The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

nursemaggie

Wow that is a bit different from what my daughter had. She was the first baby to go under the lamp 42 years ago this November. We had no idea what would happen with this lamp, Sister and I sat at the end of her incubator waiting for her serum bilirubin coming back and it had fallen. dont know if I spelled that right and Google does not know. She came within an hour of having an exchange transfusion. Needless to say the second one went straight under the lamp. They work in hours but they must have modified them quite a bit.

My youngest has a different father so no problems with jaundice.

Congratulations on being a grandma burtha is this the first.

oh my God it's 4 o'clock in the morning no wonder I can't spell.

paidinchickens

WC I hope your ok, what a job you have.

My son had Jaundice, I really worried at the time, it's amazing how you forget with time isn't it? He's 17 and a PITA now

I can't make my mind up, allotment or carboot? I may slog round both

PiC x

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WONDERCOLLIE we have those horrible cough sweets here too, they smell like paraffin and take the lining off your throat!!! The group Fishermans Friend are a bunch of cornish Fishermen who started singing together in thier local pub in the evenings and were picked up by the media and have become a huge success singing sea shanties and cornish folksongs.

Well done that collie dog, a 'cover dog' eh? now Docky knows someone famous, good eh? If they do use the picture will you post it for us to actually see him? that would be lovely.

I'm sad that you and your colleagues were abused by the dementia patient, it's a difficult thing to deal with and when my MIL was suffering she lost touch with reality and became so disturbed that she tried to strangle my poor FIL a couple of times, she thought he was a burglar attacking her, didn't recognise him at all and panicked in the early hours of the morning when she first woke up. It was very distressing for him but I suspect she was terrified and in a completely unrecognisable world that made her really defensive, dementia is a wickedly vicious condition!!! Hope you suffered no lasting results, Lyn xxx.

mardatha

This is why I don't always believe headlines about abuse in care homes. Some of these patients are seriously dangerous and do need sedated.

wondercollie

Thanks guys. My coworker went home with the handprints along the side of her face. All we could really do was complete the incident report and hope for the best.


A friend in the police has told me he would charge anybody that strikes a nurse/healthcareworker regardless of the mental state. I really don't know how much good it would do. But he feels that it would draw attention to the fact that worker is not always the devil in situations.


Mar: thankyou. I always wonder as well. I worked in long term care the first three years of my life as a nurse. I can honestly say I never saw staff on patient abuse but I saw plenty of patient on staff or even patient on patient abuse. What people always fail to recognize is that the patient (regardless of mental status) has the right to refuse care. And quite honestly after being punched, bitten, slapped, nipped, sworn at over the last 15 years, I'm just not risking it anymore.


I'm not afraid of gangbangers but the "sweet" dementia patient scare me. I was once told by an addict in a needle exchange that I'm "firm but fair". I've wrestled drunks with coworkers and never been struck.


I don't even work the emergency ward!


Anyhoo, back to celeb-Collie. We signed a release for them to use his picture and I've been haunting their website but so far nothing. But he had been through their shelter twice before we got him, so they were thrilled when they realized who he used to be. About every four years or so they get one of his relatives turned in. People don't realize that they need to be trained and a lot of hair will shed (duh). Now Miley Ciruz has got one, so I guess we will see a few more in shelters because people like to buy dogs that famous people have. Right now when I get a cut and colour at the hairdressers it's $95. Wonder Collie cost $89 at the dog parlour. It's something that not a lot of people consider.


Back on afternoon shift today and the patient is still there. I swear if she starts tonight, I'm calling for security to put her in restraints until I get a doctors order for them.


Have a good day, hope the weatheris wonderful

nuttyp

hi all, had a lovely relaxing day today. Didn't get up till nearly 9am then DD came round for a coffee and a natter. We popped to mr m for a few odds and ends and visted the caf! - naughty I know. Came home and fell asleep for nearly 4 hours.
So today has been a very relaxing day. Back to the mad house tomorrow at work but only for a half day.


Its been raining here all day, just fine mizzly stuff.


Time to sort some tea, take care all x

monnagran

An eventful weekend here.

DS2 has now been crowned Isle of Wight Champion Birdman 2014. And he has a trophy to prove it. Absolutely hilarious. If I was cleverer I'd post a photo. The costume was brilliant, it was an angel riding a goose, - the village was originally Goose Green and their emblem is a goose, and every Christmas the whole village is decorated with angels and is known as 'The Village of Angels. Hence the costume, much of which was made of papier mache which was quite heavy so when he hit the sea he sank like a rock until most of the papier mache disintegrated, the last thing seen disappearing was his halo.

