Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Angel tonight

Three days ago, we picked up a bounce-back patient. Three days ago, her family decided that they wanted to withdraw care. Yesterday night, her daughter from Florida arrived at the hospital.

Today, we held a family meeting.

And today, we started a fentanyl drip and took her off the machines. Two hours later, she was no longer with us.

I didn't know her personally, but it was still incredibly sad.