So life got the best of me, and well....I got busy.
This one wasn't the patient....it was totally the doc.
A woman came in to deliver baby number 10. She was nearly 40, advanced maternal age and probably, while most of us would have been long done having kids she and her husband, who were both very religious were going to let what may happen, happen.
Her OB was out of town, and since she is in practice by herself, another doctor was covering for her. He came in to deliver the baby and after the delivery asked if they were doing her tubal the next day. The woman's husband spoke up and said, "No, we would never do that."
"You're going to have more kids?" the doctor asks.
"God tells us that may be in his plan for us."
"God talks to you?"
From the completely mocking tone I can tell this conversation is going downhill fast.
"Yes"
"You should be evaluated for that."
I try and change the subject to the baby quickly which seems to work but only temporarily. Before the doctor leaves the room he sneaks up behind the dad and bellows out in an ominous voice. "This is God...Get a tubal."
I wanted to die.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
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Update your blog already!!! I'm home on maternity leave and need entertainment. :D
What if we sing... "baby come back!" ?
I just found your blog and I love it. I hope you keep posting.
Hoping you will be updating this again soon! I just found it and have been laughing my head off! Great stories!
we miss u and your stories.
I miss your posts! I hope all is well with you, and you're able to come back some time soon. :)
I just found your blog and must say I can't wait for a new post!! Hopefully everything is good and we'll be hearing from you soon!
Okay, so I'm in love with this doctor I never met. Does that make me bad?
I love your blog, it makes me laugh and cringe at the same time!
WE NEED MORE POSTS!!! WHERE ARE YOU?!
Please keep posting! I just found your blog and it is hysterical. Especially since I have to admit to being one of those frequent visitors when I had my first baby. In my defense she was born at 35 weeks, and I was in preterm labor, but they always made me feel bad for coming into the hospital, then the one time I decided to wait, I went into real labor and she was born.
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Shocking. Hilariously shocking, in my opinion, but I'm sure offensively so in others.
It has been a long while since you posted. I really hope everything is ok and that you and your family are all healthy and happy. Perhaps a quick post to let us know you are ok?
Just found your blog and I love it! Thanks for sharing these stories!
Please come back! I need a good laugh!!
Please tell us that you aren't posting because you got a fabulous book deal and will be out in print soon.
Sounds like Dr. House
OMG! Just discovered this blog. SO FUNNY!!! Are you planning on starting it up again? Please start it up again. I was laughing my ass off. I had a very slow, painful labor with my first and a VERY quick (kid came rocketing out) with my second. I'm sure I was a pain in the ass for both as I have an extremely low tolerance for pain. Please, oh please, blog some more. Come see me at http://myinnerteen.blogspot.com
Thanks,
Toasty
I discovered your blog some time back, but check it frequently to see possible updates! You are hilarious and I love hearing these stories. I was a teacher, now soon-to-be nurse, and I want to go into L&D. I love hearing about the craziness. Keep up the great work-you're a wonderful entertainer!
HI there. I stumbled onto your blog and it is honestly the only thing ever that has had me laughing hysterically out loud......so I am wondering are you going to keep posting anything because now that I have stalked your entire blog, I need more. cant get enough.... where are you??
I need new entries!
OK...I would have totally cracked up over that one....out at the nurses station.
Unbelievable that he would say that..sounds like he needs more competency training (cultural diversity etc..)
former l&d nurse turned midwife.
Fellow L&D nurse here who recently stumbled upon your blog. Rock on, sister. Awesome, hilarious stuff here. I shared it with all my girlfriends at work, they totally love it as well. Anybody who has a problem with this blog needs to yank the stick out of their butt and come to work with us for a shift or two. I find myself saying more and more at work, "the gene pool needs more chlorine."
Hope you come back to posting soon.
Fantastic! The doctor is so right, couples like this need to be told that what they are doing is dangerous and irresponsible.
Names and titles cannot be copyrighted, so you can use the exact same title of any book or movie for your own work without having to worry about legal repercussions, although it would be extremely rude. Besides, a phrase like "tales from labor and delivery" is pretty innocuous and not highly original, so it's not like she was actually stealing material from anyone with the title of her blog. She probably just quit writing for personal reasons.
That is flippin' hilarious! My husband and I have 7, but it is not all our fault! He brought one to the relationship and then we had three together. 18 months after the last one was born, the first extra one was brought to us and we kept him and then about 2 years later we were brought another child. And, we kept her too, because we did not plan to have any more and she needed to live with her sibling, right? That is a wonderful heartfelt story and I must admit that I bought it too, until I found out that I was accidentally pregnant 6 months after introducing the 6th child into our family! And, baby made 7!!! Yep, you've got it! I am typing this from a straight jacket right now!
hello! we miss you! come back to us! lol...
