| Thursday, September 6, 2007 |
| dementia |
One of my current patients is a cute, demented older lady. She was admitted a couple days ago, and has been relatively pleasantly demented so far. She seriously cracks me up! The past two days when I have asked her if I could listen to her lungs, she says, "well if it's going to make your day, then sure, go ahead!" I told her I was waiting for a urine culture to come back on her, so we could make sure we were giving her the right antibiotics, and she said, "well, that sounds boring. Do you ever think you should find another job?"
I talked to her son on the phone today, and he was telling me some stories about her. One day, he left the kitchen to go to the basement to get laundry out of the dryer and left her upstairs. When he got back up, he found her in the kitchen, pouring herself a nice, refreshing glass of Windex.
LOL. I mean, I know it's a scary thought that your mom could kill herself by accident. But it's still a funny mental picture.
I hope if I ever get demented when I'm old, I'm funny and not hostile. ;o) |
posted by emily @ 9:52 PM  |
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LOL, a nice refreshing glass of Windex...that cracked me up. ;-)
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i know. :) hehe. i laugh every time i think about it
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reminds me of the story of my bio-great-grandmother. couldn't figure out why her fish kept dying. tank was clean, she fed them, etc. till one day they caught her spraying windex on the scrubby thinger and wiping down the insides of the tank. with the water and fish still in it. oh, eulala. makes me wonder.
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LOL, a nice refreshing glass of Windex...that cracked me up. ;-)