I am absolutely knackered. Really happy, but really knackered. I was on an early this morning and me and Rumple foolishly sat up talking until midnight. It’s his fault. If he wasn’t such good company, it wouldn’t be an issue. I was up at 5.45am. Dreadful.
There was a medical emergency today. One of the patients completely keeled over. He is usually extremely aggressive and angry and impulsive. Due to having early onset frontal lobe dementia. The bit of his brain that should tell him that it isn’t acceptable to slap people round the face is not working so well anymore. Therefore, that’s what he does quite regularly. Anyway, he looked really poorly. His eyes were rolling back in his head and he was unresponsive for a while. The medics were called. He was rushed over to the shiny palace. Hopefully he will be okay. It was panic stations for a while. Although it wasnt really. The Doctors, Nurse and Paramedics were ace. It looked like chaos, but was completely organised.
I missed much of it. I was reading another patients bible to him. He is a Christian and he loves to read the bible, but his eyesight is naff and he is really poorly at the mo. He is tormented and restless and agitated at the moment. it seemed to calm him a little. I also got him to drink some juice. He had been refusing fluids/throwing them up the wall all day..so I felt that was an achievement. Diet and fluid is extremely important in care of the older adult.
Completely unrelated…and very random..I shook hands with a squirrel yesterday. No kidding. Me and Pippy were out and about. There was a squirrel that was very inquisitive. I bent down and let him approach. I held my hand out and he came and gave it a sniff and then patted my hand. a handhake of sorts I feel.:)
Only 2 more days left on placement.
