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!?

Oh and yes. Another, sorry.

We'd spent a couple of weeks in hospital due to my DS's brain tumour. Then another child was admitted and was placed in the bed opposite due to an allergic reaction. His DM spent all fucking night ringing everyone she knew, despite the use of mobile phones being banned on the ward, to describe in ridiculous detail every sympton he'd had and how hard she was finding it. The Ward Sister told her to be quiet and to make calls outside the ward, but she didn't.

When your need to make calls comes before the wellbeing of sick children you really are a twat.

Some of the stories here are awful. ☹I shared a room with an elderly nun and she had nuns visiting her from 2 different orders who were always trying to outdo each other. One memorable conversation revolved around which convent mother superior was the most holy - apparently it was the one who was a martyr to her piles!

Just wondering what Shalom alaichem sounds like..... loud and fast I’m imagining.

Fortunately haven't been in hospital much- but both times had their incident. First- the morning after a late admission, a geriatric woman walked into my room, masturbating. Second- was on a trolley and a drunk (who had TWO members of staff minding him) pulled out my IV then pissed on the floor.
The non patient one- I remember hearing some middle aged woman go on and on and on and on about a scratch. She'd put (utterly unnecessary) paper stitches onit herself and was sitting cluttering up Emergency like she was bleeding to death. Whole dying swan performance. Eventually they got a fucking consultant to tell her that she could either fuck off home as she was fine or she could go to the geriatric/dementia ward (not in those terms obv).

Feckin Nora, cactus

When I was in hospital having ds there was a woman in the next bed who already had 8 children. She was expecting her 9th child and had been admitted with pains. After being examined she was reassured that she was healthy and nowhere near to giving birth and told that she could go home. She refused point blank to go, admitting readily to anybody who stood still for long enough that her other kids were doing her head in and she'd faked the pains so she could have a nice rest.

Oh and another one, my gran was in hospital and one of the other patients was an older lady who was a retired nurse. Unfortunately she had dementia and was very confused. Seeing that the nurses were busy she regularly decided to help them. She'd potter up and down the wards moving things so glasses ended up in next door's water jug, false teeth tucked into the bottom of a bed, patients charts all changed around..... very stressful for the nurses I'm sure but she was so pleased that she'd helped that it was hard to get annoyed.

I'm a nurse. Had a patient singe his eyebrows and tash off as he lit a fag whilst attached to oxygen. He thought people were lying when people told him oxygen was highly flammable - he said 'air doesn't catch fire'

My friend was in a maternity hospital after having her baby. The husband of the woman in the bed opposite brought her other 3 kids into her in the morning for her to mind while he went to work. The kids were on the ward all day.
Apparently it happened quite a lot. They had to introduce security and limit visitors and visiting times.

I’d just had DD and there was a young girl who had just had her second child, she completely ignored it and spent ages FaceTiming her bloody dog. She only paid any attention to the baby when the Bounty woman came round to take its picture.

When my ds was having grommets fitted, there was another boy having them done at the same time. His extended family showed up - grandparents, auntie etc. When they took him through, the mother got hysterical and actually fainted. The ENT doctor came out to see what was going on. At that time, we had friends whose ds was undergoing treatment for leukaemia and I wanted to slap the mother for getting so worked up about a trivial thing.

My dm said when she had me, the husband of another lady on the post natal ward actually turned up drunk and tried to climb into his wife's bed to have sex with her. It could almost be funny except you wonder what a shitty life she must have had with him.

Not on the ward itself but outside away from the hospital I was having a well deserved cigarette after a very traumatic childbirth that left me with severe PTSD. Not smoked since then. Wasnt a patient but the partner of one. Man coming out with his wife and baby clocked that I was still rather pregnant looking in a dressing gown. He must of thought I was pregnant as he shouted ‘you having a baby?’ I was taken aback and didn’t know what else to do other than reply with yes. He then laughed and shouted ‘well you won’t have one for much longer if you’re doing that’ and hopped into a taxi with his sneering wife. Vile pig making such assumptions and comments. I could have been incredibly overweight and ill for all he knew. I was nowhere near the baby unit. DD was fast asleep on the ward with DH and midwives were fine with parents leaving for a cig as long as they sanitised their hands after.

If he’d been in the room whilst I was giving birth he would have needed more than nicotine

@MissEliza a general anaesthetic is not a 'trivial thing'. We all deal with things differently and she wasn't to know about your friend. How do you know she didn't suffer with anxiety? Or lost a relative under GA. Have some sympathy for goodness sake. If my son was to have a GA I would be in bits, probably not pass out but I would be incredibly anxious.

