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Speaker 1: It took me about a half hour to drive to

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missus Crabtree's house. I'm fine, just get there, since I've

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technically finished both for the supervised visits I'm required to do.

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I was voluntold to spearhead of solo shift. I can

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handle it. I look through the binder. Natalie gave me

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irregular breathing, glassy eyes, modeled discoloration on the feet and knees.

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The last few times Natalie and I worked missus Crabtree's house,

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nothing of note ever happened. I just doom scrolled on

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my phone for most of the twelve hours that I

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was there. Half the time. She's not looseid enough to

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acknowledge anyone in the room. For the most part, Natalie

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handles all the family stuff. I'm just there to be

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a sponge, take notes, get through the steps. Natalie called

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out today, you're already so understaffed as it is. She's

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my lifeline. As embarrassing as that is to admit. Minutes

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away now, I had to get gas on the way there.

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This always passes. I just have to ride it out

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and do my job. I skimmed that binder. I know

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I did every single page. I flipped through is sitting

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in my bag right now, and I can feel all

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of them five minutes away. Now. I met at the

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door by a disheveled woman, her eyes bloodshot, her nose running.

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She's wearing the same pair of pajamas she was wearing

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a week ago. She managed to eat today. That's better signs, right,

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I mean it was only a bit of jello and

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chicken broth. But yeah, that's a very good sign. I

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tell the woman. She thanks me anyway. Inside the house

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looks so different than the last time I was here.

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Before I even start doing anything, I have to go

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through my notes and do some pre charting. Diagnosis already

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filled in Louis body dementia, brain degenerates, the body does

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what at once? Code status do not resuscitate, already document

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it oral intake one jellow cup, some chicken broth. Cognition

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status dis oriented times three, mobility status that bound. The

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woman told me that she asked for food on her

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own today, first time since coming home from the hospital.

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I asked her if she'd managed any full sentences since

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our last visit. She thought about it for a second,

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not exactly, she said her mother would start talking, but

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it was like she was picking up a conversation from

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somewhere else, days ago, months, maybe years, by coming back

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to a video and it's playing where you left off.

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In the living room, A man sits in a chair,

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eyes locked on the screen, not really watching it. But

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my grandfather was passing. I locked myself in my room,

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didn't come out until it was time. I asked the

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woman if there's a specific pattern she noticed, maybe a word,

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a particular subject she can't let go of. She says

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her mother has been narrating things out loud, step by step,

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like she's teaching someone. Only her hands don't match what

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she's doing. She's talking about folding towels, but her fingers

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just keep doing the same thing, opening and closing, opening

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and closing, same motion every time that she's grabbing something

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that isn't there. Hour is it a time, yeah, only

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stopping when she finally falls asleep again. Lbed patients do

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weird things with their hands. It's in the binder somewhere,

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So how long, the man asks me. I tell him

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I won't no specifics until I get up there and

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check her vitals. I checked her this morning. She kind

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of recognized me, at least seem more aware of her surroundings.

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He says. I tell him that's a good sign, that

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any deviation from her dull, confused state is a small victory.

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This tone only barely shifts. What are we celebrating? She's

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one step closer to knowing what's about to happen. I

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continue up the stairs. I don't have a response. The

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last time I checked on her she was sound asleep,

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he says. We make it to a room. I lightly

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knock and make my way in. At the edge of

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the bed, missus Crabtree is sitting upright, eyes fixated forward,

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completely still. I open my bag, take blood pressure, then pulse,

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go to the list. She isn't moving no matter what

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I do to react to anything. The man and the

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woman look worse than they did downstairs. The woman comes over,

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places a hand on her mother's shoulder, frantically trying to

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get her to react anyway. Hey, it's me. Where do

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you think you're going? Can you hear me? Hey? Mom,

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tell me what's going on? You're supposed to be laying down?

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Still nothing. I managed to slip the cuff in the

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gap between her shoulder and upper body and secure it

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to her arm. The man stole the doorway, just standing

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still and watching his grip on the door handle getting tighter.

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As the scene unfolds, the woman turns to me. Why

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isn't she moving? Why isn't she reacting? What's happening to her?

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Blood pressure is done? When eighteen seventy six? This can't

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be right. Her charts showing a SETI downward trend consistent

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with decline. Last time I took her reading, it was

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hovering about eighty over fifty four before that ninety four

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or sixty. The cuff must not be calibrated correctly. I

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take it off, hit the reset button, and then I

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try again. No change. The woman looks to me for answers.

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The cuff titans when eighteen were seventy six, same reading.

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I tell the woman to step back a bit. She's

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still angry visibly, so I tell her it's okay, it's

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not I've seen this before. I haven't that. Her blood

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pressure is about the same as it was last time.

