In hospital, what ridiculous other patients have you encountered?

[Neverplayleapfrogwithaunicorn]

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!?

I was in a urology ward one night and this confused lady spent the whole damn night opening and shutting her cabinet and calling
out to the staff asking where her bra was
A nurse was sat sobbing at the desk around 2am cos she couldn’t take it anymore

Ifailed - I wouldn’t have cared if it was Gregorian chant, Buddhist bells, or Shalom Aleichem ..... Don’t frigging play it at 100 decibels while your IV is making a beeping noise and people are recovering from surgery. It sounded like it was recorded in a ceremony rather than an actual recording and it was full people singing at different decibels and tones!

I really feel for the nurses they must deal with so much!!

Oh gosh some of these are shocking.

Worst I had was in my late teens being on a female patient surgical ward, when the old lady next to me (who must have had some form of dementia/Alzheimer's) kept shouting at me "tell me about the zoo" I would politely say "no" each time. Then out of the blue she hit me with her plastic water jug, soaking me and my bed in water. The nurse came running in as she had heard the commotion, apologised to me. I said don't worry she's ok she's obviously got Alzheimer's or something, and the nurse replied "no, she's perfectly well, she just has a temper!" 😯

Thanks op for while I'm eating my dinner bringing back the most disturbing and horrific memory
I spent weeks in hospital when I was 19.

I have a spinal cord injury and was taken to hospital after an rta unable to move or feel anything below the waist.

So setting the scene. Busy ward but I'm in a bay of 4 beds on a corridor, nurses rushing past all day. There are 4 beds. I am in one closest to the window and a very elderly lady is in the opposite bed also closest to the window. The other two beds were vacant. I can't remember if the curtains were pulled over or not but due to the nature of my problem I couldn't stand or move out of the bed at the time.

I looked up to my horror to see the woman in the bed opposite me who looked about 90 on and had no knickers on had hitched up her gown and was lying pleasuring herself for quite a long time. I pressed the buzzer, a lot, I think it was about 20 minutes I swear the corridor had been busy all day but nobody came and nobody walked past the corridor and I just kept trying to look out of the window in horror. She was fully exposed and I think without capacity.
Scarred for life honestly

On the antenatal ward the Ward Host was taking orders for lunch or dinner and the lady opposite me was asking lots of questions about the food. The part I heard was whether the apples were 🍎 or 🍏.

Obviously, i would have been sympathetic if the patient had allergies. But this seemed more fussy.

Children's ward a few years ago. A Muslim woman sharing my room (two children, two mums) turned on the light to pray through the night, every night. Didn't give a shit when I complained.

Another man left his sick toddler there overnight alone / he said he needed his sleep. So I had to watch over the toddler. He would come in every other day to complain that the nurses hadn't changed his child's sheets.

In the post natal ward after having dc2, the woman opposite had a baby who slept really well, meaning she was also able to sleep and snore very loudly. I'd had an emcs, wasn't yet mobile and dc was awake more often than asleep so that combined with the snoring meant I was getting very little sleep but I just felt glad that at least one of us was getting some sleep... until she called the midwife in and complained that my baby was crying and keeping her awake . Clearly she was snoring whilst awake! Midwife did nothing and I was just slightly bemused!

On the ward after having DC1 the lady in the bed next to me complained about EVERY THING ALL DAY LONG. Don't get me wrong she was fed up, she had been in a week prior to the birth of her DC and when I went onto the ward she had been there 5 days I think. She couldn't go home because of problems with her blood pressure and her diabetes. Her husband brought her takeaway food every day, McDonald's, Subway, pizza, and KFC - which she reheated later in the evening and then kept us all up all night throwing it up every ten minutes.

OMG Cactusplant that is the stuff of nightmares!!!!

Humans are twats!

When i was 15 i was on a peads ward and there was a baby 2 beds away. Baby slept all night bar the occasional cough... mum and dad were allowed to stay cause it was quiet.. they were so noisy all night watching videos and laughing!

I was in the ward waiting room once waiting to go home and a lady turned up for surgery. She had 2 massive suitcases with her and the nurse told her she was only going to be in overnight. I think she was one of those people who try to stretch out hospital stays as long as possible!

In with a broken arm - woman opposite complained non stop about everything. Her husband visited and she treated him like shit, swearing at him. Then tried to engage me in conversation and said I was fucking rude when I put headphones in.
My friend saw something altogether more disturbing when she had her son. The mother opposite her refused point blank to hold or feed her baby, just kept her head under the covers. Her family came to visit and mother-in-law screamed at her then slapped her. The reason? She'd had a girl not a boy. The next day social services were called when she attempted to leave and leave the baby behind.

