I always thought maybe a redemption to be served but this story makes me take a new look at "the big picture" which are the stories I love the most.
A girl on my tour was an administrator in nursing homes for 17 years. The patient in question was dying and on their watch list. He had been on the sex offenders list for as long as they had had one, 20 years, had hepatitis B and C and was suffering from alcohol related dementia. An all-over-not-nice-person.
A nurse called her in one day and said the AC wasn't working in his room. They felt fine but he was sweating profusely and they were changing his sheets every hour. She called the doctor in and he said it was just the way it was. She asked the nurse if she had ever seen anything like it. No, never.
Normally she said a patient will go through a period of a “death rattle”, take a last breath, maybe another one or two and pass. She said she didn't hear it but everyone within ear shot did. He let out a blood curdling scream instead of a last breath before he left. Makes you think.
A girl on my tour was an administrator in nursing homes for 17 years. The patient in question was dying and on their watch list. He had been on the sex offenders list for as long as they had had one, 20 years, had hepatitis B and C and was suffering from alcohol related dementia. An all-over-not-nice-person.
A nurse called her in one day and said the AC wasn't working in his room. They felt fine but he was sweating profusely and they were changing his sheets every hour. She called the doctor in and he said it was just the way it was. She asked the nurse if she had ever seen anything like it. No, never.
Normally she said a patient will go through a period of a “death rattle”, take a last breath, maybe another one or two and pass. She said she didn't hear it but everyone within ear shot did. He let out a blood curdling scream instead of a last breath before he left. Makes you think.