Spud
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Was just reading an article on palliative care nurses and read this bit which really resonated -
Ms Jackson teared up recalling how one man apparently refused to die until he had said goodbye to specific loved ones.
"We had a young gentleman … unconscious for nearly a week… and his hand it was like a rag doll. It would just flop there," she said.
"And I remember saying, you know is there anybody, is he hanging on for something else, anything, because he's hanging on for something?
"And they say nobody. Everybody has said their goodbyes.
"And I said, were there any pets? And she's like, 'yeah yeah, we got two dogs, two gorgeous dogs and they were his life'. And I says 'go get the dogs'.
"The two dogs came in, and the two of us cried — this is no word of a lie – he lifted his hand and put his head on the two dogs' heads. And he died within the next half an hour."
Ms Jackson teared up recalling how one man apparently refused to die until he had said goodbye to specific loved ones.
"We had a young gentleman … unconscious for nearly a week… and his hand it was like a rag doll. It would just flop there," she said.
"And I remember saying, you know is there anybody, is he hanging on for something else, anything, because he's hanging on for something?
"And they say nobody. Everybody has said their goodbyes.
"And I said, were there any pets? And she's like, 'yeah yeah, we got two dogs, two gorgeous dogs and they were his life'. And I says 'go get the dogs'.
"The two dogs came in, and the two of us cried — this is no word of a lie – he lifted his hand and put his head on the two dogs' heads. And he died within the next half an hour."
