Wow, I had my first two occasions to tell an injured person what happened to them after they wake up out of the drug-induced coma we put them in (in the first case) or the mini-coma they were in by themselves (in the second). I'm really going to have to work on my "Do you remember being in X accident? You're in the hospital - you have a tube helping you breathe, a lot of incisions and drains, a pain drip - are you in pain still? - and yes, you're still in one piece" speech.
You know what's weird? In both cases, their main point of perplexity, in the groggy haze as they began to point and mouth questions around the ventilator tube, was what the heck the things squeezing their legs were. They're sequential compression devices which we slap on everyone in the ICU to prevent blood clots. Nothing special. The first guy thought he was arrested and cuffed by the legs!
Ahaha! Got to love those SCD's. I had a patient freak out on me telling me there were bugs or rats in her bed because she could feel them scurrying around in the mattress. She was still somewhat skeptical when I told her about our circulating air mattresses we use to prevent pressure ulcers, LOL!
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