I KNOW so many women like this! And some of them have them so close together that multiple children go to the same grade. ARGH!
You really do need to post again. I just found you site and read all of your stories in one sitting. I laughed so hard I cried. Please post again soon I need another good laugh.
Bwahahahahahahaha! That is friggen HILARIOUS!
We miss you! Hope everything is ok and I will sit her anxiously awaiting your next post (tapping fingers impatiently :)).
Just to repeat what most of the last people have said, PLEASE keep it coming. I just discovered your blog and LOVE it!
This blog is awesome but I'm sad to see that this was the most recent post i.e. April 2008. I'm sure the crazies didn't stop coming through the doors. Hoping the posts pick up again.
As a mother 36 weeks pregnant with baby #10, I can say that doctors like this idiot are why I home birth.
**(bad-word, bad word, bad-word)**
And NO, I will not be getting a tubal, no matter what any Dr. thinks he can send down from "On High."
JERK.
Post again! :)
this is great!! I miss your blogs, hope to hear some crazy stories soon!
Hsve been waiting and waiting for another post, hope you want to update again soon. Love your blog, just wanted you to know you are missed!
You haven't done a post in a while! I'm dying for one!
Surely all of your patients haven't been THAT normal for 7 months!? Please, share more stories with us! My Google Reader and I miss you!
I just read through your entire blog and I LOVE it! I have four children of my own and I hope that I was a fairly normal patient! I did give birth to an 11 pounder drug free (not cool) and, because of that experience, got a little panicky delivering the next one (9 lbs 12 oz, delivered by the lovely nurses). I'm thinking of going back to school to become a nurse and hope that, should I manage to graduate, I can work as a L&D nurse. It's fun to read about the possible crazy things I could encounter! I hope you start posting again soon!!
Errrr...
I just about choked on my coffee at the end.
The more kids the better job security for us all:)
I love your blog and stories! Keep it up!
LMAO! I love it! Totally inappropriate, but freaking hilarious!
haha nice.
Just started reading your blog... love it.... as i am 7 months pregnant and scared to death!
*AMANDA
I dont know if this is the right place to be asking this... thought i would give it a shot.
Im thinking about becoming a L&D nurse. I want to know a few things about it before I sign up classes.
please e mail me at
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id apperciate it sooo much.
I too just found your blog. I hope you come back and post more stories. You are so funny. I work in postpartum and I think half of the stories I come home with, people do not believe me. LOL Please come back!
This blog gave me great laughs when I was pregnant. Please come back and post more!!
This is too funny! I have gotten my share of laughter tears over this. I work in the nursery and just get report from the delivery nurses so I someitmes get half the story, but am usually left with many unanswered questions! Thanks for the share from the inside. Where have you gone. I need something new to keep me awake on noght shifts!
wth? Where did you go?
I love your blog! It makes me laugh out loud which for me is a rarity. Please keep writing!
I miss your funny posts. I hope nothing happened to you. Hopefully you'll start posting again soon...there are many people who need the comic relief you've been giving us.
Asshat, yes.....Funny, DEFINITELY!!
Will you ever be back? Are you okay????
Its christmas eve and I am working....or not. I have actually been reading your blogs since I got here this morning. I found it by chance and couldn't stop reading. Great content and subject matter!!! In fact, I had a boy eight months ago and had the BEST L&D nurse. You guys have similar personalities...Liz, is that you on the other side of this computer??? HAHA!!
As for this post, I am just glad the doctor is able to say whats on his mind. There are not a lot of people that have the courage to say what they really mean...albeit, it was probably not the best time, but still hilarious.
Loved your voice, your humor, your observations! So sorry to have come to the end of your posts. I'm an animal nurse who just celebrated my kid's one-year birthday a couple weeks ago, a baby boy who resulted from an unexpected pregnancy, after being told I couldn't have any children for three decades. I am the WORST offender you can probably imagine LOL: not figuring out I was preg until I was more than two months along! And then, too busy working 60-hour weeks to stop and read a single pregnancy book, so I freaked out as badly as your "baby having a seizure" patient LMAO when I first saw movement! I blogged about it in this post if you skip through to the second half:
http://zoomandzay.blogspot.com/2008/09/6-months-pregnant.html
What a cringe-worthy moment, and what wonderful perspective you have brought to the table!! I totally respect that you got tired of blogging and reclaimed your life, but it's our loss!!!! I will come back often and hope for a revisit one day!
Thanks for sharing, and for all these great posts!! "SISSSS-TER!!!!" I almost died laughing!
