Tuesday, July 31, 2012

It's 5 o'clock somewhere!

Patient of mine with a chronic (many year) urinary tract problem (whose management I share with a University specialty team came in today for a cystocentesis). The patient was brought in by a person I have never met before. The person did not know why he was bringing the patient in, but arrived about 15 minutes before we opened and asked "do you know why I am here?" Luckily, I did! Yay, Dr. VBB. So anyway, I did the cysto and returned the patient to the owner. As I typically do, I said to the owner "Fluffy has a damp belly. Don't worry about it, she just has alcohol all over her belly." The person replied "wow, lucky her. I wish I did!"

OK! Whatever floats your boat....

6 comments:

  1. Umm, generally primates need to ingest ETOH to see intoxication. Topical administration usually isn't effective.

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    1. Heh. (...thinking of the enema script from days of yore and less enlightened times... bet they made the patient FEEL better, even as they... well... not the best medicine.)

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  2. Grumpy, it depends on WHERE it is administered topically.... like the ETOH enemas I keep hearing about with these crazy teens...

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    1. HA HA... I'm not alone in this thought. Hiya!

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  3. Clueless but early. I'd take that!

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  4. Sigh. I just remember the good old days of sneaking a loaded watermelon into the BSU stadium.

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