Category: LOL Moments

I was on attachment in a lab setting on a rural area. I was helping with phlebotomy and received this male patient. He had RPR, FBC and AFB auramine request from the doctor. I collected blood and then gave him a specimen jar so that he can bring the sputum the following day. Immediately when… Continue reading Hold Your Spit

In the 30+ years I've been doing this job I have been called a lot of names. In the hospital I work in, we have a Senior Behavioral Unit. Last week I had drawn blood on a VERY sweet man. The nurse came in to weigh him while I was labeling my tubes. For some… Continue reading New Name

One day we received a clotted sample for a CBC so naturally I have to call the floor to have the patient redrawn. The new tube came with a note in the bag that says, "Please spin slowly." I turned around once and said, "Okay, done!" My coworkers didn't find that as amusing as I… Continue reading Please Spin Slowly

I had labs to draw on a 10 year old girl and called her name to have her come in the lab. She looked at me nervously and said her mom was in the bathroom and asked if we could wait. Of course. (No way am I drawing blood on a child without a parent… Continue reading It’s Not That Bad

A patient came in for blood typing for a possible blood donation. According to the patient, this was going to be his second time donating blood. He also told me it’s been a while since he last donated blood.So I asked the patient if he remembers his blood type. He answered me with certainty that… Continue reading I’m Pretty Sure of My Blood Type!

A cold dark night shift. The silence covers the whole lab and the ghosts are whispering around us. I was in a deep sleep. Suddenly, my co-worker screamed my name!!! I woke up really scared ..he was doing a urinalysis and he said :" there is a monster in this urine sample ." I saw… Continue reading Urine Monster

Surgical tech came to us in Blood Bank which is located on a different floor as the main lab. He told me that he has an important note for Mike in the lab. I told him we had no one by that name. He showed me the note it said: for "Mike Rowe". Took me… Continue reading Mike Rowe

Nurse wanting to add H&H to CBC drawn earlier. We kept going back and forth that she has H&H already. However, she insisted she did not. So I asked her to put me on hold while she checked her CBC result. When she  saw the H&H, she could come back on the line and apologize for… Continue reading Verbal Test Addon

It was a busy night and I had to get a bunch of morning draws (no phlebs that day). I was going room to room when I noticed a couple of people leave the next room I was headed to. The light was already on when I went in, so I started with, "Hello, my… Continue reading Call Light

This story happened when I first started working in the United States as a Clinical Laboratory Professional. I can speak English really well, but some of the slangs I’m not very familiar of. For instance, I wasn’t aware that there’s a difference between “piss” and “pee”. I will soon find out. One day, I was… Continue reading Piss in the Cup