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  • @willhandy5345
    @willhandy5345 5 дней назад +42

    My mother was a WW II era nurse. One night shift, she freaked out a nursing assistant who came running up to the nurse’s station in great alarm and blurted, “Mr. Jackson fell out of bed on his head and he’s dead!” The agitation (new assistant) and the triple rhyme struck my mom as funny, so she cracked up, horrifying the fresh young nursing assistant and wounding her tender sensibilities. Mom checked on the late Mr. Jackson and found him crumpled up in the floor at the foot of the bed. He had died, and a post-mortem spasm catapulted him down the length of his bed, where he smashed, head first, into the wall, making a significant dent. She knew it happened after death because there was no bleeding or bruising.

    • @lalaithan
      @lalaithan 4 дня назад +2

      That sounds like something I would do. 😂

  • @myrajoyce3494
    @myrajoyce3494 5 дней назад +31

    Shrimping. What has been heard, cannot be unheard. TYVM.

    • @GreenHeet
      @GreenHeet 4 дня назад +1

      Unfortunately 😕

  • @Sibera02
    @Sibera02 6 дней назад +267

    Steve didn't want to know what Shrimping was. Now we all know in horror.

    • @mooma7
      @mooma7 6 дней назад +7

      nor sounding apparently... lol

    • @llyallowyn8127
      @llyallowyn8127 6 дней назад +7

      It's felching with a straw 🤢

    • @sallyintucson
      @sallyintucson 6 дней назад +14

      I could have lived without knowing that too. 🤢

    • @susanmorris6945
      @susanmorris6945 6 дней назад +3

      😩🤮

    • @metalkatt1
      @metalkatt1 5 дней назад +4

      🤢 🤮

  • @rosebrown6381
    @rosebrown6381 5 дней назад +16

    That story where the nurse had to do the skill check with the DON, I swear the woman using the dead nurse's licenses over time sounds like an escaped psych patient.

  • @beecamargo8694
    @beecamargo8694 6 дней назад +34

    The best story I have happened about 2 years ago, my mom went to the ob/gyn and he scheduled her in for some routine exams. On the day of the exam she walks into the clinic and all the nurses are being super nice to her, going out of their way to make sure she is comfortable and she starts getting a little weirded out. She walks into the exam room and they set her up to do a breast exam first. The lady (I don't know if it was a nurse or a doctor) starts checking her out and goes "wow, these are super well done. They look so real." And my mom gets a little confused. "They are real" "no but really, I can't even see a scar". Mom is getting more weirded out by the minute. Next the lady asks my mom to bend over, she also mentions something about everything being very realistic before proceeding with the exam and after a few moments goes "This is very strange, I can't find your prostate anywhere. Mom stops. "I don't have a prostate." "What?" "I'm a woman" the exam lady goes pale "no, yeah I know, but they shouldn't have removed your prostate" "I've never had a prostate" "wait, you are a woman?". Turns out the doctor had accidentally ordered a prostate exam instead of the ultrasound, somehow my mom didn't notice and the poor staff in the clinic thought she was a trans woman so you can imagine how confused that poor lady was. My mom couldn't stop laughing.

    • @JaniceinOR
      @JaniceinOR 5 дней назад

      Even if the patient were a trans woman, many trans women grow their own breasts because of the hormone treatment. I guess the woman examining your mom had some inaccurate ideas about the anatomy of trans women.

    • @trystanmentzer873
      @trystanmentzer873 4 дня назад +2

      I'm glad she had a good sense of humor about it. So many people would completely offended and even try to sue.

    • @JaniceinOR
      @JaniceinOR 3 дня назад

      Why would a nurse or doctor assume a trans woman would have breast scars? The trans women I know grew their own breasts as a result of the hormone treatments they take.

  • @courtneybermack
    @courtneybermack 4 дня назад +15

    Asthma in the ER stories!!
    Years ago, I lived across the street from a very small local hospital. It did have an ER, though, and that was very convenient a couple of times.
    My asthma is aggravated by allergies. One night I woke up and I couldn't breathe well; my meds didn't work. I know all I need is a real good hit from that O2+albuterol pipe, but since I don't have oxygen coming out of my walls, I walk across the street and go into the ER.
    There's nobody there for a little while, but I'm only uncomfortable and not dying yet, so okay. Finally someone shows up, puts me in a room, and hooks me up with the sweet smoke of life.
    A few minutes later, someone else shows up... with a golden retriever. IN THE ER. I was like ???? but I had my pipe and so I made sure to stay in my room until my lungs were real chill before walking past golden retriever dander. If that dog had come up close to me, that might have turned into a "let's stay overnight, should I call a lawyer" visit.
    I cannot imagine what made someone think that was an okay thing to do!
    ---------
    I was in the ER for asthma each time I visited family for a few years. Smokers, strange cats and dogs, and once again it's christmas or new year's eve in the ER. A triage nurse once said she could tell how bad an asthmatic is by how many words they can say at once before having to take another breath. "Oh really? [gasp] Can you tell me [gasp] more about that? [gasp]"
    Once I went in and my O2 sat was low enough that we skipped over all the triage, paperwork, and even the "what's your name" business. I had like eight people around me on the bed, putting little stickers on me, getting the IV in, so on. It was a *lot*. I hadn't felt light-headed walking into the place but that was too much excitement. I managed to say "there's too many of you, I'm gonna pass out" and POOF they were gone so fast I might have thought I imagined them. I don't know where they went, maybe they dropped under the bed or popped into another dimension. Some kind of nurse magic trick.
    --------
    When I was in college, I went over to the student health center in the middle of the night. Same deal as before, I'll be fine after I get the pipe. The nurse tried to hook me up to the oxygen in the wall, but there wasn't any. They were doing maintenance or something and hadn't set up an alternative or even told everyone.
    Fortunately, they found a tank, so I there I was, sitting in a wheelchair, holding the pipe in one hand and the O2 tank in another, listening to them going back and forth about whether anywhere in the place had the wall O2 working. I'm so glad they found one -- a really nice room, too, with a lovely view -- so I didn't have to get a transport to the Big Grown-Up Hospital.
    I'm much better controlled now!

