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Haven't talked about nursing in several months. Today I was thinking
about some unusual events that take place that have no real explanation. Being a nurse for over 30 years you met some unforgettable people and hear stories that stick with you. I worked with a nurse who was from England. She was a joy to work with. Not only was she an excellent nurse but a very interesting woman. We were having a quiet evening one night and she loved to talk of the hospitals where she worked in England. On the pediatric floor, a nurse accidently gave a child too much morphine and it killed the child. The nurse was over wrought by this incident and commited suicide. Whenever a nurse was fixing to give a child morphine, she would feel a tap on her shoulder. Now everyone believed that it was the nurse who commited suicide warning the nurse to double check the dosage of the morphine before giving it a child. Another story but I cannot remember who told it. A woman was badly disfigured from a car wreck. No amount of surgery could me her look normal again. Needless to say the woman was depressed for years. She died in the hospital probably from natural causes. When any woman was admitted to the hospital room she died in, the patients complained of no mirrors in the room. When the nurse brought a mirror into the room for a patient to use, it broke into a million pieces when the patient looked into it. The nurse said that happens when a mirror is brought into the room. Now I know this story is true because I have seen it. We had a wonderful lady that every employee on our floor just loved. She was ever so kind and always had a smile even when she was in dire pain. You could see the love she had for her husband through the glimmer of her eyes when he came to visit. She often told us that she hoped we would never forget her when she died. When she did die, it was a sad day for all of us. Before her death, she ordered a plaque to hang on the hall wall. It told of the devotion of her doctors and nurses and her high praise of them. She always looked on the bright side of things.......you know every cloud has a silver lining sort of thing. On days when you were so busy that you met yourself coming around the corner or when we lost 2 or 3 patients in a shift's time, this lady's plaque fell off the wall. Perhaps it was her way of telling us that things would get better. She let us know that she was watching out for us. |
Lee
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