Happy holidays. You are sorely missed!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Even if you don't post anymore you blog is still fun to re-read.
Cheers!
not sure how i found your blog but SO happy i did
i have worked in health care 30 yrs plus. though i am in senior care. you have to find the humor just so you dont go nuts, and sometimes the humor just about slaps you in the face.
love your blog, love your stories &
have to say, thanks for the laughs.
Missing you!
This doc was probably one of many kids to have the gall to do something like this. And how did the man react? With ten kids he must have gone deaf anyway.
My great grandmother had ten, no twelve kids, and she lived upto 95!
I'm sad you haven't posted in forever-- your blog is HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!
Love your blog and miss your stories. Hope you a OK and are coming back soon!
More posts, please! Hoping you're okay...
Are you ever going to blog again? I love your stories!
Are you ever going to blog again? I love your stories!
You haven't been around for a while and I hope you're coming back!
I've nominated you for a Kreativ Blogger award. You can collect it from my blog http://feebeez.blogspot.com/2009/01/kreativ-blogger-award.html
MISS MISS MISS YOU!!!! :)
COME BACK and ENTERTAIN US!!!
I can't believe a doctor actually said that!!! But, she does need a tubal!
Please post more!!! I love reading your blog!
I just found your hilarious blog today. I have to say that I am a very religious person that does believe in personal revelation from God, but story made me cry with laughter. You're lucky to work with people with such great sense of humors.
i miss you. please come back.
I MISS YOU. My reader is very sad without updates from TfromL&D!!
I check back here periodically to see if you've posted more. I think you are hilarious and would love to hear more. Keep 'em coming!!
I think your blog totally rocks
love the stories, I have worked in health care most of my life with the elderly
please keep posting
Post a new story!!!!
come back!!!
How many comments are you trying to reach to before you'll post again? What's the magic number?
hey just wondering where you have been!? love reading your blog found it over a year go and its been about a year since your last post!! Please post soon!
Did you die or something?
I just found your blog in March 2009 and realized it's been 8 months since you posted last. Reading through your blog made me laugh harder than I have in a long time. Please come back. Please? I hope this has nothing to do with your job or anything.
300 comments, when will you at least say hello? If you have a new blog, please email me!
u ok?
You may never see this comment, but are you still there? Still able to blog? I found this randomly and read all of them right away, was rivited. Please, more!
It's been a year. Let's hope things are well with you. Please start posting again. ^_^
I found your blog a little while ago, and I keep checking back just in case... Hopefully we'll hear from you again, if not, thanks for the highly entertaining stories.
Soooo funny, (i know, not for the couple) :-)
I just stumbled across your blog in an attempt to research becoming a L&D nurse. I love it! You have the same type of sarcastic and witty humor that I have. Your stories are very interesting and generally enjoyable or even funny. I'm definitely bookmarking your blog!
i ABSOLUTLY LOVE YOUR BLOG KEEP UM COMING!
Hysterical!
I am dying for some more posts! You are bound to have some more stories. . .
Come back! More posts please!
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Where ARE you????????????? Good grief!!!!!!!!
Wow...I'm 40 and expecting baby number two. I hope that I don't run into a dipsh*t doc like that! (But then, I'm an ICU nurse...sometimes I like kicking dumb doctor ass. Thank goodness I don't have to do it too often.)
I certainly never planned to be pg this late, but after 10 years of male factor infertility and IVF/ICSI, a child who survived years of brutal leukemia treatment, and numerous other life obstacles, completing my family by age 34 just didn't happen.
Thank goodness she had you on her side (even if most of us wouldn't go for the unlimited kids plan).
Did you get fired or something... it's been over a year!
That was really funny..and specially for a doctor. I really cant imagine..how it could be done.
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I am another who has followed your blog and keeps watching and waiting for you to post an update. You are hysterical and I loved reading your stories (I work in law enforcement, and have many equally stupid stories).
Please come back!
Sorry to hear that doctor was such an epic tool, though points to you for not strangling him. That should earn you A TON of good karma.
I read your whole blog; I've been debating what branch of nursing I'd like to specialize in. Reading your blogs and seeing that you manage to stay sane (as much as any of us can) and keep a sense of humor in this particular branch of nursing has encouraged me to go this route as well. Thank you so much! Keep blogging! :D
Come back! I miss your tales from L&D :)
Come back!
I have read your blog and absolutely love it- have you abandoned it? Please come back!
I'm sorr, but I'm with the doctor on that one! 10 kids is way more than enough! At this point, the mother is putting her health and her sanity at risk!
Was blog hopping and landed here. Hope you'll pay my blog a visit sometime soon.
I'm sorry, but I'm with the doctor on that one! 10 kids is way more than enough! At this point, the mother is putting her health and her sanity at risk!