    • @cathipalmer8217
      @cathipalmer8217 4 дня назад +4

      My sister worked in a hospital where it was somehow discovered that the wall O2 in one of the rooms had *never* been connected. They had to go back through their records determine which of the deaths that had occurred in that room over the years could be attributed to that equipment failure. No idea what the results were.

    • @St0sch
      @St0sch 12 часов назад

      That dog was most likely someone's service dog.

  • @carriemccarter203
    @carriemccarter203 6 дней назад +22

    When you said shrimping I immediately thought of FOREST GUMP !! 😅

  • @bazmitaz3809
    @bazmitaz3809 5 дней назад +7

    Everyone is talking about shrimping from a boat. But dont you think it's the type where you catch sandprawns with a mud pump? You walk across the mud flats and push the long pipe into the mud, pump out a column of mud by suction and squirt the mud, water and prawns onto the surface to collect and go in the bucket?

    • @aimeewaldron383
      @aimeewaldron383 3 дня назад +1

      This needs to be higher up the comment section. Definitely makes sense!

  • @caljones
    @caljones 5 дней назад +26

    Pretty sure the “saving grocery bags for trash bags” is a human thing lol

  • @kkerr1953
    @kkerr1953 6 дней назад +157

    Doesn’t everyone save their plastic bags and use them as garbage sacks in the bathroom or at least as trashcan liners!
    I haven’t bought liners for bathroom trash cans since they switched over to plastic bags from paper bags! 😂😂

    • @valkyrie1066
      @valkyrie1066 6 дней назад +3

      Oh heck yeah! They have a rack you can buy that fits over cabinet doors with loops, specifically to hold grocery bags. That's what we use. Easy to pick up, tie, and diescard in the big can out front.

    • @corrinbielawski8035
      @corrinbielawski8035 6 дней назад +3

      Used to, before they were banned in our country.

    • @maryjane4432
      @maryjane4432 6 дней назад +2

      @@corrinbielawski8035some states and cities in the United States have banned them as well. Thankfully I live in a rural area and we don’t have to do the guidelines

    • @RB-sy1oz
      @RB-sy1oz 6 дней назад

      Yes I do, but next year they are switching the state to paper bags as they claim no one is reusing them.

    • @robertgibbs6154
      @robertgibbs6154 6 дней назад +3

      I haven't ever bought small trash can liners. I live in WA and we have a plastic bag "ban", like CA, which isn't really a ban at all. Retailers can opt to buy thicker reusable bags but have to charge 8 cents each, which goes directly to the state. They're not really reusable in a retail setting. The thicker bags are great, though, for trashcan liners, and you can pack them super full, and they don't generally rip. It's just a feel good revenue stream for the state. CA has already figured out that their plastic waste went through the roof after their "ban" and are looking at repealing it.

  • @shervert13
    @shervert13 5 дней назад +11

    “We will be talking a bout you in the break room, good sir”. Lol!

  • @maryford3243
    @maryford3243 6 дней назад +111

    Shrimping is not something I ever needed to know. I'm older, and hopefully, I'll forget it soon

    • @MarrisaPlays
      @MarrisaPlays 6 дней назад +16

      praying for memory loss was not on my 2025 bingo card

    • @robertgibbs6154
      @robertgibbs6154 6 дней назад +6

      The upside to Alzheimers.

    • @Mcfreddo
      @Mcfreddo 6 дней назад +2

      All comments here are funny as! 😂😂😂.

    • @lisamoulton2540
      @lisamoulton2540 6 дней назад +2

      Not fair! 😂

    • @AlixnGL
      @AlixnGL 5 дней назад

      I want to wash my brain with bleach now to remove that story. 😂😂😂

  • @bobbieabbott
    @bobbieabbott 6 дней назад +96

    Well, I do physical therapy, and I was gait training an elderly woman with her walker in the hallway of a skilled nursing facility. I look up and see a very tall man in the opposite hallway coming towards us completely naked with the nurses trying to stop him I told my patient let’s sit down, but she catches a glimpse of the gentlemen and says hell no I haven’t seen that in years I want to look.

  • @debeckersley3850
    @debeckersley3850 6 дней назад +42

    In 1979, I had just graduated from college and was working at a title company as an escrow secretary
    I got to know a lot of real estate agents.
    Fast forward, I take an entry level secretary job at my local hospital. One day, in the hall, I see one of the real estate agents I knew, now dressed in a nurses white uniform and cap. I said hello, when did you start nursing? Her face turned bright red, and she walked past me, saying nothing. The Director of Nursing ( a man), approached me and asked how I knew her. I told him. I found out later that she had a fake RN license, and the staff were complaining that she had no nursing skills whatsoever. She was arrested and jailed.

