So I just got back from Vanderbilt’s emergency room. I dealt with a nurse who thought I was seeking, a resident who was tha shit (and pretty cute too), an old attending, and a dental resident. The nurse said from the start “We don’t give out pain medicine”. I was fine with that. I wanted antibiotics. “We only do nerve blocks and antibiotics if the doctor thinks it’s important enough.” Then fuckin give them honey!
Enter resident, who is excited at the prospect of draining the abscess, and my happiness level jumped. How could I get so lucky.
Seven shots of Novacaine to numb me up, and an hour and a half later, oral surgery resident, Mc Hottie 2, starts draining my abscess.
Oh yes, they also gave me an 8mg shot of Morphine….and 24 pain pills….so much for not giving out pain med nurse Linda.
I’m just glad that the swelling has gone down a bit. I wouldn’t have cared if they’d only given me 800 mg Ibuprofen if you want the truth, as long as the swelling had gone down and not come back. Now I’ll be able to work my super long shift tomorrow and make moneys…especially since I went home tonight to go to the ER.
At least the doctors could tell that I wasn’t just trying to get high, with the right side of my jaw hard as a rock and swollen to nearly golf ball size. I love my nurses, as any of the nursing bloggers I’ve got on my sidebar can tell you, and I’ll defend nurses to the grave because I rely on them, but I don’t like being prejudged like that. I cut her off when she started the lecture about my teeth being bad, and told her about my upcoming appointment to have most of them taken out. “We don’t give pain pills so don’t get your hopes up too high.” How dare she assume that’s what I was there for! I wanted relief from the swelling, not to get fucked up!
Anyway, when I get the survey, all my doctors who contributed to helping drain this “in the mouth abscess” when they didn’t have to will be getting major thanks, and I’m going to send them a card. I think I’ll send the nurse a card saying “Don’t prejudge, we’re not all seekers.”
Ribeye
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