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Heard Any Good Ones: Part 2
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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 786087" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="color: #008250"><span style="color: #008250"><strong>Hospital regulations</strong></span></span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #008250"><span style="color: #008250"><strong> require a wheel chair for patients being discharged. However, while working as a student nurse, I found one elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, who insisted he</strong></span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #3f8080"><span style="color: #3f8080"><strong>d</strong></span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #008250"><span style="color: #008250"><strong>idn't need my help to leave the hospital.</strong></span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #008250"><span style="color: #008250"><strong>After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him to the elevator.</strong></span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #008250"></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="color: #008250"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #008250">On the way down I asked him if his wife was meeting him.</span></span></strong></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></span><p style="text-align: center"></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></strong><p style="text-align: center"></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #008250"><span style="color: #008250"><strong>'I don't know,' he said. 'She's still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown.'</strong></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="color: #c20041"><span style="color: #c20041"><strong>Couple in their nineties</strong></span></span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #c20041"><span style="color: #c20041"><strong> are both having problems remembering things. During a checkup, the doctor tells them that they're physically okay, but they might want to start writing things down to help them remember</strong></span></span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"> <strong><strong>...</strong></strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #c20041"><span style="color: #c20041"><strong>Later that night, while watching TV, the old man gets up from his chair. 'Want anything while I'm in the kitchen?' he asks.</strong></span></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #c20041"><span style="color: #c20041"><strong>'Will you get me a bowl of ice cream?'</strong></span></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #c20041"><span style="color: #c20041"><strong>'Sure..'</strong></span></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #c20041"><span style="color: #c20041"><strong>'Don't you think you should write it down so you can remember it?' she asks.</strong></span></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #c20041"><span style="color: #c20041"><strong>'No, I can remember it.'</strong></span></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #c20041"><span style="color: #c20041"><strong>'Well, I'd like some strawberries on top, too. Maybe you should write it down, </strong></span></span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #c00000"><span style="color: #c00000"><strong>so</strong></span></span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="color: #c00000"><span style="color: #c00000">a</span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #c00000"><span style="color: #c00000"><strong>s</strong></span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #c20041"><span style="color: #c20041"><strong> not to forget it?'</strong></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #c20041"><span style="color: #c20041"><strong>He says, 'I can remember that. You want a bowl of ice cream with strawberries.'</strong></span></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #c20041"><span style="color: #c20041"><strong>'I'd also like whipped cream. I'm certain you'll forget that, write it down?' she asks.</strong></span></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #c20041"><span style="color: #c20041"><strong>Irritated, he says, 'I don't need to write it down, I can remember it! Ice cream with strawberries and whipped cream - I got it, for goodness sake!'</strong></span></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #c20041"><span style="color: #c20041"><strong>Then he toddles into the kitchen. After about 20 minutes,</strong></span></span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #c20041"><span style="color: #c20041"><strong>The old man returns from the kitchen and hands his wife a plate of bacon and eggs... She stares at the plate for a moment.</strong></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #c20041"><span style="color: #c20041"><strong>'Where's my toast ?'</strong></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="color: purple"><span style="color: purple"><strong>A little old man</strong></span></span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: purple"><span style="color: purple"><strong> shuffled slowly into an ice cream parlor and pulled himself slowly, painfully, up onto a stool.. After catching his breath, he ordered a banana split.</strong></span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: purple"></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="color: purple"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: purple">The waitress asked kindly, 'Crushed nuts?'