Super gratifying job for a nurse, surprisingly. The DNRs in my experience, always know when it’s time. He gave me this look and pause like he knew. “‘Get home safe, little one.’ It wasn’t what he said-he said the same thing to me any time I had him as a patient for the evening. I told him I was leaving for the night and that I’d see him the following day, and he looked me in the eyes and smiled SO genuinely and said, ‘You look like an angel.’ I thought it was so sweet because he had not seemed lucid in weeks. I finished my medication rounds for the evening and went to see him before I left. We would have long chats and joke around with each other, but in the last two weeks of his life, he stopped talking completely and didn’t really acknowledge conversation directed at him at all. My very favorite patient had been declining pretty steadily so I was checking on him very frequently. “I’m a nurse and was previously working at an assisted living community on the dementia/Alzheimer’s unit. His last words before he died were ‘Why is this happening to me?’ It still haunts me years later.” One minute he was joking around with us and the next bright red blood was spewing out of his mouth. We had a patient who had a pulmonary artery rupture (a rare, but known complication of a Swan-Ganz catheter). We all just looked at each other for a second, then just proceeded with triage.” When we got there the doc asked the translators what he said, it was ‘the spiders are eating papa.’ The first kid that we took off the ‘ambulance’ and put on the stretcher to carry into our triage tent said (more like screamed) something in Urdu. There was a very serious school bus crash when a road gave was and a dozen kids were killed. “I was in the army in Pakistan to for humanitarian support after an earthquake. That room creeped me out for a long time after that.” We asked her to describe what she was seeing and she said ‘he’s in all black, and he’s got a top hat on.’ Then she whispered, ‘and his eyes are red’ while her eyes moved across the room to directly behind the CNA, like she was watching him move closer to us. The CNA looked, but there was no one there. When asked why, she said ‘the man in black is here.’ She looked in the corner of the room. “A nice old lady who told my CNA she wanted to wear all white. “He’s in all black, and he’s got a top hat on. We know in the medical field that these situations are provoked by a cascade of neurotransmitters in disarray due to tissue and organ failure but I sometimes have my doubts and perhaps we are seeing more than we are led to believe.”ħ. He said, ‘I see a bright light…Horses…No eyes…No…NO…NOOO!’ as he’d loudly yell, at this point he was crashing when he suddenly woke up, looked up and with his last breath he said ‘I understand…’ and he died. “ER physician here, had heard many last words from patients but the creepiest one has to be of a man who was on his last breaths as he succumbed to renal failure. “I see a bright light…Horses…No eyes…No…NO…NOOO!” I got there it was just me and him before he went to CT and he looked at me and said ‘Am I dead? I’m in hell.’ #HER LAST WORDS ROCK CODE#“I’m a lab person, and I had to go to the ER to draw blood from a code stroke patient that just came in, BC the EMTs couldn’t get it. “I once worked as a nurse and I had a gentleman who didn’t want a wash one morning and said to me ‘the next time you wash me I will be dead.’ I thought he was just being morbid like the old guys are and then he asked to his wife and got quite agitated, I went to continue with the other patients and I got a call to help with someone who died…turns out he was right.” “The next time you wash me I will be dead.” The police were notified and they did search some woods behind the man’s house but never found anything.”Ĥ. Not sure if this is ‘creepy’ but a man on his deathbed kept repeating ‘the body is in the woods next to the oak tree’ over and over until he passed. “The body is in the woods next to the oak tree.” I didn’t sleep that night and I really hope her soul found some rest.”ģ. She yelled, ‘Fire! Fire! There’s fire everywhere!’ She died a few hours later, quite suddenly. She shook her head and said, ‘It’s too late for that.’Ī few days later, she was eating her supper and started screaming. I was taken aback and asked her if she wanted to talk with the priest we have on staff. “I had an old lady flag me down in the hallway a few days before she died and with her emaciated face and bulging eyes, she said, ‘You know where I’m going.’ I asked her what she meant and she repeated herself. “My grandfather on his deathbed said, ‘they have no eyes’ still gives me chills.”Ģ.
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