I'm the ER doc for a small town ER. Everyone in the town seems to know everyone else. One of my favorite nurses is Maggie. She was 77 when this happened she is a kind and very generous person and still sharp as a tack and a great nurse.
State Trooper D*** is a good guy but by the book in fact he has a reputation for giving his own wife a ticket once. I'm not sure if that's true but that's the reputation he has. We see officer D*** in the ER frequently questioning people involved in car accident maybe 3-4 times a month. Nice guy I like him.
Well officer D*** gave Maggie a ticket for 65 in a 60 zone. As luck would have it about 3 weeks later officer D*** came in the ER with the symptoms of a kidney stone. He had severe flank pain nausea vomiting and was diaphoretic [sweating]. Classsic symptoms of a kidney stone. I asked Maggie to start an IV on him so we could give him IV Toradol which usually significantly reduces kidney stone pain. It also seems to dilate the ureter so the stone passes easier.
I drew up the Toradol while Maggie was starting the IV and went to his bedside. Maggie was still starting the IV. I held up the syringe so officer D*** could see it and said" Maggie we could give this medicine to officer D*** who gave you a ticket three weeks ago and maybe reduce his pain or we could wait two or three hours until the results of the cat scan are back and we know for sure if it is a kidney stone or not. What do you think we should do Maggie? [I knew what she would say.] Maggie said "Oh let's give it to him now." She took the syringe and gave the medication in the IV she had just started for that purpose. About 4-5 minutes later officer D***'s pain was reduce 75-80%.
Officer D*** then said: "Oh I'm never giving another employee of this hospital a ticket again." I said: " good because kidney stones have a nasty habit of coming back."
About three months later I tested his words. I was driving home in my Suburban with the cruise control on 70 the car struggled to climb a large hill out side of the town and the cruise control showered down on the gas at the crest of the hill. I topped the hill doing 73 mph. Sure enough there was officer D*** and he pulled me over. He walks up to my window and sees me and says: "Oh its you! Slow down" and gets back in car and leaves. :beer:
State Trooper D*** is a good guy but by the book in fact he has a reputation for giving his own wife a ticket once. I'm not sure if that's true but that's the reputation he has. We see officer D*** in the ER frequently questioning people involved in car accident maybe 3-4 times a month. Nice guy I like him.
Well officer D*** gave Maggie a ticket for 65 in a 60 zone. As luck would have it about 3 weeks later officer D*** came in the ER with the symptoms of a kidney stone. He had severe flank pain nausea vomiting and was diaphoretic [sweating]. Classsic symptoms of a kidney stone. I asked Maggie to start an IV on him so we could give him IV Toradol which usually significantly reduces kidney stone pain. It also seems to dilate the ureter so the stone passes easier.
I drew up the Toradol while Maggie was starting the IV and went to his bedside. Maggie was still starting the IV. I held up the syringe so officer D*** could see it and said" Maggie we could give this medicine to officer D*** who gave you a ticket three weeks ago and maybe reduce his pain or we could wait two or three hours until the results of the cat scan are back and we know for sure if it is a kidney stone or not. What do you think we should do Maggie? [I knew what she would say.] Maggie said "Oh let's give it to him now." She took the syringe and gave the medication in the IV she had just started for that purpose. About 4-5 minutes later officer D***'s pain was reduce 75-80%.
Officer D*** then said: "Oh I'm never giving another employee of this hospital a ticket again." I said: " good because kidney stones have a nasty habit of coming back."
About three months later I tested his words. I was driving home in my Suburban with the cruise control on 70 the car struggled to climb a large hill out side of the town and the cruise control showered down on the gas at the crest of the hill. I topped the hill doing 73 mph. Sure enough there was officer D*** and he pulled me over. He walks up to my window and sees me and says: "Oh its you! Slow down" and gets back in car and leaves. :beer:
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