Hospital ward CF stories

[SapphosRock]

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!

Poor you, sounds like a Carry On film.

I knows there would be other stories. Who are these people who think the NHS is some kind of hotel / babysitting service?!

KatnissK that's awful, poor woman. Hope she eventually LTB

I was in hospital for a week with a serious throat infection. We had a woman admitted who described how she’d cut her arm open, seen something in there that looked a bit tatty so had trimmed it with scissors...it was her tendon. She then proceeded to throw the contents of her bag at the other people in the ward, the contents of a sick bowl at a nurse and her terrifying partner was abusive to a nurse. It was a huge relief to everyone when she was admitted to a private room, with a nurse walking behind her muttering ‘that’s what she wanted, fucking nutter’.

Last time fil was in hospital some bloke just coming back from an exploratory & explaining to his dw he needed a quadruple bypass in tones of utter astonishment (he was morbidly obese, it shouldn’t have been a surprise his heart was affected) complained about a man in the corner who was end of life and being discharged to go home because he was coughing a lot.

He kept saying “I’m threatening a heart attack here”. Never make a threat you’re not prepared to carry out.

Absolute total shit head of a man last year in the children’s ward. He complained about ds crying. He noise was annoying him.
Ds had just come from intensive care after being in a coma.

On the ward after having DS woman across from me (pregnant) kept standing over me watching me sleep. Kept trying to pick up ds. ate takeaway pizza every night. Anytime I tried to talk to a doctor or midwife she would interrupt with silly things. Complained the whole time she was there about how poor her care is while going out for a fag every 30 mins.

She wanted me to add her on facebook...

We campaigned for over a year for 2 large offices to be turned into rooms for relatives to have overnight accommodation for critically ill patients.
We did fundraising and charity bids to furnish the rooms. This took months and months.
We (the nurses) check, clean and make them lovely.

You would not believe the shit that we get from people about these rooms. They complain about everything from the colour of the bedding to the number of pillows (4 on each bed)
Last week, I went to clean it, put fresh bedding on and get there ready for use by a family who’s young son was with us.
The previous family had;
Smeared faeces all over the toilet seat, floor and sink.
Place a used... USED tampax into the bed side cabinet. Emptied a packet of crisps all over the floor and then walked all over them,
No idea what the crap was in the bed.
It was an absolute disgrace.

We are/were so chuffed and proud of these rooms, so happy that we could offer this facility to deeply distressed family members instead of a hard bloody chair at the bed side. Most are grateful and glad of the rooms.

@crosser62 that's shocking! I had to go back in to postnatal when DS was a week old as he'd dropped a lot of weight. They were able to get me in a private room which I could not have been more grateful for. When I woke up (between feeds and expressing) I was mortified that someone was cleaning the bathroom as I'd left a flannel and toothbrush lying on the sink!

@crosser62 that's an amazing thing you all did and u will have made a very difficult time in people's lives alot easier. There's no accounting for vile people in all walks of life. Mystifies me!

Who are these people who think the NHS is some kind of hotel / babysitting service?!

Oh there are more of them then you could ever realise.

It’s common knowledge that people turn up with their kids on NYEs hoping they get admitted for our ‘babysitting service’.

I’ve had relatives turn up on a children’s ward at 11pm with a take away expecting to eat it in the middle of a bay full of sleeping children. Nope.

I’ve had relatives turn up and then try and put their children to sleep in empty patient beds. If your children are tired, take them home FFS! We are not a hotel and I have to make that bloody bed again!

I’ve had one awful mother refuse to share a two bedded cubicle with another mother who was Asian and apparently ‘smells’.

I’ve had another awful family who used to sit and make loud comments about ‘foreign nurses’ and hold their breath as they walked past.

I’ve had another family who made up that their child was hit by a nurse (nurse wasn’t even on shift at the time).

There are numerous parents who think we’re a babysitting service for siblings. They’re your responsibility.

I’ve had one parent who rang to tell me she just couldn’t get in with her child for 07.30 the next morning as it was too early, so could she just come in the night before. No.

Most families are lovely. I would like to say the awful ones are just anxious and stressed but mainly they’re just entitled twats.

Such a shame you have to encounter such manner less trash. Those types also seem to love being in hospital. Worthless fuckers.

I hope you get moved soon.

Really hope you can move soon & wish you a speedy recovery. It's not easy to stick up for yourself when you're ill enough to be in hospital.
The nurses really should be keeping better control on the ward though.

When my daughter was younger , about 16,she was put on an adult ward and took in a big plush Eyore that we got in Florida. When we were packing up to come home all it took was the curtains to be pulled round and Eyore had been stolen.I'll never forget it. I was fuming !

@JMAngel1 all
Our beds have fans. It's usually about 28oC on the ward!

Omg@SapphosRock - you win the worst CF hospital neighbour award- that's ridiculous! I hope you got a room to yourself in the end.

BIL was in hospital after surgery and wasn't supposed to get out of bed. The man in the next bed verbally abused nurses day and night and no matter who spoke to him nothing changed. He kept threatening to stab BIL in his sleep. One night BIL woke to see the huge man put a nurse in a head lock and punch her in the head so he jumped out of bed and tackled the man to the ground where he gave him some karma. Police came and the man was only moved to a private room up the hall after all that! Why the fuck do nurses have to put up with shit like that and then continue to have to treat their attackers?!?

@ChilliandLemon I'm a peads nurse as well. You are so right. We are really strict about parents who leave their other children for babysitting and will ring them up and insist that an adult is with them. And don't get me stared on siblings in clean beds!!

I was in a ward for a couple of nights after DC1 was born (unplanned CS, so I was a bit out of it and hadn't really slept for 2 days).

There was a young girl who kept on at the staff constantly to try and get them to watch her baby so she could go for a fag. They were getting pretty fed up of her.

She also kept trying to engage the other 3 of us in loud conversation. 🙄

I probably should have stayed on longer, but I jumped at the chance to get discharged when they offered.

I've known patients to utilise a hospital stay to sell drugs to other patients. I've known plenty of relatives refuse to collect patients because they prefer to use the hospital as a free care and board service. And I've known one patient who, when told that their appointment had been cancelled due to the tragic death of their young doctor, said they still expected to be seen...on schedule!

Nothing compared to some of these stories but I was on an antenatal ward to be induced. It was about midnight and one of the women in my bay was having a WhatsApp conversation with the volume up on her phone so it was loudly pinging every few seconds. So fucking rude and unnecessary!

What a cheeky cow. Not what you need when your unwell 😩

Some of these stories!

Well I'm getting transferred to an entirely different hospital so at least I'll get away from CF neighbour.

Walked past her cubicle when her + visitors had gone for a fag and it was full of rubbish and takeaway cartons and 4 pillows piled on the chair next to her bed. So her visitors were nice and comfy at the expense of the poor women who actually needed those pillows for their hospital beds

We had a woman admitted who described how she’d cut her arm open, seen something in there that looked a bit tatty so had trimmed it with scissors...it was her tendon

What in the name of all that’s holy?

Glad you’re getting out soon, OP.

We are really strict about parents who leave their other children for babysitting and will ring them up and insist that an adult is with them.

Ah yes, when you get looked at like you have two heads when you tell them that no siblings can’t be left unattended in the playroom while they pop out for some ‘fresh air’.