My doctor has seen my painted toenails many times. He has also seen my painted fingernails a few times. His nurse said once that she really loved my painted fingernails.
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My doctor has seen my painted toenails many times. He has also seen my painted fingernails a few times. His nurse said once that she really loved my painted fingernails.
Just as a follow-up. Doctors may notice more than you think. I recently went to my GG primary doctor. She knows about Steffi, but I don't know that my girl name is in her charts. She's happy (medically) that Steffi is in my life because it's important to have "hobbies" as you get older to keep the mind active. She has seen pic of Steffi in the past, and I showed her a couple of recent ones from the Keystone Conference. She noted that my floral dress reminded her of the cherry blossoms (in DC). She also noted that she's never seen me wearing fi8nger nail polish in person. I assume that she saw that I was wearing it in my pic.
I know that one of my docs has Steffi's name in her medical records even though she usually sees boy me. Steffi is planning to go instead of me to my next appointment with her,
I've shared this before but it's been several years since I posted it. I'll share it again.
Back in 2013 the wife and I were in a serious car accident. Hit black ice on the highway, did a 360, and hit the ditch. It had a big dirt berm on the other side of it and we T-barred into it at 60 miles an hour.
After everything stopped shaking and banging aound, there we sat waiting for the ambulance to come. At one point I remembered I was wearing panties and mentioned it to the wife. Hmmmm.. this should be interesting. Emergency service pulled us out and had us on body boards. We were then hauled off to the hospital.
Once I got to the emergency ward I was doped up pretty good. I was really barely conscious. The RN (male) descided it was time to get me into a hospital gown and started to undress me. I tried to say something to warn him, but I guess I was just mumbling at this point. He pulled down my pants. There was a pregnant pause followed by an "OH". That was that!
I continued to wear my panties for the duration of my hospital stay. This included an operation to fix my broken neck, and several days of recuperation. I don't know who knew what I was wearing. Not sure if anything was noted on my chart. I kinda think there was based on the reaction of the nurses who fit me for neck brace. They gave some indication I didn't need to worry about anything.
Apparently mom was right. You should always put on clean underwear. You never really know what could happen.
I hadn't forgotten about the potential marks. I expected them. But it was much better than pulling up my shirt and having her work around the bra to attach the leads and there was nothing else to do. I was much more concerned about my wife's reaction than the nurses. It turned out better than I expected.Quote:
Originally Posted by SylphDevine
I had to go to the ER because I was having chest pains.
I was wearing toe nail polish and I was concerned about my wife finding out. When my wife stepped out for a break, I 'fessed up to the nurse and had her get me a pair of hospital sock to replace my boy socks. Nurse didn't care. She got me some hospital socks.
Wife never found out. I got a heart cath that day to confirm that it wasn't a heart attach. I got the heart cath through my thigh, so I think only the intake nurse saw my toe nail polish, but I'm not sure. I was sedated for the heart cath.
I was much more concerned about my wife finding out than my medical team knowing.
My mom had the same concern about clean underwear, but didn't say anything about nail polish.
Honestly what do you expect a doctor or nurse to do. You go in with chest pains. Doctor going to say. First thing. ?Why are you wearing panties and bra??? Or ? where is the pain?. Today medicine, Dr have 15 minutes for your visit including paper work, sending RX after visit report. They can get into a panties bra discussion. Besides what can they do? Tell you you?re crazy >. Happy that you are comfortable with your self. Just accepting it is easy.,. Matter of fact. Beside some AO rednecks no one cars what you wear,
What about people that doctors see that are covered in Tattoos? Do you think they say anything or they care? Why be concerned about nails polish? It is just body adornment.