Hospital ward CF stories

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Can anyone beat mine?

I was admitted to hospital today and so far the neighbour in the bed next to me has:

⁃	Stolen my pillow
⁃	Stolen my fan 
⁃	Moved her curtain around MY cupboard and put all her stuff on it - I now have nowhere to put anything 
⁃	Plugged her phone into my plug socket 
⁃	Had about 5 noisy visitors all of whom brought some kind of smelly takeaway
⁃	Had a nap. Snored her head off 
⁃	Complained loudly about everything and everyone on the ward disturbing her - all the other ladies are quiet as mice 

A lovely nurse is going to try and move me!

Why on earth are you letting her? Go and get your cupboard and your fan back. Ask for another pillow though as she has probably dribbled all over it. And if you need your plug socket then unplug her phone. She is a proper cf but you are allowing it if you haven't challenged her. If you are worried then do it when a member of staff is around

We had lots of terrible experiences when my dd was in hospital. However, the nurse should be speaking to her to stop her behaving like this rather than moving you!
Hope you are feeling better soon.

Well, yes that's very cheeky but why on earth haven't you stood up for yourself?

I’d be pulling that curtain around pushing all her shit off the table the CF! 😂 sounds like a nice would be better though, sorry to hear you’re not well

Yes definitely try to sort it out. If you don’t want it to be awkward maybe ask a nurse if they can talk to her

Love the user name!!
When I was having my ds there was a lady in the bed next to mine who was expecting her 9th child, the midwives told her that she could be discharged and she refused point blank to go, saying that she was enjoying having a rest from the other 8 children!!

She was also persistently rude and nasty to the lady in the next bed because she was quiet..... said that if we're all on a ward together we HAVE to be friendly and make it a fun stay for everybody

I did ask her for my cupboard back. Got a mouthful of abuse - she's been here 4 nights and who the fuck do I think I am trying to move things around. She's very hot and needs two fans.

Yeah I'm a bit hot too as it happens.

Nurse says I can move as soon as another bed is free.

Well, yes that's very cheeky but why on earth haven't you stood up for yourself?

are you for real? presumably op is in hospital because she is unwell and doesn't want to be wallopped on the head by a cf stranger?

She is beyond cheeky. Why the heck have the nursing staff not spoken sternly to her? If they move you then some poor other person will end up with no fan or cupboard when they end up in your bed. I know nurses are very busy but this behaviour should never be allowed. Who the hell does she think she is?

When I had just had my son, we were up in the ward and they let dads spend the nights and one guy snored loudly all night after going to sleep at around midnight when he finished having loud laughy phone calls. I complained the next morning and he was asked not to stay again and sat in the corner having another loud chat on the phone talking about some stupid bitch stopping him from bonding with his baby

Thanks stripey I'm no shrinking violet but I am here alone and feeling pretty ill and she has 5 visitors in with her - all now loudly slagging me off. Don't want to cause more drama.

Apparently she can't plug her other fan in as the cord doesn't reach her plug socket so has to use mine.

take that locker back now OP, just move the curtain and reclaim

Unplug her phone (or drip)

Not CF as she wasn't well, but during one of my hospital admissions I had a very confused elderly lady trying to get into my bed throughout the night (while I was in it). I was hooked up to drips and things so couldn't really move, and when I pressed the buzzer for assistance I was honestly made to feel like I was being demanding. I was pretty much hysterical by the end of the night.

Tell a member of staff if you’re too nervous to confront them yourself.

I had my appendix out a few years ago and it went wrong, open wound that wouldn’t heal so I was due to be in for about six weeks.

One side had a racist nutter in the bed, he refused to be treated by darkies, he also complained about a darkie being in the next bed (me) thankfully he was gone after two days.

There was a really really horrible guy in the bed next door, loudly swearing, saying vile sexual things about some of the medical staff. He was also on his phone at all hours of the night. One day my boyfriend brought my son to visit (he was only 2) and I (very nicely) asked him if he could tone his language down a but in front of him. He didn’t, not a shock! One night he said some really really awful things about me and my boyfriend. That night as a calm and reasonable person I got out of bed and explained that if he said anything horrible again I would stab him to death in his sleep. I then went to the nurses station to tell them I had threatened to murder him and they thanked me! No idea where I was planning to get the murder weapon from 🤷🏽‍♂️

I know they’re probably busy but can a nurse intervene to explain which cupboard belongs to which bed? And to tell the CF not to be abusive?

Woman in the next bed had numerous late noisy visitors (including children) , boasted about how her child's disability got them a new car, was abusive to the nurse trying to get her to put her surgical stockings on ( nurse was lovely, did not rise to it and left the stockings on the end of the bed). When she came back from her operation the first thing she did was raise a stink because 'someone' had stolen her jewellry. The ward sister and I exchanged raised eyebrows, I had seen that the stuff had been left on the locker and told the ward sister, who had locked it up in her office to, as she put it " save the insurance company a job"

Woman's husband then appeared with a takeaway because she was "starving and didn't like the crap they served" , despite being advised not to eat it after her operation she did, and was immediately violently sick , fortunately over her husband's jacket which he had carelessly put on the bed.

Ask the nurses to retrieve the things from her and tell her in no uncertain terms that any abuse will not be tolerated. No one should feel unsafe in hospital.

How are you allowed a fan? Infection control nightmare - missing point of thread.

My daughter was in hospital at the age of 11. I was sleeping on a fold out bed next to her. One evening I was sitting in the family room and in walked a lady in a very revealing nightdress and negligee with four children, all in bed clothes. Ranting that they had nowhere to sleep.

She had brought one of the children to hospital because she was afraid he had meningitis and had to bring the others because she had no one to look after them and expected them to be given a six bed bay to themselves.

Wow what a cheeky fucker of the highest order! I'd spew the same abuse back at her and take my fan back and move her stuff off my cupboard cheeky fucking mare!

Cupboardgate!!

What a nasty cow she is. Maybe she is in for a personality transplant?
Hope you get moved op..

I work in a hospital and think this beyond disgusting! Please go to the charge nurse to sort this bint out and as for the visitors slagging you off they should be told to leave for basic intimidation. Dont put up with her shit OP do not! Hope you are better soon. Tell her she is a vile creature and ask how far she wants to push you and take your locker back! You have to make a fuss now! Let her get out her bed and play up cos then security will be called and she will look like a fucking twat!

Sounds shit OP - hope you get moved soon.

I do have a CF story; although I wasn't directly impacted, I witnessed it all and was amazed! On a postnatal ward, woman next to me had had a bad birth and lots of stitches (she was in a lot of pain). Her husband did the following over the 24 hours we were next to each other:

• made her sit on a chair so he could sleep for 6 HOURS in her bed that night (while she was literally crying from pain)
• did not get himself food and drink but asked her to go and get it for him, which meant she missed the lunch round request for herself (although they did still bring her a sandwich)
• once they knew they were being discharged, he had a nap in her bed while she packed everything up
• appeared to have absolutely no clue when it came to caring for the newborn and she changed every nappy and gave every bottle while he made comments such as "it's complicated isn't it?" and "I wonder what he wants now?" in a genuine tone of puzzlement.

I do wonder how that poor woman is getting on now with her newborn and man-child.