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- 1:21SPEAKER_01: And welcome to another episode of the WDYM The What Do You Mean podcast.
- 1:26SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Michael Gillespie, as always.
- 1:28SPEAKER_01: And um I'm a little distracted right now.
- 1:30SPEAKER_01: I'm distracted because there's a spider web in the upper part of my basement where I'm doing the broadcast.
- 1:36SPEAKER_01: That's why I kind of sound like I'm not on mic.
- 1:38SPEAKER_01: See, this is on mic.
- 1:40SPEAKER_01: This is not on mic.
- 1:41SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you can hear a difference or not.
- 1:42SPEAKER_01: I keep blowing in the web to see if the spider moves, and he is moving.
- 1:48SPEAKER_01: So he is alive.
- 1:50SPEAKER_01: But the question is, what in the world is he eating?
- 1:53SPEAKER_01: Sorry.
- 1:53SPEAKER_01: Little distraction.
- 1:55SPEAKER_01: I saw that.
- 1:55SPEAKER_01: I was like, whoa, I ain't gonna sweep me.
- 1:57SPEAKER_01: He can stay as long as he wants.
- 1:59SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the WDYM.
- 2:00SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Michael Gillespie, and I'm pretty sure I said that already.
- 2:02SPEAKER_01: But anyway, we are doing a um a story as um a story today at the rehab center, which I'm titling Tales from the Rehab Center.
- 2:15SPEAKER_01: These are some of the things that you come across working at a rehab center compared to a retirement home.
- 2:20SPEAKER_01: Um you would think that they will be different.
- 2:23SPEAKER_01: Yes, we're still working with elderly and people that, you know, that are inclined or they can't do what they normally can do, walk, da-da-da-da-da.
- 2:31SPEAKER_01: But a rehab facility, you would think they'll be a little different because they're not, this is not their home.
- 2:37SPEAKER_01: You know, they're trying to get better so they can get out of there.
- 2:40SPEAKER_01: As for, you know, a retirement home, this is this this is it.
- 2:43SPEAKER_01: This is this is the last hurrah.
- 2:45SPEAKER_01: Unfortunately, this is where you're gonna be at, right?
- 2:47SPEAKER_01: They have their own little living space, you know, their own room, you know, friends and all that stuff.
- 2:52SPEAKER_01: Rehab, they are there for some could be up for three months.
- 2:57SPEAKER_01: It's really amazing how they go, how they can stay there as long as long as possible, pretty much.
- 3:03SPEAKER_01: You know, you you you come across so many different residents.
- 3:08SPEAKER_01: And I got five.
- 3:10SPEAKER_01: I got five re well, I got four and one general, general, I general thing that I come across all the time at these uh at these retirement places.
- 3:21SPEAKER_01: It drives me nuts.
- 3:22SPEAKER_01: So without further ado, I want to hit this off with number one.
- 3:24SPEAKER_01: Number one is it smells like pee.
- 3:28SPEAKER_01: We had this one particular person who uh he was a heavy set guy, and you know, no judging here.
- 3:34SPEAKER_01: Again, it's 2022, no judging here.
- 3:38SPEAKER_01: He's just it was he was a big guy, and he would order so much food.
- 3:42SPEAKER_01: He would order almost two and a half trays of food.
- 3:47SPEAKER_01: Like he would get an entree, then he'd get a big old salad, which would be another entree, and like a a healthy side, you know, like a cookie and stuff like that, on top of the dessert that we normally would normally would put on your tray, you know.
- 4:02SPEAKER_01: He would eat so much food, and it would always smell like pee going into his room.
- 4:08SPEAKER_01: Now, the standard for me when I when I deliver food is I always open a door so you can actually hear the door go and then I knock.
- 4:18SPEAKER_01: So you get two warnings before I come in there.
- 4:22SPEAKER_01: And um, every time, every time, no matter if it was morning, noon, or night, it was a heavy smell of urine.
- 4:32SPEAKER_01: And I was like, dude, what are you doing?
- 4:34SPEAKER_01: What are you doing?
- 4:35SPEAKER_01: You you're in now.
- 4:37SPEAKER_01: I understand, like, you know, morning time, they can't get out of bed themselves.
- 4:40SPEAKER_01: I understand.
- 4:41SPEAKER_01: That's fine.
- 4:42SPEAKER_01: But this guy, he was mobile, he was like in a chair, walking around in the recliner.
- 4:46SPEAKER_01: He was mobile.
- 4:47SPEAKER_01: Why did it smell like pee all the time?
- 4:52SPEAKER_01: It was terrible.
- 4:53SPEAKER_01: Terrible idea.
- 4:54SPEAKER_01: And um the smell like that it was gross.
- 4:57SPEAKER_01: It was so bad.
- 4:58SPEAKER_01: I mean, oof, it was so it was so bad.
- 5:01SPEAKER_01: And the thing is that we he he was a uh repeat customer, but that means like he would come come visit, like two months later, come visit again for the same problems.
- 5:12SPEAKER_01: It's like, dude, you're not even taking care of yourself.
- 5:14SPEAKER_01: It's like, man, what do you what are you doing here?
- 5:16SPEAKER_01: But I I mean, my me personally, I think, because of the service we give, that you know, hey, well, I'm eating three three meals a day, and they're hot meals, and they're decent, they're good.
- 5:27SPEAKER_01: Why not go back right why not go back to rehab?
- 5:30SPEAKER_01: And that's why I think why some people rehab these repeat customers and stuff like that.
- 5:34SPEAKER_01: So yeah, his room smelled like urine, and he would come back just for rehab and eat in the front lobby.
- 5:42SPEAKER_01: And guess what the front lobby smelled like?
- 5:44SPEAKER_01: You got it, urine.
- 5:46SPEAKER_01: This man, I mean, he just he was marking his territory apparently.
- 5:49SPEAKER_01: He was it was urine everywhere, especially in his room, and then when he came back for therapy in the front of the lobby, it was gross.
- 5:56SPEAKER_01: That was that's that's number one.
- 5:58SPEAKER_01: Number two, this one is called titties be out.
- 6:03SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I said that.
- 6:04SPEAKER_01: Titties with the D's, right?
- 6:07SPEAKER_01: Again, my always approaches I hear I open the door first so you can hear that, right?
- 6:12SPEAKER_01: Then I knock.
- 6:15SPEAKER_01: You know, like hey, Judy Brown, I got your food.
- 6:20SPEAKER_01: So you hear me coming in.
- 6:22SPEAKER_01: Tell me why some some ladies in their 50s, 60s, for some reason, doesn't have their shirt on.
- 6:30SPEAKER_01: Okay, again, 2022.
- 6:32SPEAKER_01: I'm not judging you, but when you're when I'm coming in, can you at least have the DC to cover yourself up?
- 6:37SPEAKER_01: Not this lady.
- 6:38SPEAKER_01: She just what what's what she like, what's for dinner?
- 6:41SPEAKER_01: I'm like, why you sound like that?
- 6:43SPEAKER_01: First off, why you supposed to be feminine?
- 6:45SPEAKER_01: Why you what's for dinner, huh?
- 6:47SPEAKER_01: So she comes in, doesn't even care that I'm a you know, I'm a guy, you know, nurses are nurses and aides are females most of the time.
- 6:54SPEAKER_01: I'm a guy.
- 6:55SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm I I sound pretty masculine.
- 6:57SPEAKER_01: You know, hey, Judy Brown, I'm coming in, I got your food.
- 7:02SPEAKER_01: What do you got on that plate?
- 7:04SPEAKER_01: Oh man.
- 7:04SPEAKER_01: It's like, ma'am, you you you do know your your your your your your your titties, these, your titties are out.
- 7:12SPEAKER_01: She's like, I didn't know what's on that plate for dinner.