  • @user-ez4el4ux6i
    @user-ez4el4ux6i 6 дней назад +106

    You leave us with shrimping?!?!?!?! Couldn't you have left us with a better image?

    • @shannamarietaylor1937
      @shannamarietaylor1937 6 дней назад +3

      Right😂

    • @favouritezee7096
      @favouritezee7096 6 дней назад +14

      I am going to run and tell my husband about shrimping and watch him gag 😅

    • @shannamarietaylor1937
      @shannamarietaylor1937 6 дней назад

      @favouritezee7096 my man's would literally probs dump me for this explanation...one day i announced the meaning of docking he dead ass looked at me and said you are disgusting lol I think about it n often still fkn embarrassed...happy holidays 😅 mthr fkrs

  • @Jenniferjames23
    @Jenniferjames23 6 дней назад +32

    Now I have to live with knowing what shrimping is 😢. Dammit and right before I go to sleep. Thank you and sweet dreams to you too 😂!

  • @mikakestudios5891
    @mikakestudios5891 6 дней назад +43

    I dont consider myself easily disgusted. But. Dear. God. Shrimping.

    • @shannabauer
      @shannabauer 6 дней назад +1

      Totally agree. Raised in a medical family that discussed surgeries and illnesses at the dinner table, b u t that one was way worse than anything ever discussed in our family. YUCK!

  • @torogocita
    @torogocita 3 дня назад +1

    5:16 Joey: "Whoah! Up? Nothing's goin' up! What's a urethra?" 😂

  • @lyndaagnew2307
    @lyndaagnew2307 6 дней назад +42

    We in BC, Canada had a nurse that was using illegal IDs to practice in BC and Ontario. Apparently in jail now.

  • @naomij66
    @naomij66 6 дней назад +85

    Back in the 80’s we had a woman who was so pissed off about the waiting time she stole a uniform and started working as a “nurse” to prove a point, she held this position for almost a year before she was found out. This woman was giving injections as well…😮

    • @melissarmt7330
      @melissarmt7330 6 дней назад +32

      I got off work one evening and went to visit a friend in a different hospital. This nurse walks in, sees me and tells me the chairs needed to be set up in a designated space. I looked her, I wasn't even wearing a badge or anything but she meant business so I was like, okay. I went and moved a bunch of chairs for her. I sat down for a minute and she was pissed because I wasn't done and I told her, "You do know, I don't work here, right?" I will never forget the look on her face! I did not interact with any patients other than my friend and that was all non-medical.

    • @Tonyae76
      @Tonyae76 6 дней назад

      ​@@melissarmt7330 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @Tonyae76
      @Tonyae76 6 дней назад +1

      😮😮😮😮😮

    • @BBSYDmom
      @BBSYDmom 6 дней назад +3

      Yikes!!!!

    • @cathipalmer8217
      @cathipalmer8217 4 дня назад

      TBH, giving injections is super easy. Other stuff, not so much.

  • @valkyriedragon2986
    @valkyriedragon2986 6 дней назад +27

    I've heard of shrimping as in having bad posture or cringing, or as a particular shape cats will sleep in (see also: loafing, splooting), but never... that

  • @melissarmt7330
    @melissarmt7330 6 дней назад +111

    23 years in healthcare and I have seen some things man 0.o I'm just now learning what "shrimping" is... too soon...

    • @jengsci8268
      @jengsci8268 6 дней назад +5

      I thought shrimping had to do with toe licking/sucking.

    • @carolinewalker9340
      @carolinewalker9340 6 дней назад +9

      I think I will skip the shrimp salad I ordered for lunch.🤮😂

    • @BearBrews
      @BearBrews 6 дней назад +6

      I thought shrimping was when you stay hunched over your desk all day LMAO

    • @alisoncummins2726
      @alisoncummins2726 6 дней назад

      Yeah, that one is just completely made up.
      A shrimp job is sucking toes. Felching is eating the semen out of someone’s asshole. The elaborate deal with the straw is just something a twelve year old made up.

    • @Shopgirl1
      @Shopgirl1 6 дней назад +4

      I will never forget when he did the skit of a Philadelphia sidecar..prepare to be shocked..look up Meth Addicts in the ER

  • @NEKONEKOMAO
    @NEKONEKOMAO 6 дней назад +7

    Well I guess I need to get off RUclips and go to work I've just learned what shrimping is, and in an earlier video I just learned what a key party is. I've gone 50 years not knowing any of this😮 the only up side is, I half major neurocognitive disorder, so hopefully I will forget these fun facts sooner than later 😂

  • @cas5936
    @cas5936 5 дней назад +3

    Hysterical "that'll end ya"😂

  • @pantransartistacysentia7199
    @pantransartistacysentia7199 6 дней назад +13

    My mom is a nurse planner for an agency that specializes in home care, she was once in the ER for the time she sliced her leg open on a broken glass vase. She was sitting in the waiting room waiting to be admitted for stitches when a guy is wheeled in using one of the wheelchairs available at the entrance to our local ER, not by paramedics, but by his friend. Some way, somehow he had managed to get one of the metal poles that secure chainlink fencing stuck in his leg. Not pieces, a whole pole going through his leg. I don't remember the exact details of what she said but apparently the incident involved a baseball diamond, alcohol, and a truck. He appeared on her client list for nurse dispatch a week after she saw him.

