The patient had already been intubated when I saw her in the ER, so I wasn't able to get much history. The story was basically - asthma exaccerbation, can't breathe, intubated.
We extubated her this morning. Great! My opportunity to find out her story and get a better handle on this patient.
"So, tell me, what were you doing before you came into the hospital?"
"I was at my boyfriend's house. We were watching a movie about this guy, who takes out your eyeballs and eats them!"
"Oh, wow. Ok. Then what happened?"
"Then, it turned out that he was really an alien from outerspace. But he was just disguised as a human. And he wasn't really eating the eyeballs, but just collecting them for experiments!"
"I see. But what was it that brought you to the hospital?"
"An ambulance."
"And the ambulance came because..?"
"Oh, my boyfriend knew something was wrong, so he called 911."
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Hehe.