No daughters for me. . .
Yesterday I worked the 5pm to 3am shift in the E.R. I get this one patient, the sweetest britney murphy look-a-like 13yo girl who comes in with 1 day history of abdominal pain and some increased urinary frequency. In layman's terms tummy ache and have to go pee alot. So I get down to taking the patients history and the mom is there. She gives the vague history about maybe eating a bad tuna melt. Apparently mom and dad were away in Reno over the weekend and she was hanging with her 18yo brother. . I ask the mom to leave while I let her talk about her social situation. She denies any laxative abuse, anorexia, abuse, drugs, alcohol and smoking. Then I ask if she has a bf. Yes she does. I ask do they "mess around" and what do they do. She then get's this look in her eyes and asks me again if I have to report any sexual activity to her mother. I explain this is part of patient confidentialy and whatever we talk about will not get to her mom. So she says yes she's had sex and uses condoms with her boyfriend. I tell her that I"m glad she's protecting herself. I also tell her that guys lie all the time and she always has to protect herself because women get the short end of the stick(no pun intended) when it comes to consequences of unprotected sexual intercourse. I even tell her to ask me any questions now if she can't have a decent conversation about sex with her mom. She doesn't and I explain to her we might have to do a pelvic exam. My gyno friend tells me she couldn't tolerate the speculum exam. Weird? Man, that's freaking crazy this sweet innocent looking girl doing the nasty. Kid's growing up fast nowadays. . .Man if I did have a daughter I wouldn't want some punk ass usually older dude bastard having his way with my princess. Damn shame.