For Fun: Weirdest Thing in Pt. Bed

Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN · Oct 12, 2003

Originally posted by caffine addict
Were those M&Ms plain or with nuts?

:roll

Jay-Jay, RN · Oct 12, 2003

Many years ago, an ex-boyfriend of mine had to have hernia surgery. His roommate was another young guy who'd had the same surgery. His girlfriend came to visit during the afternoon, and he indicated to my friend, Steve, that he should make himself scarce for awhile.

The next morning, while Steve was packing his stuff up to go home, he found the g.f.'s bra...underneath the roommate's bed!

Hmmm.....given the surgery, wonder just how far they went with their hanky-panky?? :D:D

stevierae · Oct 12, 2003

Originally posted by kona2
a small calico cat under the covers (pt's husband snuck it in)

Oooooooohhhh!!! That is soooooo sweet!!! I can totally identify with missing my cats and wanting to see them in if I was in the hospital. What a great guy!

stevierae · Oct 12, 2003

Originally posted by stevielynn
The M&M's reminds me of a guy who comes in to visit our LTC patients. Very nice old guy, kinda disheveled, dirty coat, always insists that we try his homemade deer jerky. He keeps it stashed in his coat pocket . . .we can't bear to hurt his feelings so we take it and then toss it later.

steph

Oh my God!!! I swear, I have met that guy, on a plane!!!! Same exact description--kinda raspy voice?---giving everybody around homemade deer and elk jerky (not wrapped) and passing it out to pilots and attendants upon arrival. I fly to/from NoCal all the time---I'll bet it IS the same guy. He has a heart of gold, God bless him; though you are right, don't know how often his hands get washed---

stevierae · Oct 12, 2003

Weirdest things I've seen----dried up, moldy sandwich under a very obese woman patient's panniculus. Also--different patient, also under panniculus---a box (full size) of Kleenex.

I remember working post-partum in the '70s---always used to come in on the young husbands having a taste of breast milk for themselves (even though we knocked first! I guess they were just a little preoccupied!)

stevierae · Oct 12, 2003

Originally posted by NICU_Nurse
My winner, and the one that still confuses me to this day, was this one (and I posted this in another thread a while back, so forgive me if you've read it, but I'm copying/pasting it here- I am NOT retyping this!):

When I first started school, we did a nursing home rotation the first semester. With me and ANOTHER STUDENT it took us an hour to do a bed bath on an alzheimer's patient! AN HOUR!!!!! ROFLROFLROFL! ;> ) I would have quit nursing school if it hadn't gotten better than THAT!

We bathed her, and she had little bits of food stuck in every wrinkle, from head to toe, and how that happened I"ll never know.

We got her cleaned up and ready to put her clean clothes on, and I went to the chair, picked up her CLEAN CLOTHES, and we put them on her while she was in her CLEAN BED WITH CLEAN SHEETS. I go to adjust her clothing after it was on, and I'm like, 'What the-..."

There were kernels of corn EVERYWHERE!! CORN!!!!!!

Where the hell did it come from? The sky? We STILL can't figure it out!!

There was corn all over the sheets, and all over her clothes, and we'd just bathed her nude body from head to toe and brushed her teeth and everything while she was lying in a bed we'd JUST CHANGED THE SHEETS AND BEDDING ON!!!!!

That is soooooo freakin' weird!!!!! Honestly, I wonder where the corn DID come from!!!

CougRN · Oct 12, 2003

Crack pipe that patient was hiding under his back.

sixes · Oct 12, 2003

These are great working in a LTC you find many wierd items esp on our alzhemiers unit.

The funniest though was when a resident came to get me she was quite upset to find a male resident in her bed She was even more upset because her husband(not really) would not move over.

I have found everything from dentures- food

NICU_Nurse, BSN, RN · Oct 12, 2003

Originally posted by stevierae
...always used to come in on the young husbands having a taste of breast milk for themselves (even though we knocked first! I guess they were just a little preoccupied!)

ROFL! Can't they wait until they get home for that? I can just see it...

(Night out at Denny's...)

(Baby's hungry...mom whips it out...)

(Dad looks longingly at the other one, then down at his Skillet dinner with a deep sigh...)

Shellsie · Oct 13, 2003

i have found food and forks in beds but when i worked in the nursing home we had a little old lady with a wander guard on

and she used to take her knife from the table and sneak off and try to cut off her wander guard. it was so cute

we had this guy in the nursing home when i was a cna and whenever i would put him to bed the seat of his wheelchair was filled with warm cartons of milk, and even a hamburger one nite.....the grossest thing was....he was incontinent of urine

~gags~ and he never wanted me to throw any of it away

he would say "DONT throw that away! ill eat it later"

tattooednursie, LVN · Oct 13, 2003

once i found some corn, next to a turd.

redwinggirlie · Oct 13, 2003

Were those M&Ms plain or with nuts?

I think she wrote they were next to nuts..... forgive, I couldn't resisit