My Brain is Broken

[krickets]

Help me!

I just know there's another word for a gurney or a stretcher. I swear I am not imagining this. (Though if I were, I guess I wouldn't think so, so nevermind. You can't trust me!) I'm talking something make-shifty here. Both words seem too "plastic" to me. I guess I'd go for gurney if I had to make a choice, because I like the sound of the word better. But is it accurate? It probably isn't. I feel like it should have wheels if I call it that.

Help a sister out.

Comments

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Gurney and stretcher aren't the same.

Def of Gurney: a flat, padded table or stretcher with legs and wheels, for transporting patients or bodies.

Def of Stretcher: a light folding bed with handles for carrying the sick or wounded

[crickets.livejournal.com]

See! I knew it had wheels! Okay. So, stretcher. I hate that word. Maybe I'm inventing memories of a replacement word because I hate it so much. Hahaha. Why should I hate the word? It just... doesn't make sense. Hahah.

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

I do too but it sounds make-shift like. I can't recall anything that means the same thing though.

BTW, what the hell are you writing?

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I'm sorry could you repeat the question? LOL.




It's sorta, Sawyer/Claire, Sawyer/Jack, Jack/Alex... with Richard. Yeah. *shakes head* I'm only slightly crazy.

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

LOL.

This ought to be good.

There is something wrong with the way your mind works. And mine as well for that matter, but you more so.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Mangsheng! See that? You've made Jack cry.


*pets Jack*


LOL.


No, no. You're totally right. It's all the Wincest. Honestly. It ate my brain.

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Aw, poor Jack.

Wincest...it does things to you.

(I'm spamming your journal because I'm, well, stuck, at the moment)

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Dude.

Wincest...it does things to you.

That needs to be on an icon STAT.

I think we're both stuck.

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

That needs to be on an icon STAT.

Well, what are you waiting for.

This is sad. If we both can't write then we can't corrupt the world. Damn. This must be stopped! (When you read this you will so understand why I am stuck)

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Haha I can no longer perpetuate the uncorruption of the world at large. I order us both to write!

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that'll work. I don't do well with orders. Or authority.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Haha. For some reason I just got a flash of Harold and Maude with the cop.

Maude: "Don't be so officious, you're not yourself when you're officious."

*vows to stop being officious*

Cause Maude knows everything.

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

LOL.

[fan4lost.livejournal.com]

Okay, a strecther is just a stretcher. But there a couple of different types of stretchers.

- A long spine board can be used to scoop and carry the victim to the stretcher; in case a spine trauma is suspected.
- The scoop stretcher is used for lifting patients, for instance from the ground onto an ambulance stretcher trolley or long board.
- A reeves stretcher, or 'flexible stretcher', is a flexible stretcher that is supported longitudinally by wooden or plastic planks.

But none of those sound any less clinical. You could always call it a person sling. LOL!

[crickets.livejournal.com]

A person sling. Hahaha yeah. That's exactly what I'll call it!

[phoenix39.livejournal.com]

http://thesaurus.reference.com/ always helps me when I need to find another word for something. :)

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Yeah I am pretty sure that I was imagining things. I don't think the word I think exists, exists. lol.

[gregoria44.livejournal.com]

Hard questions, eh?

My trusty Roget's has little to add, except maybe:

'litter' - a means of conveying people esp. sick or wounded people, consisting of a light bed or seat held between parallel sticks

or 'bier' - which is more of a 'stand' for a person or coffin. Hmm, nice.

Oddly, gurney is one of my least favourite words. It sounds to me like someone throwing up, but then my brain's a little bit broken too!

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Yeah it isn't either of those. I suppse I was just imagining things haha. Thank you for your help!

[gottalovev.livejournal.com]

I could give you French names for it.

not really helpful, huh?

sorry!

but then again, I looked at a french/english dictionary, and a "civière" brings out 'stretcher' but also 'hand-barrow' (a flat rectangular frame with handles at both ends that is carried by two persons)

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Hehe. Well, the person being carried happens to be FRENCH, but I don't think that counts haha. Thank you for your help. I think I'm just going to go with stretcher.

[rillaotvalley.livejournal.com]

Not sure if someone got to this first, but you could say "a litter" -- as in "she was carried in on a litter.'

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Yeah apparently I as imagining things. Cause litter certainly isn't what I was thinking of. Haha. I'll just have to go with the stretcher. Much as I don't like it. I could avoid using the word altogether. Hahaha. But that's too easy. Haha.