Post by Halo on Feb 16, 2005 22:10:29 GMT -5
I work in a nursing home and I don't know what the hell is going on, but suddenly we are having extreme problems with our male residents masturbating.
Not that it doesn't happen anyway. These guys are old, but apparently that never goes away. And of course we don't discourage it, but we do try and have them keep it private.
But within the last few weeks.....it's been like masturbation central! And I'm not talking about the guys just going about their own business in their rooms. Two of the men have decided to start roaming the halls and we have found them in other (female) resident's rooms. (I will change their names to protect the not-so-innocent) Ray was found in Lillian's room. Poor Lillian was in her bed freaking while Ray is standing at the foot of the bed jacking off. Harold was in Margaret's room. Margaret was asleep, but there he was, like Ray, standing in the room just going at it.
Now me, one of my duties being the Social Services designee (which means I handle any S.S. duties when the S.S. Director is out of the building, on vacation, or just is swamped and needs help) So guess who was on vacation and who had to handle all this? Yea...me.
One of the aids did get Harold out of Margaret's room and back to his own, but Ray was being a bit more difficult and the aid comes and gets me. Do you know what it is like to walk in to a room with a 90 year old woman freaking out in her bed and a 87 year old man standing there beating off? Well, I've seen pretty much everything, but this was just quite the scene.
I calmly try talking to Ray, explaining that he has to go back to his room and is not allowed to just enter other Resident's room. And also, that his behavior is inappropriate. He then looks at me and says, "Do you want to suck it?" OMFG! Try to keep your composure after that! LOL! I lied. I told him I had a boyfriend and he wouldn't be very happy with me if I did that, now would he? Anyway....I finally got Ray to put it away and go back to his room.
But now, for some reason, whether it just is the location of the rooms, or these guys have the hots for these certain ladies.....they would continue to "visit" them. We can't keep the resident's doors closed at all times as we need to be able to keep an eye on them. So, we came up with a plan, that at least for the last couple of days has worked and we hope it will continue to be a deterrent. We have taken a strip of wide red ribbon and placed velcro on each side of these ladies doors and the ribbon. The ribbon stretches across the door but if an emergency arouse, would be easily just walked through. However, this bright red ribbon stretched across the door has worked with keeping the men out. They apparently see it as a road block or warning of some kind and stay away.
I had an aid freaking out over one man's urinal. Now mind you, old folks get plenty of Urinary Tract Infections. We are constantly battling them. Anyway...as I was walking past this room, this aid calls me in. She has this urinal and is visibly upset and tells me that this resident must have the worst UTI. She says she has never seen urine this cloudy. Okay, are you getting ahead of me? Yea...it wasn't urine it was semen and I had to explain that to her.
Oh...it's not over yet.
Another resident, I'll call him George, has decided to start masturbating right there in his bed with the door wide open so that anyone passing his room can see. We've had to ask him to just put on his call light and someone will come and close the door until he is done. But no, he refuses to cooperate. Yesterday I'm going down the hall and there he is, in plain view of anyone and everyone, beating it off. I have to go in and try again to explain to this man that this has to be kept private. I explain that he has every right to do it, but he does not have the right to do it in public. So far, nothing has worked.
Now today, we get a new admission from the hospital. So far we haven't had any masturbation problems....just a problem with him walking the halls with it hanging out!! I'm walking past the nurse who at this time has the med cart and can't leave it and there goes "Jim" strutting down the hall, fully dressed but with his dick hanging out of his pajama bottoms. Betty is freaking and can't leave the med cart, I have to run and catch up with him and re-direct him to his room and then have a little sit down with him. Trying to explain he cannot go out in the halls exposing himself. Later in the afternoon....there he is, in his room mind you, but laying on the bed on top of the covers with his pants off.
I need a vacation.
Seriously....I can't figure out what is going on. Like I said, it's a natural thing and the old guys are gonna do it, but we have never had problems to this extent and with several male residents at once.
