on placement in A&E......
I walked in to resus at about 7 one winters morning and was promptly asked if i was busy and would fancy doing a job. And me being the keen eager student nurse i am leapt at the chance to show my keeness.

Anywho, i'm taken over to mrs H who had fallen in the night and had a severed an artery in her scalp. The wound was stitched up and she felt fine, but her hair was matted with blood. I was handed a comb and told it was my job to get it out.

Now she'd been sitting there with a lot of blood in her hair for a good four hours and most of it had clotted and tanged in her hair with a nice layer of blood jelly forming over her scalp.
So i got my apron and my gloves on and began to comb. And of course, i combed towards myself.

When i walked out that cubicle, i was splattered with small drops of blood. It didn't seem quite so bad until i took the apron off and you could very clearly see the outline of the apron against my uniform.

I still find it difficult to go in to a butchers, because her hair (and me afterwards) smelt like raw meat.
(minsh, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 21:57, Reply)