padalyn
Truth is stranger than fiction - you really can't
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Hello all - Since you all have been here for me through all the rough times of my mothers motor vehicle accident, I thought you would like the last chapter in that story.
After mom came home from rehab she has been doing very well. Until this morning.
I got a phone call on my cell while at work. I typically don't answer the phone while working as a nurse, since we yell at families and patients all the time about using them. The area code struck me, and since there were only 4 drunks in the ED I answered it. A small childlike voice asked is she was speaking to Cayla. I replied yes, fully expecting that someone was pulling my leg. She explained (as her voice became more confident) that she was a nurse at my Gramma's nursing home in Missouri. She told me Vi (Gramma) wasn't doing very well, and since my number was a call anytime at night number she called me. She explained that she is a new grad RN (about a month I think) and she "isn't very good at this". I asked her to tell me exactly what was happening, told her to do it like giving report to oncoming staff. She told me an earfull.
I asked if there was any way a phone could be gotten into the room for my mother to speak to Vi. She said yes, they have a new cordless phone. I called my mom (imagine - waking one's parent's at 345am...payback for all those 2pm calls!)
Once awake my mom wanted to call Vi, and did so. I hung up with the nursing home and tried to work. Around 5:15 or so I was really feeling funky (no good word, just a gut feeling of gotta call) - so I called the home. I spent almost 8 minutes on hold (I usually hang up after a minute - but something told me to hang on). Finally the nurse came to the phone and told me that Gramma had passed away - WHILE I WAS ON HOLD. It was like I knew what was happening. Freaky.
Well, I called mom, told her. cried for a while at work. (no patient's luckily) called Tiggr33 - we both cried for a while more. Then I got a patient. An elderly lady who looked like she was dieing. I couldn't do it. I told my charge nurse who re-assigned the patient and sent me home.
I am most likely not going to be around for a couple of days. I have to make an emergency trip to Potosi Missouri. I have to fly out there and then I return on Friday. I may not be posting while I am out there.
Cayla
After mom came home from rehab she has been doing very well. Until this morning.
I got a phone call on my cell while at work. I typically don't answer the phone while working as a nurse, since we yell at families and patients all the time about using them. The area code struck me, and since there were only 4 drunks in the ED I answered it. A small childlike voice asked is she was speaking to Cayla. I replied yes, fully expecting that someone was pulling my leg. She explained (as her voice became more confident) that she was a nurse at my Gramma's nursing home in Missouri. She told me Vi (Gramma) wasn't doing very well, and since my number was a call anytime at night number she called me. She explained that she is a new grad RN (about a month I think) and she "isn't very good at this". I asked her to tell me exactly what was happening, told her to do it like giving report to oncoming staff. She told me an earfull.
I asked if there was any way a phone could be gotten into the room for my mother to speak to Vi. She said yes, they have a new cordless phone. I called my mom (imagine - waking one's parent's at 345am...payback for all those 2pm calls!)
Once awake my mom wanted to call Vi, and did so. I hung up with the nursing home and tried to work. Around 5:15 or so I was really feeling funky (no good word, just a gut feeling of gotta call) - so I called the home. I spent almost 8 minutes on hold (I usually hang up after a minute - but something told me to hang on). Finally the nurse came to the phone and told me that Gramma had passed away - WHILE I WAS ON HOLD. It was like I knew what was happening. Freaky.
Well, I called mom, told her. cried for a while at work. (no patient's luckily) called Tiggr33 - we both cried for a while more. Then I got a patient. An elderly lady who looked like she was dieing. I couldn't do it. I told my charge nurse who re-assigned the patient and sent me home.
I am most likely not going to be around for a couple of days. I have to make an emergency trip to Potosi Missouri. I have to fly out there and then I return on Friday. I may not be posting while I am out there.
Cayla
