DVTs

I spent the weekend in Effingham with my family celebrating Mother's Day and eating entirely wayyy too much food. So today I was a little wary when I discovered that I was rather uncomfortable in my scrubs that all of a sudden seemed a little bit too small... I know that it is impossible for me to have gained enough weight to make my scrubs too small, but that was my first conclusion. Next I realized that my right pants leg was slightly tighter than my left and that's when I convinced myself that I had a DVT and it was causing my leg to swell. I talked to all of my co-workers about it and they just laughed at me, but I was seriously slightly concerned.

But when I got home I remembered what happened a few weeks ago... A few weeks ago I had a patient that kept trying to stand up by himself and pull out his IV and try to walk away, but he had absolutely no balance so I spent most of my day making sure he didn't do any of this and get hurt. Well as I was getting back from lunch he'd somehow made it out of bed and was walking/squatting around the room (not sure why), so I went to help him back to bed and somehow he pulled out his IV and then he clung to me and bled all over the front of my white scrubs...yay... Needless to say, the first thing I did when I got home was wash my scrubs in HOT water (twice)...while hot water helps kill germs, it also helps shrink clothes...way to go Jessica.

So good news is, I do not have a DVT!

Bad news: I'm an idiot and a hypochondriac...