  • @margiecarson3170
    @margiecarson3170 5 дней назад +2

    I’m obsessed with your posts! Am a retired RN but don’t have any experiences like you described! Please don’t go away!😂

  • @Tcamp95818
    @Tcamp95818 6 дней назад +35

    magining eating shrimp Alfredo and your watching this video and the part about shrimping comes on as your take a big bite of shrimp and cream sauce 🤮🤮🤮😂😂😂😂

    • @alflyover4413
      @alflyover4413 6 дней назад +3

      That. Is. Awful. Have an upvote.

    • @KatieFaithLonguevan
      @KatieFaithLonguevan 6 дней назад +4

      How to lose your appetite in two easy steps.

    • @jkbrenner89
      @jkbrenner89 6 дней назад +2

      Was just thinking about eating the shrimp, but now have a new gross food... thankfully I typically eat chicken alfredo 😂

  • @The_momur
    @The_momur 6 дней назад +25

    Cardiac catheterization tech has improved so much. It used to be like a bandaid for patients till they actually needed bypass. I’ve heard of patients who get a modern cath and appropriate PT who never need further surgery.

    • @OceanSwimmer
      @OceanSwimmer 6 дней назад +4

      So true!
      Patients who had bypass surgery years ago are living with stents & enjoying the fact they didn't require a CABG....and all the pain, risk, recovery, etc., etc.

    • @poochiew.9302
      @poochiew.9302 6 дней назад +2

      @@OceanSwimmer I had a 3xCABG 4 years ago and had no pain except when I coughed or sneezed until my sternum healed. Wish I could have had the easier route though.

    • @Hypatia52
      @Hypatia52 5 дней назад +1

      That is so wonderful to hear! As a "civilian", I learn about new advances in patient care the hard way--by my friends, family or me going to the ER.

    • @The_momur
      @The_momur 5 дней назад

      @@Hypatia52 I’m a civilian too, I used to work in a hospital in transcription, when typewriting was still a thing!

    • @The_momur
      @The_momur 5 дней назад

      @@poochiew.9302 that’s gotta be an incredibly painful recovery ❤️‍🩹 period.

  • @MelissaBlue
    @MelissaBlue 4 дня назад

    The psych consult for insertions is so true! We had one poor patient who repeatedly inserted batteries into theirself and required exam under anesthesia to remove. It was very much a psych case, for a variety of reasons, but finally they were able to get their care sorted out. They haven't returned for surgery in the last year, which is a very good thing.

  • @kellyfoster8903
    @kellyfoster8903 6 дней назад +18

    Omg, during the air-conditioning wire coil into the bladder story, I had a viagra ad playing

  • @RyanRafanan
    @RyanRafanan 3 дня назад +1

    "it puts the lotion on the skin." 😂

  • @toolittletoolate3917
    @toolittletoolate3917 6 дней назад +15

    Shrimping sounds like one of the countless fictitious sex acts that are to be found in Urban Dictionary.

    • @Jesusluvme
      @Jesusluvme 6 дней назад +2

      Sadly, there are too many people who do this sort of sick stuff and more.

    • @Liandra24
      @Liandra24 6 дней назад

      @@JesusluvmeI heard of one where I guess if that is the kink you are into, poop is involved on the face. That mental image was terrible.

    • @Piankhi_the_Greater
      @Piankhi_the_Greater 5 дней назад +1

      If you think that's gross, don't look up “knotting”

    • @cherylford7721
      @cherylford7721 5 дней назад

      Now I need to know what knotting is 😱​@@Piankhi_the_Greater

  • @SavoryCaroline
    @SavoryCaroline 6 дней назад +36

    I assume "shrimping" is in reference to the "vein" of the shrimp?

  • @JaylorKrend
    @JaylorKrend 6 дней назад +11

    Somebody seriously needs to super sleuth Google that fake DoN nurse! We need to know if she got caught!!!

  • @margotrosendorn6371
    @margotrosendorn6371 6 дней назад +42

    My family saves plastic grocery bags too. Mostly for trash bags, but sometimes to carry bottles and cans for recycling.

    • @carolinewalker9340
      @carolinewalker9340 6 дней назад +1

      Mine too, but they kept them in a ball under the kitchen sink, not up their 🍑😝

    • @susangarvey9415
      @susangarvey9415 6 дней назад +1

      We keep the ones from posh shops for "best"😂

    • @terrawyrm
      @terrawyrm 6 дней назад

      We've used them to pick up the dogs' business from the yard (and sometimes the floor)

  • @tamknox1603
    @tamknox1603 6 дней назад +1

    I remember falling asleep in the open study area at college. Just as I closed my eyes a bug flew up my nose. I know I looked nuts blowing my nose like crazy and screaming.😂 😂

  • @thehangmansdaughter1120
    @thehangmansdaughter1120 6 дней назад +13

    I have experienced peri care. It was the most humiliating moment of my life. I've had A LOT of surgery, been poked, prodded, inside and out. But peri care was the worst. I cried from embarrassment the entire time.

