i thought we could all use some cheering up (i know i can) so decided to talk about my favorite resident. i ssuppose saying "my favorite" sounds a bit politically incorrect, but whatever. my favorite resident, who ive posted about before, just died and i still feel sad-- i feel an actual ache. she was so kind and caring. she used to hold my face in her hands really close to her face and she would coo and me and talk to me like i was a precious little baby (which, to her, i probably was). although we thought she had a speech impediment, and i never could understand very much she said-- just a word here and there-- i brought my daughter, who is seven, in to meet her and guess what! my daughter could have a complete conversation with her with no misunderstandings or problems!! isnt that cool! my other favorite resident-- and i think we could all agree that most of our residents are, in one way or another, all favorites-- but my other favorite resident was the opposite. she was a total spitfire-- "good morning," you would say and she would say, "oh, go to hell!" she held nothing back. however she felt, it was right there and obvious. this resident died also-- when i would say, "i love you," and she started saying it back, i started to worry. about a week later, she was gone. one time she called me a "pissin' pissant," which i thought was a pretty creative insult. it was always funny to watch new hires who had probably never even visited a care center before encounter her for the first time-- definitely not what they were expecting.
My favorite resident is an end stager, doesn't know me from a hole in the wall, and is totally incapable of speaking. I love her dearly. My other favorite, like merricat said, is a spitfire. She's not on my unit anymore, but the first morning she was there, I said "Good morning," and was met with a hard slap across the jaw, and much Spanish cursing. I said to a fellow CNA, "Oh, I like her!" I love the feisty ones.
I like em' that way too. Keeps the monotony of passing out meds and doing treatments all day away when you gotta pause and give 'em your attention.
My current favorite resident is this old hot tempered Russian geezer who's severely demented. Picture an old baby faced guy with a baseball cap on backwards singing all day in his chair waiving at you to talk to him. And when you sit and talk to him, he has nothing but good things to say about you. Of course, a minute later, he'll yell at you for trying to keep him from falling down (wonderer).
I was having your typical bad day in LTC yesterday . I also have a few feisty pt's who brighten my day . One gentleman yells all day and night . Usually everyone leaves him in the room . Yesterday I pushed him out to the nurses station because he kept lurching foward in his chair . He began his yelling routine and the lady next to him said quite dignified " Oh shut up you old fart " and it worked ! He was quiet for the rest of the shift . Maybe missing his bossy wife ??? LOL :)
I was having your typical bad day in LTC yesterday . I also have a few feisty pt's who brighten my day . One gentleman yells all day and night . Usually everyone leaves him in the room . Yesterday I pushed him out to the nurses station because he kept lurching foward in his chair . He began his yelling routine and the lady next to him said quite dignified " Oh shut up you old fart " and it worked ! He was quiet for the rest of the shift . Maybe missing his bossy wife ??? LOL :)
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Amen to that............ that is the exact reason I got out of LTC. Loved the poeple, hated the administration!