schizophrenic patient and me.... (VERY PJ related)
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i am on a rotation with a psych clinic. very affected people. the doc, the case manager and i did a home visit with a schizo patient.
we knock. patient wasnt coming out but we saw him look thru the window. guy still wasnt coming out. then guy looks out and sees me. immediatly opens the door. this is the first time i've met this particular patient. he looks very weary of the doc and CM. he doesnt want to let them in. but he says i can go in. wierd. but i tell him i wont go without his doc and CM. so he lets them in. as i walk by him to go in he says "im so glad you came. ive been waiting for the message from him. you have the message for me?" confused i kinda half smiled at him.
walk in the door......and what do i hear? motherfucking TEN!!! and i cant help it i smile. he laughs. well giggles.. he's playing TENon his TV/DVD/CD combo player. then i realize. its fucking hot in here and i had unbuttoned my top two buttons on my shirt. and thru that you can see PEARL JAM written all over my tshirt.
so this guy has hallucinations that voices talk to him.. and one of them told him eddie vedder has a message for him and that a messenger is coming. who he assumed was me.. so pj is still playing. and you know that quick turn of the head pple do when you call their name? well he's doing that to the tv. so i ask him whats going on. apparently eddie was talking to him thru the tv at that moment. and then the patient winked at me, i guess cause he thought i could hear it too. he was real standoffish with the doc, so the doc would kinda give me a nod to ask the patient questions and such and the guy totally trusted me. turns out the guy stoped his meds a few days before because he was afraid he would get a really bad side effect. well really bad because he was afraid his meds were interacting with all the meth he was doing. all this time he kept jerking his head at the tv. couple time he giggled. "he he, ha ha..he...ha.." doc asked why he giggled.
looked at me and i nodded yes. he tells the doc "cement" doc is confused till i tell him its a lyric. apparently ed was telling him other things too
not good things... i stopped him after ed told him to go to the kitchen to get a knife.
yeah, scary. but i told him ed wanted us alive. ed likes pple alive.... and guess what comes on about two seconds later...???? haha, yeah i was real glad it wasnt on shuffle....
we talked for a little more. the whole time Ed was telling him stuff and i had to get hit out of him.... some stuff was lyrics and some wasnt. (when he said his ass hurt cause bush fucked him in it, i couldnt tell if he was hallucinating, or maybe he really did hear ED psychic brain waves haha)
anyway it was one of those things i was glad i was there to help, even if it was as a weird pj/ed/patient interpreter....
we knock. patient wasnt coming out but we saw him look thru the window. guy still wasnt coming out. then guy looks out and sees me. immediatly opens the door. this is the first time i've met this particular patient. he looks very weary of the doc and CM. he doesnt want to let them in. but he says i can go in. wierd. but i tell him i wont go without his doc and CM. so he lets them in. as i walk by him to go in he says "im so glad you came. ive been waiting for the message from him. you have the message for me?" confused i kinda half smiled at him.
walk in the door......and what do i hear? motherfucking TEN!!! and i cant help it i smile. he laughs. well giggles.. he's playing TENon his TV/DVD/CD combo player. then i realize. its fucking hot in here and i had unbuttoned my top two buttons on my shirt. and thru that you can see PEARL JAM written all over my tshirt.
so this guy has hallucinations that voices talk to him.. and one of them told him eddie vedder has a message for him and that a messenger is coming. who he assumed was me.. so pj is still playing. and you know that quick turn of the head pple do when you call their name? well he's doing that to the tv. so i ask him whats going on. apparently eddie was talking to him thru the tv at that moment. and then the patient winked at me, i guess cause he thought i could hear it too. he was real standoffish with the doc, so the doc would kinda give me a nod to ask the patient questions and such and the guy totally trusted me. turns out the guy stoped his meds a few days before because he was afraid he would get a really bad side effect. well really bad because he was afraid his meds were interacting with all the meth he was doing. all this time he kept jerking his head at the tv. couple time he giggled. "he he, ha ha..he...ha.." doc asked why he giggled.
looked at me and i nodded yes. he tells the doc "cement" doc is confused till i tell him its a lyric. apparently ed was telling him other things too
not good things... i stopped him after ed told him to go to the kitchen to get a knife.
yeah, scary. but i told him ed wanted us alive. ed likes pple alive.... and guess what comes on about two seconds later...???? haha, yeah i was real glad it wasnt on shuffle....
we talked for a little more. the whole time Ed was telling him stuff and i had to get hit out of him.... some stuff was lyrics and some wasnt. (when he said his ass hurt cause bush fucked him in it, i couldnt tell if he was hallucinating, or maybe he really did hear ED psychic brain waves haha)
anyway it was one of those things i was glad i was there to help, even if it was as a weird pj/ed/patient interpreter....
mean people suck!
but nice people sw****w
but nice people sw****w
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The best expression of Love is Time.
The best time to Love is Now.
I'm never as good as when you're there.........
He can still feel Bush fucking him in the ass so he can't be that crazy.
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the ambos at work have a funny complaint every thime they have to transport a scheduled patient from A/E to our closest psych unit
- when the stop to have a coffee before heading back, they sometimes have trouble figuring out if they are in the staff room or the patients tea room
it takes a special sort to work with these guys - at least this one was a pj fan
- C. Klosterman
pearl jam, strikes again!
good thing you were there to help.
Then what are you doing hanging out on PJ message boards?
Interesting story, by the way.
"Alive" comes on during the most tensest part of the visit....
WOW!
See you did have the message for him...
I think alot of schizophrentics have just a cluttered way of recieving and making sense of the information they are unconciously getting!
Oopppsss sorry for ten edits... vicodin making me loopy... oh wait I thought I was that before I ate the vicodin...:)
Glad you could help him
... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
hippa is the one where you cant release private patient information. as long as i dont say a name, or describe him well enough to where you can figure out who it is, then no violation. lots and lots of patients are used as examples in classes or grand rounds and such. most of the time, initials are just used. example. john doe has a cold = jd has cold.
i'm going for my pharmd and am in my last year. this rotation has been the most interesting thing ive done.
and i saw this guy today. he stopped the alcohol and since i stopped by, has taken his meds without missing one dose. he was very lucid and spoke well today and his voices were a 2 out of 10 today. .(which is very good for him)
he got a girlfriend but is gonna dump her because she doesnt like no code....
i almost broke out laughing cause i hear the same thing all over these boards.
the doc thought he was actually talking about NO CODE.. like a code that the voices might be telling the patient. he thought the patient was thinking there was some secret code. i told him it was a really great album and he prolly is right in dumping a girl who doesnt like it....
but nice people sw****w