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  • @juliem-r9734
    @juliem-r9734 5 дней назад +3

    My daughter popped a hole in her eardrum with a qtip,. She now has severe hearing loss in that ear

  • @SundryTornAsunder
    @SundryTornAsunder 6 дней назад +10

    I'm sorry, sounding… with HVAC wire…

  • @Kris.with.a.K
    @Kris.with.a.K 6 дней назад +3

    OH! NEW STEVE VIDEO!! 🎉✨🎊❤
    "Shrimping is when..." 😳🤢🤮🤯

  • @Commadownduringthisperiod
    @Commadownduringthisperiod 6 дней назад +2

    Re: the “shrimping” grossfest, the term has also long been used to describe sucking someone’s toes. I was initially wondering how someone could be that disgusted, but apparently the definition has changed!

    • @redtailarts101
      @redtailarts101 6 дней назад

      That's also disgusting but far less than. Uh. That.

  • @dexstormkitten7420
    @dexstormkitten7420 6 дней назад +14

    my BFF after seeing the shrimping part ... "FOREST GUMP IS RUINED"

  • @Tonyae76
    @Tonyae76 6 дней назад +16

    I just about puked 🤮🤢 when you was telling us about shrimping

  • @pamelasarris8262
    @pamelasarris8262 4 дня назад +1

    Yeah, had that one co-worker that told everyone everything. She told us that she had a tick on her cooter and asked the doctor to check her for a yeast infection while he was at it. A male co-worker was visibly grossed out upon hearing about it. So daily I would get a cup of cottage cheese and sprinkle chocolate chips and eat it in front of him. 😂

  • @cassiefriedman1446
    @cassiefriedman1446 6 дней назад +3

    Having a bad day 😢 thank you 😊 nurse Steve

  • @meegansandberg1308
    @meegansandberg1308 4 дня назад

    My grandma was a nurse and had some really wild stories to tell, but your's take the cake! The shrimping stories left me with mixed emotions. It was funny, interesting, and sexaully educational. On the other hand, now I will know what shrimping is for the rest of my life. 😮

  • @estelladahl8892
    @estelladahl8892 5 дней назад +1

    The cheese pot whaaaaat??! 🤣

  • @cassiefriedman1446
    @cassiefriedman1446 6 дней назад +9

    HAPPY NEW YEAR NURSE STEVE

  • @oliverkirkland9332
    @oliverkirkland9332 17 часов назад

    I'm really late to the party, but my ER Tech professor (who I'll refer to as Prof) told us an unbelievable ER story she personally experienced:
    One day, Prof was working as a triage nurse. A patient came in via ambulance with their chief complaint being toe pain -- nothing else. The other triage nurses were grumbling about "people who come in to waste their time with non-emergent problems like toe pain," but Prof paused and took a good look at the patient. The patient was sweating heavily, extremely pale, and had some difficulty breathing. Prof suspected that there was a cardiac issue going on, and so she brought the patient back and had them hooked up to an EKG.
    It was torsades.
    The toe pain could have been incidental, or it could have been caused by it, but like. That was the _only_ symptom that the patient noticed. One of the very few times that toe pain ended up being a genuine medical emergency.

  • @jenfillow7111
    @jenfillow7111 6 дней назад +13

    I miss the person I was about 4 minutes ago.

    • @shannabauer
      @shannabauer 6 дней назад

      LOL, oh my word, laughing so hard that my sides hurt. Too funny.

  • @maddieb429
    @maddieb429 18 часов назад

    My dad woke up in the middle of getting a heart stint and he heard someone ask for the large balloon or something like that and he said “oooo someone’s getting hardware” lmao the whole room went silent and the doctor quietly told the anesthesiologist to handle it🤣🤣🤣

  • @marionbylsma1167
    @marionbylsma1167 6 дней назад +1

    Saving plastic shopping bags is recycling when you use them for your garbage or I use some of them for carrying things up and downstairs so I don’t drop my iPad or my iPhone

    • @MelissaMercado-b1k
      @MelissaMercado-b1k 5 дней назад

      I also use the to store stuff in them that I want kept together because I don't have anywhere to put the stuff. Helps me keep my place clean and orderly

  • @e.blue37
    @e.blue37 4 дня назад +1

    Someone needs to tell that man, your stomach is not supposed to look like the bottom of the ocean.

    • @trystanmentzer873
      @trystanmentzer873 4 дня назад

      The bottom of the ocean isn't supposed to look like that either. 😥

  • @jmkelly7710
    @jmkelly7710 3 дня назад

    I had a moth stuck in my ear. They didn't believe me at the doctors lol. They said it was ear wax because it was orange😵‍💫. I begged them to believe me. Turns out it was an orange moth with white wings. Irrigation saved me😂

  • @gwendolenshepard9124
    @gwendolenshepard9124 6 дней назад +28

    My mom used to say, "Don't put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear".

