Have any of your demented residents made hilarious comments to you lately?
I was giving a bolus tube feeding to one of my elderly residents very early this morning. She has a diagnosis of senile dementia. As I walked away, she examined my butt and stated, "Girl, you're gettin' fat! You need to stay away from the food!"
She takes a second look at me and says, "You're sure enough gettin' fat!"
I responded with a smile, "Okay."
I have lost over 40 pounds within the past 6 months, so the comment didn't really bother me much. I thought it was somewhat cute!
We decided to sit a LOL at the nurses station while we were charting because she was sundowning and we were scared she would get up out of bed one night. After a while she said "Well, you gals don't have to work hard at all for a paycheck! Don't you feel guilty" As a call bell went off, one aide got up to answer it and she called after her "See, at least you have a conscience enough to be embarrassed about all your sitting around, these other women have no shame!"
one of my clinical rotations was in LTC and there was this darling LOL that i used to chat with in the dining room. around christmas time, the church came and gave them all little stuffed snowmen. she had snuggled that little snowman until the stuffing came out and i said "miss anne, you must really love that little snowman" and she said "well honey, he is gonna have to do until you can find me a man!" i almost died.
another patient needed help off the potty and had his light on so i answered it, cleaned him up and put him in bed. he looked up and said "are you driving this cab?" and i said "well yes i am" and he said "well i dont have any money, but i got a whole jar of fresh pickles in the fridge. when we get to my house, you can have them." i thought it was just the sweetest thing.
and one of my other favorites in LTC, when i was interviewing my patient i said "miss christina, how old are you?" and she looked me right in the eyes and said "sugar, i'm so damn old i don't even want to tell you"
One of our precious lols is using these wide, waving extravagant hand and arm gestures....so I say "Miss Louise, is everything OK?" She tells me as I am walking "Watch out for the chickens!!!!" So I start across the floor......spent the next 10 minutes rounding up them perky chickens.....
for the record....our med room now doubles as a chicken coop...
Tres
who is just glad I didn't have to run down or rope piglets
We had a confused LOL that had to be transported to ER. When the EMT's came, she said they needed to hurry because the baby was coming! She also said she had a 2-year-old boy at home!
-sweet lady, LTCer, who was in for a little while...who asked "well, why is the TV on?" "Dear, you said you wanted to watch a movie..." "I wanted to watch a ADULT movie, not this crap. Well, you can watch TV." "Well, I wish I could, I'm just too busy tonight..." "Crap....you're always in here, fing with me..."
- older gentleman....walked in to find him awake... "Hi, how are ya?" "I'm ok...." (proceeds to start smacking the HECK out of my shoulder....)..."Good to see ya"..."Yup, you too..." "I gotta pee...." (changed his depends). "Ok, now why the HECK does my member feel like I've slept with a whore?" (had a infection)...BEST PART...When the nurse when in, got his drawers open and went to put ointment on it he goes "Well, didn't take you hardly any time to find it! Boy, you went right for it!" LOL
This comment didn't come from a lol, but came from a person with MR. {I work in a facility that cares for MR and physically handicapped.}
So one day, a tour group of a preacher and several ladies came out to our facility to take a tour and visit with some of the people.
So they walked in to one of our residences and one of the people started counting, "One {rhymes with witch} witch, two witch, three witch, four witch..............." They say she counted the whole group and there were ten witches!
The preacher and all the "witches" just laughed and went on about their business.
Specializes in geriatric & childrens psych, rehab, woun.
i love this thread so i thought i'd add something. back when i first graduated and worked in a county hospital in a ltc unit. our dress code required that we wear starched white dress to our knees, our caps our were organiza and highly starched and looked like a pilgrim women's cap and thick white stockings or panty hose, white shoes with a cuban heel. a real nancy nurse outfit.
i had they 2 of the cutest lol, who would come up to me in the dinning room. miss savanah in her soft southern drawl would say to me now miss rae you're new here, you just make sure you count the silverware. these rich folk always steels them a suvioneer. you don;t go giving them no other fork or spoon unlessin you seez it on the floor. i was off for a day and an agency girl was on my unit. The next day when trays came up they had plastic forks and knives, and savanah comes to me and says see that miss rae you was off and that party just stole us blind, and the boss let that girl go.nope she just listen to her elders, she didn't listen to me i tried to warn her she just wouldn't listen tried to tell me i was retired and in a home, her room mate miss mattie soft spoken Island lady saw my uniform was stained from a resident who did not like beets and showered me with them, miss mattie said to me now miss rae wouldn't you be glad when the winter uniform comes out. the black hides a multiude of sins you better change before the misses sees you or you'll be on the train upstate to the home for orphans.
A LOL once told me "Where are my meds, you witch?!" I said, "Mary Bell! Why would you call me such a thing? That's not very nice." She replied, "No, it's not very nice that you are one. It's perfectly OK for me to call you one." I poured her meds into her hand, one by one so she could identify each medication (her evening ritual) and then she said "You are the nicest nurse here. I love when you take care of me!" She went on to take her medication and tell me "have a great night, sweetie!"
I had a patient coming off of sedation and looked at his daughter and told her she is sure prettier than she used to be and thank god for that! He had us in stitches!
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We decided to sit a LOL at the nurses station while we were charting because she was sundowning and we were scared she would get up out of bed one night. After a while she said "Well, you gals don't have to work hard at all for a paycheck! Don't you feel guilty" As a call bell went off, one aide got up to answer it and she called after her "See, at least you have a conscience enough to be embarrassed about all your sitting around, these other women have no shame!"