Freudian Pictionary...

I have never really conquered the skill of talking and writing on a board, though it is something that I do on a regular basis.  I have awful handwriting, especially when I'm writing fast and talking.  I can't write in a straight line, it always takes a detour downward at the end of my sentence or calculation.  And I always have to step back a couple of feet after writing a lot to see if it is legible or makes sense.  Unfortunately, I took my scribbling errors to a whole new level this week...

I was explaining how positive pressure works in an IV, which can be created by clamping the tubing while flushing the line or with positive pressure caps that are placed on the extension tubing (if this doesn't make sense to you, no worries... understanding this concept is really not relevant to the story).  Some of my students were struggling with getting the concept, so to help them out I drew a picture of it.

"Here is your IV catheter in the vein..." (drew a catheter sheath on the board...)
"and when you clamp your line while flushing, it gives an extra push to the fluid, creating this little 'bleb' at the end to prevent anything from backing into the line..." (drew a 'bleb' at the end of the catheter...)

I stepped back from the board to look at my picture and 'oh my goodness'...

"Yep... I definitely just drew a penis... let's go ahead and erase that!..."

I think a couple of my students peed on themselves from laughing so hard!  Thank goodness this is at the college level and I don't have to worry about letters from parents...





And now for some Salt-N-Pepa... I so could have been a back-up dancer in this era...