Give me that drink!

I was completing my Practicum at my local Hospital. One day a confused 70 something PT came in on request of her family to rule out CVA, UTI, ect.

I was doing something across the hall when I heard loud gagging from behind the curtain. I glove up and walk into the room where this old lady is gagging horribly, I reach for a basin and just as I put it under her chin she vomits up cigarette butts! I guess she had wandered outside and found a styrofoam cup that other PT`s had been using as an ashtray and drank it! At this point I am doing my best not to vomit with her, but as soon as she reached for the cup again and said “Give me that drink I cant seem to get this taste out of my mouth” I knew I wasn’t the person to be helping her.