Categories: Scrubs

True (and funny!) stories from real nurses

Resited

I was recovering an elderly Cornish female patient who was hard of hearing and who had had her colostomy resited. Upon awakening, we had the following conversation:

“What’s ‘e done then?”

“He’s resited your colostomy.”

“‘e’s what?”

“He’s resited your colostomy.”

“Recycled my colostomy! Well, who’s got it then?”

Taste test –>

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