside.

Had a morning shot at 7:00 AM, in the belly fat each day for 9 days. I swear that morning nurse looked like a zombie. The rest of the staff was kind and great but I don’t want to go back……

Is that all she gave you, you naughty boy you.

That band lasts about 30 seconds once you go out the door !

We have to snip them off and shred them before the patients get out the door. Ours have their Social Security number and we don’t want to see them in the trash.

Putting in an IV with someone who insists that the top of your hand is the place to start. Five sticks and no results, find someone who knows what they’re doing.

When I was a teen the anesthesiologist was a close friend of my mom. I had to have surgery on my arm, so she was putting the tubes in on the back of the hand on the other side. She popped the first three veins. She made a comment “Never fails, when I have a special patient something always gets @#$%^&!”

Last time I was in a hospital overnight was when I got my tonsils removed in 1958.

Had the same thing happen to me, “Sir you need to wake-up to take your sleeping pill.” Then I laid there for the next three hours trying to fall back to sleep. Next morning the nurse says “You look tired, didn’t you get a good nights rest. We’ll have to request a sleeping pill for you for tonight.”

In most cases, a plugger doesn’t check in to hospital until he will be checking out with more to show than a wristband – e.g. crutch, cast, scar, etc.

A mystery of the universe; why when I need sleep to heal do they keep waking me up?

We can’t hardly get them off quick enough as soon as we are out the door.

wonderful conversation starters before the ‘c’

That dam band came off my wrist immediately!

I have always wondered why they put you in a bed that has an alarm on it then put the urinal in the farthest place possible from the bed.

So they know when you have to pee.

Yep! Guilty.

My favorite: When I had a hip replacement, they woke me at 3am to ‘dangle legs’ over the side of the bed — that was it!

He is showing his badge of courage !