It's crap enough being ill/injured or recovering from surgery and having to be so close to strangers.
Luckily I've not encountered any as bad as some others. My first hospital stay was after I broke my arm and the woman in the next bed did not stop talking-it was incessant. The night before I was discharged I drew curtain along, exchanged a few pleasantries then pretended to sleep but she kept talking... Eventually she fell asleep snored then started sleep talking!

When DD1 was born, a girl I knew from school who was now a neighbour was brought in to have her baby a couple of days later. I had a bout of baby blues and the curtains were pulled around my bed to let me sob in illusory privacy. This girl was talking about me. The moment when she wished aloud that she had a tissue and I announced I had some was one that gave me great joy!

Recently, I was in for day surgery. There was an older woman sitting in a wheelchair wearing a surgical boot on an ankle. she had crutches, but kept telling everyone she couldn't use them. I had my surgery and she ended up next to me in the ward. She was on her phone, on speaker, shouting at it. The person on the other end was repeating everything that she was told to another person on her end. It turned out this woman had walked on her broken ankle, despite being told not to, and had to have all the plates removed and replaced with bigger ones. She was loudly telling the person on the phone that the fucking doctors knew nothing and she would be walking on her fucking ankle as soon as she got out and the fucking cast would be cut off as soon as she got home. Boy, was I glad to get out an hour or so later!

There are more. I work in a hospital, although not a HCP.

I was in hospital with high blood pressure the week before DS 2 was born. The woman opposite was expecting DC 6. Every night several men would turn up to see her, all having a laugh and getting on well. I asked if it was her partner and his mates and she said 'Oh no, they're all my children's dads' 😄

When I was recovering from major lung surgery I spent some time in the main ward which was just a hellscape of old men and women with hacking coughs. I was very very releaved when I came around in a side room. But there was another side room next to mine occupied by a very very loud woman. If a nurse didn't come to her buzzer she yelled for one, her tv was on all day and she had very loud conversations, presumably on the phone. After a few days I think I knew all about her daughter's problems as well as hers. Thank God for earbuds

Not a bad patient but I was in SAU waiting for emergency surgery when the old lady in bed next to me passed away. She was 'looking' straight at me.

I had to get nurses to check she was alright, then the curtains were closed and despite them trying to be subtle they then had to wash her, contact family and morgue etc.

I couldn't stop thinking I hoped my surgery went ok and I left alive!

I was 11, broken arm in 2 places ( very visible), cracked my head open, dislocated shoulder and elbow (friend has said it looked like my arm was bent backwards) and knees skinned to the bone.
Woman in front at a&e was in with a headache... there were no seats and she wouldn't give me her chair. I was there for 3 hours and fainted twice.
I hated her... less so after the morphine though

When I was on the maternity ward, many years ago, the woman in the next bed told me not to breast feed when her boyfriend came in at visiting time. He wouldn't approve apparently. The same woman asked me 'Don't you wish your baby was a good baby like mine?' Not as outrageous as some, but if you can't breastfeed on a maternity ward...

Breastfeeding after emcs, so staff gave me a comfy chair and pillows. Feeding at visiting time, visitor's. DM passes my room and says 'That's disgusting'

Same ward had a young girl who was quite poorly, she had to buzz staff to help lift baby etc. She managed to take herself to the toilet where a couple of moron patients waited to give her a 'talking to' about buzzing staff and being a lazy cow!!!

I fear my lovely mum could have been that patient, but she was elderly and confused. She told me that her doctor was a ‘lovely Indian lady. At least I think she’s Indian, but she wasn’t wearing any feathers or beads’...

I’ve got a few.

When ds was born a lady from my NCT class was in at the same time as me. She looked in the crib and said oh no he is ginger I bet you are really disappointed. Fucking cheek.

After I had dd3 I decided to stay in hospital
For a rest for the night that was a stupid idea as one woman decided to start control crying technique on a newborn.

Thirdly not a patient but when ds broke his leg I had to stay with him another parent was snoring so loudly all night in the end I went over to him and shouted at him to wake up and shut up. One of the nurses said ‘well done’.

When DD2 was 4 days old DD1 was admitted to hospital with bronchiolitis. My husband went with her because obviously I couldn’t go! He stayed the whole time.

She was in for 3 nights and DH was the only man staying on the ward which he found pretty awkward. Made worse by the woman who’s child was in the cot opposite complaining to him that he shouldn’t be allowed to stay due to the ‘risk’ he posed and if I ‘really cared’ I would be staying in the ward while he looked after the baby.