  • @annatomasik6927
    @annatomasik6927 6 дней назад +13

    I can’t wait to tell my guy friends about shrimping just to see them freak! Payback for years of disgusting stories 😂

  • @karenthemightyunicorn0919
    @karenthemightyunicorn0919 2 дня назад

    Clean the Cheese Pot had me dying 😂

  • @Rose-ht3xc
    @Rose-ht3xc 4 дня назад

    Had a patient many years ago in the dementia ward at the nursing home. She had to be fed and whichever Aide had her, always had to count the silverware afterwards. Not only hers, but anyone within reach. "Granny" liked to play hide the spoon-guess where?

  • @toasterthedog
    @toasterthedog 6 дней назад

    LOVE this best of XD Thank you for making me laugh and happy new year!! xo

  • @sandrashevel2137
    @sandrashevel2137 5 дней назад

    Happy New Year. Learn something new every day😅😅🎉🎉🎉

  • @scalylayde8751
    @scalylayde8751 6 дней назад +8

    The act described isn't shrimping, it's filching. Shrimping is sucking on toes.
    I don't know why are either are called that. Fun fact though, there's an episode of south park (or maybe it's a scene in one of movies) where someone is playing a piano in the background and instead of Fletcher and Sons it says "Filcher and Sons" which to this day is one of the nastiest jokes I think they've ever done.

    • @NicoleNoneYaBeezwax
      @NicoleNoneYaBeezwax 6 дней назад

      Filching is when a person steals website code from another website and uses it on their own. Felching is sticking a straw up the booty hole and getting that chocolate vanilla swirl snack. 😂🤢

  • @Grianan66
    @Grianan66 6 дней назад +1

    My father and grandfather were commercial shrimpers. I will never be able to think of their profession without cringing ever again. Later in life, my dad ran chartered day cruises where the clients would go off and shrimp and then cook the catch into a southern shrimp boil. "Let's go shrimping!" was something of a slogan for advertisements. Now it just sounds so wrong...

    • @trystanmentzer873
      @trystanmentzer873 4 дня назад +1

      When he said he didn't know what it was, I thought it's fishing for shrimp, duh. I was sadly mistaken.

    • @Grianan66
      @Grianan66 3 дня назад

      @trystanmentzer873 Yeah Trys, that's what I grew up knowing, but this "urban dictionary" type of definition - I could have lived without 😂

  • @jofrazier-hansen4097
    @jofrazier-hansen4097 6 дней назад +1

    I didn't think after being an RN for 30 years that I still had a gag reflex any more. Apparently that's wrong! Shrimping🤢🤮

  • @TheWinnieWonka
    @TheWinnieWonka 6 дней назад +5

    Whatever you do, don't look up "felching." Just don't.

  • @jengsci8268
    @jengsci8268 6 дней назад +21

    Sharpie cap? I got a "prairie dog" mental image. 😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀

  • @heidismets593
    @heidismets593 День назад

    😂😂 the imate wacamole is hilarious 😂😂

  • @Ladykat1808
    @Ladykat1808 6 дней назад +8

    I heard of shrimping but under a different name, felching 🤢🤮

  • @theylied1776
    @theylied1776 3 дня назад

    I've heard at least four different prison stores on how some new prisoner tries to mess with the nurse and the other prisoners give him an attitude adjustment.

  • @sassylizzie1
    @sassylizzie1 2 дня назад

    I got a moth stuck in my ear a few years back. I made my dad take me to urgent care after hours of hearing it moving around in the canal. The doctor said that they just had to remove a moth a couple of weeks prior from someone else's ear so they knew exactly what to do. The extraction started with them drowning the moth with baby shampoo, which I swear I could hear the dying screech coming from the bug. Once it was dead and not moving they pulled it out, put it in a jar, and asked me if I wanted to keep it. Probably should have.

  • @tiacalenture3238
    @tiacalenture3238 6 дней назад +5

    My son has always coughed when cleaning his ears.

    • @lisamoulton2540
      @lisamoulton2540 6 дней назад +2

      Me too, that has to do with the Vegas nerve being over stimulated, so weird I know.

    • @tiacalenture3238
      @tiacalenture3238 5 дней назад +1

      @lisamoulton2540 My Vegus nerve just makes me pass out when I have cramps.

    • @lisamoulton2540
      @lisamoulton2540 5 дней назад +2

      @tiacalenture3238 yikes. I'm so sorry. Yeah that nerve is responsible for quite a few body processes. Hang in there.

  • @elmp73
    @elmp73 4 дня назад

    When I was working as a travel nurse on a medical surgical floor, I admitted a patient who was very intoxicated. He kept on getting up out of bed and setting off the bed alarm. I proceeded to scold him and I told him that he was not allowed to get out of bed without using the call bell first. I left the room to tend to another patient. At that facility all the nurses had cordless phones and we put our extension on the Whiteboard at the head of the bed so the patient could call us when needed. His roommate called me and told me that I needed to return to the room. When I got to the room the patient was standing on the bed. He handed me a cup. Inside of the cup was a giant turd. Instead of calling me to go to the bathroom he thought it would be a good idea to poop in the cup that was on his bedside table. It was one of those reusable plastic cups that used to come in a set with the pitcher. I have no idea how he successfully aimed that giant turd in that little cup. He did, however, listen to me. He never got out of bed.

  • @TheXangelus
    @TheXangelus 6 дней назад +3

    I feel the guy saying he has such bad luck. I have that much bad luck myself and my friends seriously call me Murphy’s daughter (after murphy’s law) it’s that bad. It’s been 12 years of bad luck now. From getting severely disabled to losing 2 cats ( only 1 and 2 and a half year old) in the span of a year just to start the list of. Believe me you get scared of anything going wrong especially if your life depends on it.

