Piss boiling people episode

Our little boy of 8 months is in hospital and is pretty poorly. He’s on a close observation ward of four. The woman with a baby in the bay next to us has been shaking my belief in people being generally decent.

Not long after she arrived I tried to pass some polite comment and say hello but pretty much got blanked. Since then she’s been a font of foul and abusive language. Mostly directed at the hospital and the father of the baby’s lack of maintenance payments and general uselessness. Seems to have a complete lack of understanding for her situation and surroundings and the fact that the hospital staff may just be seeing to a seriously ill baby in the next room who may need to be tended to before they can deal with discharging her now quite well baby. It’s obvious to anyone I’d have thought that’s the ward is very busy right now.

We were also told to keep visitor numbers down and to avoid bringing kids here. Quite sensible in a room full of sick babies who need to rest. So we were little surprised to see her with about half a dozen visitors and a 2 year old kid. The kid is acting as you’d expect from a bored 2 year old and generally kicking off. Now there are play rooms for kids but she lets her kid have his tantrum in the middle of the ward. We’d just settled our boy having had a tough couple of hours of intervention and this wasn’t helping. So mrs blobby kindly asked if they could keep the noise down as our very sick baby was trying to sleep. The response: “he’s a two year old, what do you **** expect”. My piss is boiling now just thinking about it. When mrs blobby came back through the curtain we heard her say “**** bitch”. I had to be restrained. Mrs blobby is a social worker so is use to being called much worse in her job.

So what did we expect? More to the point what did she expect? That’s exactly what we’d have expected from a two old. From the parent though, i’d have expected a bit of consideration for a ward full of sick babies, especially as hers had been one of them. Take him out, take him to the play room, but do not to let him kick off I’m the middle of the ward. The sheer ignorance is staggering. Thankfully she and her baby have now been discharged.

Anyway rant over. Just needed to get that out. That is all.

tell me you have a roll of gaff tape and some zip ties in the car?

if you arent one of those people with strong enough stomachs to do it for a living (like mrsblobby) just take it on the chin that neo-natal/paediatric ICU is one of the few places left on earth where you just cant avoid certain people.

The return flight from lanzarote being one of the others apparently 😉

Chin up, hopefully blobette will be all well asap and you can GTF out of there.

It’s good to get it out.

Shitty people aside, I hope your son returns to full health as swiftly as possible. Hang in there, all of you.

You need one of these….Put the fecker out of her misery….

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=GB#/watch?v=d84r8gMGxFQ

Thanks all. He’s still very sick but reasonably stable.

On a flight to lanzarotte I’d not have been too surprised by such behaviour. But I’d have thought in a ward of sick babies that people’s general decentness would come to the fore, especially if one of those babies is yours. Apparently not 🙁

Edit: monekyfeet, I’d certainly be doing society a favour if I did.

You’re also assuming she has no mental health issues.

Well Mrs Blobby is an adult mental health social worker so would have been in a good position to asses and section!

An opportunity missed I’d say!

Reminds me (though worse) of the family next to us when Ccoper jr was born – especially the conversation when the social workers came around:

“We’re here to talk about your baby, Mary”
“Because you remember what happened to the last one, don’t you Mary?”

Mrs Oggy is a childrens nurse, and she comes home with tales of people like this. So selfish and utterly stupid. Thankfully most people arent like that. Hope the boy gets well soon

Bencooper, the episode did make me wonder what future her poor baby had in store with such a foul mother as a role model.

I have no idea how the nurses put up with people like that. Mind you, I don’t know how mrs blobby does her job sometimes either!

Her son had a right to make as much noise as he liked, whenever and wherever he liked under any circumstance because they are just more important than you, and everyone else.

That did seem to be her attitude, along with a total lack of responsibility for her kids actions 🙁