nursing homes are the worst possible places to be

[Karl Connor]

theres the smell but also the sheer despondency

some lady rolled her wheel chair up to me and asked me if i could help her "make it stop." i asked her what and she said "I'm so lonely. Jesus, make it go away. Jesus, please. Jesus please Jesus NO." at this point she started crying hysterically and i walked away.

it seems like a nursing home but i see it as a vault of lost souls. or something

[redbull]

eat sack

[waltermcphilp]

but did you get head?

[Karl Connor]

i did see this really slutty hot nurse on her cigarette break. thinking about her is turning me on

she was smoking like, in one of those "smoking in the girls room" bad-girl manners. she could have been in a commercial

[waltermcphilp]

noyce

[Cell Tech]

i think one just opened up or is about to open up 3 minutes from where i live. maybe ill try to get a job there if they pay more than 8/hr

[RopeyLopey]

die young

[Karl Connor]

i entertained the notion of working at one simply because things look fairly laid back in terms of administration

but i'd assume they'd have you scrubbing toilets and doing other gross things

[redbull]

be a cook

[cork_soaker]

Originally Posted by Karl Connor

but i'd assume they'd have you scrubbing toilets

i think it would be similar, though somewhat closer to the source of the mess

[redbull]

lollerskates

[cork_soaker]

Originally Posted by Karl Connor

it seems like a nursing home but i see it as a vault of lost souls. or something

my grandfather is in one, and he is pretty much gone. he's like this strange, pale shell of a person; all of his personality has faded and he's like a lost child.
in my experience it's one of the hardest things to witness.

[Karl Connor]

the worst thing about some of those people is that they're not gone enough to know where they are. my great grandma was so senile she thought she was still 25 and dancing at the Cocoanut Grove with Erol Flynn but my gramps very well knows where he is and nothing can be done about it. cant finish a sentence without crying and yelling "Dear god, dear god no..." and whatnot. the closest to hell you can get i guess, other than getting cancer or your face irrevocably and horribly disfigured

[Ever]

Originally Posted by RopeyLopey

die young

Yeah, that or never grow up.

[Rarely]

I will go with option 2

[Karl Connor]

i've got the not growing up part down

[Rarely]

well I imagine that growing old may need to be addressed as well

[Ol' Couch Ass]

Having to go into nursing homes is one of the worst parts of being a paramedic. Even some of the nicer homes border on negligence. I have run so many DOAs where the patient is already cold and stiff and the staff swears that "they were fine like 20 minutes ago." 90% of the people who work in those places don't give 2 shits about who is there and probably go out of their way to make it worse.

[MeAndMyLlama]

Originally Posted by Karl Connor

i did see this really slutty hot nurse on her cigarette break. thinking about her is turning me on

she was smoking like, in one of those "smoking in the girls room" bad-girl manners. she could have been in a commercial

like for serious this thread is about the book choke

[Ever]

Originally Posted by The Juerto

Having to go into nursing homes is one of the worst parts of being a paramedic. Even some of the nicer homes border on negligence. I have run so many DOAs where the patient is already cold and stiff and the staff swears that "they were fine like 20 minutes ago." 90% of the people who work in those places don't give 2 shits about who is there and probably go out of their way to make it worse.

Reality sucks. I'm actually very naive and when people say stuff like this I get real disheartened and everything.

[Kahlo]

you guys are crazy. Nursing homes are full of old people who take their best possessions in like jewellery, and can hardly put up a fight when you take it.

Like taking candy from babies

[alisonmonster]

my grandma's in a treatment facility like that- basically for people who are losing or have lost their minds. A friend of mine who was contracted to do work on the building also had someone come up to him and beg him to 'let me go'. My grandmother hides her stuff in weird places cause shes in constant paranoia of nurses stealing her things (they don't). Though most of them are pretty out of it by the time they get there, they know its a place where no one leaves they can tell they're going to have to wait and die there. If we could, we'd take her out of there but shes too far gone for family to be able to take care of her.

[mirrar]

locked mental wards i think are much worse. at least with some of the people in nursing homes you get the feeling they've lived somewhat decent lives, even if they don't have a lot left (family or their minds). in a mental ward i was visiting this girl my age started singing to me and then grabbed my hands and introduced herself to me in a fake english accent and said "in another time we could have been friends..." and this woman that reminded me of my 40 something year old mother was pacing up and down the hall, looking completely dead in the eyes and she kept locking gazes with me everytime i tried to look away, as if she was saying "fuck you, you get to go home and you can't even look at me. this is my fucking life".

i was with two mental illness surivors who never got to that point. i could see the fear in their eyes the whole time. they called that ward the point of no return, where almost no one came back to "sanity". i went home and sobbed for a long time. it still makes me miserable to remember and it was years ago.

[Karl Connor]

last time i was in a mental ward i met a 20-something girl who thought her Beauty in the Beast coloring book was a bible testament

some of the things i saw were too funny to be sad to me. but that's probably because the nurses had me loaded on librium