Another one that kills me this whole concept of vitals taking, is needing to get my weight at every visit. Again, really? I know if I am getting fat. If I had to lay on the bed to get my pants zipped up then apparently I have put on a few extra pounds, I mean duh.
Sometimes weight is important, and I realize that, such in the case of a patient with kidney issues, one with CHF, even liver issues. But again, for your normal every day average patient, a tad over-kill.
Now I did have a nurse friend of mine who has since passed away. She drove me totally bonkers. Her hero of all people was Kellie Rippa, of all people. Her name was Kelly too, same blond hair, same sort of dear in the headlights look a lot of time, you know the look I am talking about, lol.
But my Kelly actually wasn't stupid or dumb, but she was as stubborn as the come. She with her blond hair and blue eyes was as fair complected at they come, almost like me but I am not white, I prefer to be called opaque, lol. Anyway, they also say nurses and doctors make the worst patients, and Kelly was absolutely no exception.
She would go to her oncologist and at every visit they wanted to get her weight. Now keep in mind Kelly was probably 5'6" and weighed about 130. About perfect I would say. Anyway, she had a brain tumor about 7 years ago, they thought they got it all but didn't. So when it started growing back they did the whole gamma knife procedure and what not, obviously it didn't work.
But she would just aggravate the living piss out of me about her weight. She was so vein it killed her I believe. I lectured her one day about letting the doctors get her weight because a lot of the meds for her cancer are dosed strictly on how much she weighs, and because she wouldn't every allow them to weigh her I am probably pretty sure her medications were not being dosed correctly, which in the long run ended her life, leaving her 6 year old son to live with a verbally abusive father.
I hate to say this because it's none of my business at all, and I am no one to judge since I never and will never (God willing) ever have to walk in her shoes, but I am still a bit angry with her for being so selfish and so vein when she had a child that was so young and still depending on her to keep him safe.
Therapy someday, lol.
Mashie