Ok, I haven't written on here in forever (anyone surprised??) because I've been super busy with my clinical (which is now in it's 10th out of 11 weeks and is going very well. Thank you for your prayers!) Being in a nursing home I hear and experience a lot of different kinds of stories, many of which are captivating, some are sad, and others that are just plain unbelievably hilarious! So I hope to entertain you with what has been entertaining me the last 10 weeks. :)
- A resident who is a centenarian (at least 100 yrs old--there are 3 that I know of in our facility) expressing discontent following speech therapy: "That girl was trying to teach me how to eat...well, I've been eating for over 100 years, I think I know how!"
- A female resident walks up to a nurse with one boob in each hand and with a concerned look on her face informs her "I just found these...now what do I do with them?" (to which the nurse responds..."tuck em in your britches!")
- A conversation I had with a patient who was pleasantly confused...while her answers did not make any sense, it did not seem to bother her one bit:
- Me: Where are you from?
- Pt: I know! We just had a fabulous time and my brother, you knew him too, didn't you?
- Me: ahh, yeh...I sure did. Would you like to walk today?
- Pt: It's my favorite color, isn't it yours? I just can't believe he would do that though.
- While we are working with one patient in a common sitting area, I look up to see that another has her blouse half-way off. I run over there to tell her "Sweetie, we're in public, we have to keep our blouse on," to which she responds "Oh I don't care!" and proceeds to remove it and put on someone else's that she found!
- A confused pt who within 5 minutes time cussed me out and then turned around to tell me he loved me and gave me a kiss on the cheek.
- A pt who was practicing weight shifting was told to move her booty to one side and then to the other and stated "she knew all along, all she needed was some booty shaking...it's all about the booty!"
- A pt whose motivation for walking involves looking for "good-looking men" was asked what she looked for in a man: "They have to be tall, dark, handsome, and they have to have one more thing....MONEY!!"
- A male patient who I was practicing a stand-pivot transfer with (this requires stabilizing one knee by putting each of my knees around his one so that our knees are interlocking) was concerned that he was going to have an angry husband after him. I told him that it was okay and that Aaron knew to which he responded "No, no, I had another one say that before and it wasn't true!"
- A female patient was married very young and her young husband was soon after sent off to and was at Pearl Harbor. She didn't hear from him for 2 years! "Boy, if I'd a had a fryin' pan I woulda killed him!"
- A patient went into others rooms carefully collecting all their dentures
and presented them to the nurses to show with pride how many she had
found!
- A patient who loved to proclaim at least 3 times per session "Ya know...getting old is all hell!"
