An Urban Legend is Born
...and I am the daddy I think.
This is somewhat exciting in a nerdy kind of way. fuji6100 submitted a comment to my previous journal entry about my ER story of the "Potato Lady" being linked to a Urban Legend. So I wrote the following as a reply to his comment:
It’s interesting that this is an urban legend. I wonder if it is less than 10 years old, because it may have had it’s beginnings with this patient. A co-worker, that just got hired on here, and me were talking about old times when we worked together on third shift 10 years ago at the main campus. Talking about old friends and odd patients we worked on together. She asked if I remembered this patient and instantly it came back to my memory. It was her patient, but I was helping her run the films. It was amazingly disgusting and funny as hell.
Before I submitted it as a reply I started wondering if there was a date listed on the origins of the urban legend. So I loaded the page to check and... OMG the date on the urban legend thing is dated 1996 and having of having an origin of early 1990’s. 1996 is the year Julie and I worked together and would have seen this patient.
The legend also states that the lady says something very simple minded such as “vines in my virginny” or “tree in my bedina” which fits right in with the types of patient we deal with. Being in the foothills area we get a lot of hill billies that come down from the mountains for medical care. We get people saying crazy stuff like that all the time. Like one lady came in with something stuck in her sa-KA-ka fuss(esophagus) or here is one we hear a lot - I got hurt in my growing region (groin area).
I would like to think this legend was from the patient we cared for that night. Neat stuff, and thanks for the link Fuji.
This is somewhat exciting in a nerdy kind of way. fuji6100 submitted a comment to my previous journal entry about my ER story of the "Potato Lady" being linked to a Urban Legend. So I wrote the following as a reply to his comment:
It’s interesting that this is an urban legend. I wonder if it is less than 10 years old, because it may have had it’s beginnings with this patient. A co-worker, that just got hired on here, and me were talking about old times when we worked together on third shift 10 years ago at the main campus. Talking about old friends and odd patients we worked on together. She asked if I remembered this patient and instantly it came back to my memory. It was her patient, but I was helping her run the films. It was amazingly disgusting and funny as hell.
Before I submitted it as a reply I started wondering if there was a date listed on the origins of the urban legend. So I loaded the page to check and... OMG the date on the urban legend thing is dated 1996 and having of having an origin of early 1990’s. 1996 is the year Julie and I worked together and would have seen this patient.
The legend also states that the lady says something very simple minded such as “vines in my virginny” or “tree in my bedina” which fits right in with the types of patient we deal with. Being in the foothills area we get a lot of hill billies that come down from the mountains for medical care. We get people saying crazy stuff like that all the time. Like one lady came in with something stuck in her sa-KA-ka fuss(esophagus) or here is one we hear a lot - I got hurt in my growing region (groin area).
I would like to think this legend was from the patient we cared for that night. Neat stuff, and thanks for the link Fuji.