WHAT ICU NURSES KNOW ABOUT THE LAST HOURS OF LIFE THAT FAMILIES ARE NEVER PREPARED FOR:
1. Hearing is the last sense to go. Many patients can hear everything being said in the room long after they appear unconscious. Nurses know this. Most families do not act like it.
2. The body does not shut down all at once. It withdraws blood and oxygen from the extremities first, working inward toward the heart. The cold hands and feet you notice are the body making a final decision about what to protect.
3. A sudden, unexpected improvement in energy and alertness hours before death is not a good sign. Nurses recognize it immediately. Families almost always mistake it for recovery.
4. The sound called the death rattle is not pain. It is simply the throat relaxing and losing muscle control. But no amount of medical explanation prepares a family for hearing it for the first time.
5. Most people do not die during the night. The body has a biological rhythm and many deaths occur in the early hours of morning, between 3am and 5am, when the nervous system is at its lowest.
6. Patients often wait. Nurses have watched people hold on for days until a specific person arrives, or a specific word is spoken, or permission is quietly given to let go. It happens too consistently to be coincidence.
7. The words "we did everything we could" are sometimes true and sometimes the most painful half-truth a family will ever receive without knowing it.
8. Families who are not present at the moment of death carry guilt that no counselor fully resolves. Nurses see this guilt begin forming in real time and cannot always stop it.
9. The face relaxes completely at the moment of death in a way that is impossible to describe until you have seen it. Nurses say it looks like the person finally put something down they had been carrying for a very long time.
10. Many ICU nurses privately believe that the most painful deaths are not the ones with the most physical suffering. They are the ones where the patient dies surrounded by family members who are fighting with each other.
11. The thing families almost never say, but almost always should, is simply this: it is okay to go. Those four words, spoken out loud, do something that medicine cannot explain and nurses have witnessed more times than they can count.
12. Nurses grieve too. They learn the names, the histories, the family dynamics, and the small personal details of every patient. They cry in break rooms, in parking lots, and on drives home. Then they walk back in the next morning and do it all over again, because someone has to, and they chose to be that person.
Today, our Tamil friends celebrate Puthandu, while the Sikhs celebrate Vaisakhi. Other Indian groups observe their New Years around this time. I wish all who are celebrating a blessed and joyous year ahead with your loved ones! – LHL https://t.co/d2gqJgNV3X
Chris Evans said the elevator scene in Captain America 2 is his personal favorite because it was the first time Cap “was truly on his own.”
“I just did my best to not get in the way in the first Avengers movie.”
“The second Cap movie is the one where I kind of felt pressure”
hajoon spoke about minyoung during his <siren's kiss> end interview:
"isn't she a master of romance? she's incredibly good at everything: her eyes, her timing, everything. i haven’t done much romance acting, so there are areas where i’m lacking, but i learned a lot about those details from her. she helped me a lot on set with things like what kind of process to go through and what gestures look softer"
"her eyes and emotional expression are so strong that it became easier to immerse myself in the increasingly intense and heartbreaking emotions toward the latter half. i definitely felt that park minyoung is on another level. it was amazing how she could cry at exactly the right moment and maintain the same emotion across repeated takes. she has a lot of ideas about romance and helped refine the details, so i learned a great deal. i’m truly grateful to her"
“when filming melodrama scenes, i saw her shed tears at the exact same moment every time, and it made me realise that a true ‘melodrama master’ is on another level...she also suggested many detailed ideas, like saying, ‘it might feel more heart-fluttering if you stroke the hair here,’ so i learned a lot from her"
#WiHaJoon expressed interest in starring in a romantic comedy next.
"I really want to do a romantic comedy. I have a great thirst to do a project and act where people can feel my human side, my clumsy side, and my cute side."
We’re boosting fuel reserves and food stockpiles, and diversifying supply sources (incl. Australia & NZ). At the same time, nearly $1B in additional support: CIT rebates, cash for platform workers & taxi drivers, and more help for households.
I recently visited the new SGH Emergency / NNI building. The expanded building will meet future healthcare needs. Kudos to the management and staff for managing the complicated relocation so well! – LHL https://t.co/IZ0jpzlFXv
I really don’t watch K-movies, but anytime I pick one to watch, it never disappoints
maybe I should start watching them more.🤭
I spent the whole of last night watching the K-movie Humint on Netflix, and I’m not even exaggerating when I say I was locked in from start to finish.
It’s not just action for the sake of action, it’s action like you’ve never seen before. And when I tell you every scene felt like it was leading somewhere important 😭
It’s the kind of movie where you’re constantly trying to figure out who is playing who, but somehow you’re always two steps behind.
The espionage and strategy in this movie whew. It’s messy, but in a good way.
The whole time I was watching, I kept asking myself how far is too far when you believe you’re doing the right thing? And when does loyalty stop being noble and become dangerous?
The performances were insane.
Let’s give Zo In-sung, Park Hae-joon, Shin Se-kyung and Jung Eugene their 10s.
Nobody was there to decorate scenes. Everybody came to act and they delivered.
By the time it ended, I was shouting “what a movie”.
Please leave everything you’re doing and go watch it it’s that good. #Humint