In hospital, what ridiculous other patients have you encountered?

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I’m currently on a Gynaecology ward.
There is a lady who was opppsite me.
In the last 10 hours she has made me so ragey!
She has been FaceTiming and video calling family all morning talking really fast (not sure what language) but really loud.

She then played the kind of music you would hear in a mosque really loud on YouTube even though she had headphones. This was while her beeper was going off on her IV the noise was like Chinese water torture.

When dinner came she photographed the whole lot of it. Taking about 20 photos with the camera noise switched on.

Then came visiting, 10 members of her really loud family arrived including 2 screaming toddlers. They say there for 2 hours. They were not her kids they appeared to be her sisters. But not once did they take them out.
They then cracked out 3 tubes of really stinky cheese and onion Pringles as a group. The crisps were all crushed into the floor and all over the bed.
They told her she could go home so the family took her...... thank bloody god for that!!

Have any of you come across other patients in hospital that make you feel the rage!?

Also on a gynae ward, saw a woman this morning come in for surgery so hadn't had an operation get into her pjs get into bed and then call a nurse to pass her her water

On ante natal ward after an op. Woman in the bay next to me was booked in for a section the next morning and said she was too anxious to sleep, so she played her tv at high volume, lights on, talking on the phone & up and down to smoke - all night.

Teenage cancer ward (years ago)

1. young girl that had 10-15 guests every evening and they’d bring very strong smelling food (not fun whilst you’re attached to a drip full of cisplatin and doxorubicin and in the bay next to her)

2. Jahover Witness grandmother of one of the inpatients who went around telling us all (Aged 13 to 20) that we had cancer because we had the devil in us

I’ll be back with more later.... it was a looooong stay

I had dd on nye one year, kept in as a 'grand multiple',more risk of heavy bleeding after birth.
Nyd was open day they said.
Woman opposite had 11 visitors at 10 am, pulling a picnic hamper and carrying bottles of bubbly!!
I discharged myself.

Prenatal ward waiting for labour to start, though it never did.
Lady opposite was being moved for an induction. I remember the midwife asking the husband to help "move all the stuff".
The midwives were then going back and forth with various outfits on coat hangers. I heard one of them remark "How long has she been admitted?"
"Almost a week."
"It's like a fashion show in here. Why does she need so many clothes?"
It was a lot of clothes! And when you have to spend a lot of time in hospital gowns anyway, rather pointless!

I've had many odd folk share a ward with me, some infuriating, some quite upsetting to witness but the most memorable was when I was on the recovery ward after having a c-section.

The woman opposite had been brought in for an elective the day after my emergency section.

When she returned from theatre her priority was slipping into a long silk nighty like the ones from the 1940s and getting her hair and makeup done. Because she was catheterised she did all this with a remarkable amount of agility for someone who had just been half sliced open.

I was too amazed to be annoyed by her. Even the midwife had a little chuckle when she realised what all the acrobatics were in aid of!

A couple after I had horrible gynae surgery and was bed bound at 19 with an epidural , kept laughing, and complaining when the nurses came to change my pad in the middle of the night, check stitches, give me a bedpan etc Nurses kept leaving the blankets off me accidentally... She was a nurse she said, and her husband was a doctor too, so she should have known better than to sit smirking. I was on a general day surgery unit for some reason so it was full of minor surgeries and they were allowed visitors from 7am to 10pm. When you've 35 stitches and cant walk its awful.

Major cancer op .

Girl in bed next to me with appendicitis .

Up all night ,every night with curtains shut on TV and phone .Taking painkillers provided by visiting relatives .Who complained loudly that the cancer patients got all the attention . And that she was being given a "dirty " IV fluids ( a small amt of the girls blood had tracked back up the IV line )

Became v v constipated . After various attempts of an unknown sort ,loud exclamations of "it feels like you've got your whole arm up there " a commode was filled .Contents photo'd and put on Facebook .

It was all v sad really ,she was young ,her mother was a nightmare and they were all paranoid about the care they thought she wasn't receiving .They had only defensiveness and zero trust in hopspital staff .

They did all come round in the end and were chatty and pleasant .

I went in for treatment for CIN1/2 and one of the women waiting for surgery told me her whole tragic life story including how she’d been pregnant but her jealous sister had “kicked it out of her”. I didn’t really know what to say?

All human life ...

Poor staff !

Once when I was in hospital I shared a 2 bed room with Ina. I was in for investigations for a disease I suffer from after 6 years, Ina was in because her diabetes was out of control and no one could figure out why.

Between ward rounds, Ina opened her locker and offered me an Irn Bru (if you're not in Scotland and have not heard of it, it's fizzy juice that's more popular than coke!).

Her locker was jammed with cans of full sugar Irn Bru. She just didn't see the issue!

They wheeled her off for a scan of her feet and I pointed it out to a nurse. They moved me to another room while Ina was away! There was quite a lot of shouting later on. I think she just did not get it, but there was no way you could explain it to her, t bough she was keeping it hidden, so she did understand.

In the ward after having my twins, I was fucking knackered. The lady opposite just had her baby and her family came to visit, they recorded the baby crying and kept fucking playing it back, whilst the actual baby was crying. I fucking hated them.

