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" Are you on any medications at home? " I asked. He was in for a swollen wrist--and I mean a swollen. wrist. The thing looked like he had a half a softball in there." Nope. Nothing. "" What about for the pain in your wrist? "" Oh, yeah, I mean, I take Tramadol for that. "" Okay. So. . . .anything for high blood pressure, anything like that? "" No. "Okay. On to the next question. I know this one will be fun because he ' s got dozens of missed follow-ups and lit up his last utox like a Christmas tree. Two weeks ago." Any street drugs? Heroin? Cocaine? Weed? "" Why you motherf.ers always askin ' me about street drugs? I don ' t do no drugs! I don ' t smoke weed or shoot heroin or nothin ' ! What the f. are you people goin ' on about drugs? I never done no drugs! (random profanity)(random tossing things around the room)(stomping)(breathing heavily) "" So all you take at home is Tramadol for your wrist? "" Yeah. And Suboxone. "

Source: Head Nurse - October 6, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Jo Source Type: blogs