When you are suffering from it Dove, it most certainly is, I love it when you talk dirty haha!!!I used to use all these posh words when I was nursing, but they have goneout of fashion, now
In my day, perhaps slightly more recent than yours, we had expressions like "vaginal by-pass" aka Caesarean section, and "campanologist", a patient who makes excessive use of their call bell. Closely related to the campanologists are the "catheterisers", patients, or sometimes their over-demanding visitors, who are taking the p***. And one I learned from the occupationalist therapists: "acopia", she's simply not coping. I also like "oculo-gastric disproportion": eyes bigger than belly.
Many, many years ago a friend started training as a nurse. She was advised by one, much older and wiser than her, to always carry a spoon in her pocket. When she asked why she was told she could use it "To ring the bell" of any make patient who became too frisky. My eyes still water at the thought.
One young lad was sent to the labour ward to ask for a pair of size 8 fallopian tubes. The midwife in charge went along with it, and sent him back to his ward with two bits of oxygen tubing in a specimen bottle.
A young apprentice in the engineering works where my dad worked was sent off to get a dozen holes for half inch washers. He toddled off and came back with a sheet of metal with 12 neatly drilled 1/2" holes in it. His dad worked in the adjoining factory.
In my 20s on a ward bloke has had a stroke, we are moving him in bed, he turns to me with his "good" hand grabs my boob, I say "What on earth do you think you are doing", he says "you dont mind, do you?", I assure him I DO, and next time say to my colleague, I am going on the DENSE side this time thank you
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