Thankfully he bobbed up again, just as well as none of us had thought to take out a life insurance on him.

Apart from that it has been quite restful. Still working our way through the freezer and enjoying delightful surprises as we de-frost anonymous chunks of this and that and invent something to make with whatever emerges. Today I thought it was going to be stewed fruit, but no, it turned out to be coronation chicken which we had with jacket potatoes and salad. Very tasty it was too.

Back to the mainland tomorrow for the dentist visits. It takes all day and costs a bomb on the ferry. We will have to find a new dentist in Somerset. Quite exciting for me as I've been with my dental practice since 1965 and have just started with my third dentist there.

x

burtha

Hi ...
Birdman thing sounds fun ...nothing were we live like that:(

Wondercollie. ...hope your OK ,I have a friend doing same job as yourself and I have seen the state she ends up in off 1 resident.. Poor chap

Had a very mixed day today ,baby home from hospital so that's good ,:) ...but eldest son in trouble with police for hitting someone ...not impressed with D's but do understand why it happened ..major problems over the years with other person...carnt say to much just in case ......
Then to top everything off dh now away for 3 weeks :eek:
Feed up
I seam to have so much stuff to sort / do don't know where to start ,just have to keep wadding through the sticky stuff for now ....ho hum
Sorry that this has turned into a twist x

nursemaggie

Hope no more problems today Wondercollie. I nearly did not get out of my first six month training. I was on the eye ward with just six patients who had all had detatched retinas sewn back. They were all laid flat on their backs with bandages on there eyes and instructions not to sit up for two days.

There was only sister and me on we had six patients each. A very tall muscular farmer aged 95 was admitted for a cataracts operation next day.
Sister when for breakfast "we started very early and had a break for breakfast in those days" I started to admit the farmer and he grabbed me by the throat. Of course the other patients dare not move for fear of ending up permanently blind but they could hear what was going on, They all started shouting help. I was just beginning to lose consciousness when a porter came to the ward to deliver something.

Talk about being saved by the bell if he had not come when he did I would have been dead. I can't imagine what it would have been like to be sister if I had have been. I don't think she ever got over it.

It was not the last time I got left alone the next time I had a ward of 32 patients and I was not working I was a patient on my own ward.

Can you imagine it happening now Sister was entirely on her own and I did the medicine round and dressings that morning. with a gown over my nightie. This time I was qualified and should have been on duty that day.

VJsmum

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Morning Toughies, showery here today and the garden is looking greener for the extra water and my redcurrants are starting to show some colour so netting them was a success. He Who Knows has gone to the lottie to plant out some leek seedlings and see if there are any ripe raspberries, we had the first few a couple of days ago when we walked down in the evening to give the Lurcha a stretch. He's taken a big bag of french beans from the polytunnel down for the nice ladies who live in the sheltered housing complex that backs on to the allotments, I saw one of them the other day and she was very happy as we gave them some raspberry canes in the autumn and she'd just harvested the first picking of fruit from them and shared it with her friend who lives above her in one of the flats. They have very limited grounds and folks on the allotments usually pop surpluses into a bag that is hung from the back fence for them to use, my friend loves beans and it's good to share, she'll spread them around amongst the others too which is nice.

Zebra is enjoying Glastonbury and having a lovely time chatting with people. He went to see Elbow and the Kings of Leon last night and they sensibly stayed up on the hill above the Pyramid Stage out of the crowds. DD says there are many tents you can get into in the daytime if the weather is bad and they were lucky enough to be in the acoustic tent yesterday when the power went off listening to Fishermans Friend and the group came down into the audience, spread out amongst them and continued performing until the power was back on, baby loved it!!!

I'm off on the bus to my local greengrocer for some nice fruit when He Who Knows gets back and a quick pop into W8rose to see if there are any decent reductions that we can have during the week. I'm also going to treat us to a nice joint of brisket from the butcher this weekend to cook in the slow cooker tomorrow and then to have sliced and reheated in gravy a couple of times next week, delicious!!!

Have a good day and stay dry folks, Lyn xxx.

Me n Zebra is down with the kids

Unfortunately we weren't in the acoustic or any tent during the storm, and we got soaked

Back at 4 this morning, my boy has gone to school :T but I am not sure he'll learn much :cool: