I didn't do NUTHIN', I swear!!!

[TazziRN]

I just got a call from the HH nurse on call this weekend, who also happens to be my preceptor. She got a call from the answering service that a woman wanted to talk with a nurse about her husband, and then the woman called back a moment later and said "Never mind, my husband just died."

He was my patient!!! I was treating him for a bedsore, I swear!!! Other than late-stage Alzheimer's, he was fine when I last saw him!!

[rnmomtobe2010]

You have my sympathy.!! Be strong an keep your head up!!

[TazziRN, RN]

a little off the subject but, how do you like the hh arena from er? i am considering it for my future. i am presently in icu. i am sorry to hear about your patient...

i love it! i have definitely found my current niche, and this will be my new career.

sometimes fatal cardiac and vascular problems dont announce themselves, they just happen. by the grace of god he wont have to go back to the alzheimers wing, his wife wont have to visit him just to have him not know her or think she is an old neighbor. she wont have to spend her days worrying whether he has eaten at least one meal instead of being taken to a table to wait for his turn to get another bit of a meal. and most of all he didnt suffer.

he died at home. his wife took great care of him, with help from her son. she was, however, talking to me about having him placed in a veterans' home. since there isn't one in this area, i had started to do some research for her. we never got that far.

ditto to what everyone else said...he had a terminal illness...you didnt "do" anything but make his last days better....

i remember how difficult it is to lose a pt in hh...

heck...i'm doing telephonic cm and i still tear up when i hear that one of my members has passed...

i'm not gonna tell you it gets any easier....but you will find ways to cope.

i often make a call to the family or send a card to extend my sympathies.

i can see that you've still got your sense of humor about you....nuttin wrong with that....

hugs to you tazzi

i'm going to call her on monday.

i know i didn't miss anything, i was just shocked. i saw him last on monday, and i got too busy on thursday to see him so i asked one of our lvns to check on him for me. she called me afterwards to check in with me and from what she said he seemed fine.

[leslie :-D]

it usually makes me smile, when i hear of an unexpected death.

they're typically quick, don't-know-what-hit-you type of thing.

and esp where alzheimer's can strip you of your last shred of dignity, i'm glad to hear he did it his way.:balloons:

leslie