If you're in a hospital, and you're plugged in to one of those displays that monitors your heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, etc., and you've just been on a 24-hour liquid diet and haven't had anything to eat or drink for nine hours, it's probably not the time to play "Fun with Biofeedback." Don't look at the screen that says your heart rate is 71 (beep) 68 (beep) 70 and think, "I wonder if I can make it go down?"
Because, you know, when it hits 50 it's not a green number on a black background anymore. It's a black number on a red background, and it goes BEEP!!!
This is funnier than any of the stories I can remember from my hospital days. Thanks!
Posted by: John at March 18, 2003 05:39 AMIt really freaks them out when you have a standard resting heart rate of 46 and then go to sleep. All kinds of alarms go off.
Posted by: jake at March 20, 2003 02:50 PMwhat if you wrist hurts, you can't really bend it very much and your parents say it's just a sprain and you don't think it is? Do i need a brace?
Posted by: at February 8, 2004 10:42 AM