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so it was it had to be 2:30 in the
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morning and I couldn't believe what I
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saw when I looked in the patients room I
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I couldn't believe it hi there if you're
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new to my channel I'm Dr Andrea ' Conor
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hear more of my real life medical spooky
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stories that have happened to me or you
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know maybe paranormal I'm not sure
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but so this happened years ago uh I was
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working in a hospital in Phoenix Arizona
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and I a pretty new nurse and when you're
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a new nurse they now I went to nursing
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school before I went to medical school
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and when you're a new nurse they put you
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on night shifts and the typical shift is
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7:00 p.m. to 7:00
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a.m. so uh one night you know regular
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evening I get to work they assign my
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eight patients which is a lot for a med
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surge floor because you could have
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anything walk in the door we have you
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liter you name it we could have car
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accidents lung cancer recent heart
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attack even though those would probably
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be on Cardiology unless Telemetry or um
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that unit was full then they would come
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to meds surge um postsurgical patients I
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mean you name it we'd get it so I get my
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patient assignment I'm going to each of
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my patients and the one patient I had he
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was so ill so it's still early in the
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evening and that's when I try to at
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least go to all my patients room
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introduce myself see if they need
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anything right away and I let them know
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I'll be back because then I've got to go
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and do their full assessment and give
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them their meds for the night shift but
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I go to each one real quick in case
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they've been waiting since the day shift
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nurse and anyway whatever this is how we
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do it in the hospital at least how we
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did it when I worked there so I go in
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the patient's room he's so sick and if
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you've ever been in the hospital um
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sometimes if you're debilitated because
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you're so ill that you can't get out of
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bed and the danger of that is getting a
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bed sore and I've seen bed sores get so
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bad you can literally put your entire
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fist into the soar usually it's in their
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lower back CU where that's where the
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spine hits the bed and you could drop a
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softball in some of these bed sores I've
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seen it's horrific um but uh they're
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extremely painful too and so one way we
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avoid that is using a special medical
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bed that has air flowing through it and
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the air kind of goes in and out so it's
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constantly shifting the patient forward
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and back and side to side to keep all
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the pressure points off the mattress so
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they don't get a bed sore and then he
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was naked and of course cuz that's how
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we do it when someone's really ill and
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can't get out of bed um and sometimes
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we'll use you know a Foley catheter and
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that's a way to urinate into a tube and
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we even have rectal catheters and so
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usually they have loose stool diarrhea
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they're not eating solid foods and it'll
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actually go into into a rectal tube and
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um exit that way well this patient did
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not have uh any of that he was in kidney
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failure so he wasn't creating any urine
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so there was no Foley catheter and this
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patient hadn't eaten in days because
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they were not even conscious um this
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patient wasn't on hospice because
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sometimes it would happen we would get
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such ill patients in the hospital and
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they would just kind of stay with us
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because they were so ill there was no
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one to go to and um I honestly don't
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know why he was on hospice cuz now that
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I worked hospice like it's so amazing
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but I didn't know any better I was a new
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nurse so unconscious um not eating he's
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on this B bed um and the room was really
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Darkly lit there was nobody with him
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though there was no music in the room so
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I just hope that he was just almost on
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the other side and so I did his vital
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signs I did his assessment I'm doing
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notes um he's got he didn't even have an
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IV though because uh when someone's in
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kidney failure if you're pumping fluids
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into them it's just going to sit there
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and they need dialysis to run those
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fluids off if you're not urinating but
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if you're really end stage I it's just
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torture to push fluids into someone um
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that's hours from passing away and the
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day shift told me this nurse will
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probably pass away tonight he's really
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end stage and so I felt it was my job
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just to make sure you know that he
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appeared comfortable I mean he was
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unconscious in a very deep sleep um so
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you know as I observed his skin it
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looked like he was dry and comfortable
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yes they're naked because we put them on
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a little bit of a pad just in case they
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do urinate or have a little um output
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it's going out a little pad and then we
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can keep them cleaner easier and then
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for them anyway that we're not
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constantly ripping clothes off them and
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putting clothes on them or even a gown
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but sometimes we would just cover them
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with a gown and then put a sheet over it
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and that's how we kind of managed that
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patient so as the night went on I was
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finish seeing my other patients and then
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when after midnight we turn off most of
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the lights in the unit because it's
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nighttime and patients you know our unit
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was the desk was a round circle in the
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middle and the patients were all around
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us kind of like a satellite so as we're
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sitting in the middle desk we could see
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into each room and so we would dim the
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lights and it was really really quiet
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and and I remember one time they told me
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cuz there was like four rooms that were
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at the end of the hallway off to the
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side and you couldn't see into them and
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they're like oh that one last room is
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haunted because the water always keeps
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coming off and on and the lights go on
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and off and and I was like yeah right on