Was blog hopping and landed here. Hope you'll pay my blog a visit sometime soon.
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When are you coming back? I miss you stories!
That.is.awesome!
I don't think, getting pregnant depends on the age factors. It all depends on the wish of the couples as parents to grow the child.
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Health care reforms
I miss your blog. Why did you stop? Are you writing somewhere else?
I miss your blog. Why did you stop? Are you writing somewhere else?
Hi, just found your blog and read the whole thing. It's fantastic! I would love to read more, where have you been since 2008? Please post again, this stuff is too good not to share.
I guess I'm late to the party! I found your blog from a friend's link. Unfortunately for me, I found it at about midnight. I read it straight through and didn't get to bed until 1:30am. I couldn't stop! You have a gift for storytelling!! I agree with everyone else in saying I would lovvvve to read more. It's addicting! I going to have my hubby read it just before his OB clinicals. heehee. Hope all is well in your world and that you decide to give it a go again!
Are you still writing stories? I have lots to share and I am considering writing a book on the subject. Contact me. Heynurse3@aol.com
Karen
Hi!! I really like your blog, even though you don't update anymore :(
I would really like to ask you questions about your profession. So is there anywhere I can reach you? Don't worry I'm not some kind of creep or anything. I'm just a college student trying to figure out what kind of profession to pursue. So please help me! :)
AAAAAAAAAAAH HAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAA hA!!! Oh my gosh that made me laugh!! Very funny but VERY innapropriate Doc. I can imagine you begging for the floor to open and swallow you quickly!!
I just read your ENTIRE blog. I'm a hopeful future L&D nurse. Love your stories!!!
that could have been my mom--but she was in her mid 30's. She had a c section and the doctor asked my dad if they could tie her up while they were in there. He said no. Wise move. My mom would have killed him if he'd said yes!
Whether people agree with their decision or not, my parents had 6 more kids after that c section, including me, so I'm kinda grateful that they didn't listen to the doc!
If I were that nurse I probably wouldn't be able to stop laughing. It's sweet that the couple would want more kids, but it's such a health risk for the kid - I would have to encourage it as well. Babies born when the mom is near or over 40 is way to dangerous.
I wish you'd write again, this was an amazingly great blog!!
I miss your blog!!! I was so excited about that show "One Born Every Minute" because I thought maybe the nurses would tell stories like yours and they don't, so I'm depressed.
COME BACK!
I had my ninth baby at 39. She is now about to graduate from college. And no, it did not 'wreak havoc' on my body. I have several friends with nine children and one with eleven. We are all healthy. (Except the one who died of pancreatic cancer, but this was not caused by having 9 children!) We are not incontinent. We still enjoy sex. Our bones are not osteoporotic. And our children are all grown up or growing up and doing well. This doctor is a jerk, he doesn't know what he is talking about, he is imposing his own values which are not a medical opinion but just his own values, on this patient, in a public and rather humiliating way. None of his business! And I hope he got himself reported for talking to patients that way.
Susan Peterson
That is really unprofessional of the physician, but it made me burst into giggles. After reading your blog, I'm certain that L&D is the area that I'd like to work in after I graduate. Something different everyday. I noticed you haven't updated since 2008... I hope you update sometime in the near future!
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found your blog through a message board and read EVERYTHING in a few hours. I don't know if you will get to read this seeing as it's been quite a few years since this entry but I just needed to say thank you for the laughs.
We miss you, come back!!
I know I am just one commenting reader among many, but I hope my vote counts as well. I read your blog in times when I need a good laugh. It is medicinal and never fails. I have my favorite stories I like to reread and laugh hysterically each time. It is so refreshing to read them. I hope you post more and keep checking back just in case. You are missed!
That is terrifying!
Maybe this 'asshat, jackass' Doctor has read a little bit about the world situation. The one that's concerned with a diminishing fresh water source. A world relying on GMO foods to feed a burgeoning population. The world population doubled between 1970 and 2000. The growth of humans is exponential and we 'are' the biggest parasites on the planet. I recommend all your readers read Les Brown's free e-book, Plan B 3.0. It might open their eyes to why this doc was thinking 'tubal ?'...
You are right about that.
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I know it's been over four years, but I still miss your blog. Even if you've moved on to bigger and better things, a post to let us know all is well would be comforting! Cheers to you and your sense of humor!
Please come back! I still check by on a regular basis and would love more of your stories! I know I'm not the only one!
::fingers crossed::
Either way, thanks for the laughs :)
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Every so often I come back to check I see if you're posting again only to be disappointed. That was 6.5 years ago. So sad. 😞. Come back?
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