Funny Training Stories?

[rocker]

I've thought about telling this story here for ages now, and I thought it might be a good idea to start a thread for it.  We need to find the humor in everything. 

So, the funniest training story I can remember right now is this:

We started our training with all the usual fears and apprehensions.  But I had read up on NxStage, and how much better the outcomes are, and I was determined that this was something we could do.

Our training nurse was kind and patient but a bit ditzy at times.  Her chairside manner was not the greatest, and she would sometimes blurt out awkward things.  But that was ok, my social skills are not the most well-honed, so I tried to make allowances for that.

She loved to tell stories about previous patients she had trained.  Every so often, she would tell one of these stories and then add the postscript, with a very dejected look and a quiet tone, "Yeah, we lost him."  Ok....this is a little freaky for me.  Don't most patients do much better on NxStage?  Isn't the mortality so much lower?  How is she losing patients?  I made up a hundred explanations for myself.  But I was terrified to ask.  So throughout training, this happens maybe four or five times.  It was really starting to bother me.  But still, I didn't ask.  We'll be different.  It doesn't say anything about our chances.

So, we're on like the final week of training.  Yet another "I had a patient once...." story.  Another ending of "We lost him."  So I'm looking at her attentively to hear the story, and this time something must have shown on my face that she was really freaking me out.  So she looks at me, with that same sad face, and that same quiet, dejected voice, she says

"Yeah.  He got a transplant, too."

  - rocker

[boswife]

This was so funny and I'm so glad you shared with us. I can see why you wanted to too. .).   I really enjoyed it and hope to hear more. I had a few funny moments too but am in read only mode. (hehe, well except this). Il all wore out from our day. Hope to read More soon

[lmunchkin]

Rocker, I would have thought the same thing.  So cute!

lmunchkin

[vcarmody]

That made me chuckle. 
When we were in training I was scared to death, the two couples that trained right before us both ended up back in center because they just couldn't do it. So that made me ever more scared, I was so afraid I was going to infiltrate my husband or do something even worse.  One day when he was all hooked up and running our nurse was going over medical emergencies and how to handle them.  She was saying sometimes patients will just become unresponsive and that is a medical emergency and she was going over the ways to handle it.  I turned around to look at my husband and he is just staring straight ahead with this blank stare on his face, so I yell "Chris" and he don't move.  I almost fall out of my chair trying to get up and check on him and so does his nurse and he starts cracking up.  He loves to tell people this story, and I have to admit it is funny to me now, not so much that day.   

[looneytunes]

VC...I think if hubby had done that to me, he WOULD need an EMT!  How scary! 

Rocker, I loved that story and laughed so hard that I had tears...thanks for telling it.          

[pitagory]

  thatt is too funny. love it.

[brandywine]

Rocker-That is JUST what I needed right about now! My nurse was really ditsy too. The first time she injected me with iron through IV, it took three tries. So I ran around for a week with two badly bruised and busted veins on my arms. She finally got another nurse to do it right the third time. It's a good thing I'm so used to getting stuck.
The lady is so sweet, I can never be mad at her, even when I want to be.

[mcclane]

hope i'm not off topic :

but during button hole development/training session, the nurse had to go to the washroom.  I told her I no longer have the problem any more, she turned at me and laughed.