</span></span></strong></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></span><p style="text-align: center"></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></strong><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="color: purple"></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="color: purple"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: purple">'No,' he replied, 'Arthritis.'</span></span></strong></span></strong></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"></span><strong><span style="color: purple"></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="color: purple"></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 786087, member: 1246"] [CENTER][B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=7][COLOR=#008250][COLOR=#008250][B]Hospital regulations[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][B][SIZE=5][COLOR=#008250][COLOR=#008250][B] require a wheel chair for patients being discharged. However, while working as a student nurse, I found one elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, who insisted he[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][B][SIZE=5][COLOR=#3f8080][COLOR=#3f8080][B]d[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][B][SIZE=5][COLOR=#008250][COLOR=#008250][B]idn't need my help to leave the hospital.[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][B][SIZE=5][COLOR=#008250][COLOR=#008250][B]After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him to the elevator.[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][B][COLOR=#008250] [CENTER][B][SIZE=5][COLOR=#008250]On the way down I asked him if his wife was meeting him.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][/CENTER][/COLOR][CENTER][/center][/B][CENTER][/CENTER] [B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=5][COLOR=#008250][COLOR=#008250][B]'I don't know,' he said. 'She's still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown.'[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/CENTER] [CENTER][B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=7][COLOR=#c20041][COLOR=#c20041][B]Couple in their nineties[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][B][SIZE=5][COLOR=#c20041][COLOR=#c20041][B] are both having problems remembering things. During a checkup, the doctor tells them that they're physically okay, but they might want to start writing things down to help them remember[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][SIZE=2][COLOR=black][COLOR=black] [B][B]...[/B][/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE] [B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=5][COLOR=#c20041][COLOR=#c20041][B]Later that night, while watching TV, the old man gets up from his chair. 'Want anything while I'm in the kitchen?' he asks.[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=5][COLOR=#c20041][COLOR=#c20041][B]'Will you get me a bowl of ice cream?'[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=5][COLOR=#c20041][COLOR=#c20041][B]'Sure..'[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=5][COLOR=#c20041][COLOR=#c20041][B]'Don't you think you should write it down so you can remember it?' she asks.[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=5][COLOR=#c20041][COLOR=#c20041][B]'No, I can remember it.'[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=5][COLOR=#c20041][COLOR=#c20041][B]'Well, I'd like some strawberries on top, too. Maybe you should write it down, [/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][B][SIZE=5][COLOR=#c00000][COLOR=#c00000][B]so[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][SIZE=6][COLOR=#c00000][COLOR=#c00000]a[/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][B][SIZE=5][COLOR=#c00000][COLOR=#c00000][B]s[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][B][SIZE=5][COLOR=#c20041][COLOR=#c20041][B] not to forget it?'[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=5][COLOR=#c20041][COLOR=#c20041][B]He says, 'I can remember that. You want a bowl of ice cream with strawberries.'[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=5][COLOR=#c20041][COLOR=#c20041][B]'I'd also like whipped cream. I'm certain you'll forget that, write it down?' she asks.[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=5][COLOR=#c20041][COLOR=#c20041][B]Irritated, he says, 'I don't need to write it down, I can remember it! Ice cream with strawberries and whipped cream - I got it, for goodness sake!'[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=5][COLOR=#c20041][COLOR=#c20041][B]Then he toddles into the kitchen. After about 20 minutes,[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][B][SIZE=5][COLOR=#c20041][COLOR=#c20041][B]The old man returns from the kitchen and hands his wife a plate of bacon and eggs... She stares at the plate for a moment.[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=5][COLOR=#c20041][COLOR=#c20041][B]'Where's my toast ?'[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/CENTER] [CENTER][B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=7][COLOR=purple][COLOR=purple][B]A little old man[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][B][SIZE=5][COLOR=purple][COLOR=purple][B] shuffled slowly into an ice cream parlor and pulled himself slowly, painfully, up onto a stool.. After catching his breath, he ordered a banana split.[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][B][COLOR=purple] [CENTER][B][SIZE=5][COLOR=purple]The waitress asked kindly, 'Crushed nuts?'[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][/CENTER][/COLOR][CENTER][/center][/B][CENTER][B][COLOR=purple] [B][SIZE=5][COLOR=purple]'No,' he replied, 'Arthritis.'[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][/COLOR][/B][COLOR=black][/COLOR][/CENTER][COLOR=black] [/COLOR][B][COLOR=purple] [/COLOR][/B] [/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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