interesting conversation with a dementia sundowners patient...

***let me note that a couple years ago Lakeview remodeled two rooms on the Med/Surg floor that were meant to serve to a pediatric population, so one has planes in a mobile sort of pattern on the ceiling and the other has giant bugs in a mobile like the other. for people that have an adverse reaction to say Ambien or some other sleepy time pill, in these said rooms it makes for some interesting hallucinations. like people thinking bugs are attacking them etc... now onto last night...

we will name my patient jack for confidentiality reasons. 

that is not his real name. 

and I am not breaking any hippa violations here... 

just sayin. 

enter me into patients room:

Jack! Don't climb out of bed it's four in the morning... Where are you going???

Jack:

We have to go to the monster truck rally in my garage.... 

me:

Jack there is no garage or monster trucks around here, you are in Lakeview Hospital... remember.... 

Jack:

Ohh right right right... 

me: turns back to log onto computer in room

enter nurse into same patients room:

Jack, No!! Stop licking your morphine button.... that's just sick!!

It's never a dull night at the hospital...

Last week I had a patient who thought someone had lost their head, "someone's running around here without their head" would be the words he used. Then he wanted me to get his cane so he could knock it down from the ceiling and return it to them... how polite of him... 

that's all for now...

xoxo

kelli