Nurses share the 12 funniest things they've heard patients say by Lyndsey Reid on Mar 29, 2018, 2:03 PM Advertisement
 - If you're a nurse dealing with one patient after the next, you can usually find humor in some of the lighter scenarios.
- Whether they're waking up from anesthesia or being totally honest and frank, patients can say the funniest things.
- We asked nurses to let us in the most memorable things a patient has said to them.
If there's one person who's most likely to have seen and heard just about everything, it's a nurse. And we're not just talking bodily fluids and things stuck in places they shouldn't be. "Some patients have absolutely no filter when they're talking to us," veteran nurse Gail told Business Insider. "People trust us and they open up to us, which can lead to them coming out with some really memorable lines." To find the funniest things patients have said that have left their nurses in stitches, Business Insider spoke with four real nurses and scoured the depths of the internet for more tales. Here are 14 of the funniest things nurses have heard patients say. SEE ALSO: I'm a nurse in New York, here's how my salary has changed in the last 10 years DON'T MISS: 11 words only doctors understand Tales of pure filth  "It was my first patient with a colostomy. He was this old, grumpy man sitting up in bed. I started taking off his bag and it smelled so bad my eyes were watering. I kept telling myself to think about his feelings and to not let anything show on my face. He looked at me and said, 'God, you've got bad breath!'" — Nancy, a nurse with 45 years' experience
Labor pains  "One patient was fully dilated, she started pushing, then changed her mind. 'I don't wanna do this, I'm going the f--- home,' she said. And then tried to get off the table." — Redditor jinx614
Interesting last words  "We had one little, old lady on our floor that was so fixated on her bowel movements. When she passed away her family wanted to know if she said anything. We had to make something up because her last words were 'Haley's M-O', the name of a popular laxative." — Nancy, a nurse with 45 years' experience
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