u/tbird920

I miss Weezer guitar solos on every song.

I’m not clinical staff but I’ve worked adjacent to them in hospitals for almost a decade now and one of the most annoying, bizarre experiences you can have is a shift with a patient that can’t/won’t stop screaming.

For example, last week I had to fix a sink in the ED. It took a while to handle so I was there for a good 2 hrs right at the start of my shift. That whole time there is an exorcism happening two doors down from me. The woman is screaming, bellowing, hollering as loud as can be. It’s perversely impressive even if it is annoying. My vocals couldn’t howl for that long.

And trust me, people tried to calm her down. Nurses tried to talk to her, a social worker tried too. They ran through a checklist of things that could be wrong. Nothing worked. So she screamed and screamed and screamed. She even switched it up and ululated from time to time. Almost like she got bored or like it was a game.

Regardless of that, you can’t just stop and ED (or any unit cause it’s not just EDs that get screamers) everything while this person is yelling. Which leads to strange conversations like this:

Nurse A: “so here’s mrs. Alberta Johnson. She’s 64 years old, diabetic and came here for chest pains and-“

Screamer: “OH GOD SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!!!!”

Nurse A: “-shortness of breath. She’s a real delight you’ll like her.”

Nurse B: “oh yeah she sounds like a treat”

Screamer: “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”

Going on in the background of everything you do. She was screaming when I started, when I left and 6 hrs later when I came back there to check on my fix. God bless the staff that day lol. At least I could leave.

I know it’ll never happen but man that would be so cool to see. Though I wonder how they’d do auditions for the part lol