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tinhuvielartanisUncle Michael was just too much for Janice to handle by herself, so she called us around 3 AM, asking Aunt Tudi if she'd come down to the hospital to help. Like Willie Nelson, we were on the road again, and now I'm home alone. If I had some after shave, I'd apply it to my face and then run screaming through the house.
Anyway, by the time we got to the hospital and acquired the necessary pass to get into the heart center, it was after 4 and Janice had had to request sedation for Uncle Michael. He was looped out when we made it to his room. Who knew that a sodium deficiency could flip someone out so badly? I told Janice she needed to buy the man a salt lick.
What's so weird is that he's in the same hospital room Granny was in when she had her last heart attack and was then moved to CCU where she passed away. Granny was between worlds about 36 hours before she died and, during that time, she called Aunt Tudi "Stella." We don't know why. We knew no Stellas and none are in the family, so it was totally off the wall. On the dry marker board where the nurses write their names for the patients' convenience, it was written clear as day: "Your nurse is Stella." So Uncle Michael is in Granny's pre-death room and his nurse's name is the name Granny called Aunt Tudi hours before she died.
I'm fairly freaked out by all of this and just can't sleep. By the time I get to the doctor for my physical, I'm going to look like an extra from Dawn of the Dead. Hopefully that will work in my favour and the doc will believe me when I tell her that my left side is truly falling off and I'm sick of being in pain.
Anyway, by the time we got to the hospital and acquired the necessary pass to get into the heart center, it was after 4 and Janice had had to request sedation for Uncle Michael. He was looped out when we made it to his room. Who knew that a sodium deficiency could flip someone out so badly? I told Janice she needed to buy the man a salt lick.
What's so weird is that he's in the same hospital room Granny was in when she had her last heart attack and was then moved to CCU where she passed away. Granny was between worlds about 36 hours before she died and, during that time, she called Aunt Tudi "Stella." We don't know why. We knew no Stellas and none are in the family, so it was totally off the wall. On the dry marker board where the nurses write their names for the patients' convenience, it was written clear as day: "Your nurse is Stella." So Uncle Michael is in Granny's pre-death room and his nurse's name is the name Granny called Aunt Tudi hours before she died.
I'm fairly freaked out by all of this and just can't sleep. By the time I get to the doctor for my physical, I'm going to look like an extra from Dawn of the Dead. Hopefully that will work in my favour and the doc will believe me when I tell her that my left side is truly falling off and I'm sick of being in pain.
