Thursday, October 13, 2011

Necessary Agility


Once a month, we do quick-look EKG's on all of our patients.  We obtain this by placing the defibrillator paddles on our patients' chests and printing a six inch strip of their EKG.  By doing this, we can ascertain whether they have any major EKG changes that need to be watched or treated.

This past month, as we were doing EKG's, we had a slight mishap.  One of our male patients stepped up, slipped his suspenders off his shoulders, lifted up his shirt and as he pulled his tummy in, his shorts dropped to the floor.  Unfortunately, my co-worker and I didn't act very professionally.  We laughed before we could stop ourselves.  Amazingly, he had his shorts pulled back up in a nanosecond.  His agility at 88 years old was unbelievable.

It makes me wonder what amazing feats I could accomplished in a time of need.

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