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

AKA "Pyjama Paralysis". Annoys the life out of every single HCP.

I was in hospital for a week after ds was born and in the bed opposite was a dirty girl who wore the same nightie for a week and had greasy hair. She never once went for a shower.
Her partner visited every evening and he was absolutely gorgeous! They spent the whole time snogging, with him in bed with her, completely ignoring the baby.
They kept the whole ward entertained.

My worst was on a mental health ward when I was assaulted. The staff refused to phone the police because he was "too ill to know better" and I spent the last few days there (couldn't get transport back before then) locked in my room for my safety - whilst he hung around outside my door. Everytime I went for food or water or meds he'd be there saying he could do what he liked to me because of his illness which made him untouchable. When I saw the consultant they said it was my own fault for being silly enough to think I'd be safe.

After I left and reported it face to face I was told by the police he was known for doing it - every admission he'd target someone but nothing could be done because he's ill, the most that would happen would be he'd be put in hospital again and do the same thing.

I already struggled with a phobia of hospitals and Drs before that, now I've full blown phobia and it's massively difficult to get me to go into hospital.

Less serious was when on a medical ward a woman kept screaming hysterically every time the phone went off that it must be answered because it's her family.

Every. Single. Time.

A few years ago I was visiting my dad ( geriatric ward) who was in a 6 bedded ward. The man opposite him had a security guard sitting beside him. Apparently, during the night before , the man had jumped out of bed in the middle of night, started shouting to my dad and other patients ''get up , go home, the party is over.,,have ye no homes to go to". My dad said they all woke up, got out of bed , and were being ushered out the door before were fully awoke !! The poor nurses had an awful time trying to calm all patients down and get them back to bed! Another time, I was in a 4 bedded ward and the women opposite me was suffering from constipation and would, at length, explain to all nurses and doctors how bad it was. One night I was woken by the poor woman asking for a bed pan, and let's just say the laxatives kicked in ( for 1 hour)!!!! ( no privacy in a ward). Next morning the doctors asked ' did the bowels move', and she said " no....still no movement". It took me all my strength not to pop my head around the curtain and say.. 'They sure did '😁

I was on a gynaecology ward. A new patient was brought in late at night. She was screaming and shouting, effing and blinding, and was actually shouting very racist things at the nurses (p-words and n-words ). I just assumed she was a mental health patient and tried to get some sleep. It was late at night and I was on strong painkillers, so it didn't occur to me to question why there was a mental health patient being brought in.

The next day this woman was calm as anything. It turned out she wasn't a mental health patient, just that she'd had a terrible reaction to drugs.

I swear there’s one of these in every A&E but when I was in the waiting room at a walk in centre a couple of years ago there was a woman who brought her 16ish year old daughter in with what was apparently a bad wrist. She moved around the waiting room telling everyone about it and how ‘it had swelled up like a balloon for no reason’ (I got a good look at this wrist on the several occasions the girl came to get money for the vending machine and there was no swelling to be seen)
The woman then proceeded to phone 5 different family members to tell them where they were-all of whom then turned up to join the vending machine party.
She was complaining to everyone about how long the wait was-trying to engage everyone in conversation and slagging off (very ill looking) people who had been seen before her.
Eventually the daughter got seen and they were sent promptly on their way without an X-ray. No doubt they were back there the next day.

On orthopaedic ward after having shoulder surgery, the dressing and padding was huge and arm was in a sling.
The woman in the opposite bed who had undergone a procedure on her wrist started kicking off to the nurses that she didn't have a sling or a big dressing.

DS was on a paeds ward after stomach surgery. We were in a bay of 6, opposite the bay were rooms. 2 toddlers (siblings of patient) kept escaping from one of the rooms, they would around the bay unsupervised screaming and laughing and playing hide and seek with the bed curtains and waking up the poorly kids. The nurses said that these kids did this regularly. The parents were told to keep them in the room but it fell on death ears.

Pediatric ward, toddler gets admitted relatively late and his mum spends from 9pm to 11pm talking on her phone on speaker. Amongst the riveting topics she just had to share with multiple friends and relatives were the number of beds on the ward, the apparent lack of security at the car park and the view out of the window.

After giving birth in 1987, the lady in the bed opposite me had a visit from her partner and 3 other little children. Then he fucked off to wet the baby's head leaving the 3 other children by her bed. She'd had a CS so couldn't get up to look after them. He just left them there with her.

The midwives managed to get her parents in to take them home otherwise it would have been Social Services. I have always wondered what happened when she got home.