Insensitive

Yesterday was cur-r-r-r-r-azy. Patient's behaving abnormally gruff, a couple major bleeding problems, cars breaking down, people waiting hours and hours for scheduled procedures and so on. Unfortunately, this is turning into a regular, daily occurrence. Even a couple doctors were short tempered, but amazingly, we actually had enough nurses for once. Sure, that probably won't happen again, but I guess it is notable.

Anyway, I managed to ruffle some feathers on a doting family member, and let me tell you why:

Brain Salad Speech

Near the end of 12 hours

And 40 million thoughts,

My words become garbled

And I begin to see dots,

Speech dyslexia

And sentence destruction,

Like a garbage disposal

Applying suction.

So, who could blame me?

A spousal wife,

When she misunderstood me

And pulled out a knife,

Figuratively speaking

Claiming, I was so rude,

When I asked her, "Now, what?"

I'm an insensitive dude!

"Now what can we do for you"

Had a couple words missing,

She immediately looked daggers

Sputtering and hissing,

I had no way out

Not even an apology,

It was her misunderstanding

And abnormal psychology.

For the next two hours

I avoided that room,

After she took the time to tell me

All dire and doom,

That folks where she works

Over at Hospital X,

Would have tossed me out the door

With a doubled-down Hex.

At 12 hours plus

I have a disability,

This ancient nurse brain

Has lost some agility,

Manufacturing speech

At the drop of a hat,

“Now what (do you need)”

Is not more than just that.

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