Gary is a spectacular nurse. His jocular, slap-the-back manner is comforting for patients who have a lot of things to worry about.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy memory isn\u2019t as good as it should be, Mr. Hasan,” Gary said as he was getting the room prepared, \u201cbut as I recall, you did well.\u201d<\/p>\n
He put a clean scope on the tray, and he mixed the mixture that they would spray down my nostrils to deaden my nerves and open things up to make is easier to push the scope up my nose and down my throat.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact, you did really well<\/em>,\u201d he said, \u201calthough\u2026 you know, you didn\u2019t look that tough…<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026Sorry Mr. Hasan, I didn\u2019t mean to insult your manhood.”<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s fine,\u201d I said. \u201cI\u2019ve had testicular cancer twice. There\u2019s not that much manhood left to insult.”<\/p>\n Gary stood speechless.<\/p>\n There was another nurse in the room. She had been typing at the computer with her back to us. And in that momentary silence, a huge smile came to her face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gary is a spectacular nurse. His jocular, slap-the-back manner is comforting for patients who have a lot of things to worry about. \u201cMy memory isn\u2019t as good as it should be, Mr. Hasan,” Gary said as he was getting the room prepared, \u201cbut as I recall, you did well.\u201d He put a clean scope on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3885,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions\/3885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}