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I've responded to about three calls where I needed the coroner. It didn't bother me. We had a job to do. Part of that was taking care of family. Taking care of the scene.
That's where a certain level of detachment obviously helps....... as hard and crappy as it sounds life goes on.... not so easy for a family in pain, but as I said... hard to hear for them......
Well I'm off to bed. I need to get up early and make pumpkin bread for an event. Ugggh...should have made it this evening.
Night boys!
Good night!
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Originally Posted by Chowhound
That's where a certain level of detachment obviously helps....... as hard and crappy as it sounds life goes on.... not so easy for a family in pain, but as I said... hard to hear for them......
I've noticed paramedics tend to develop a fairly morbid sense of humour. Presumably to distance themselves from the images burned into their brains, day in, and day out.
Mrs. Chows dad had emergency surgery a few days ago and he's been in the hospital, they've since shipped him to a nursing home to finish up his care, but at 90... IDK... he's just not bouncing back from this and we're hoping to get him home, but at 90 and with a major surgery... who knows if he can come home... he's weak and not eating and is really really thin and frail... he's a little guy to begin with, but he looks like a little bird....
We visited him in the nursing home today and it pulled up a lot of memories for me and my moms death... she spent her last days in a nursing home with cancer......
IDK.... life is ****ed and hopeless at times....... but something that these nursing homes teach me....
LIVE, LIVE NOW!!!!! cause that's all we have.... cause without being a nervous nelly and fearful... we can all wind up in a place like that.... old.... sick and life passing you by.
I really need to hear this message and I'm at a point in life where the message is being pounded at me..... my mom, Mrs' Chow's brother, her dad.......
We've spent far far too much time in nursing homes for people our ages.......
"Get busy living or get busy dying"
...... (Red from Shawshank Redemption)
Edit to add....
Mrs. Chow's dad is part of the greatest generation that fought in WW2... those old timers are dying off and he's part of that.. he was there as a young man and while I have some issues with him in some areas... I give him the respect for his contribution to the war efforts, he was in the navy and was overseas during the war.... again.... He paid his dues and did what a man of his generation did... they paid the ultimate sacrifice...... and for that, I have to give him respect, event though at times I have to have restraint as I want to strangle him... but that is best left for another rant.
Mrs. Chows dad had emergency surgery a few days ago and he's been in the hospital, they've since shipped him to a nursing home to finish up his care, but at 90... IDK... he's just not bouncing back from this and we're hoping to get him home, but at 90 and with a major surgery... who knows if he can come home... he's weak and not eating and is really really thin and frail... he's a little guy to begin with, but he looks like a little bird....
We visited him in the nursing home today and it pulled up a lot of memories for me and my moms death... she spent her last days in a nursing home with cancer......
IDK.... life is ****ed and hopeless at times....... but something that these nursing homes teach me....
LIVE, LIVE NOW!!!!! cause that's all we have.... cause without being a nervous nelly and fearful... we can all wind up in a place like that.... old.... sick and life passing you by.
I really need to hear this message and I'm at a point in life where the message is being pounded at me..... my mom, Mrs' Chow's brother, her dad.......
We've spent far far too much time in nursing homes for people our ages.......
Watching the '99 version of "The Thamas Crown Affair." I had three thoughts. First ,Rene Russo is tasty. Second, Nina Simone's Sinnerman is an awesome song. Third, the original with Steve McQueen will always be my favorite.
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