Years ago I worked in a hospital as a certified nursing assistant, I’m an RN now. At that time it was my job to get the vitals.
The hospital I worked in was very small. It had two halls that veered off from the nurses station at a right angle, so if you were in one hall you had nothing to do with the other hall.
The nurses were in the rooms on the other side and I was to collect the vitals in the other hall.
I went into the first room, where a young man in his 30’s was in the last stages of Hepatitis B, and had actually ‘gone crazy’ from it. I was afraid of him. I walked in, he usually would snarl or growl and hated getting vitals done. He did bare his teeth at me when I did his blood pressure and all, then I walked across the hall to obtain the next patient’s vitals. No one was in the hall at all, only three patient’s were even in this hall.
After I did the vitals I walked back to the nurses station passing the first room with the Hepatitis B case, the call light went on.
I went in and the patient looked at me, a completely reasonable look on his face. He said to me in a normal voice, (which I had never heard as he was demented from the disease) “Where is the woman who was in here?”
I said ‘that was me’. Just then the charge nurse walked in and he said, “No, the woman with all the crosses, I want to talk to her again”. “The woman with the crosses”.
We both looked at each other and I asked my charge nurse if there was anyone like that in the hospital, she looked totally spooked and said ‘no one is here but us’, meaning only the staff was in the hospital right then, no visitors, no clergy.
That patient died that night.
Wow! What an experience. You were in the presence of the Blessed Virgin Mary or the man’s guardian angel and did not realize it?
***We both looked at each other and I asked my charge nurse if there was anyone like that in the hospital, she looked totally spooked and said ‘no one is here but us’, meaning only the staff was in the hospital right then, no visitors, no clergy.****
Af few days before my mother passed away she said there were two men in the hospital room with her. She saw one at the foot of the bed and the other sitting in the chair. My sister was there and she said there was no one else in there except her and mom.
My sister was really shook up over that.
Just for the record, she was not RC.
It happens more than people think.