I had a patient that had everything but the kitchen sink wrong. From various psychological and psychosocial issues to an extremely advanced form of cancer to an advanced stage of an autoimmune disorder…I saw it all.
It was interesting to see the social stigma when it came to the autoimmune disorder. Some people refused to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘death’
Week 2 of Oncology
September 20, 2009Oncology Floor
September 11, 2009I spent this last week on the Oncology unit. I had to be at my school so that we could carpool at 0545. What a shock to my system! I’m a complete night owl and waking up early is always difficult. Waking up and being ready to work that early is even harder.
Oncology went better [...]
Group of Five
June 28, 2009They say when a death occurs, it always comes in groups of three or five.
Whoever said that got it right on the money. I’ve always seen this to be true…at least when working in the PICU.
We’ve lost 4 in the last 15 hours. Two were expected and the families withdrew. Two were unexpected. One was [...]
A long day
August 30, 2008We lost two of our kids today in the PICU. One was only seven months and the other was a mere three weeks.
I didn’t know the latter too well, but the former- I loved him. He was the sweetest baby with the softest hair. I loved going in and letting him hold my fingers and [...]