- 7:15SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 7:15SPEAKER_01: Well, here's the turkey, here's your here's your food, let me leave.
- 7:20SPEAKER_01: And you know, that's one day, right?
- 7:22SPEAKER_01: You think that she would cover up, like, okay, he was a guy, he caught me off guard this time.
- 7:30SPEAKER_01: What about the next time?
- 7:31SPEAKER_01: No, she did not care.
- 7:32SPEAKER_01: And it's to a point with me as a guy, like, I don't want to see that.
- 7:36SPEAKER_01: Not at all.
- 7:37SPEAKER_01: I mean, listen here.
- 7:40SPEAKER_01: I'm still a young man, I still like the idea of those, right?
- 7:44SPEAKER_01: I still love the the testicles of a woman.
- 7:47SPEAKER_01: I don't want to see 60 years old things just swailing at the just laying at the side with no no type of elasticity at all.
- 7:59SPEAKER_01: Like, please cover up for the love of God.
- 8:02SPEAKER_01: Cover up that's number two.
- 8:06SPEAKER_01: Number three, and this was recent, and this is this is one of the most disturbing ones that I had.
- 8:14SPEAKER_01: It was this one I'm calling poop in the can.
- 8:19SPEAKER_01: So this this one lady, first thing in the morning, we're delivering breakfast, and I always say this when I'm around in the hallways, and it's and you know, again, we're dealing with elderly people, they can't get out of bed as fast.
- 8:32SPEAKER_01: You understand that accidents do happen, right?
- 8:34SPEAKER_01: I understand that's perfectly fine.
- 8:37SPEAKER_01: But this one was like like fresh, fresh.
- 8:40SPEAKER_01: And it's like, I go in the room, open door, lights are off, but the smell, or what I call the force, the force is strong with this one.
- 8:48SPEAKER_01: I go in the room, it's like, ooh.
- 8:50SPEAKER_01: I said, Miss Johnson, what Miss Johnson, like, you okay?
- 8:55SPEAKER_01: She's like, yeah, I'm fine.
- 8:57SPEAKER_01: She's laying in bed.
- 8:57SPEAKER_01: She says, Yeah, I'm fine.
- 8:58SPEAKER_01: I'm like, okay.
- 9:00SPEAKER_01: Like, do you need me to get an aid or something?
- 9:03SPEAKER_00: She's like, no, I'm good.
- 9:06SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I'm like looking around, like, why does it smell like strong force?
- 9:12SPEAKER_01: Why does it smell like really fresh poop?
- 9:14SPEAKER_00: I'm like, what's going on?
- 9:16SPEAKER_00: Like, man, are you sure you're okay?
- 9:18SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I'm fine.
- 9:19SPEAKER_01: I was okay.
- 9:20SPEAKER_01: So I lay the tray down, I'm getting close to her, and I smell it.
- 9:22SPEAKER_01: It's getting strong.
- 9:23SPEAKER_01: The force is strong.
- 9:24SPEAKER_01: This is definitely a Sith Lord because this smell is strong.
- 9:29SPEAKER_01: I'm like, did you recently poop?
- 9:33SPEAKER_01: And she didn't she takes the blankets and covers half her face.
- 9:36SPEAKER_01: But I can't see her face, but I can still see her eyes, like she's ashamed and stuff.
- 9:40SPEAKER_01: She's like, yeah.
- 9:41SPEAKER_00: I said, okay, no big deal.
- 9:44SPEAKER_01: But why is it so strong?
- 9:46SPEAKER_01: And she points to the can.
- 9:48SPEAKER_01: Her trash can on the side.
- 9:50SPEAKER_01: So let me get this straight.
- 9:54SPEAKER_01: You can get up and poop in the trash can, but you can't take your stanking butt over there to poop on the toilet?
- 10:05SPEAKER_01: So I go get the aid, I drop off the food.
- 10:07SPEAKER_01: I'm like, yo, I'm not dealing with this, man.
