Unconformable Moment In Life

Something in my stomach was telling me I would not see him. I did not tell anyone this though just in case I was wrong. But I was right I always have a way of knowing these things. He heard a knock on the door. A feeling of relief washed over everyone except me. The person at the door was the only policeman in town and Frank the town leader. My mom could not keep it together. It is a hard sight to see when your mom is sad. The person you look up to when you are a kid is crying. That can mess a 6 year old kid up. The time that would take place next went from 0 to 100 so fast. We cremated my dad's body and moved. My mom picked texas because it had good schools. We did not have any family though and sometimes I felt as if that was a bad decision. My mother would not tell me how my dad died until I was 16. Not living without a dad can be hard. When it is at the crucial age of 6. You need a good role model. My brother became my dad if he liked it or not. Everything that happened in my life seemed like a blurr. The fact my dad was dead never really hit me. But it hit me so hard and so fast. It was like a brick wall. I started almost failing my classes, sleeping all the time, eating a lot, not exercising, moping all the time. I still suffer from it today. Back then though I wanted to die. But it is so much better. I learned that I held my mom accountable and my dad for

In 2014 it was a hot friday summer night, I was at my friends house about to go to see some type of scary movie at Spartan 16. But, then I felt this shooting pain to the right side of my abdomen. At first I did not think anything of the pain. I let the pain drag on for a little while at the movies, but then it felt like someone was stabbing me on the right side of my abdomen and I could not take the pain anymore. I called my dad crying so hard that he could tell something was seriously wrong. He knows I am normally a person to have very high pain tolerance. My dad rushed from whatever he was doing to come pick up from spartan 16. He finally got to me and rushed me to the Pelham Hospital ER.

Back in 2009, when I first came to the United States, I had a terrifying experience. I just finished taking a shower when I suddenly felt out of breath and my heart was pounding fast. With my nursing background, I had to keep calm, drank water and sat down judging that it would soon be over. However, moments later, the symptoms still persisted. I did not exhibit any chest pain, but I knew something was amiss. Without delay, I phoned my aunt who was a critical care nurse and was told to go to ED right away. We dashed to the ED, with me struggling to walk because I had an extreme feeling of doom. Everything around me was a blur. I was so scared. My husband was in Baltimore. I was with my relatives visiting in North Carolina and my three kids were still in the Philippines. I felt like my life flashed before me. It was the most horrifying experience I have ever run into.

March 15th, 2010, was a completely normal day. As normal as any day is for a twelve year old homeschooler. I was home with my oldest sister Brittany who was twenty at the time and I was just finishing up my homework for the day. After finishing up my math work I went to go watch television in the living room. Brittany was in her room and my parents didn't get home until later because of work. A few hours into my movie, my stomach started to hurt. Since I was twelve I didn't no the differences of pain so I just left it alone for a while. Later in the day my abdomen was aching so much I couldn't even get off the couch. After wailing for Brittany to call Mom I was sent to the emergency room in an ambulance with severe abdomen pain. After several hours in the ER and multiple tests, doctors found nothing. I was sent home and was told to take Tylenol for the pain. Once I got home, it didn't hurt anymore so I thought they were right and that I could just go on with my crazy life as a twelve year old. I was wrong. Two months after, I got the same

One night after writing a history paper, I was so tired I went to bed without eating. Around two in the morning I woke up scared for my life. My clothes were soaked with sweat, my head was spinning, my whole body was shaking, and I knew my blood sugar was horribly low. Getting out of bed, I went to my fridge to get something to eat. The next thing I know, I wake up in a hospital bed with both of my parents looking at me. I had been informed that I slipped into a coma for a day and I was lucky to be alive. My heart had also stopped beating when they found me. My only thoughts were that I had missed a day of classes.

A searing pain gripping my entire body. Unholy screams tearing through my ears. Unable to breath, unable to move, it felt like I was being compressed into a marble and torn into a billion pieces at the same time. The event lasted for what seemed like a lifetime, and then... it just stopped. I was left with an understanding.

