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PING Howard: news article
Good morning Howard - saw this sad item in today's news, and thought of
you: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4684505.stm Deb. -- http://www.scientific-art.com "He looked a fierce and quarrelsome cat, but claw he never would; He only bit the ones he loved, because they tasted good." S. Greenfield |
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"Cathi" wrote in message ... Strangely enough, when I worked in the Health Service, I knew a pain control nurse whose name was indeed Julie Pain. And, utterly no relative, was a friend's mother who was a phlebotomist, Mrs Pain. And that was what she inflicted when she saw one of her clients - her daughter's ex-boyfriend, who had made some ungentlemanly comments about her daughter after the break-up. -- Cathi Rob has a great story about his medic roommate and some MPs from his first tour in Korea. The medic was hassled by a MP for holding his Korean girlfriend's purse while she was doing some shopping. The purse had some drugs that were legal for Koreans, but not for American soldiers. Needless to say the medic got out of the problem by the skin of his teeth. And then it came time for everyone to get their annual flu shot... Of course the medic was one of those giving the shots and the MP who gave him the trouble made sure that he wasn't in his line. His partner was in the same line as the MP, in fact, right behind him. What neither of them knew was how popular the medic was. The first MP got to the head of the line and looked over at the table where the medic he'd harassed was working, only to see him nodding at the medic who was to give him the shots. The MP finally got a sense of his forth coming doom when he saw the medic preparing his shot. Now the flu shots came in pre-prepared needles, and the medic was preparing it by taping the point of the needle onto the table. Everyone who knew anything about needles and shots was watching with varying grimaces of pain on their faces. Rob said that the room was suddenly and totally silent. All one could hear was that slow tap...tap...tap as the medic blunted and dulled the needle. Then he prepared the injection site, in the meatiest part of the MP's arm, jabbed the needle in, changed the angle of the needle, injected the serum, then twisted the needle as he removed it. Blood flowed down the MP's arm as he left the staging area. The guy's partner was next in line. Fearfully he walked up to the table and said, "you know I was only with him, right?" "I know," replied the medic as he prepared and gently injected the flu shot into the medic's arm. You're done here. None of the medics ever had to worry about being needlessly hassled after that. Pam S. |
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"Pamela Shirk" wrote in message nk.net... "Cathi" wrote in message ... Strangely enough, when I worked in the Health Service, I knew a pain control nurse whose name was indeed Julie Pain. And, utterly no relative, was a friend's mother who was a phlebotomist, Mrs Pain. And that was what she inflicted when she saw one of her clients - her daughter's ex-boyfriend, who had made some ungentlemanly comments about her daughter after the break-up. -- Cathi Rob has a great story about his medic roommate and some MPs from his first tour in Korea. The medic was hassled by a MP for holding his Korean girlfriend's purse while she was doing some shopping. The purse had some drugs that were legal for Koreans, but not for American soldiers. Needless to say the medic got out of the problem by the skin of his teeth. And then it came time for everyone to get their annual flu shot... Of course the medic was one of those giving the shots and the MP who gave him the trouble made sure that he wasn't in his line. His partner was in the same line as the MP, in fact, right behind him. What neither of them knew was how popular the medic was. The first MP got to the head of the line and looked over at the table where the medic he'd harassed was working, only to see him nodding at the medic who was to give him the shots. The MP finally got a sense of his forth coming doom when he saw the medic preparing his shot. Now the flu shots came in pre-prepared needles, and the medic was preparing it by taping the point of the needle onto the table. Everyone who knew anything about needles and shots was watching with varying grimaces of pain on their faces. Rob said that the room was suddenly and totally silent. All one could hear was that slow tap...tap...tap as the medic blunted and dulled the needle. Then he prepared the injection site, in the meatiest part of the MP's arm, jabbed the needle in, changed the angle of the needle, injected the serum, then twisted the needle as he removed it. Blood flowed down the MP's arm as he left the staging area. The guy's partner was next in line. Fearfully he walked up to the table and said, "you know I was only with him, right?" "I know," replied the medic as he prepared and gently injected the flu shot into the medic's arm. You're done here. None of the medics ever had to worry about being needlessly hassled after that. Pam S. Oh, this made me cringe -- I guess that medic made his point ;o). Christine (ducking and running) |
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In article , "Christine Burel"
wrote: "Pamela Shirk" wrote in message nk.net... "Cathi" wrote in message ... Strangely enough, when I worked in the Health Service, I knew a pain control nurse whose name was indeed Julie Pain. And, utterly no relative, was a friend's mother who was a phlebotomist, Mrs Pain. And that was what she inflicted when she saw one of her clients - her daughter's ex-boyfriend, who had made some ungentlemanly comments about her daughter after the break-up. -- Cathi Rob has a great story about his medic roommate and some MPs from his first tour in Korea. The medic was hassled by a MP for holding his Korean girlfriend's purse while she was doing some shopping. The purse had some drugs that were legal for Koreans, but not for American soldiers. Needless to say the medic got out of the problem by the skin of his teeth. And then it came time for everyone to get their annual flu shot... Of course the medic was one of those giving the shots and the MP who gave him the trouble made sure that he wasn't in his line. His partner was in the same line as the MP, in fact, right behind him. What neither of them knew was how popular the medic was. The first MP got to the head of the line and looked over at the table where the medic he'd harassed was working, only to see him nodding at the medic who was to give him the shots. The MP finally got a sense of his forth coming doom when he saw the medic preparing his shot. Now the flu shots came in pre-prepared needles, and the medic was preparing it by taping the point of the needle onto the table. Everyone who knew anything about needles and shots was watching with varying grimaces of pain on their faces. Rob said that the room was suddenly and totally silent. All one could hear was that slow tap...tap...tap as the medic blunted and dulled the needle. Then he prepared the injection site, in the meatiest part of the MP's arm, jabbed the needle in, changed the angle of the needle, injected the serum, then twisted the needle as he removed it. Blood flowed down the MP's arm as he left the staging area. The guy's partner was next in line. Fearfully he walked up to the table and said, "you know I was only with him, right?" "I know," replied the medic as he prepared and gently injected the flu shot into the medic's arm. You're done here. None of the medics ever had to worry about being needlessly hassled after that. Pam S. Oh, this made me cringe -- I guess that medic made his point ;o). Christine (ducking and running) My mother was an Army Medical Service Corps reservist. When her hospital unit was giving mass inoculations, she observed that there always was maneuvering to get into the line to be injected by the veterinarian. Asking some soldiers about this, they said he was the gentlest of any practitioner. When she asked him, he said "I have to be. My patients bite." Mind you, I do know of a major teaching hospital in which the Resident from Hell became a patient one day. People bid for giving him injections, but everyone got to use the bucket of ice outside his room -- to chill their stethoscopes. |
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