Death sucks

Posted 1 year, 5 months ago at 1:25 AM. 0 comments

I came into work today to find out one of my residents who I was pretty close to passed away suddenly. Funny that I actually cried and grieved so much more for this lady than I ever did for all of my great grandparents combined. She did make my work enjoyable and joked with me. I’ll miss her a lot. It’s weird that she was totally fine yesterday and I put her to bed and she had some stomach pain, but nothing more than that. I wish I could repeat that shift and talk to her more and tell her goodbye instead of complaining about another resident to her. It was hard to tell her roommate, who’s a bit confused, about her passing. She found out through a nosy resident and luckily I overheard the conversation and went over and broke the news to her a bit more smoothly. She took it better than I thought she would. We sat in her room and talked about her for a little while.

It’s hard getting close to people who are on their way out. I just gotta hope that I made them happier during their last days.