Today was sad. We have a patient that has colon cancer. He has an open abdominal wound from the surgery we preformed to remove cancerous polyps and do a colostomy. Now, in order for this man to get the chemo he needs to fight cancer, his abdominal wound needs to heal. So we've hired a home health nurse to visit him daily and change the packing. Said nurse went on vacation to Africa so we had to find someone else. This nurse that we hired did something wrong and the wound got worse!
Not to be graffic but it had gotten so bad bowel was seeping into his wound. When the Dr. was informing him of his wound taking a turn for the worse he just started crying.
I didnt know what to do other then just give him a big bear hug when he was leaving and told him he'll get better.
Now that, that downer of a story is over. How was your day?!
I should share more funny patient stories, there are some WEIRD people out there.