Crazy stuff

Last night's ER shift was so brutal...people came in with the weirdest symptoms. Like, "my arm hurts"....and "no I didn't fall, no one hit me, it didn't hurt two days ago..and I could move it all around". But then he turned out to have a posteriorly dislocated shoulder that was definitely more than a few days old. Another woman came in who had no less than 5 complaints:

"I have decreased appetite, tingling in my arms and legs, a crawling sensation in my heart, sweats when I wake up in the morning, disorientation, dizziness, and I'm hearing voices."

"Oh really? hearing voices? Are they talking to you? Or can you just hear their conversation?"

"I just hear them...but I don't really want to talk about that now"

"Umm...okay."

Then it was someone coding in another pod, who was triaged as level 3, and while that was happening, someone else was giving birth in a third pod. She thought she was only 4 months pregnant, so she was actually refused by the delivery room. Well...the baby was coming out...and it was definitely more than 4 months...because it was very alive and crying....tiny little thing, but had to be at least 32 weeks. Poor mom though. No pain meds.

Anyways. That's life.