Today, I visited my Aunt in hospital. Another patient got jealous, so she threw a tantrum. She threw things at us, pulled her drip out, threw herself to the floor, screamed, pounded the floor with her fists and pissed herself. My aunt is still waiting for a new room, and the staff blame me. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I visited my Mum. She has invited me to visit her before, but kept cancelling whenever I tried to arrange an actual visit. I finally went over anyway, only to find her in a soiled nappy, room in ruins, with kidney failure-induced dementia. Sometimes they hide it well over the phone. FML
Today, my perfectly healthy grandmother came to stay for Christmas. First, she persuaded my family to give her my bedroom. That would have been fine, until she demanded she should also have a bucket to piss in under my bed too. FML
Today, I was woken up to my mother screaming obscenities at me, all because I threw up last night after days of not feeling well, and the flushing of the toilet afterwards woke her up. FML
Today, I went to the hospital to visit my aunt and her newborn baby. The receptionist gave me the room number, and I went and my aunt was in the bathroom so I cuddle the baby, only to find that the woman who came out of the bathroom was a complete stranger. I was holding her baby. FML
Today, I had to go to the hospital. While I was there, my mom started hitting on a doctor. Later I saw them making out in the room next to me. FML
Today, I was dealing with a psychiatric patient with a colonostomy bag. She got agitated and ripped the bag from her abdomen and threw it at my face. I got a bag filled with poop thrown at my face. FML
Today, my sister and I had a fight. In her rage, she threw piles of dirty laundry at me. One of her bloody panties hit me on the face. FML
Today, my violent geriatric patient was trying to escape the facility. When I intervened, she poked my belly then told me I was squishy and that I might explode. FML
Today, my mother-in-law moved in with my husband and I, where she shits the bed and herself. There's a waiting list for the nursing home, so in the meantime I’m cleaning up her shit and she isn’t even my mother. FML
Today, one of my clients fired me from my cleaning job, all because I had to cancel last minute after I had to drive myself to the hospital with a severe allergic reaction. She screamed at me until I hung up on her. She's my aunt and godmother. FML
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LyricaSilvan 30
Another patient got jealous of you visiting your aunt, and the staff blames you for the chaos she created as a result... How exactly does this equate to you being at fault, again? Assuming that this other patient was merely your aunt's hospital room and not someone you actually knew, it cannot rightfully be blamed on you that she flipped out. It isn't your fault that her own family didn't happen to visit the same day you came to see your aunt. The hospital staff need to pull the sticks out of their asses.
Scotth901 22
What a bitch! Op, your actions did not warrant this kind of response from anyone! An action performed out of love for another is a beautiful thing, so fight that hospital staff for not keeping their patient under control!
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Comments (48)
Wishe 17
I think we need more detail here. Why would the staff blame you?
ihateeveeything 8
How do people think you deserve this, you didn't have control over it
Lalala579121 28
Some people just want to watch the world burn (and vote YDI on everything).
AverageAvarice 23
Did you just watch her do all that without calling the hospital staff immediately? I don't blame you for her actions but a hospital is not the place to silently endure a fit of any kind. All you had to do was push the call button and if you did that, you really have no blame.
sweetpotato301 7
It wasn't OP's fault at all. She probably did alert staff, but even if she didn't it's still not her fault. The staff should be aware of their patients and their temperaments. Unless there's something OP isn't telling us, it was very unprofessional of them to blame her.
AverageAvarice 23
I stated I don't blame OP and I mentioned call lights since if they did press the call light the staff has zero basis to even act like that. Maybe my wording seemed judgmental. I'm not telling OP they are to blame I'm telling them how to ensure their safety and that of their loved one. OP doesn't work there and I'm not telling them they have to do anything; I'm just looking at both sides. I'm objective and my inital question wasn't rhetorical, I genuinely wanted the facts.
Kaylana_fml 31
This low level of care and sympathy displayed by the staff is sadly the norm in health care, not the exception. It's not a result of bad nurses so much as chronically understaffed and overworked health care professionals. Under the constant strain of no resources and not enough help in an already emotionally difficult career, even the best health care workers start to forget their humanity.
Andrewx8 12
Visit her more often, and give us an update.
simsgirlgem 25
Why are you getting the blame for some nut job?
DJRy 13
How did they deserve this?? What the **** is wrong with you people??
RichardPencil 32
I hope this is how he feels on the night of Nov 8?
Lorex 13
When I was put in the hospital at 14 for rupturing tonsils (yes a lot of exorcism blood throwing up) I was placed in a room with a def and blind man who had chronic pain everywhere he would scream uncontrollably and I understand not his fault but man when your being all 666 with bleeding tonsils and in major pain you just go **** everyone else.
tmj25789 23
I don't understand why the staff is blaming you. It was out of your control on how another patient acted out. I don't know if the lady didn't have a history or not when they evaluated her when she first came in but after this episode, she needs to just have her own room if possible.