When some-one stabs you with a sharp needle covered in a strangers blood, because they aren’t concentrating, and your response is... Oh, don’t feel bad, these things happen.
You are probably a theatre nurse.
When you walk into a house you are thinking about buying and you automatically check the ceiling…
You are probably a theatre nurse.
When you can talk for hours about topics that don’t involve anything controversial, or go for days without speaking until spoken to…
If it is a choice to brush your hair before work, because no-one will know if you don’t…
You are probably a theatre nurse.
If your nails never grow long enough to bite because of the chemicals you rub on them hundreds of times a day…
You are probably a theatre nurse.
If you can hold around 5 kilos of weight in a strange position for hours at a time…
You are probably a theatre nurse.
If, when your foot starts getting warm and wet, you just assume it has fallen asleep rather than checking if something warm and wet is leaking on it…
You are probably a theatre nurse.
If your idea of funny is body fluids in someone’s shoe…
You are probably a theatre nurse.
All my love to all you OR nurses out there.
Kia Kaha.
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I was watching a science show a few years ago about the Soviet biological warfare program. One scientist was about to inject an owl with some sort of horriible disease, but missed and hit the other scientist holding the bird. The man who was injected died. But the story has a happy ending: The dead man's organs were harvested and the disease was eventually named after him.
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