cmilly4

A co-worker got c-dif, and another has had meningitis 3 times (although catching it so many times sounds rare). A former respiratory therapists told me he had positive TB tests that he likely caught from a patient. For the most part I feel safe and like I have a strong immune system. But I have admitted patients with all 3 of the above conditions before they got put on precautions. Just wash your hands often and wear gloves. Stay out of their face especially if they are coughing. Most people I know have never caught anything from their patients including me.

Some of those dreams are so creepy. I had a dream I completely forgot to go into work. It was late in the evening and I suddenly remembered I had work that day. I was so panicked. Lol I also have the the constant ringing of call lights playing in my head.

I almost forgot. At clinical I was feeding a blind patient. His roommate starting "meowing" maybe he had a mental disorder. The poor blind patient was so excited but I didn't have the heart to tell him there wasn't really a cat there.

I was helping a nurse clean up a client whose ostomy kept leaking. I had not seen her much that day and asked how her day was going. She responded "it's been well" as I turned the patient toward her and heard splashing on the floor. She stopped and just looked down and then walked off to grab napkins. I was thinking, "why did she leave me here holding the patient?" Turns out the noise was the leaky ostomy pouring over the bed onto her shoe and pants. We laughed because the timing was so perfect, "It's been wel..." The above woman was telling me what a great job "the little black boy" did shaving her (she had some facial hair) nobody could figure out who she was talking about until I finally got his name and it was an italian guy that wasn't that dark. Everyone's confusion was funny though. A confused woman asked me to crawl in bed with her because she thought I was her daughter and later cussed me out saying she wasn't going to listen to me just because I looked like her daughter. A lady telling me she had been searching all night for her hearing aid that was in her ear. I was wheeling out an oriental patient for discharge and jokingly said, "woohoo, Freedom", I made the patient smile really big and when we got outside he pronounced "I'm freedom!". In general I try to make my patients smile and we usually find things to laugh about, those are just the ones I could think of.