From: Jade
Date: 19 Oct 2008
Time: 03:22:45 PM
Another point people don't change that much in death. They will only get pale because the blood no longer flows to the head which is easy to see in a white person. I used to work in a major hospital that had some of the best staff and doctors. Radiologist just have a thing about patients dying in Xray. And if someone does they are going to bring them back come hell or highwater. So I was coerdinating the department this one morning and it is the job where you wore running shoes. Cause you had to know everything going on with everyone including patients and doctors. So I would run thru the halls every 15 or 30 minutes to check the patients waiting. First I was looking to see if they where all breathing and their IV was dripping. We got some really sick patients in the morning. Then I had to know that a patient was waiting to go into each Xray room. And those that where supposed to be gone where gone in a reasonable time. So I only stopped to check a wrist band on someone I had not seen on my last run or if something seemed to be wrong. So I looked at this older black man and felt something wrong. I stopped and checked his pulse and could not find one about that time my boss (who had been an army medic before) and had him check and he could not find a pluse. So he moved him into an empty room away from the other patient and started CPR and I got the 2 doctors and the crash cart(where emergency supplies and medications where kept. The doctors took over CPR. One thing we tried to do was get in touch with the patients regular doctor. He happened to be in the hospital. I would say that from me taking his pulse till the regular doctor arrived was less then 5 minutes. He didn't have anything to do but observe. Because we had it handled. In a few minutes he said stop you idiots you can't bring back a dead man that is in rigar mortice. When we calmed down we figured that he had been dead several hours. Several nurses had helped lift him off the bed to the transport stretcher and of all the people that had seen him and handled him, no one had noticed he was not just unconcoious but dead. The point is this. On Ron's the hand. Now it is nothing but skin and bones. It cannot belong to a healthy robust young man. Death did not change it except the blueness of the little finger where the ring had cut off the blood from flowing back thur the veins as the blood pressure droped. You might see that hand on an elderly demacheated (a very skinny person). Or one that has been burried long enought to look like that. Where would they get a hand of an elderly man. Ron lived across from a large VA facility with hospital and morgue. Next post.