Panks you have pulled

brainman · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:00 pm Post subject: Panks you have pulled

Not a jock... true story:

When I was first diagnosed, I was a full-time chaplain at the hospital where I was diagnosed and had my biopsy done. One of my assignments was the Intensive Care Unit. I had been there for 3 years. I was fully integrated into the staff; the staff thought of me as one of them.

After my biopsy, I was placed in the ICU for a couple of days. I am not sure why, but I was on a heart monitor. By the second day, I was OK and ready to move out to the regular oncology unit. One time that I needed a nurse, the nurse did not respond fast enough. So, I disconnected one of the wires to my monitor and rubber the end of the wire against the pad on my chest causing the pattern on the monitor screen to go wild… like I was having a heart attack. I could see the monitor tech responsible for watching the screens for all the patients. She jumped out of her chair and yelled for my nurse. But as she did that she looked over towards me and with fire in her eyes she said: “Chaplain Hawkins, don’t do that. You almost gave me a heart attack" .

Needless to say, my nurse came soon after that and also scolded me for my prank. I was moved to the floor soon thereafter .
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Jim
Site Administrator and long-term cancer survivor
1992 Astrocytoma grade 2, left motor strip
2005 Recurrence this time said to be an Oligodendoglioma grade 3, same location.
My Story Part 1: http://cancerforums.net/viewtopic.php?p=7350
My Story Part 2: http://cancerforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=8029
Blog http://jimhawkinsport.blogspot.com/

brainman · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:19 pm Post subject: Re: Panks you have pulled

One night, I walked into the Cardiac Care Unit looking very sad. When the monitor tech asked my what was wrong, I told her this story:

"My family and I were driving home from a visit to my inlaws and we met and ambulance going toward the hospital. At about the time we crossed eachother, I noticed a side little door on the ambulance open and something fall out. I stoped to retreave it and told my family to wait in the car but they got out anyhow. What I had seen fall out of the ambulance was a Igo Cooler. I was horrified when I opened the cooler at what I saw. The kids screamed and ran back to the car. It was so upsetting... it was someones big toe."

Pause.

Tech: "What did you do?"

Me: "I called for a big toe truck."

Another time I was almost killed in the hospital Laughing

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Jim
Site Administrator and long-term cancer survivor
1992 Astrocytoma grade 2, left motor strip
2005 Recurrence this time said to be an Oligodendoglioma grade 3, same location.
My Story Part 1: http://cancerforums.net/viewtopic.php?p=7350
My Story Part 2: http://cancerforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=8029
Blog http://jimhawkinsport.blogspot.com/

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