jdb in AZ
It could end up curdled
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- Feb 11, 2011
Tonight DH and I had dinner at our favorite Mexican food place. It's not fine dining, but the food is great. The place is about half a mile from a hospital so a lot of their workers eat there. I'm from a medical family (dad was a doc, mom a nurse, etc) so I'm familiar with a lot of the terminology, but growing up, we didn't have graphic discussions at the dinner table.
Tonight two nurses were seated at the table next to ours and one of them mentioned a leaky colostomy bag (at the hospital) that was getting smeared all over. Really NOT something I wanted to hear about while eating refried beans. I managed to not projectile vomit into the nurse's food, but maybe in hindsight I should have asked them to tone down the rhetoric. I wasn't eavesdropping but they were loud and the tables were close together -- overhearing them was unavoidable.
What would you have said or done in the situation?
Tonight two nurses were seated at the table next to ours and one of them mentioned a leaky colostomy bag (at the hospital) that was getting smeared all over. Really NOT something I wanted to hear about while eating refried beans. I managed to not projectile vomit into the nurse's food, but maybe in hindsight I should have asked them to tone down the rhetoric. I wasn't eavesdropping but they were loud and the tables were close together -- overhearing them was unavoidable.
What would you have said or done in the situation?