I'm having a rough night...

[kherrmann3]

I just had a crappy day. I work at a nursing home, and the residents have been dropping like flies. Two gone today. One of them was a cool little old Hungarian guy that I really liked and got along with. We've had three of them go in the last week. There have been twelve on my unit since I joined in January. It's just depressing... I helped with the postmortem cares of my little Hungarian guy today. It just left me feeling... creepy...

Sorry if this is considered inappropriate, but I needed to get that out...

 

[DeniseJP]

Sorry to hear about your tough day.

One of the nursing homes I visited with Mercy had a big "turnover" a month after we did the Animal Planet show in 2003 - a month later the activities director said she lost most of the folks we visited out on the porch who appeared in the show. That was tough and we only visited every month...much harder for you who care for the folks on a daily basis.

:hug:

Denise

 

[Bo B Bunny]

ya know, it is very hard and it's sad, but try to think of it like this..... Your little hungarian gentleman wouldn't want family to care for him after death... and he probably wouldn't want a total stranger. He would be thankful and pleased that you were there. A kind heart that had some kind of friendship with him....

I'm sorry for the losses...... I can't imagine the saddness you deal with, but try very hard to remember that we need people like you to help us in these matters.

 

[fwilson675]

im new and dont worry. im a really good friend of irishlops, who has to go up to the royal hospital in belfast. its a long story. i feel the same way because my dog died and i had that same dog for 13 years, since i was born:cry2:cry2:cry2:cry2:cry2:cry2:cry1::cry1::tears2:

 

[kherrmann3]

Well, I slept like crap last night. I wasn't having nightmares, but I just was unsettled. I kept waking up and couldn't get back to sleep. I just wasn't getting to that "deep sleep" cycle like I normally would. I kept opening my eyes and expecting to see him standing there.

The last time I saw a corpse, I had nightmares. This time, it was just a light, restless sleep. Maybe in time it won't bother me as much. I think I was more upset over the fact that seeing a dead body did not disturb me as much as I thought it should. I don't know, maybe it was just a weird thought.

A girl I work with (and am friends with), Tanya, said that "Marge" visited her two nights ago. Tanya had a dream where Marge came in and said goodbye to her. Weird thing is, Tanya's boyfriend saw something weird in the room, too. Her dream was around 3 AM, and she told me about it yesterday just as our shift was starting. The nurse walked in and told us Marge passed away around 3 AM that morning! Tanya was very close to Marge and was upset about it all day. That was just something creepy... Thought I'd share...

I'm doing OK today. I'm not upset or anything, just kind of pouty because of the icky weather.

 

[irishlops]

fwilson675 wrote:

im new and dont worry. im a really good friend of irishlops, who has to go up to the royal hospital in belfast. its a long story. i feel the same way because my dog died and i had that same dog for 13 years, since i was born:cry2:cry2:cry2:cry2:cry2:cry2:cry1::cry1::tears2:

yes fiona its a long story.... and i want you to be quite anout it...

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right. i am very sorry. i lost my granny. i did not know her that well but i miss her aswell. i hope you are coping welll