Liar Liar...

I am an avid reader. I can read most of anything and everything. I read science fiction, horror, crime, real life, fantasy, romance. Like I said I don’t discriminate. If a book has good blurb and the story appears to be interesting then it’s mine!

I do have my favourite genre obviously and at the moment its fantasy – you know things not of this world, unbelievable stuff. Stuff of FANTASY.

Well things only get complicated when people start to believe in that. What happens when people are either just crazy and really believe it or think you are stupid and therefore will believe what they are saying.

Bear with me here as I have finished a five day stretch at work where I did 63hours instead of my usual 37.5 hours.

What am I harping on about? Well I am talking about when patients lie to me. I have no idea if there are circumstances in life that will demonstrate this to others but just bear with me.
I have had a few patients in the last few days and they all in some way or another unashamedly lied to me. What I really would like to know is this. Are they lying because they are foolish people or are they lying because they think I will fall for it?

I have had a particular patient for the last 2 days and she appears not to the have the ability to speak without lying. No joke. It got to a point where when she was being reviewed by the medical team, I was doing my usual listening for changes in care and my instructions; she was spewing the same things a patient across the way had complained about. What was wrong with that was she had come in with totally different symptoms and complaints to what she was saying now.
It got to the stage where the consultant surgeon had to make some excuse and leave the patient to go and stand at the xray viewer and I observed him TREMBLING FROM LAUGHTER!!!!! I saw this – we had a senior member of staff laughing to the extent his body was shaking because what she was coming out with was utter and total c**p!
She really seemed to think she had people fooled. I had come to accept her and just grind my teeth while around her. I had better things to do than deal with false pain and vomiting. This woman would mix juice with her food in vomit bowl and give to me and say “nurse I have just been sick am I due anything?” I had to take action each and every time she did this. It’s unfair to have to spend so much time with idiots. I can bloody well tell the difference between vomit and juice with some food!!! I have to admit the thing that got to me the most was that I had to respond to her – I just couldn’t bring myself to challenge her or ignore her.

God I hope she is not there when I go back to work tomorrow.