GSW

My husband plays with guns. Okay. So he doesn't play, but closely follows all laws and Junior woodchuck gun safety rules. Unfortunately for him I get patients that have shot themselves or a close friend while cleaning the guns. (I have my doubts about how friendly the friend is afterward, but that is their problem). When I get the diagnosis Gunshot Wound I snicker to myself. When I first started I would think, "Oh, an inner city gang member that got shot! How sad." (I lived in L.A for awhile). Then I realize these are just good ole' boys that go hunting and drink a lot (in case people don't know this is STRICTLY PROHIBITED by the Junior Woodchuck guide to gun safety).

Now. I if I am in especially bad mood at work I'll just make facetious comments out loud to myself:

"Oh look another gun shot wound. Was he drinking canned beer and cleaning the gun? or perhaps he did not realize that the gun was loaded." I didn't realize I was doing this aloud until I heard laughter around me. At least my foul mood entertains. (By the way, I despise all consumption of canned beer. I find it repellant and distasteful in every way and I am not really against drinking, just drinking canned beer. I don't think anyone repectable should even stoop to look at those WT cans. But that is another story for another day)

Poor husband. He has a paranoid wife who makes him carefully choose his shooting partners now. I do NOT want to have to explain to the ER doctor just what my husband's friend was doing "cleaning the gun" and pointing it at another human being (Again pointing a gun, loaded or unloaded, IS NOT condoned in the aforementioned guidebook). There are other rules, but I think you have to be from Texas to know them........