Hospital of Shmeng Date Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 07:02 AM PST Topic Experiences Something very creepy is happening right now at my Hospital...I shit you not. Screw my cult for now and all the assorted goodies therein. What is happening now is scaring the living shit out of me. I'm a hospital corpsman, so my job revolves around healing and helping people...will, screw my JOB, my entire life. Right now, something's fallen over my hospital. An old man, a frequent visitor to the hospital is making his last stay here. I've known him for a long time, just talking...he was in world war two for chrissakes, and he's been lucid up until tonight. Sudden senile outbreak...we call them Sundowners. During the day they're cool, then at night they become incoherent. I mean, this guy, with whom I'd talk for hours with...suddenly looks up at me, screams "David...help me david..." (Which happens to be my middle name...) and then starts mumbling about the Gestapo, and when his sweetheart of a Japanese wife comes in...he goes absoloutly nucking futz. He's dying, it's obvious. Me and the other corpsman are doing shifts so that he'll have someone with him there at the end. Looking at him all withered, out of his mind and terrified...fuck... I don't want to die like that. An hour ago we got a report of a young man dying in one of the most routine surguries here, a simple s/p discectomy...standard op says he'll be on his feet by the morning and ready to go home. During the procedure, they discovered they could not stop his bleeding...his clot factor dropped to lethal levels. And he bled out while his thirty eight year old wife watched. He didn't know, he didn't wake up...all he'll remember is the doctor reassuring him that it's a routine thing, they do it all the time, theres no danger. And seeing his wife. We're keeping an eye on her now. (Theres three of us, one watches the old man...another watches her, the other gets a break (right now thats me)) Suicide watch, AND a death watch. It's scary. I'm used to being around dead bodies, and seeing people in pain. But in these two cases there is nothing ANYONE can do... It's fucking frightening. I can't help...I can only watch...like a fucking vulture. I want to go home. We got a heads up about fifteen minutes ago...a young man and his wife have just hit a local pedestrian, they were both riding the same motorcycle. Both are in critical condition. My mother has always told me, bad things come in threes... People are dying at my hospital tonight...it isn't a war, they're just dying. The cynics are gonna' say something like "Well people die at Hospitals" or something, I know. But this is unprecedented. When people die, there is usually something that can be done. Not in these cases. Death is walking through my halls... I've always been curious about death and all that, but right now it's beating me in the face. Maybe I'm just venting, whatever...but it definately makes me feel better anyhow. Regardless...I think I'm going to be taking a break from my little cult for awhile. The old man is my friend, but he thinks I'm someone else...someone named David. The woman wants to be with her husband, at all costs... And I don't know what to expect from the motorcycle crash. Fuck...all we need now is godzilla... The single thing that pisses me off the most, and scares me worst...is that I can't do a damn thing! Fuck that! I'll post back and finish up afterwards if I'm up to it. This article comes from Shmeng http://www.shmeng.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.shmeng.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=274