Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Hilarious Work/Preggo Story!!!

I am at work today and had the most hilarious unplanned thing happen and I couldn't have planned it any better!

I have not been scheduled to work in rooms for the past 2 weeks or so, as everyone is afraid that I will go into labor in the middle of a surgery. Therefore, I have been assigned to do "turnovers", which means I go in the room and wipe down all of the dirty surfaces and help open for the next case. Today I went in Room 1 to help turnover the room for the next case, nothing out of the ordinary. Well, we use these wet wipes that are in containers like the lysol wipes that you buy at the store. I was at the last of the roll and was trying to pull the last few out and more than one was trying to come through the hole at the same time, so the top popped off and all of the excess fluid (which is about 1/2 cup to 1 cup) splashed all over the floor. Of course I responsed "oh crap!" and at the same time everyone (including the surgeon, resident, medical student, circulating nurse, scrub tech, nurse anesthetist and all of the other helpers in the room) turned around when they heard the splashing sound and looked at me with terrified faces! I thought to myself, "why are they looking at me like this?!" and quickly realized they all thought my water broke right there in the middle of the O.R. with the patient still sleep on the table. I quickly blurted out "oh no, that wasn't my water that broke!" and relief washed over everyones faces. It was so funny! I can't believe I didn't think to do this weeks ago, now I am considering going around and doing it in all the rooms :) But then when it really happens no one would run to my rescue!

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