The Most Haunting Last Words From Patients (r/AskReddit)

nurses Avril did what is the most haunting lasts words patients have said to you when I was 19 I was working in a lab at a hospital as a phlegm and I was really really good at drawing blood was cool to her to draw blood from a 12 year old at around 7 a.m. he had spiderweb looking veins all over his body except hands feet and above the neck drew blood no big deal pulled back again to draw a second sample everything was purple he looked up at me and asked me if he could have some water I looked at the attending and he shook his head back quote no and then mouthed back quote we are about to intimate he grabs my hand and two seconds later he went into a rest his parents were outside the room looking in through glass mom was bawling dad was boring everyone to chest compressions for what seemed like 45 minutes he died last thing he said to anyone was to ask for some water from me I left kept my composure got to a private hallway and started bawling entire way back to our office walked into my boss's office and said back quote I quit turns out kid had bacterial meningitis my mom was sent home from the hospital because she was nearing the end and wanted to be home the last few days she was heavily medicated and didn't really communicate at all on Sunday she took off her oxygen mask and said she was going to die tomorrow she put her mask back on and didn't talk anymore I called out of work that was an odd call to make and called the family her twin drove for hours to be there on Monday she died Monday evening with a whole family at her side it has been four years and it still weirds me out after that graduated medical school he was a resident in an inner-city emergency department one night rescue brought in a guy the department view of major health issues major addiction issues and a real scumbag to boot when rescue found him he'd been laying in his own filth for days his chest x-ray was lit up like a Christmas tree with pneumonia as my dad tells it his heart was in even worse shape he and while they'd up in bed this guy still found time to Harris the nurses throw out every name of the book real nice dude so my dad was at the nurse's station when he notices an irregular rhythm on this guy's heart monitor when that tells it he likes to make a repeating em shape with his finger he was going into ventricular tachycardia not a great sign so he headed over my dad stood in the doorway and said hey buddy how do you feel and the guy looks him in the face and yelled with my hands you jerk off and then he died obligatory not a nurse but my great-uncle's last words were about having to catch the train my grandpa's last words were about getting on the ship my dad's last words were about making his flight I've told everyone I've ever dated to wake me the fuck up if I ever start talking in my sleep about transportation not a nurse but we had a guy who was in a major MVA his left arm was severed above the elbow and he was circling the drain his blood pressure was tanking pulse was starting to fade and he asked me about his doc that had been in the vehicle with him asked me if his dog was okay I didn't really answer him as the dog was dead and I didn't want to put him in any more distress than he was already in we landed a helicopter and I should you not we were about 30 seconds from loading him into the helicopter when he coded if you know anything about traumatic CPR there is virtually no chance that they will survive especially without deficits maybe like a one two percent chance I can't remember the exact number anyway we worked him got him loaded back into the ambulance and made the 35 minute plus transport to the trauma center through rush hour traffic got him into the trauma Bay the doctor said they were going to do one more round and if there was no improvement they were going to call it which they did so the last thing the guy said was make sure my dog's okay ultimately he died from internal hemorrhaging which there's nothing we could really do in the pre-hospital setting for him if we have to exhale something like that we cold fused it but it's a toss-up whether it will help this guard the point he was at actual nurse here the superstition is that patients will feel a sense of impending doom when they are going to die sometimes everything looks great on paper then they say I think I'm gonna die and then 12 hours later they're lifeless the first time this happened to me it was at the end of a crazy 12 hour shift where my patient had gotten progressively worse from mildly sick to dead when I walked on that evening he looked me in the eye and told me he was dying he was just on a touch of blood-pressure and dialysis support we did all the scans or the lab work but nothing could explain why he was tanking so fast and then right before he died 12 hours later he grabbed my hand looked me in the eye and said I told you so has happened a few other times but that was the creepiest not the very last words that I found him quite unsettling a few years ago my best friend lost her fight with cancer her mother had also died of cancer when my friend was 21 I helped care for my friend right to the end so she could be home instead of in hospital or Hospice and I was there when she died about an hour or two before that she started getting very agitated and asking for some very specific things some buttons of a certain color a particular item of clothing a few other things her sister realized that she was asking for things her mother had been wearing or had in the room when she died and got very upset and told her that she didn't need them it was okay without them my friend looked at her and said don't worry mum's telling me how to die she was seeing her long deceased mother and thought she needed the same setting before she could die I assumed that it was a hallucination she'd been having them for a couple of days at that point after her pain meds were increased but it was very unnerving to witness and seem different to the other hallucinations she'd been having maybe she really did see her mother that moment certainly brought me closer to believing there might be an afterlife than religion ever did not a nurse but had a kid who was just standing on a sidewalk in a bad neighborhood drive-by shooting which of course missed their target and hit this kid and and older gentleman older guy was Derek kid got hit in the arm once and chest twice barely clinging to life only thing we ever heard him say before he went unconscious was how much pain he was in and that he didn't want to die which a few minutes later happened I've never worked so hard on a part before or since partner