Weird news week

I am not that inspired this week but there have been some interesting events on the unit lately। We have had a larger than normal number of really psychotic patients so the interactions tend to be a bit more interesting. We had a woman who came running out of her room insisting that her roommate had died and we needed to start planning the funeral right away. She managed to drag several staff members back into the room to find her sleeping roommate who woke up to shouts of "Look! She's dead!" and responded "I'm not dead yet!" This had all the Monty Python fans on the unit buzzing. For those who are not Monty Python connoisseurs, I would suggest renting "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" for an explanation. You will only have to watch about 15 minutes into the film to get the joke. Unfortunately, she called someone else who was a patient somewhere else in the hospital and told this person that her roommate had died and now there are rumors that a patient died on the psychiatric unit.

One of our nurses caught one of our patients trying to fly, Superman style in her room. Once she knew she was being watched, she backed down, but I would have been interested in the results had she been able to pull it off. Maybe she could have brought our not dead patient back to life.

We also had a faith healer who tried to purify a patient of some horrible trauma that she was not aware that she had not endured. She was not very happy about the laying of the hands on her very much. He was a decent singer which was good since he spent hours serenading us after that incident. Most of the time, when we get budding American Idol contestants, they are generally in the does not make the cut catergory.

So the news is just a little weird this week. One would have to be here to get the effect in its full glory, but hopefully one can see why I prefer this to treating this to diabetes and hypertension. My stories are better.