While in a general surgery ward - In the bed opposite me was a woman with mental health issues (relevant) who'd been admitted for swallowing a large open safety pin. She was accompanied by 2 carers to make sure she didn't harm herself further.

Overheard the surgeon (very thin curtains) asking her if she'd had any other hospital stays in the last 6 months and she replied "yes, 3 months ago because I swallowed a knife - it looked fucking great on X-ray"

One of her carers did indeed confirm that this was the case!

In hospital the night after DD was born, the baby by the next bed was crying and crying at 2 in the morning. I thought " poor woman, glad thats not my baby." Then she said to the baby' 'I'm not picking you up, Im not spoiling you' .To a newborn!
I said very deliberately from behind my curtain "Will you pick that fucking child up". There was silence in seconds

Often wondered what happened to that poor baby though!
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Nurse here!! Too many ridiculous stories to write 😂

Nothing so dramatic, but the woman who kicked up a fuss because I was getting special treatment and better food. Er, no it was gluten free and actually I would have paid 50 quid for something more than a slice of ham, a lettuce leaf and half a tomato with some un refreshed gf bread. The yogurts my DM brought in.

When I was recovering from my c sec, the woman in the bed next to me proceeded to ring every person in her phone to tell them how she almost had the baby in the back of the car and now she had to pay to get her mum's car cleaned, she obvs knew a lot of people as she did this at high volume for 4 fucking hrs.
Everyone in that room was really poorly and was trying to sleep, she was so inconsiderate. I discharged myself after 18 hrs.

After a very long and worrying wait to find out if my long awaited and much wanted pregnancy was ectopic, I was in the emergency gynae unit waiting to go down for my operation to remove the pregnancy and one of my tubes.
Next door to me was a woman having some sort of pregnancy-related issue, her (separated) husband and their 7yo DD. Who they bullied and mentally tortured continuously. They told her that it was her fault that her daddy didn't want to spend time with her , that she was naughty, nasty and not wanted. They told her off for talking, sitting on the chair, standing near her mum and for crying when her dad stormed off (for a fag, but they told her he wasn't coming back).
I was in pieces over it, it made a hard experience unbearable. I spoke to a nurse who was also very aware of what was happening, she said she was going to talk to the matron. I hope they did. I hope the little girl got some support.

oh Persipica that's heartbreaking for you and the child .How dreadful .

played the kind of music you would hear in a mosque

would it have made a difference if it had been Gregorian chant, or are you annoying by her (apparent) religion ?

The absolute cow who's baby was in the bay next to us when DS had his heart surgery. She didn't like us drawing the curtains around his bed for privacy, even though DS was 15 and on a paeds heart unit surrounded by small babies. She kept yanking them back and spreading her chair and bags back into the space whenever DH and I left him for a few moments. DS was too poorly and terrified to argue with her. Every time we came back we'd close the curtains and push her chair back into her own area. She'd huff and complain to people on her phone about how inconsiderate some people were when you had a sick baby. I'm not a violent person but I could have throttled her. DH firmly told her we wanted the curtains left closed and that although the bays were small we needed to stay in our own. She flounced from the ward yelling at a nurse that we were 'rude arseholes.' The next morning the surgical team came to speak to us and she clearly heard the discussion through the curtain. She didn't dick about with the curtains after that but did stroll past when he came back post surgery and tried to peer into the bay through a gap. I don't know how she survived tbh.

A couple of years ago I dislocated my leg so I couldn’t move I was on a trolley and I was stuck as they had my knee strapped to a huge solid splint thing. They put a man in the next cubicle who had drunk a bottle of vodka and taken “shit loads of painkillers” as he put it.
He kept lapsing out of consciousness but when he kept coming round he was trying to rip out his IV and stumble out of the cubicle, twice he almost collapsed on my leg, In a huge man shaped/cubicle curtain combination! With lots of C words being shouted as he tried to fight the staff.
I appreciate he was mentally unwell but for Christ Sake don’t put him next to someone that’s immobile.

Man on my ward sadly had a cardiac arrest one night and was transferred to ITU. I overheard two nurses at the nursing station later:

"Did you call his wife to let her know?"
"Yes...and his girlfriend".

not the same at all ,but when my son was 2 days old I returned to the ward having been using a pump to express milk ( he wasn't feeding well ) .
Finding him lifeless and blue I grabbed him and ran down to the nurses desk .As I passed my neighbour ( who regularly followed hosp meals eating vats of pungent food brought in by her large noisy groups of relatives ) shouted after me " Are you going ? Can I have your bed ? "
( she wanted to move to the corner )

The senior nurse at the desk greeted me with " I told you ladies to shut that window ! " ( all 2 cm of the opening )

A more empathetic nurse took the baby ,suctioned him and transferred to special care .

My husband in hospital with pneumonia. His roommate in for non healing wound. Roommate on call button to nurse constantly demanding pain relief. Nurse keeps responding he has had his limit of pain killers. Roommate shouts at nurse “You are a fucking cunt!”
On call doctor comes in, confirms no more opioids will be given.Roommate threatens doctor, security is called, patient dismissed from hospital for bodily threat. Husband finally gets to rest.