Condom Snorting Challenge ..yep the latest craze

YouTube is the place to learn the latest challenges for your kids. Believe it or not your kids are learning some down right dangerous crap on YouTube.
Like the "Cinnamon Challenge" " Chubby Bunny or Marshmallow Challenge" or the "Salt and Ice Challenge" all of these are dumb and stupid and can be found on YouTube with other such risky behaviors like "The Choking Game" that has claimed thousands of pre-teen and teen lives in the US and UK. 

This latest craze amongst teens on YouTube is putting them in real danger of choking and suffocating. As seen in the video below, 3 girls snort (yes, SNORT) condoms through their noses and attempt to pull them out of their mouths. After much gagging and choking they accomplish the disgusting feat. 

Not without a bit of vomit though. Yuck!

These videos are getting huge amounts of views on a daily basis and it can only be fueling the condom-snorting fire.

The Condom Challenge sounds simple, really, and it is -- simple and possibly fatal: To complete the challenge, a teen has to snort a condom up his or her nose and expel it through his or her mouth WITHOUT choking to death in the process. (If you choke to death, you lose! Ha, ha!) Not so funny huh?
Come on people, this is not only disgusting, it is just irresponsible and gross! If you think that snorting a condom up your nose makes you look cool, it does not!
As a nurse I can tell you that if you choke on this condom it is very hard to "fish" it out of your trachea or lungs, look at the diagram below and see how easy it is for that condom to go the wrong way and end up blocking your airway.

Please be responsible and be safe! 

Gangnam Style with the OB/Gyne crew

A little parody humor featuring some OB/Gyne staff having some fun, we all need to blow off some stress and have some fun. Makes us better healthcare workers when we can de-stress and then get back to the real business of taking care of patients.

Born to Ride..............Sober

Don't you agree? Don't drive a "Donor cycle"

Some Shocking Facts about Nursing Around the World

Next time I ,as a nurse in America, complain about my job, I will remember some of my nursing sisters around the world. We are blessed to have so many resources available to us, supplies, technology, shifts of our choice, gloves.......we are spoiled compared to nurses in Mexico and Vietnam etc.

                                                                             Source: scrubsmag.com via Leslie on Pinterest

credit scrubsmag.com

ER Nurses Care to Spread the word about "Texting and Driving"

 

Tragedy strikes everyday and as an ER nurse I get to witness first-hand some of those tragedies that involve children. As a mom myself I want to protect my kids and arrive alive to my destination, so as tempting as it is to pull out my smart phone and text, I don't. The times I have tried to just look down briefly or type on my iPhone almost landed me in the ditch, scared me enough to stop. Watch this video, these kids have a very good point, it can wait!!! If it is such an emergency then pull over, send your text and then get back on the road.
Please help me support The Mommies Network which I am so proud to be a part of for several years now. Pass this on to everyone you know and some you don't.
Because the next Fool in the car texting and driving could kill you and your kids!!!
~~~Leslie~~~

"Safer than drugs? NOT!!

The choking game is not safer than drugs! The most common age for this fatal risk taking game is 11-16 yrs old, 87% are males. Many deaths from this are just thought to be suicides, not accidental suffocations.Causes irreversible brain damage, permanent disabilities and death. The "choking game" is an activity in which persons strangulate themselves to achieve euphoria through brief hypoxia. In simple terms: they choke themselves, cutting off the blood(that carries the oxygen) from the heart to the brain, thus passing out or near passing out. As they let go or unloosen the stangulation all the blood that has pooled rushes back up to give that person a "warm and fuzzy feeling". What happens when the warm and fuzzy feeling goes wrong and you pass out with whatever tied around your neck? You do not wake up, you die!!! If you, your child or your friends think this is fun and safer than drugs, better leave your obituary written out so your family can find it when you are gone. If you want a "warm and fuzzy feeling"  I will gladly get you a kitten or a puppy ;), they are warm and fuzzy, but alot less dangerous.

Thank you to the GASP Association for this great video, and thank you to Carrie at Ed4Ed on You Tube for making sure this was on You Tube for all to view.

~~~Leslie~~~
crazy ER nurse and not a fan of the Space Monkey