- 10:10SPEAKER_01: I'm not dealing with this.
- 10:11SPEAKER_01: It's not my job.
- 10:12SPEAKER_01: I'm dropping off food.
- 10:13SPEAKER_01: I'm not helping.
- 10:14SPEAKER_01: This is disgusting.
- 10:15SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
- 10:16SPEAKER_01: I'm out.
- 10:18SPEAKER_01: Excuse me.
- 10:19SPEAKER_01: And ever since then, ever since then, she always looked at me like, you know, oh my God, I'm so embarrassed.
- 10:24SPEAKER_01: And you're like, no, you ain't.
- 10:25SPEAKER_01: You purposely pooped in the can in the trash can.
- 10:28SPEAKER_01: What's wrong with you?
- 10:29SPEAKER_01: Like, I know, like, I'm from Hamilton, Ohio, right?
- 10:32SPEAKER_01: I'm from Hamilton.
- 10:33SPEAKER_01: And people say when you're from Hamilton and you act silly, quotes on the silliness, you from Hamiltucky.
- 10:41SPEAKER_01: That is a straight Hamiltucky move.
- 10:43SPEAKER_01: What is wrong with you?
- 10:45SPEAKER_01: And she looked at me like, I just want to get out of here.
- 10:47SPEAKER_01: Well, no kidding.
- 10:48SPEAKER_01: You up here pooping in trash cans, embarrassing yourself, looking like a Hamiltuckian.
- 10:53SPEAKER_01: Don't get yourself out of here.
- 10:56SPEAKER_01: That's one.
- 10:58SPEAKER_01: Another one.
- 11:00SPEAKER_01: This guy.
- 11:01SPEAKER_01: And the thing about this guy that he was he was a veteran and uh a well-off veteran.
- 11:07SPEAKER_01: Kind of kind of shady looking, but he was he was a well-off veteran.
- 11:10SPEAKER_01: He was up there mentally and everything.
- 11:11SPEAKER_01: And uh he was cool.
- 11:13SPEAKER_01: He was a cool cat.
- 11:14SPEAKER_01: Um young dude too.
- 11:16SPEAKER_01: He had to be early, mid-40s, mid-late 40s.
- 11:19SPEAKER_01: Real cool dude.
- 11:20SPEAKER_01: He was cool.
- 11:21SPEAKER_01: I liked him for the most part.
- 11:23SPEAKER_01: Uh he he had his his female friend visit and um drop him off food.
- 11:29SPEAKER_01: And that's not normal.
- 11:30SPEAKER_01: That's normal, you know.
- 11:31SPEAKER_01: That's okay.
- 11:32SPEAKER_01: Drop off food and everything.
- 11:34SPEAKER_01: He and he's in a wheelchair.
- 11:36SPEAKER_01: He rolled up on me one day.
- 11:37SPEAKER_01: He's like, hey, hey, hey, buddy.
- 11:39SPEAKER_01: I said, what's up, man?
- 11:40SPEAKER_01: He's like, hey, uh, you got any candles back there?
- 11:44SPEAKER_01: I said, I'm sorry, what'd you say?
- 11:46SPEAKER_01: He's like, yeah, you you you got some uh got some candles back there.
- 11:49SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to have a special day with my lady.
- 11:52SPEAKER_01: I looked at him like, dude, like you know you're in a rehab center, right?
- 11:55SPEAKER_01: He's like, Yeah, you know, I'm I'm trying to have a special, special day with my lady.
- 12:00SPEAKER_01: I said, What kind of stay what kind of special day you plan on having?
- 12:03SPEAKER_01: With candles.
- 12:04SPEAKER_01: What do you need what what what are you talking about, play?
- 12:06SPEAKER_01: And then he shied it off because I'm you know, I'm like getting loud with it.
- 12:09SPEAKER_01: Like, what what do you need candles for, Playboy?
- 12:11SPEAKER_01: I don't understand that, you know, I'm just I'm just kidding, man.