  • @a.m.n9552
    @a.m.n9552 6 дней назад

    Ok. Just several seconds in and I was not prepared for that sentence! 😮

  • @kryslee0324
    @kryslee0324 6 дней назад

    Now I know what shrimping is...and immediately gagged

  • @sallys2423
    @sallys2423 6 дней назад +4

    Thanks SO much, I will never unhear that.
    people are gross.

  • @artfuldodger7838
    @artfuldodger7838 6 дней назад +1

    I just dry my ears with q-tips. I flush my ears in the shower. The wax is gone.

  • @nans969
    @nans969 6 дней назад +2

    I could have lived the rest of my life not knowing what " Shrimping " was. And that this is something people do for " fun".

  • @rustytrev
    @rustytrev 6 дней назад +14

    Imma have to come back for the shrimping comments

  • @anrivanderwalt5293
    @anrivanderwalt5293 4 дня назад

    First time I heard about shrimping and what it is 😮😮 now I learned something new

  • @BakenekoYuJi
    @BakenekoYuJi 5 часов назад

    I will never eat shrimp again.

  • @turbo95912
    @turbo95912 6 дней назад +1

    Jesus Christ. It’s been a while since I knew of a new fetish, thank you for letting me know about shrimping.

  • @nunyabeeswax256
    @nunyabeeswax256 6 дней назад

    Been shovin' Q-tips in my ears since '01 and I've never had any problems 🤷😂

  • @susangarvey9415
    @susangarvey9415 6 дней назад +1

    Oh God, the older I get the more I learn, shrimping used to mean little children on the beach with nets by rock pools, is there nothing innocent left anymore😢

  • @TransGuyShane
    @TransGuyShane 5 дней назад

    "And now i own ear plugs"
    Omg finally someone else who will be wearing earplugs for the same fear based reason i do 😂 but also omg thats awful

  • @triciaroundy4007
    @triciaroundy4007 6 дней назад

    That Director of Nurses story sounds like middle manager Michael Scott's character on The Office😂😂 ..... Cringe that it happened in real life!!🙀

  • @premiumheart11
    @premiumheart11 6 дней назад

    See you in April in San Diego!!

  • @Cassiopea525
    @Cassiopea525 5 дней назад +6

    So I have a patient side story about a nurse who… was not ready for what I had to say. He was placing an IV for me and asked about what procedure I was there for. I said a DNC. For context I live in a state where many…. Disapprove… of any abortion. So she started describing “scraping the poor baby out”. My mom said she thought she was trying to talk me out of the procedure without being obvious. But I wasn’t there for an abortion. I was there for a genetic condition. So I replied by saying I’ve literally never bad sex due to trauma and counter her abortion description with a vivid description of my month and a half long period with strawberry sized clots where I had to not only wear adult diapers to try to sleep but also have a piss pad under me because of the excessive blood. My mom added in how her grandmother had to have a hysterectomy in the ER from the same condition as well as blood transfusions because she nearly died from the excessive bleeding.
    Nurse hurried out after getting the IV in moving a lot faster than she came in. DNC only bought me like two months of back to normal before I ended up getting a hysterectomy. I hope that nurse learned a lesson about assumptions.

    • @trystanmentzer873
      @trystanmentzer873 4 дня назад +1

      That sucks. Sorry the dnc wasn't more effective.
      I'm surprised that a nurse would automatically assume abortion because they are also frequently performed after miscarriage/false pregnancy.
      My cousin has a hormone condition that can lead to severe cysts. She had to have surgery to remove several and was told she would never be able to have kids. She got pregnant, but when she went for an ultrasound, they couldn't find te heart beat. Doctor said it was a false pregnancy and performed a DNC. A few months later she is still having pregnancy symptoms. She is told it is her gallbladder and she is scheduled for surgery to remove it. Before surgery, they do blood work, and her hCG is higher than before the DNC. They tell her doctor must have missed something and send her for an ultrasound. The tech points to the screen and says, "That's your baby. " She gave birth to a healthy baby girl that survived a DNC after carrying her to term. She since has had a son. Thankfully, her 2nd pregnancy went much smoother.

    • @oliviaavants
      @oliviaavants 3 дня назад

      Yeah well blame all the baby killers that want to call everything an "abortion" 🤷🏻 that's who you need to be going off at. Not a nurse trying to do her part to save an innocent baby. Good for her honestly. That's usually what a D&C (not DNC 😂) is for and does. It removes a baby. So it's not like her thought process was way off....but you knew that didn't you.

    • @trystanmentzer873
      @trystanmentzer873 День назад

      @oliviaavants wow! First, what are talking about? I have never heard anyone call anything other than an abortion, an abortion. 2nd, they didn't say they were there for an abortion. They said they were there for a DNC. 3ed. There is NO EXCUSE for making assumptions about a patient ever. That nurse probably should have been fired.

    • @oliviaavants
      @oliviaavants День назад

      Just because you haven't heard it, means nothing. Miscarriages is even referred to as "spontaneous abortions." Many things are called that when it actually isn't. Consider this your intro. I wouldn't say she needed to fired for having a heart for the most vulnerable. But I'm pro life.

