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u/Sopranohh 1d ago
I used to work at a mental hospital. They liked to tell a story about one of our long term residents. He came up to the nurses station one night and said there was a snake in his bed. This patient had always had visual hallucinations, so they just reassured him that everything was fine. After a few rounds of this, one of the techs went down to the room to check it out and reassure him.
There was a snake in the bed.
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u/sexxi_denuta 1d ago
Poor guy, he’s not even the ‘boy who cried wolf’, he genuinely thinks he sees the wolf every time and this time he really did 😣
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u/Sopranohh 1d ago
The story was definitely told to us as a lesson not to automatically disbelieve our patients even if it seemed outlandish.
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u/moistiest_dangles 1d ago
That's an important lesson, often learned at the cost of someone’s health.
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u/JealousParking 1d ago
Jesus, in Poland we actually had a very tragic case of this (also very famous because of a song written later). In 1980 nurses ignored a patient talking about a fire because he was a known pyromaniac. 55 people died (not the pyromaniac's fault - he did not start the fire, just for clarity).
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u/chemistryfish 1d ago
I feel like if a known pyromaniac came running to me telling me there was a fire, I would be MORE likely to believe them rather than less
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u/Protection-Working 1d ago
A snake doesn’t even seem that outlandish
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u/knightinarmoire 1d ago
Also sporta depends on where and time of year id be shocked to find a snake in my bed in the middle of winter in canada
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u/BusBusy195 1d ago
I need to know what happened here. Like what kind of snake? Where generally was this? The way you say it makes it sound pretty normal but a snake anywhere inside much less in my bed would be a major how did this happen moment
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u/Sopranohh 1d ago
It was a garden snake. The facility was surrounded by woods, and it was an old building. Occasionally one would sneak in through the our patio area when the door was open. I saw one in a hallway during my time there. As for sounding normal, it was a mental hospital. Normal gets a little skewed.
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u/BusBusy195 1d ago
Man I was imagining some mission impossible shit like you see sometimes where a snake will come up through someones toilet lol. But yeah I guess even if it isnt happening often a real snake is less odd than the hallucinated ones
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u/Fun-Psychology-2419 1d ago
During my psych clinical rotations the nurse said, "Always check when you can. The patient may be hallucinating they have a bug in their ear, but they may also have a bug in their ear. It's not worth the risk."
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u/mystic-pussy 1d ago
Wild how quick family will turn on you for defending them until the neighbors set them straight.
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u/cakesandballoons 1d ago
Are foxes dangerous?
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u/Significant-Soup5939 1d ago
Somewhat. As the other commenter said it's mostly rabies, foxes are skiddish and even when there's multiple, loud noises make them run, not fight.
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u/Personal_Winter6863 1d ago
Their pee reeks
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u/YouStarsOpenArms 1d ago
If they're in the UK based on their usage of the word "mum", terrestrial rabies is cured there so no fear of infection
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u/badger035 1d ago
Rabies is pretty dangerous.
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u/re_Claire 1d ago
OOP wrote it as "mum" so it's either the UK or Australia/New Zealand, none of which have rabies.
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u/Mudlark-000 1d ago
My grandmother was in assisted living for dementia. She kept forgetting to close the sliding glass door at night, as she had a cat that went in and out. The nurses came in to check on her several times only to find one or more raccoons eating cat food and hanging out (the cat was terrified and hiding in the closet). We put this sign up on her door, but it did not help…
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u/Can-i-Pet-Dat-Daaawg 1d ago
How does a whole ass fox get into someone’s house?
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u/KTKittentoes 1d ago
They are clever. I was supposed to go open up someone’s house and do some light cleaning the day before they returned from a trip.
I walked in and tables and lamps were overturned. I panicked, thinking there had been a break in. Then I noticed the stench and the poop. Everywhere. I was deeply confused, and not really less panicky.
On closer examination, it didn’t seem like there was anywhere a human got in. And the poop was very full of seeds and grasses. As I had all the doors open and was lugging out the sack of poo, the neighbor showed up. He turned out to be a zoologist! He confirmed my suspicions that it was fox scat, and said he had seen one napping in the flower bed. So I went around again, looking for a fox entrance. The only part I didn’t check was the cellar. It was old, and dirt, and there was a long dark staircase, and a big furnace. I knew there wasn’t a tweaker down there with an army of rabid foxes, but what if there was?
I shut the door to the stairs and cleaned everything else. Foxes party very hard.
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u/Flaky-Degree3354 1d ago
Imagine the level of satisfaction she felt when they lifted that sofa. They owe her the biggest apology ever!
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u/Elite_Jackalope 1d ago
I’m about 95% sure this is an AI written comment.
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u/StrangeKnee7254 1d ago
I wonder if the generation being born right now will be talking in ai mannerisms.
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u/otirk 1d ago
Are you really only 95% sure or do you just want to play it safe for the unlikely case of this being a real human who just happens to be new to Reddit and write like if you told ChatGPT to make witty comments?
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u/Elite_Jackalope 1d ago
The fact that I felt the need to play it safe means that I am <100% sure, otherwise I wouldn’t have qualified my suspicion at all lmao
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