[Leilah75_RN]

i had an experience in the ward where i used to work as an RN. it was the last 4 days of mystay on that hospital, 7:30am-9:30pm shift, when i received a post burr hole client due to acute subdural hemorrhage. He is 87yo. he is a very intelligent man according to his family. typical old english chap who admires to use old english slangs. he a very peaceful man. but at around 7pm, he suddenly changed. he is trying to get out of bed, fighting and cursing everybody (hardcore cursing!) and spitting at everyone. his family witness it and were teary eyed with whats happening.he is treathened that someone will get him and kill him . he needs to stay flat on bed as per doctor's advice for 24hrs. he created a lot of noise, made his roommates really mad at him. it is contraindicated to give him something to alter his LOC since the first 24 hrs is very crucial for assessment. in other words, he gave the night shift a very hard time. he is very calm when i arrived the next day. i stayed with him. he asked me what happened. he knows what he did apparently. he apologized. and he has been praising everyone for the job well done that despite what he did, everyone is still willing to take care of him and are still friendly with him. at 3pm visiting time, he was with his family and again he have been telling them stories about what he did a day before. and how he regretted doing it. and now he feels better. his family and friends were really happy about the development. he's feeling well and chatty. back on his old self again they said. all i have hearded is praise from him the whole day! asking for a cup of tea every 2 hours. saying hello at everyone. then his family left at around 7:30pm. since he doesnt have anyone to talk with, he closed his eyes. i was always inside the room and was chatting with other patients. its a 6 bedded room just infront of the nurses station. when i was delegating my Nursing assistant who to take vital signs, i noticed that his breathing has suddenly become very deep and almost less than 8breaths a minute. then it stopped. immediately i called for help. code blue team arrived in less than 3 minutes on the dot! pronounced dead at 8:30 ++pm! his family is terrified! they wer just talking to him an hour ago and now he is gone! made me think we will never know what will happen next really!

[Leilah75_RN]

another story is about 1 of our patient who is aged 97 years old! (yes he is 97 and in the hospital where i used to work we still operate on 100++ y/o patient) he transferred from neuro ICU as DNR (do not resuscitate) state. he stayed in ICU for 2 weeks due to sub-arachnoid hemorrhage but bec of his age, he didnt do well. his 95 years old wife always comes to visit him everyday. they have no kids an no close relatives. basically, they only have each other. he came with us comatose. they have removed the all the breathing tubes and no O2. all he has is IVF and continuous IV pain killer. as usual, with his condition, every shift we are always expecting that he will soon go. his breathing is very labored. all we can do with him is to make him comfortable. and within 2 weeks he stayed what he is. still alive. still comatose. no stimuli to anything. and everyone has given up except his wife. she never misses a day to visit him. she stays on her wheelchair and hold his hand, kiss it and tells him stories and chat with him altho she knows he will not respond. one day, the wife asked if she can stay with him for the night. he is on a private room and we arranged for another bed for his wife to use. that night she stayed with him for the first time since he has been brought to the hospital. at around 6am, he died. with his hands on his wife's hands. his wife is still sleeping when it happened. we woke her up around 7:30 am to inform her about what happened. she didnt say a word. we were all teary eyed. he just waited for her to stay longer with him.

[remrimsgems]

I've worked in a hospice before....

I used to admit dead bodies into to the morgue while working in the pathology department at night.

I think that most of the paranormal are true.

But my opinion is that those little kids or deceased family members "visiting" them etc are purely Satan's device (demons) to gain their trust....

The Bible says clearly that we are not to communicate with the "spirits" or the dead.

Hebrews 9:27.." And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:"

Also try to investigate the story of Lazarus in the New Testament.

$02.

When I was a nursing student in '75 we admitted a little old lady to a 4 bed ward with CHF and we were rotating tourniquets due to peripheral edema. She improved and the tourniquet tx was dc'd. Her cardiologist said she was improving and could go home soon but she told me that she was going to die. Being the "Nancy Nurse" that I was at the time I reassured her that she was not going to die but that she was well and would be going home soon. After my break that same day I found my patient (who was a no-code) lying in bed with the Bible open, staring at the cross on the wall in front of her and dead as a doornail. Just goes to show you that with all our advances in medicine we don't know everything.

