A good reason to be kind to nurses---

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7. Try a Foley.

They’re brutal. The best way through the process is to develop a sense of humor because you’re usually prone and immobile. I learned some good jokes - none of which I’ll repeat here out of respect - but nurses can have a pretty gnarly sense of humor sometimes.

Once I broke my hip and developed a DVT in my left femoral vein from the hematoma that eventually passed to a PE because I was on Coumadin (to address the DVT). Nurse came in and wanted to check my “bag of cranberry juice”. I laughed so hard blood came out of my nose. Coumadin is horrible, but it’s cheap. Eloquis, an alternative is in no way cheap or reversible, but it seemed to do the trick. I still put both feet on the ground in the morning now. The only thing worse than being stitched without a local is having your intubation or Foley removed while you’re conscious.