You Need The Nurses To Come Back
Arkansas, Hospital, Nurse, Silly, USA | Healthy | February 21, 2018
(My husband is admitted to the local Veterans Administration hospital for heart problems. After hours in the ER, he finally gets a bed on the ward. His nurse comes in to introduce himself, check my husband’s vitals, retake history, and so on.)
Nurse: “Is there anything else I can get for you, sir?”
Me: *knowing what’s coming, I silently plead* “Oh, no… Not again.”
Husband: “Yes. Two weeks vacation, a raise, some sanity, and winning lottery tickets, please.”
Nurse: *dryly* “Sorry, sir. You’ll have to see the Travel and Disbursement clerk for those.”
(My husband has been replying that to ANYONE who asks him if they can get him anything — waitstaff, clerks, medical personnel, etc. — for the entire 30 years I have known him. This is the first time I have heard a really good comeback.)
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