[Mulan]

I have never seen or heard anything unusual, with family or with patients

[Bella Donna]

In June 2000, my mother divorced my dad after 28 years and took off to Louisiana. MY sister and her (Guy) friend talked her how into having a gastric bypass while there. BIG BIG MISTAKE! I received a call to get there immediately, this was 6 months after the surgery, so I took off out there. I was Horrified so I called in thre troops ( brother & sister) and got mom back home. Well we made sure she got the best care possible. Come to find out she had been butchered by the Dr. in La. Nothing could be done to help her. Now dont get me wrong.. she lost weight, she lost down from 386lbs. down to 89lbs before her death. She was on TPN. I will explain later.
Well everything we could do for her we did. I lived in the hospital with her for around 7 months. On November 15, 2003, the Dr. came in and asked to speak to me in the hallway (which was weird, normally he tpoke to me in the room with mom) but anyway this is what he said to me exactly like this. PACK YOUR STUFF AND CALL YOUR FAMILY SHE IS GONNA DIE TODAY! Now mind you this was at 8am, I was horrified. Well of course I asked him to make sure she did not suffer. BIG MISTAKE! They gave her a shot, then 2 hours later another shot, and 2 hours later another shot, and another shot at 2pm. My mom died at 2:34pm.
I truly truly believe that those shots killed her, and I have lived in total hell ever since this happened. I feel like I killed my mother. So I am against the Gastric Bypass surgery. I know it has done miracles, it worked for my sister. Tjhe hardest thing is losing my mom, I miss her daily. I miss her seeing my new home, and my kids grow up, and my acheiving going to nursing school, so much i miss. Also my mom was only 54 years young when she went to live with the Lord. But I Love you mom and miss you daily. Also, I am so sorry for killing you! Please forgive me.

[iceyspots]

Originally Posted by earle58

gosh,as a hospice nurse i have dozens of memorable stories/endings.

one of the most poignant is a female pt who had ca w/mets to her brain, bones, lungs. she was extremely confused.
her husband would faithfully visit qd and she did not recognize him.
a couple of weeks later, her husband was admitted as a hospice pt.
they were in different rooms and his was very aggressive and his time was ltd. he had these fungating wounds that were grossly infected and painful. he insisted on seeing his wife.
we put his wife on a stretcher and wheeled her in his room.
he told his wife that he'd be leaving soon and wanted her w/him.
she just stared into his eyes, not a word spoken but seemed to understand what he was saying.
he passed away that noc; the noc shift did not wake his wife up to tell her.
the next morning, she too, had passed. prior to her death, she hadn't shown any signs of an imminent death.

not one of us had thought this to be coincidental.
she understood what her dh had said and per his wish, she followed him shortly thereafter.

leslie

wow.. they must have been really connnected... good story thanks for sharing

remrimgems, as a Christian I totally agree with your statememt about "visits" from beyond not being from God. He does not contradict His Word and as the apostle Paul warned, even if an angel comes with a different gospel we are not to believe it. Excellent site you included that explains the Bible doctrine on this subject. Thanks!

[KaroSnowQueen]

Two stories from my nursing home days:
First was a woman who had been married to a prominent businessman. Very active in the community and church. She became acutely ill but not enough for hospitalization. She became hysterical one day screaming that the devil was coming to get her. They put her in a recliner and put her by the desk as she didn't want to be alone. She died the next morning, still saying the devil was coming for her.

Second story:
Little old lady actively dying. Family arguing over her bed, loudly. I put them all out of the room. Daughter comes to me crying, asking to be let back in. She came in the room and takes mama by the hand. Mama opens her eyes, looks up past the daughter at the ceiling, smiles the most beautiful wonderful smile, and dies.

[kmarie724]

I don't have a personal story to share, but we read a great book on this subject in school last semester called Final Gifts by Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley.