An artist

One of the patients on my floor - though not one assigned to me - is wheelchair bound and blind and demented. She has zero short-term memory and wakes every morning to discover that something's wrong with her eyes. She constantly yells out: "HELLOOOO?" to determine if anyone's around. If someone does respond she'll ask for a ride to the hospital or complain about an itchy toe or ask for a snack and then promptly forget that someone is there. "HELLLOOOO?"

I guess when she was first admitted she was pretty functional, or relatively functional compared to now where she can do nothing for herself. She used to have a tendancy to smear poop all over her room - the walls, the bed rails, the faucet handles and so on. Give her a minute alone with a bowel movement and it would be displayed everywhere. The staff called her "Poo-caso."