When I woke up, I had no idea where I was, until seconds later when I realized almost everything in the room was white. My hair was pulled out of my bun and I was wearing a patient's gown. There was a lady in baby blue shirt with little snoopy dogs on it leaning over the bed with a clipboard in her left hand, and a pen in her right. The instant I moved my head to look around, I regretted it and let my head flop back down, then regretted that even more. My whole right side of my body felt like it was being burned and stabbed right there on the spot. I moaned and I heard my mom's voice, just a little too

My surgeon, Dr. Mainigi came back into the room with two other doctors and she told me that it was time for me to be wheeled away. I said my “I love you’s” to my family as one of the male doctors wheeled me away. He was asking me questions, trying to ease my nerves a little bit. We finally reached the operating room. I transferred from the hospital bed to the operating table. My heart was beating so fast, as I realized this was really happening. There were at least 10 doctors in the room and there was a light above me shining down on me. Dr. Mainigi anesthetized me and before I knew it, I saw

It seems that when you are young you don't think much about death, at least not for me. In fact, I was too busy living to even realize that I would eventually die and when I would think about it I assumed that it would be of old age and definitely not how I actually died instead. I, Olive Lorain Barkley, was and technically still am 17 years old when death came for me. The date was August 14th 2010 (a relatively good year besides the dying part); Me and my mom were driving home from a family reunion and got in a car crash; I later found out that the girl was on texting and driving. All three of us got rushed to the hospital where the girl suffered a concussion, my mom with amazingly minor injuries, and I passed away due to blood loss. Just

Two days ago, I was out with a high fever and a stomach virus. I don’t know how I got it, but it happened. I couldn’t get out of bed to use the restroom when I wanted to, eat, and even sleep! I felt like I was dying. Not only would that, with every inch of moment I did on my bed, have those ice-picking sensations appeared. Gah! I was a total mess! The pain of suffering... I swear I saw the light a couple of times….or maybe that was my mom turning on the light at night?

One day I was riding my bike up in down the street in our neighborhood and all of the sudden I hear the gears of the chain making a weird noise I look down now because my shoelace is now stuck and I can't stop. My vision is going blurry and i'm yelping for pain, I HAVE LOST CONTROL!!!! I am feeling nothing anymore and now i feel very light and i think to myself am I dead and then all of the sudden I feel a stinging like acid is being poured onto my skin. I open my eyes and realize my whole leg is in alcohol and I burns I just want to say, #!@$@!#$#@!$@#$!@#$!@#$!@#$!@#$!@#!!@$%!$@#!%$@!%#$@%!#$@!%@#!%@#$ but I don't and then i'm having gauze wrapped around my leg and i realize i'm in the house. And i'm alive

I felt like I was paralyzed, it felt like I was suffocating; as if a giant hand was clamped arpound my heart. For a minute I sat still taking in the information, I couldn't belive it. I hadn't even realised that I was crying until I felt my little brother wipe my tears away. I looked down at his tiny tear stained face and saw that he was in just as much pain I was in, he looked so broken. I started crying in disbelief and then ran to my room screaming and yelling. The reliazation that I would never be able to see her again painfully struck me. I don't know how long I was sitting there sobbing but time passed by really quick. I hadn't even realised it was morning. I feltso numb, so emotionless, I wanted to cry, scream and yell more but I couldn't. Everything was

Two months passed by, my parents slowly but surely were crippling from the inside. My mom couldn’t look at me for a minute without starting to cry. Dad was quiet, never said a word, he would just hug my mother with great sadness. Cory would come and read to me every night even though she was exhausted. Both of her arms had a reddish-violet tint to them but I was scared to ask her why. She would always tell me that she loved me, and that she would always be caring for me no matter what. I was really confused all this time but I wasn’t dumb, I knew something was

This objective was evident when the patient expressed nonverbal signs of pain during the simulation. I played one of the nurses in the scenario, and I was able to identify the patient signs of pain and work to provide comfort for the patient. In this case, the patient had no medications that I could administer. I then called the provider to determine what to do about the patient’s expression of pain. This was a useful exercise because it prompted me to work through a difficult situation using critical thinking. The death and dying simulation was an effective exercise that involved using the nursing process as well as providing empathetic care. Quality care in this patient scenario meant providing care that focused on comforting the patient and his wife. I am better able to understand that quality care has

I had been in the emergency room for what seemed like an eternity. Black gray liquid took over my body. I vomited for six hours straight the pain was endless. One second my body turned into a freezer the next