Current mood:

amused

Hee hee hee!
One of the patients recuperating (I think from a hip injury) at our facility tends to be very disoriented. She will flag aides down, and once the aide is by her side she will ask, “what am I supposed to be doing?” or sometimes, “where am I?” I’m not entirely convinced that she is really this disoriented; it may be that she has word-finding issues and this is just a catch-phrase that she uses to express her distress. There’s no way for me to be sure.

At one point during the day, I was taking this woman to use the toilet. It was a little frustrating because when I would be trying to get her out of her wheelchair and onto the toilet, she would stop and ask, “what am I doing?” Thankfully, she wasn’t very heavy or this would have been hard on my back. I tried to be patient with her, though. When she would ask what was happening I would always respond with an honest answer like, “we’re standing up to get to the toilet,” or “we’re sitting down on the toilet.”

When I was transferring her back from the toilet to her wheelchair, she once again demanded to know what we were doing. I responded by telling her, “we’re parking your rump in this chair right here!” To this, she looked up at me and ingenuously asked, “both cheeks?”

LOL!