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I guess almost everything turned green. For those of you that have never seen the after death experience, you don't know what you missed. It only took minutes before the color change started. Lime green skin. wow I am telling you I was shocked. I went out to the desk to get co workers to check because I thought I was seeing things. And then I had to tell the family that there loved one was green and don't be shocked. Yea right.
birder101
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Here's one for you all. Has this ever happened to any of you.
When working in a hospital, it was common practice to put green food coloring in the tube feeding solution of our tube fed patients. This was done so that we could tell if they were aspirating. I had a patient expire one time that had been on the green tube feedings. Minutes after her death, she began to turn a lovely shade of green.
I am not kidding about this. The family was very upset when they went in to view the body. They returned after the funeral to tell us that the undertaker had a terrible time preparing the body because of this. We later found out that a couple of other people had the same response with their death. We switched brands of food coloring and it stopped. I must say that in 12 years of hospital nursing, this was one of the most shocking experiences that I ever had. Course now, I think that is was pretty funny. Not from the families perspective, but from my shock and dismay.
Betsy:p