December 14, 2005 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Conversation overheard on the Labor & Delivery Unit 12/13/05, Overnight Tour
Labor & Delivery Nurse: But you’re in so much pain! Are you sure you don’t want an epidural?
Screaming Pregnant Patient With Limited English Skills: No, no! I cannot!
L&D RN: Well, of course, that’s your choice. But is there any particular reason why not?
SCPWLES: A friend, my sister, she say to me to no do for it is to be later much back pain for my life. She say she no can move her back after. Very bad!(insert blood curdling scream here).
L&D RN: Really there’s very little chance of that, none, actually, don’t let that scare you. I’m not saying it didn’t happen, but everyone’s experience with epidurals can be different. Different people can experience the same events differently. Like let’s say you go to McDonalds and really like your hamburger, but then I go to the same McDonald’s and hate mine!
Pregnant Lady’s Husband: But I don’t like the McDonald’s.
The moral of the story is: Attempting to simplify matters frequently results in the point being missed entirely!
December 14, 2005
@ 4:18 pm
MissB;
OMG I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time. I didn;t want to have an epidural with my first son because I had heard that the drug enters the baby’s body and it could be harmful and take longer for both mother and baby to recover. I ended up having one and it was the best decision. EVER! I was asking for one as I walked into the delivery room with my second son. Give it to me NOW. NOOOWWWW!! Both times it was a man who gave the epidural and I think I proposed to both of them.
December 22, 2005
@ 6:50 am
My goodness, I have seen some of the same situations here, (not where I work…) However I am the pregnant patient with limited English (Japanese) Skills!!
Don’t let me fool you on my vlog!!
December 26, 2005
@ 2:28 pm
I just found you through mamalikey. I just want to tell you that Labor and Delivery nurses ROCK! I thank my nurse (Katie!) for ever so gently insisting on the epidural, yet making it look like it was my choice entirely.
And Nurse Betty, who in the end did all hard work while the OBGYN did the “catching”, and who stayed past her shift because she “wanted to meet this Baby” will always have a place in my heart.
I’ve become a nurse groupie. Your job is HARD.
January 6, 2006
@ 4:26 pm
I’m in the wrong business.