Older, and wiser

My favorite part about my job is the funny and interesting things that old people say. The other day I was seeing a patient that has dementia who lives in an assisted living facility (ALF!) who has dementia. I asked her what she had for lunch.
“Oh honey, some sort of hamburger miss-match… it was terrible.”

I found that to be hilarious, in her sweet little old lady southern accent.

Another 85-year-old patient with Alzheimer’s:
“My throat hurts.”
“What do you suppose is wrong with it?”
“Well I swallowed some sewing thread when I was a little girl and I think it’s suck in there. Could you take me to the hospital to suction my throat?”

Picture me this.

We take lots of photographs of patient’s wounds to document their healing over time, to prove that we actually do some good.

I was at a patient’s house with an LPN co-worker the other day and she was photographing a patient’s wound with her cell phone because she lost her camera. Her phone was a fairly nice one, a Droid something or another similar to mine.

Weird to watch someone snapping photos with their cell phone of a patient, but that is something we do. The gross part was that she was changing the wound dressing and touching her cell phone back and forth with her gloves.
The same gloves.
Gross.
Minus 2 points from me on that supervisory visit!

Is that for delivery or carryout?

I am working in home health now part time being paid per visit while I am in NP school. I really like it a lot, the hours are flexible, the pay is GREAT my patients are OLD (LOVE!) and things seem to be working out well.

A patient on our service who is a paraplegic has a Chihuahua. He was laying down and could see his dog was down at his feet, licking his toes presumably.

He wasn't licking. He ate a toe or two, just plum gone.
Gross.