The Joys of ER Nursing

Had a very busy day yesterday as all Mondays are when a young woman comes in crying moaning clutching her abdomen and describing terrible pain, I start to feel compassion which after 30 years is usually reserved for the truly bad things I have to deal with. About forty minutes into what is going to be a very expensive abd workup she pulls me aside and admits she started her period and is just having her normal " bad cramps" sometimes the patients are lucky we will never be able to carry personal tazers