Our Recovery Room is one huge room with privacy curtains with separate monitors to accomodate about 20 patients arriving from surgery.
My patient that we had just wheeled out was waking up from anesthesia, the patient behind the curtain next to him was making growling noises as he was waking up. The nurse of the growling patient, in an effort to help his apparent pain tried to get him to reposition himself. As he moaned and growled, the nurse said, "Sir, what you need is some pain medicine...."
and my patient, an apparent jokester even when not fully conscious, mumbled through his oxygen mask, "or a baseball bat"...!!!
Now, whether my patient was having empathy pains and felt like he himself needed a baseball bat, or that his fellow patient needed one so he would be quiet, I'm not sure...but we all got a good laugh!
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