Just Another Day of Work...

My morning started off slow at work, then I got stuck sitting with a patient. We'll call him "simple syrup", since he was admitted with a blood sugar level of 1,082(!!!). Unsurprisingly, he had some mental status issues. By the time I was sitting with him, he was quiet 95% of the time. The other 5% he'd be getting impulsive, trying to climb out of bed, getting frustrated, etc. By 1PM, we'd gotten him transferred upstairs. Hallelujah. I was a bit tired to start with, and the sitting was getting to me.

I had lunch, then went to relieve one of the nurses so she could eat. This fellow - we'll call him "the troll" - was pretty much out of it. He looks like a hard rocker after about forty years of hard living, alcohol, and drugs. He kept up an almost constant barrage of words and babble, lying there sprawled part way out of the bed. A good chunk of his words were profanity...so much so that it becomes almost a parody of itself, and the profanity becomes meaningless. Once the nurse came back, we decided to straighten him out and turn him on one side. He surfaced for a moment, took a look at the nurse and announced, "I want to f*ck you, baby." A moment after that, he was being turned in my direction, and looked blearily up at me. I told him, "I'm flattered, dude, but you aren't my type." He processed that for a moment and said, "Ain't that a b*tch." Lol...

Another patient on the floor today used to be one of my customers when I worked for Schwan's out in Klamath Falls, Oregon. That was kinda' odd. I talked with him, and his wife, for a few minutes. It had taken me a little while to figure out they were from there...they looked familiar, but I figured they were just "frequent fliers".

The rest of the afternoon was spent taking patients upstairs, turning and lifting 'em, stripping and setting up rooms, dealing with a "celestial transfer", and the like. I was pretty tired by the end of the workday and eager to come home and have some of my wife's homemade chicken and dumplings (yay!).

Which I did. And it was good.