Regrettably, I've had another stay in hospital. I've been feeling rather breathless for a week or two then significantly wobbly on Thursday. Friday, this was accompanied by chest pain, going very pale & cold and the highest blood pressure I've ever had. Given my history, it was prudent to go to A&E. I'll spare you the details of the glacially-slow progress through the NHS, but eight and a quarter hours after arriving in A&E, I'm finally in a bed on a ward at 2:45 AM, wired up to a 24h ECG monitor. The end result is that all the cardiac tests were negative and they discharged me today, but this isn't about that.
It's about the most selfish behaviour I've ever witnessed.
So, here I am, in a cardiac ward in the middle of the night. Beds full of patients with heart conditions. At 6:30AM, I'm rudely awoken by the sound of a mobile going off. The ringtone is the two-tone airhorns of an American 18 wheeler. I look over to the next bed and can see the guy fumbling with a phone. 'Poor bastard!' I think - one of his family has lent him their phone while he's in hospital, they're ringing and he has no idea how to answer it or get it to stop !!
After 30 seconds of this, I'm getting well pissed off - it's at full volume.
Then the ringtone changes - I can hear people talking now.....
It's not a ringtone at all - the cunt is WATCHING A FUCKING FILM !!!! AT FULL VOLUME !! - On a cardiac ward that is still dark, everyone is asleep, and 30 seconds earlier the only sounds were heart monitors gently beeping in the silence, accompanied by the occasional snore.
He stopped after I remonstrated with him. Un-fucking-believeable. That was the singularly most selfish act I've ever witnessed.
Donald Trump needs kicking out of a helicopter
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
Comments
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
Edit... I lied, my Favourite films are Mary Poppins & Cool Hand Luke...
Still sucks for you though.
Confusion or not, I'd have been tempted to throw something at him.
I got woken at 6:25am the other week by a text asking if someone could drop a guitar off at lunchtime.
Because I didn't reply until after I got up (around 9am) he hadn't taken his guitar to work, so didn't drop it off - I still haven't heard back from him . . .
He was nothing more than a self-centred, passive-aggressive cunt. I apologise for the use of that word, but in this case it is deserved.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Fretwired said: No. I was the youngest on the ward - other guys were pretty frail. He needed to be stopped. What annoyed me even more was after I got him to stop it, a nurse walked past, helping one of the more frail guys to the loo and I did the "WTF ??!!!" face and hand gestures / animated double-take in the direction of the arsehole (who had his curtains closed around his bed), and she just replied with a weak half-smile, "What can you do eh ?" shoulder-shrug.
I'll fucking tell you what you can do !! You can warn the fucker and show some bloody steel woman !! Your job is to care for all of the patients - at that means intervening if one of them is causing discomfort for the rest. I wonder would she have done anything if I decided to practice the tuba at 6.30am ?
What the fuck happened to the NHS ? Back in the day there was a Ward Sister who would run the place with an iron fist, and if she wasn't tough enough, the Matron.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."