Can you imagine waking up in the hospital? You wake up and everyone knows your name, they know your family members' names, they know what your job is. They insist that it is 4 months after what you know it to be. There are signs around saying who and where you are, but you have no idea why you're there.
I can't even imagine how frightening this would be. I have a huge respect for my patient, who I'm spending the day with, who wakes up about every 10 minutes and has no idea what's happening (i.e. he has no short-term memory). He rarely gets angry and has only been mad at me once (when he is angry, it's more at the situation than at a person). I hope that if anything like this ever happens to me, I have the grace to be a relatively sweet, confused person as opposed to a mean, disgruntled one.
I can't even imagine how frightening this would be. I have a huge respect for my patient, who I'm spending the day with, who wakes up about every 10 minutes and has no idea what's happening (i.e. he has no short-term memory). He rarely gets angry and has only been mad at me once (when he is angry, it's more at the situation than at a person). I hope that if anything like this ever happens to me, I have the grace to be a relatively sweet, confused person as opposed to a mean, disgruntled one.
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