- 12:16SPEAKER_01: You know, I'm just kidding, man.
- 12:17SPEAKER_01: You know, I said, dude, are you trying to no you tr you trying to have cheese in here?
- 12:25SPEAKER_01: You and if you you follow the show, this is a G show.
- 12:29SPEAKER_01: It's cheese, okay?
- 12:30SPEAKER_01: You know what read between the subtext.
- 12:34SPEAKER_01: Cheese.
- 12:34SPEAKER_01: You ain't having nothing to have cheese in the daggone rehab facility, right?
- 12:39SPEAKER_01: I mean, all these doors don't lock.
- 12:41SPEAKER_01: Well, I mean, what are you planning on doing?
- 12:42SPEAKER_01: You gonna get caught having cheese.
- 12:46SPEAKER_01: Just disgusting.
- 12:47SPEAKER_01: It's like what come on.
- 12:48SPEAKER_01: You only it's rehab.
- 12:49SPEAKER_01: You want to be here one to two, hopefully, no longer than two to three weeks.
- 12:54SPEAKER_01: You're not off, you look well off enough to not even be here.
- 12:58SPEAKER_01: Heck, he was leaving, he was leaving the facility, uh, as far as I know, driving on his own.
- 13:03SPEAKER_01: So we're like, really, what why are you really here?
- 13:06SPEAKER_02: And he's like, Yeah, can I have some candles?
- 13:08SPEAKER_01: Like, dude, you don't get it, get your stinking Hamatuckian self out of here.
- 13:12SPEAKER_01: I don't understand where they come from.
- 13:15SPEAKER_01: And he was a veteran, too.
- 13:16SPEAKER_01: That's what made me mad even more.
- 13:17SPEAKER_01: I'm like, you ain't supposed to be acting like that.
- 13:18SPEAKER_01: I'm a veteran.
- 13:20SPEAKER_01: We don't act like that.
- 13:21SPEAKER_01: But he was, he was, he was, he was something else.
- 13:24SPEAKER_01: And one of the last things, one of the last things that mostly all, and I mean all my old residents, all the old residents, every time in rehab, is that they want to keep my cups.
- 13:37SPEAKER_01: This is this is pisses me off so much.
- 13:41SPEAKER_01: Okay, so quick story is that we have a certain amount of cups.
- 13:45SPEAKER_01: I only have certain amount of cups to give to everybody, right?
- 13:49SPEAKER_01: But every majority of the majority of the residents want to keep their cup.
- 13:55SPEAKER_01: Like this is the last drink they're gonna have from this cup.
- 13:59SPEAKER_01: What is wrong with you?
- 14:00SPEAKER_01: Give me my cup back.
- 14:01SPEAKER_01: That's what I always say.
- 14:02SPEAKER_01: Hey, you know, hey, I see your coke's all down, down the ice, and a little bit of coke.
- 14:07SPEAKER_01: It's more water than ice, more water than coke.
- 14:09SPEAKER_01: So let me have my cup back.
- 14:10SPEAKER_01: You can't you can't have my cup.
- 14:12SPEAKER_01: So, sir, let me get your cup.
- 14:14SPEAKER_01: You can't have my cup.
- 14:16SPEAKER_01: I'm this is my drinking cup.
- 14:18SPEAKER_01: What you what you gonna do with that?
- 14:20SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna say I'm gonna I'ma wash it from your nastiness.
- 14:23SPEAKER_01: You've been putting your mouth on it, and then some of these residents, some of these residents want to spit in my cup.
- 14:30SPEAKER_01: That's the worst.
- 14:30SPEAKER_00: Spit.
- 14:31SPEAKER_00: Just spit.
- 14:32SPEAKER_00: And I look at this cup, it's spit all in this cup.
- 14:35SPEAKER_00: Huh?
- 14:35SPEAKER_02: And then yeah, I had to had to spit, you know, I had this drool and everything.
- 14:40SPEAKER_01: Don't even understand what hey.
