Although I no longer work, I remember that being in any medical field has it’s drawbacks. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and doctor’s offices taking care of sick folks and trying to do my best for them. It did pay off, except….SCRUBS MAKE YOU LOOK FAT!!
One day, I was running from floor to floor in the hospital, worn out, overworked, and riding the elevator up to work some more. A younger “gentleman” got on with me, looked me up and down. Now, here I am about 45 years old, so I was, undeniably, a bit impressed with the way I was holding up!! I said, “Hello, how are you?” He said, “Fine…when is your baby due?”
After I picked my chin up off the floor, and resisted slapping him into next week, I said, “Thirty three years ago. He’s a bit overdue. I hope he’s not too big to birth.” The guy gave me a go to hell look and got off the elevator. (I gave this some serious thought, and bought smaller scrubs.)
A few weeks later, I went into a patient’s room, and he refused his treatment. 
Now, it’s important to get your breathing treatments, people, but I reckon this is still America, and you do have the right to say no. I left the room, then charted his refusal. When I got back to the office, he had called. He said I didn’t bring his treatment at all. He was never offered a treatment! My supervisor (smart woman) called his room and asked, “Can you describe who came up there?” (a trick question…if I never came, and he answered, then he was so busted.) He said, “That lazy, tall, skinny girl with the messed up makeup and the frizzy, dyed blonde hair!
Now, folks, as long as they keep selling hair color, I ain’t gonna be gray headed. You 
do it if you want to. It’s your right…..and I have to admit that in those days we had perms and big hair. We all looked alike and you know I’m right. We all spent more money on hairspray and gel than we did on food. Our hair was so stiff we could have used it as weapons! We couldn’t stand too near people, or we would have put their eyes out!
I wanted to look like Janis Joplin, but instead I looked more like Phyllis Diller before the makeup artists got hold of her, and she went all Hollywood on us. That poor guy who was my patient may have been sick, but his eyesight was still twenty-twenty!!
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Hahahaha!! I love this!! I admire people in the medical profession! I could never do what you all do cause the guy in the elevator would got a cussin and so would the man that refused his treatment and lied! Keep em coming Sheila, we love your life stories!!
Thanks, Regina..unfortunately, they are all true!