quit the next day and I'm still going 13 years later had an elderly woman who was intubated and sedated when you have a patient who is sedated you turn down their sedation and try to wake them up kind of every morning to test their readiness to come off the ventilator she never really woke up her adult son was distraught he was her next of kin and he had to decide if he was going to take her off the ventilator or keep trying he agreed to take her off the vent the next day I was in her room later that day and I was chatting with her like she could hear me when suddenly she responded she made a purposeful nod I was startled to say the least I took her hand and tried to figure out how to explain to her what was happening she was dying of cancer she was failing her Wiens and we plan to take her off the vent tomorrow to die with her son by her side and I asked is that okay she nodded do you want me to call your son and tell you that you love him she nodded I wish I could remember what we talked about next did I pray with her did I comfort her I don't remember but I do remember calling her son and telling him that his mom knew she was ready and that she loved him I worked as a CNA in a nursing home for two years when I was in nursing school we had patients and hospice frequently most of them at the end just peacefully slipped away we had one gentleman who was always just if he wasn't trying to grab it my behind he was yelling at me over something I couldn't help like the lights in the hallway or his room at snoring he used to change his TV every time I came in his room so we could watch Shark Week and trashy reality shows he got a very diagnosis and went downhill really really fast over the course of a week or so and we called his family they were on their way but they wouldn't be there for a while so I stayed with him the first night that we all kind of knew he didn't have much longer he was panicking he wouldn't settle down he kept saying help me and there was nothing I could do I just held his hand and told him over and over he wasn't alone he was like that for two or three days before he slipped into a coma it still breaks my heart I think about him looking at me that way in frantically asking for help then telling me he loved me then asking for help again I wish there was something I could have done I've seen death plenty of times but I've never seen that before or since I hope I never have to I have had several elderly patients tell me they're long dead relative we'll be coming by to get them at a specific time every single patient that has told me that has died at the exact time the patient said they would I've also learned to take note when a patient said he or she is going home tomorrow especially when you know that patient isn't going home tomorrow saddest my favorite patients I had been seeing for years she was in the end stages of liver failure one morning she didn't recognize me this is a patient who knows me well she knew my child's name my dog's name we have a very long history I cried when I saw her labs she died very quickly and all I could do was hold her husband's hand and pray for her it was so sad she was only 40 had two young children I see her husband every once in a one in town he seems so sad every time I see him I've posted about this before I worked as a home hospice RN for a couple of years we had a couple on service and they were the sweetest we assumed the husband would pass first but his wife actually went first he deteriorated very very quickly he died days later right before he took his last breath the door to their house opened and he said come on dear they loved each other so much I'm not sure I believe in an afterlife but I hope they're together they weren't last words but words spoken in a shocking lucid moment I was helping a patient in my rehab unit to bed she had profound dementia and mostly babbled incoherent nonsensical sentences I just nodded and pretended to converse with her which she enjoyed this night though she stopped and abruptly looked at me and said sternly Tempus Fugit remember that it's important i just grinned and laughed a bit and then got her to bed i looked up the meaning later it's always interesting to me that the most common thing my patients use their lucid moments for is to tell me the things they want me must to know about life I was working on a pediatric cardiac intensive care unit and we had just admitted a toddler from the addition she had just beaten cancer that wasn't feeling too great they got an echo that showed severe cardiomyopathy most likely from the chimo which we caught too late as we were tucking her into the Saku the docs let her mum know how sick she was and mom started losing it mum was frantically calling her husband to come to the hospital a SAP the toddler was still pretty with it to this point and asked her mom mommy why are you crying her heart started giving out within the next hour and she died while we were trying to get her on to bypass her mom's whales still haunt me to this day not a human nurse but I once worked as a vet's assistant I hope it's okay that I'm writing this here this memory still haunts me and it's the reason why I changed jobs because I couldn't bear it anymore we needed to euthanize a very sick and old poodle he was the poodle of a very old lady she held my hand cried and asked me why can't you euthanize me too I have no one my husband died before me my child died before me and now my dog I have absolutely no one I just want to die why can't I get euthanized too I don't want to live anymore please that's over ten years ago but it still makes me cry and I know it's necessary to put animals to sleep when they are suffering and can't be saved but it was too hard for me I was an emotional mess after working in the vet practice I can't even imagine working as a nurse or working in a Children's Hospital I'm too sensitive I don't remember what his exact last words were nor am I a nurse that I remember the most meaningful thing my grandfather did for me before he passed he was suffering from a severe cancer all over his body and he had refused treatment since it was already everywhere when they found it and it was his third time getting cancer so at his deathbed he could barely open his eyes and couldn't speak but one thing he could do as I cried and told him how much I loved him was squeeze my hand it was his way of telling me he heard me and loved me too I will never forget him as long as I live I love you grandpa's Rock so hope you're playing your guitar in heaven

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Length: 13min 52sec (832 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 02 2019