There I was thinking I was getting better :P I went to work  yesterday afternoon and starting feeling like s**t again a couple of hours into my shift. When means I'm going to be stuck off work until the end of this week at least.

I was just incredibly pleased I wasn't doing one of my co-workers watchs yesterday, as I would have gone off my nut if I'd been her! (A watch is a shift when you're looking after, usually only, one or two people on the ward one-on-one. Occasionally you'll end looking after 3 or 4 people in the one room, if they individually only need a small amount of help, and basically you don't leave their room unless you're taking your patient/one of your patients somewhere). Anyway, I was doing a watch looking after 2 elderly men who were fine mentally but had various physical problems, who needed a watch because they both tried to take themselves to the bathroom without asking for help and had had falls....

There was a teenage girl with her own one-on-one watch in one of the other beds in the room, as she's OD on some medication earlier in the day and they were treating her as an attempted suicide. This is going to sound bad, but damn she was annoying! She spent the whole afternoon/evening demanding things, demanding that the staff buy her things - things like soft drinks/chips from the machines just outside the ward -, saying how much she hated being there and how much she hated the staff, and absolutely refusing to cooperate with her her watch and RN in any way shape or form! By the end of the shift her RN was getting incredibly annoyed with her, the RN was perfectly polite and professional but it was blindly obvious the patient was annoying her. (Besides in what universe does someone over 18 years old think it's acceptable for them to demand that complete strangers spend their own money on junk food for them??)