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24 Jul, 9 tweets, 2 min read
1/
 Discharge Day

Me: "What questions do you have for me?"
Him: "None. I'm straight."
Me: *nodding*"You straight?"
Him: "Straight up."

*chuckling*

Him: "Man. When I got to the hospital? Shit was straight crazy."
Me: "Straight up?"

A wave of mischief twinkled in his eye.
2/
 Him: "Straight up, doc. That ambulance said they was coming here and I was nervous. I was like, 'I ain't been in a car wreck. Take me someplace else.' No shade."
Me: "And they took you straight to Grady didn't they."
Him: "STRAIGHT to Grady."

*laughter*
3/
 Him: "But real talk? I was wrong about y'all. Y'all got me straight."
Me: "See? And here you was thinking all we could do was car wrecks and traumas.” *pause* “Now you just have to keep all these appointments straight."
Him: “Hey is that primary doctor you got me straight?”
4/
 Me: “Oh yeah. She’ll keep you straight.”

We faced off in silent competition.

Me: "You straight on a ride home?"
Him: "Yeah. My wife coming to get me. So I'm straight."
Me: "Probably a straight shot from where y'all live, right?"

*laughter*
5/
 Him: "Ha ha. . .I see what you did there. . .actually, it is. But hopefully y'all hurry up 'cause she got to go straight back to work when she drop me off."

I narrowed my eyes. He did the same.

Me: "You win. I've run out of witty ways to say 'straight.'"

*laughter*
6/
 Him: *pulls out phone from between covers on bed* "Not me. I'm 'bout to text these teens in my house and tell 'em they better have that house straight when I get home or I'm putting a foot straight in somebody's ass."

I widened my eyes and shook my head.
7/
 Me: "Wait. Let me get this straight--did you just say you gon' put a foot in a minor's ass to your doctor?"
Him: “I mean not my actual foot. But they DO know I’ll yank all them Xboxes straight out the wall and snatch them cell phones straight out they hands!”

*laughter*
8/
 Me: “I know that’s right!” *rising from bedside chair and gives fist bump* "Alright then, sir. I'm glad you straight."
Him: "And I'm glad you was my doctor."
Me: "Whaaat? No shade?"
Him: "Nope. None at all."

*silence*

Me: "You know what, friend? I'm glad I was, too."
9/
 *smiling behind my mask*

Him: "Straight up?"
Me: "Straight up."

Damn, I love this job.

Happy Saturday, everyone.

#humanismalways 💛

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 #AmazingGrady

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Me: "So. . .Ms. Hodge. . .uh. . . what exactly were you doing when this happened?"
Her: *smirks and does a body wave in her bed* "Getting it ON, baby."
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No cacophony of ACLS.

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