- 14:44SPEAKER_01: Listen here.
- 14:45SPEAKER_01: Give me my mo give me my damn cup.
- 14:48SPEAKER_01: I'm so serious about this.
- 14:49SPEAKER_01: It doesn't matter.
- 14:50SPEAKER_01: Man, woman, it's a whole generation thing.
- 14:54SPEAKER_01: I think back in the day, they didn't know where their next drink was.
- 14:56SPEAKER_01: The drink was coming from.
- 14:57SPEAKER_01: So they had to keep their cup just in case rainwater would come down.
- 15:01SPEAKER_01: I need that rainwater to to loosen my throat.
- 15:04SPEAKER_01: I don't understand why they want to keep my cup.
- 15:07SPEAKER_01: And then it's uh it's like an argument.
- 15:10SPEAKER_01: It's an argument where I'm like, hey, can I have my cup?
- 15:12SPEAKER_01: Like, what do you want my cup for?
- 15:14SPEAKER_01: I need the cup so I can wash it so I can circulate it.
- 15:16SPEAKER_01: And and and I need my cup back.
- 15:18SPEAKER_01: He's like, Well, you can't have this cup.
- 15:21SPEAKER_01: I'm like, dude, are you serious right now?
- 15:22SPEAKER_01: I'm looking at him at 77 years old, like, look, dude, I can kick your ass if I want to.
- 15:27SPEAKER_01: Give me the daggone cup.
- 15:29SPEAKER_01: He's like, You ain't taking my cup.
- 15:31SPEAKER_01: What do I do?
- 15:31SPEAKER_01: I wait them out.
- 15:33SPEAKER_01: I wait till they fall asleep.
- 15:34SPEAKER_01: Because they be in mid-that mid-sentence and they fall asleep.
- 15:38SPEAKER_01: You can't take my give me that cup.
- 15:43SPEAKER_01: And then I like when they go to rehab, I watch them.
- 15:46SPEAKER_01: I watch.
- 15:47SPEAKER_01: I hawk it.
- 15:48SPEAKER_01: When I see him going to rehab, I walk right by him, look dead in the eye.
- 15:54SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, I'm taking your cup.
- 15:56SPEAKER_01: And there'll be a plastic one waiting for you.
- 15:58SPEAKER_01: And they just give me the evil, like, ooh, I can't believe this boy's taking my cup.
- 16:04SPEAKER_01: I swear.
- 16:05SPEAKER_01: This is number one thing.
- 16:07SPEAKER_01: They all want their cups.
- 16:09SPEAKER_01: And I don't understand why you want to keep my cups.
- 16:13SPEAKER_01: Those are my cups.
- 16:16SPEAKER_01: All I'm gonna, I don't understand.
- 16:17SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's not like I'm not gonna give them cups anyway.
- 16:19SPEAKER_01: And the thing is that we do replenish it.
- 16:22SPEAKER_01: If they have a cup at breakfast, they order something to drink at lunch.
- 16:25SPEAKER_01: Guess what?
- 16:26SPEAKER_01: New cup.
- 16:27SPEAKER_01: Just give me my cup back so I can wash it.
- 16:29SPEAKER_01: Don't understand.
- 16:31SPEAKER_01: So those are just five tails.
- 16:33SPEAKER_01: Now I'm pretty sure there's way more things I could tell you about.
- 16:36SPEAKER_01: These are the five ones that have been on my mind recently, except the cup thing.
- 16:40SPEAKER_01: Cup's always on my mind.
- 16:41SPEAKER_01: Can't stand it when they're keeping my cups.
- 16:43SPEAKER_01: But that's it.
- 16:44SPEAKER_01: That's five tales from rehab.
- 16:50SPEAKER_01: We are on our way to 40 episodes this season.
- 16:54SPEAKER_01: As always, thank you guys so much for listening to the WDYM.
- 16:57SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Michael Gillespie, and I'm out, Boy Scout.
- 17:01SPEAKER_01: Peace.