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A Most Unusual Demise
1/4/07 | 60Gunner

Posted on 01/04/2007 2:14:14 PM PST by 60Gunner

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1 posted on 01/04/2007 2:14:17 PM PST by 60Gunner
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To: MaryFromMichigan; SunnyUsa; bad company; RobFromGa; doodlelady; Slings and Arrows; NonValueAdded; ..

Emergency Nursing Ping. Brace yourselves.


2 posted on 01/04/2007 2:15:14 PM PST by 60Gunner (ER Nursing: Saving humanity... one life at a time.)
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To: 60Gunner

Hillary has precisely the opposite condition: looks alive but has a stone-cold heart.


3 posted on 01/04/2007 2:16:54 PM PST by FormerACLUmember
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To: 60Gunner

Amazing story! I have been a volunteer at Parkland Hospital's ER-we averaged about 600 patients per day--I saw some amazing stuff, but nothing at all like this.


4 posted on 01/04/2007 2:24:19 PM PST by richardtavor (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem in the name of the G-d of Jacob)
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To: 60Gunner

To quote someone famous: Just... Damn.


5 posted on 01/04/2007 2:24:22 PM PST by TChris (We scoff at honor and are shocked to find traitors among us. - C.S. Lewis)
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To: 60Gunner

Very interesting.

Thanks for posting.


6 posted on 01/04/2007 2:24:45 PM PST by EternalHope (Boycott everything French forever. Including their vassal nations.)
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To: 60Gunner

Can you add me to this ping list? TIA


7 posted on 01/04/2007 2:24:45 PM PST by Valpal1 (Social vs fiscal conservtism? Sorry, I'm not voting my wallet over the broken bodies of the innocent)
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To: 60Gunner
That is fascinating. Thanks for posting it.
8 posted on 01/04/2007 2:25:47 PM PST by retrokitten (I heart global warming)
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To: 60Gunner

Interesting story !


9 posted on 01/04/2007 2:26:43 PM PST by genefromjersey (So much to flame;so little time !)
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To: 60Gunner

AMAZING. Let me know when your book is coming out...


10 posted on 01/04/2007 2:27:56 PM PST by steveo (ADVERTISEMENT)
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To: 60Gunner

Amazing story (and downright creepy for us non-medical types).


11 posted on 01/04/2007 2:28:14 PM PST by scan59 (No matter where you go, there you are.)
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To: 60Gunner

My guess is that the heroin killed this demented young addict, while the co-administered overdose of cocaine kept her heart beating after the rest of her poisoned body was rigor mortis rotting away.


12 posted on 01/04/2007 2:28:28 PM PST by FormerACLUmember
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To: 60Gunner

Thanks for the ping. Fascinating account.


13 posted on 01/04/2007 2:28:34 PM PST by Siouxz ( Freepers are the best!!!)
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To: 60Gunner
blood had already settled into her back and bottom.

[snip]

But her heart was still beating.


I wonder what her ECG looked like...
14 posted on 01/04/2007 2:29:06 PM PST by Sopater (Creatio Ex Nihilo)
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Amazing story. And what an idiot the patient was, dying young and completely unnecessarily. Life is such a precious gift, and she threw it away with both hands.


15 posted on 01/04/2007 2:29:07 PM PST by American Quilter (Come on, my fellow Coloradoans--donate to Free Republic! This excellent site deserves our support!)
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To: 60Gunner

Great writing, very gripping. You've got a gift.


16 posted on 01/04/2007 2:30:00 PM PST by keat (You know who I feel bad for? Arab-Americans who truly want to get into crop-dusting.)
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To: 60Gunner

WOW! I have heard of things like this in stories, but not in real life.


17 posted on 01/04/2007 2:30:01 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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Your post brings back memories (most,but not all of them unpleasant) of my 20 year stint in a major hospital's ER. I'm very,very glad I don't do that any more.


18 posted on 01/04/2007 2:30:12 PM PST by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: 60Gunner

Unbelievable is right....


19 posted on 01/04/2007 2:30:35 PM PST by r9etb
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You, sir, are one hell of a storyteller. I mean that with the highest respect. Save this one for the ages somewhere.


20 posted on 01/04/2007 2:30:50 PM PST by redpoll (redpoll)
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