    • @trystanmentzer873
      @trystanmentzer873 День назад

      @oliviaavants she needed to be fired for making assumptions about her patient. She was more concerned about an imaginary baby (patient wasn't pregnant) than the real person in front of them. Again she said she was there for DNC NOT an abortion, so whether you are right or not doesn't matter. Even if it did matter, if a nurse doesn't know that there are multiple reasons why dnc's are performed, they need to go back to nursing school. A grown adult, especially one that works in a specialized field, has no one but themselves to blame for ignorance. Put yourself in the patients shoes. As someone who is obviously anti abortion, how would you feel getting "attacked" for having an abortion when you were a virgin? What if the patient had just miscarried and then was "attacked" for having an abortion. Would you still defend the nurse?

  • @alinaowen2635
    @alinaowen2635 6 дней назад +5

    I think the grocery bag story was like fresh produce bags, the ones that come in a roll

  • @crystalis2
    @crystalis2 6 дней назад

    I've heard the act you described as shrimping before but when I heard about it, it was called felching.

  • @Alan_Hans__
    @Alan_Hans__ 6 дней назад +1

    I aint buying anything from the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company.

  • @PatNelson-c1g
    @PatNelson-c1g 6 дней назад

    OMG, still laughing over "shrimping"! Seriously, you can't make this stuff up. (I would never have confessed to the EMT people and would have lied.....)

  • @kellypettet5781
    @kellypettet5781 6 дней назад

    Before this, I saw a commercial for a certain lobebster place that is famous for its red letters so....now I can't even think of shrimp......

  • @Reina.Nijinsky
    @Reina.Nijinsky 6 дней назад +3

    2:13 fr!? 🤢 I honestly thought the “bug in your ear” earwig story was an urban legend/myth/old wives tale kinda thing!

    • @joantroutman6409
      @joantroutman6409 6 дней назад

      Me too!

    • @TheRevanchism
      @TheRevanchism 6 дней назад +1

      A few years back my son came to me complaining of ear pain. When I checked his ear, there was a ladybug in there. Luckily it came out with some irrigation but the damn thing had died in there.

    • @alflyover4413
      @alflyover4413 6 дней назад

      I had a moth in my ear once when I was a kid. It panicked and began trying to fly out. That was unbelievably loud.

    • @gemmapickering2646
      @gemmapickering2646 6 дней назад +1

      I got a beetle stuck in my ear when I was about 9, such an awful sensation I'm still traumatised decades later. It was a smallish beetle so no it was running up and down my ear canal and it tickled and itched and I knew it was a bug and I was crying so much.
      I was staying with my aunt and parents out of the country on holiday. It was a miserable hour and a half to the hospital and a much longer wait in a+e (ER). Then before I even got called in and I was just slumped feeling utterly miserable... The little beetle just strolled on out of my ear and took flight. Presumably to find a better victims ear in the waiting room.
      So we packed up.our still, told reception that the problem was now resolved... Or possibly someone else's problem now 😂 then the tedious drive back to my aunt's house. All on one of those tediously hot summer days where you don't want to be doing anything 🤦🏻‍♀️

    • @alittlepieceofearth
      @alittlepieceofearth 6 дней назад +1

      Happened to my sister. But now you will never sleep again, right?

  • @mildlymarvelous
    @mildlymarvelous 6 дней назад

    I made an archery target out of an Ikea tote stuffed with old plastic backs and plastic sheeting!!

  • @marinasplaylist2251
    @marinasplaylist2251 5 дней назад

    I knew when I heard about the wire there'd be an urethra story

  • @elizabethbarton3047
    @elizabethbarton3047 3 дня назад

    I worked at a hospital and another medical facility years ago. I can tell you doctors and nurses will definitely talk about what's going on, nothing identifiing the patient of course but what was found on xrags, things that happen in the ER etc. Worst gossipers I've ever seen lol

  • @pamelamyers9613
    @pamelamyers9613 6 дней назад

    That is what the shrimp gets.

  • @imtiredtoday
    @imtiredtoday 5 дней назад

    "he probably tied them up to stick them up" my fuess is they he stuck a package (roll) of something like veggie bags (aka something like 5-20L bags stuck together)

  • @evilmarken
    @evilmarken 6 дней назад +4

    2:46 so I'm using a q-tip in my ear It is coming out nasty dirty and if I use water I end up with a near infection in my ear and it's really painful so if I just use a lightly dampened q-tip it works

    • @emordnilap4747
      @emordnilap4747 6 дней назад

      That nasty stuff is earwax. It's purpose is to protect your ears. It traps anything that gets in, and protects your ears from germs.
      It comes out on it's own eventually, and pushes out the stuff it traps. Most people never need to clean inside their ears. You can just wipe it away as it comes out.The irrigation is only used in extreme cases, It's better than, for example, having a bug get stuck, die trying to dig it's way out, then leave it's rotting corpse INSIDE of your body. The earwax would push it out over time, but it may do irreparable damage beforehand. If you've been cleaning your ears with q-tips, the bug will hurt you worse, because you've cleaned out it's defense.

    • @Ladyheart611
      @Ladyheart611 4 дня назад +2

      There are some devices now that are designed to safely clean your ear without water if you want to look that up.