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a separate evening I actually walked
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past there and I heard the water on and
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I don't even think I went in the room to
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turn it off I was like oh well you know
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but so the lights were dim and I'm just
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doing my chart notes and um the night's
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quiet you know see a couple patients in
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between there call lights go off you go
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and take care of them but night shift is
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all about trying to stay alert so you're
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there for your patience so I'm drinking
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my coffee I'm trying to get up and clean
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even though nothing needs to be clean
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just to stay awake I go to sit back down
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and I look in my patient's room the one
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that was really really sick on the
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movable
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bed and there's someone walking in his
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room walking in around his room one
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thing you need to know about a hospital
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is it's open to the public and I know
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we're trying to make it more secure but
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I feel like being in healthcare and
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working in hospital is getting more
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dangerous I know what it was even that
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way when I worked there and I don't work
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in the hospital anymore but uh I thought
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oh my gosh someone's trying to either
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hurt him or Rob him and um I was the
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only one at the desk the other nurses
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were in the patients room cuz you work
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in a team I had one other nurse and a
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nurse assistant with me and so I was
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like oh my gosh and I had to get up and
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like go in his room and see what was
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going on and the patient that had been
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unconscious out of it not responding who
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was supposed to die that night pass away
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he was he was the one walking around
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that room he was up walking around no
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clothes
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on and walking around his room he's like
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where's my bag where's all my things
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completely Lucid walking around his room
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and I'll just call him Mr Jones I'm like
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Mr Jones please Sit down you're going to
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fall because if you're in a bed and you
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haven't been walking for weeks you're
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lit you don't have the muscle strength
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like you're just going to fall and you
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need Physical Therapy it takes three
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days to decondition and patients that
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are bed bound for three days start
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needing physical therapy and I was like
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please please sit down you're going to
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fall um I tried to get him back in the
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bed he wouldn't have it I tried to get
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him sitck down and he was anxious he
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went to the sink and he was washing his
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hands and he's like I need a cup for
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water and he was like you know I gave
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him a cup and he was drinking water
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and just kind of panicking around his
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room and I couldn't leave him alone to
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get someone else because what if he fell
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so I'm trying to hold on to him onto his
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side I'm like please Mr Jones just come
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on and I I can't even remember how I got
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him to calm down I think I got him to
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sit down and um CU in in the hospital we
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have these kind of they're like they're
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almost like Lazy Boy chairs they're like
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recliners I got him to sit in that
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chair and I said okay I'll get your
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stuff just please don't move I'm going
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to get your stuff and be right back so I
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run out of his room I go to get one of
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the other nurses I'm like you're not
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going to believe this Mr Jones is awake
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and he's running around his room looking
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for his stuff and he's drinking water
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and this guy was on Heaven's Door
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like I can't even describe to you what
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he had looked like and I said you have
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to come back and help me and so you know
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she's finishing reation I'm like let me
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help you finish with your patient so we
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can get in his room we finish we go back
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in his room he's back in his bed like
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how I had him out like a light and so
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I'm touching his shoulder and gently
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shaking his arm I'm like Mr Jones Mr
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Jones out like he was when I saw him
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earlier in the evening when he was
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unconscious and doing that really you
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know that kind of deep breath where the
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exhale takes a really long time and um
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not cous small breathing that's happens
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right before you pass where you have
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just very shallow breathing and then
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just just one long
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one and she's like well he's back in bed
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he's out of I'm like I promise you he
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was running around his room he was
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drinking he was talking to me he was
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looking for his things and and she um
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she was a much more experienced nurse
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than I so we went back to the desk and I
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I'm rattled and she said no that happens
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when
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people are about to pass away um they
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kind of get this last wind and
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I want to say and I could be mistaken
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how I'm interpreting this in Chinese
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medicine uh there's a name for it um
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when we we learned to acupuncture they
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it's um I think it's the Yang that
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begins to release that energy and you
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get a second wind and he was completely
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Lucid up walking around drinking like
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you just couldn't believe it and she
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said yeah that sometimes happens and I
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was said I have never seen that before
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and by the way I've never seen it to
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that degree since I I've seen something
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similar which I'll share that other
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story story on another video but I
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couldn't believe it so um I kept
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checking on him my shift goes till 7:00
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a.m. so I'm taking care of patients I go
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in to check on his room he's still out
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and um so I go home and then I show up
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for my shift the next night and they're
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like oh yeah Mr Jones passed
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away I could not believe it so that was
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before I worked hospice and that was the
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strangest thing looking in that
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patient's room and seeing him walk
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around that
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after being just about to pass away so
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thanks for being here and I'll see you
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on the next one
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