Maybe we need to have our water checked.
I love those old folks. But sometimes they can be quite trying.
Not that it doesn't happen anyway. These guys are old, but apparently that never goes away. And of course we don't discourage it, but we do try and have them keep it private.
But within the last few weeks.....it's been like masturbation central! And I'm not talking about the guys just going about their own business in their rooms. Two of the men have decided to start roaming the halls and we have found them in other (female) resident's rooms. (I will change their names to protect the not-so-innocent) Ray was found in Lillian's room. Poor Lillian was in her bed freaking while Ray is standing at the foot of the bed jacking off. Harold was in Margaret's room. Margaret was asleep, but there he was, like Ray, standing in the room just going at it.
Now me, one of my duties being the Social Services designee (which means I handle any S.S. duties when the S.S. Director is out of the building, on vacation, or just is swamped and needs help) So guess who was on vacation and who had to handle all this? Yea...me.
One of the aids did get Harold out of Margaret's room and back to his own, but Ray was being a bit more difficult and the aid comes and gets me. Do you know what it is like to walk in to a room with a 90 year old woman freaking out in her bed and a 87 year old man standing there beating off? Well, I've seen pretty much everything, but this was just quite the scene.
I calmly try talking to Ray, explaining that he has to go back to his room and is not allowed to just enter other Resident's room. And also, that his behavior is inappropriate. He then looks at me and says, "Do you want to suck it?" OMFG! Try to keep your composure after that! LOL! I lied. I told him I had a boyfriend and he wouldn't be very happy with me if I did that, now would he? Anyway....I finally got Ray to put it away and go back to his room.
But now, for some reason, whether it just is the location of the rooms, or these guys have the hots for these certain ladies.....they would continue to "visit" them. We can't keep the resident's doors closed at all times as we need to be able to keep an eye on them. So, we came up with a plan, that at least for the last couple of days has worked and we hope it will continue to be a deterrent. We have taken a strip of wide red ribbon and placed velcro on each side of these ladies doors and the ribbon. The ribbon stretches across the door but if an emergency arouse, would be easily just walked through. However, this bright red ribbon stretched across the door has worked with keeping the men out. They apparently see it as a road block or warning of some kind and stay away.
I had an aid freaking out over one man's urinal. Now mind you, old folks get plenty of Urinary Tract Infections. We are constantly battling them. Anyway...as I was walking past this room, this aid calls me in. She has this urinal and is visibly upset and tells me that this resident must have the worst UTI. She says she has never seen urine this cloudy. Okay, are you getting ahead of me? Yea...it wasn't urine it was semen and I had to explain that to her.
Oh...it's not over yet.
Another resident, I'll call him George, has decided to start masturbating right there in his bed with the door wide open so that anyone passing his room can see. We've had to ask him to just put on his call light and someone will come and close the door until he is done. But no, he refuses to cooperate. Yesterday I'm going down the hall and there he is, in plain view of anyone and everyone, beating it off. I have to go in and try again to explain to this man that this has to be kept private. I explain that he has every right to do it, but he does not have the right to do it in public. So far, nothing has worked.
Now today, we get a new admission from the hospital. So far we haven't had any masturbation problems....just a problem with him walking the halls with it hanging out!! I'm walking past the nurse who at this time has the med cart and can't leave it and there goes "Jim" strutting down the hall, fully dressed but with his dick hanging out of his pajama bottoms. Betty is freaking and can't leave the med cart, I have to run and catch up with him and re-direct him to his room and then have a little sit down with him. Trying to explain he cannot go out in the halls exposing himself. Later in the afternoon....there he is, in his room mind you, but laying on the bed on top of the covers with his pants off.
I need a vacation.
Seriously....I can't figure out what is going on. Like I said, it's a natural thing and the old guys are gonna do it, but we have never had problems to this extent and with several male residents at once.
Maybe we need to have our water checked.
I love those old folks. But sometimes they can be quite trying.