Nurse Chris

Ms. Fiance and I had a lovely visit to urgent care a few nights ago when her migraines became really bad for a few days. During this visit, we met Chris the nurse. He made our visit quite memorable. I will leave you with two highlights:

1. Nurse Chris had to give Ms. Fiance a shot. He knew from talking to her that she worked in the medical field, which seemed to make him nervous. I think he wanted to impress her because he started using really big medical terms where they really weren't needed. When describing the shot, he said, "This is a subcutaneous shot." He then went on to explain what that meant. "It's, uh, well, it basically goes below the cutaneous." Thanks Nurse Chris, for clearing that one up!

2. Nurse Chris explained that the urgent care room we were in was used by internal medicine during the day, so he was having trouble finding things in the room. Like a band-aid to use after giving Ms. Fiance a shot. He was looking around, but couldn't find one. He finally said, "Well, it probably won't bleed anyway." My Dad always keeps a band-aid or two in his wallet, and I picked up that habit long ago as well. I handed Nurse Chris a band-aid, which he then proceeded to use. The next time Nurse Chris came back in the room, he brought with him another band-aid, this one with neon-colored dinosaurs on it. He said this was to replenish the band-aids in my wallet (I had not asked for one). I found it quite amusing, but then it got even better.

It was decided that Ms. Fiance needed one final shot. Back in comes Nurse Chris to administer the shot. And again, he didn't have any band-aids. He turned to me and said, "Um, I'm going to need those dinosaurs back." Ms. Fiance and I did our absolute best not to just laugh out loud. I think next time we see Nurse Chris I should just bring an entire box to give him as a Christmas present. 

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