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The woman moves aside as the man finally steps into

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the room. He convinces her to calm down, that I'm

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doing my job. To give me space. They leave the room,

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and I hear their muffled conversation outside the door. Paull's

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socks is next. Remember the steps. Make sure you actually

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turn it on. Hold on the button, light flashes. I

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hear the beep. It's working. Oh two at ninety eight

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pulse rate. Eighty numbers wrong. I take it again. No change,

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only because I got this one from the clearance aisle

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at CVS. Natalie gave me the one from the facility.

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Same numbers as before. No decrease or increase. I note

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it in the chart. When the next nurse gets here,

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I'll use theirs. It'll be fine. I begin the neurological assessment.

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Touching her shoulder yields nothing. Saying her name doesn't work either,

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still not moving. I take up my pen light to

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check her pupils and see if she can track my movements.

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Eyes are still forward, pupils are severely dilated. No constriction

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after shining the light either. If i'd the urge to

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call Natalie, no, not on my first solo shift. It's fine.

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Autonomic dysfunction is common with LBED patients. Pupil abnormities can

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happen it. I waved the light back and forth again,

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no visual tracking. It's too risky to try to reposition

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her fall risk patient found seated at the inter bed

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and assisted, unable to move without risk of injury. We'll

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continue to monitor. A few pillows behind her and to

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the side, and some to the front should suffice outside

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the door. The muffled conversation is barely audible, but still

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carries some urgency it did when it first began. Heading downstairs,

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the woman was mid sentence. Attention immediately focused on me.

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How did she move? Did she did she say anything?

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The answers came almost word for word from the chart,

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albeit a bit nicer and less clinical. She isn't having

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it before anything else is said. She's halfway up the stairs.

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My pace matches her urgency. At her room now the

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door is wide open. The pillows are back in their

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original place. Missus Crabtree laying on her back, deep into sleep.

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The woman lets out a sigh of relief. She thanks

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God that her mother is okay, sleeping in bed as

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if the last ten minutes never happened. She lowers her voice.

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Distant sounds of the TV make the quiet a bit

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more bearable. I stare at the pillows. I can't dwell

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on what we saw fall risk patients resting in bed

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no signs of injury. Will continue monitoring the next few hours.

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Drag on. Missus Crabtree has been sleeping since the last assessment.

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Her breathing patterns have become a bit more laborious. Not

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the exact kind of watch out for, but worth a

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mental note. The anxiety has calmed down a bit ever

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since the man and the woman also took it upon themselves.

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The map back to phone scrolling and occasional staring contests

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with the window. Nothing really interesting WITHO. Looking at rural

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Texas has trees, grass, and more trees, with the occasional

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bobcat or coyote making their way through both. The cell

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service is decent, at least one of the few small

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towns that actually has a five G tower, which is

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about as close to a compliment it's going to get

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feeling restless. I go downstairs to get a cup of

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coffee and find the TV on, but the man absent,

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still asleep somewhere. Can't blame him. On my way back up,

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the unmistakable sound of an eas warning Blair's this is

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not a test shelter in place, avoid windows. There's more

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warnings here than actual emergencies, you kind of get used

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to tuning it out. Back in the room now, missus

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Crabtree is still sleeping, same routine as before, scrolling, listening

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for changes, rinse, and repeat. Her breathing is noticeably different now,

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not the labored rhythm noticed a few hours ago, the slower,

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the gaps between breaths are stretching. Exhale silence. The stopwatch

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reads fifteen seconds. Downstairs, the muffled conversation between the man

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and the woman is getting louder, and they're awake again.

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Exhale twenty seconds. Murge to go tell them slowly building,

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I have to make sure it's actually happening. Exhale silence,

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thirty seconds. Only Natalie were here to keep counting. Exhale

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silence forty five seconds. I think about my own loss

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years ago in the similarities. Exhale silence. Once you hear

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the death rattle, they go from days to hours. It's

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a checklist, she'd tell me, fifteen years of watching people

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die the same way, anything becomes clockwork. Staring at missus

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Crabtree for any signs of life, I go from actively

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counting breaths to feeling for when the pulse finally stops,

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two fingers on her wrist. Still there, slowing down now,

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the conversation downstairs getting louder. In my head pulses, growing weaker.

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It's harder to place. I call Natalie. No, I can't.

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I don't have it in me. I could be wrong

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about it anyway. One more beat, silence, nothing. I just

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sit in the room. The time reads three twenty eight pm,

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looking at the door I need to open. Feels paralyzing.

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Natalie is usually here to handle any in all family stuff.

