Anyone else have "crazies" at Hemo?

[malaka]

I don't think I'm a crazy, but I feel its my role to lighten the burden of the staff.  I try to make them laugh and sometimes succeed.  Student nurse doing her rotations through dialysis clinic last week, just observing and being educated.  I told her hemodialysis patients are great in one respect:  we're really easy to imject with IV meds.  She was puzzled, but the tech laughed and explained that our "veins" were running in and out of the dialysis machine, so that's where the meds are injected.

At my center, the better your mentation, the earlier you're there.  Third shift is reserved more of less for the basket cases.  I started there like all newbies do, and I was VERY unhappy at first.  I think its a scheme to make you feel better about yourself.

[The Lady]

We have a bad kind of crazy.

A guy who moved to my state because the Gubmint bennies are better and easier to get, he is smelly, loud, obnoxious and gets in everyone's business. On at least one occasion he tried to scam on of the elderly patients into leaving her Home to move in with him and his gf in Section 8 housing so his gf could get $$ from the state for being her caretaker. He wanted to stick her on his couch...an elderly woman in a wheelchair with kidney disease, diabetes and cancer.

He also doesn't give a crap...he only comes when he feels like it. He got kicked off the local transport for not showing up. He goes on about transplant and how his daughter will be his donor...and then sneaks off to the dumpsters to smoke.

Ugh. He's just odious.

Everyone else is pretty great!

[Annig83]

Yesterday I got asked out by a 66 year old man!...Awesome! lol