The Patient Who Proposed After Getting His IV Put In
Meet Kayla, 29, an ER nurse at a busy Chicago hospital who has seen everything — and we do mean everything. So when a patient named Derek, 41, grabbed her hand mid-IV insertion and said “marry me,” she didn’t even flinch. She just taped the cannula down and said, “Sir, that’s the morphine talking.” (It was not the morphine talking. He sent flowers to the nurses’ station for three weeks straight.) Kayla had to have HR send what colleagues are now calling “the flower memo.” But that wasn’t even the weirdest part of that shift — wait until you hear what happened in bay four.
The Man Who Kept “Accidentally” Ringing His Call Bell Every 12 Minutes
Tasha, 33, a ward nurse in Atlanta, clocked it herself — every twelve minutes, like clockwork, Mr. Patterson in Room 6 needed “help adjusting his blanket.” For four days. She finally put a timer on her phone to prove it to management (the printout is apparently legendary in that department). The thing is, Mr. Patterson was medically fine. He was waiting on discharge paperwork and had decided that Tasha’s time was his time. (His wife found out via the nursing staff’s group chat. We don’t know what happened next but he was discharged very suddenly.) Tasha’s now a charge nurse. Mr. Patterson is not her problem anymore.