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I'm just here to be the sponge, to write everything down,

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administer Med's help in any way I can without having

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to worry about saying the wrong thing. There's a man

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and a woman down there dreading the news. I'm about

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to bring them at Times, says four thirty pm. This

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crabtree has been laying in the same position since I

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noticed her last heartbeat. Walking over to her for one

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last check before I ripped the band head off, I

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noticed that her eyes are completely open, not partially closed,

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not closed at all, wide open, not terribly uncommon with

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death and paarimmortal muscle relaxation. It's one of the binder sections.

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I'm sure I grabbed my pen light and shine it

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in them. The pupils immediately contract. The time now reads

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four forty five pm. Grabbing my binder, I flipped tough

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this section in ocular nerves. Nothing's helping me. I have

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no frame of reference for this. Did I miscalculate the

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breaths the pulse? What possible reason could there be for

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her eyes to be responsive? Now? I placed my fingers

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on her wrist again, it's cold. Nothing beats under my fingers.

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Maybe a bad area of circulation. I try the other wrist, nothing,

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same temperature her neck. Next. My final test is putting

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my head against her chest. Still nothing, not one single heartbeat. Yet,

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her pupils contract every time I shine a light on them.

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If there's any time for my pulse socks to actually

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work now would be great. I get it out, reset it,

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place it on my finger, working normally one ten bpm

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ninety five percent. Taking it off, I reset it once

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more and pry missus Crabtree's finger off the side of

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the bed. Clipping it on and gives a flat line

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for the bpm. But an oxygen level of thirty five percent.

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Something can't have oxygen saturation without a heart to pump it.

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No rise and fall of the chest either. Taking the

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temperature now I get a reading of ninety four point

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eight fahrenheit. There was that by the door reads seventy two.

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I have to be wrong. Peripheral Shutdown, page thirty two

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A section D twelve. As the body declines, the veins

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on the arm get more visible, pulse slows down, body

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temperature fades, consistent with my notes, a sudden knock on

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the door. The man and the woman must have heard,

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the rapid shuffling of feet, and the time I thought

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I had to rationalize everything happening in their absence has

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come to an abrupt end. In front of me is

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a patient that defies explanation. Behind me is a family

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waiting for one. As the door opens, the old woman

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lay motionless in her bed, eyes now closed once again,

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no pulse to account for, no signs of life. I

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tell the woman in the doorway that her mother's vitals

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are about the same as when she took her nap earlier.

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She asked me if her mother said anything. I tell

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her no, that she's been quiet. The woman pauses and

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stares into me. I've seen that exact look from Natalie

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without saying anything. She makes a beeline for her mother.

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She grabs her hand. It's cold, but she's always cold.

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Now stiff, but her arthritic hands haven't been any different.

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She looks over to me, teary eyed, asking how much

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longer she has I don't answer. The woman doesn't wait

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for one. She steps out, the sound of her feet

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descending the stairs. Once more alone in the room again,

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her chest is rising and falling, agonal breathing. Seen this

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many times in the er, especially with cardiac arrest patients.

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The body hasn't caught up yet. Doesn't mean that she's alive.

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But that happens when someone drops suddenly, not gradually. The

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heart attack trauma, not someone who's been declining for months.

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Her heart didn't stop without warning and wound down. That

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the same thing. I have to get back to charting

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hand patient rests and comfortably vitals obtain, blood pressure unable

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to obtain due to patient positioning science, strokes, respiration noted,

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respiration shallow and irregular. Will continue monitoring. Just as I

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finish writing, one of her fingers is moving, tensing and

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flexing back and forth. Only one, the index finger on

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her right hand, same one that gave me a flat

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line with an oxygen level of thirty five percent. It

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happens on the other hand, index finger flexing back and forth.

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Her eyes are still closed. The chest to stop moving again.

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The movement of her fingers on her right hand is

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now fluttering emotion perfectly in sync with her left. Ten

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minutes pass the fingers haven't stopped. Every time I glanced

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at her motion, It's still there, steady and synchronized. Can't

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dwell on it. Chart needs finishing. Fine motor tremors noticed

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in bilateral index finger consistent with LBED symptomatology. Fine motor tremor.

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No other change is noticed. We'll continue to monitor time

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for another neurological assessment. I grab my pen light to

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check the pupils again, expecting to have to lift her eyelids. Nope,

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open constricting pupils just like before, but no other movement

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to note. Moving the light back and forth horizontally yields nothing.

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Still looking ahead, moving the pen vertically is when the

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eyes lock onto the light. The time now reads five

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two PM. I don't know how long I've been standing here,

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when exactly I put the penlight away, but it's now

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in the pocket of my bind there. My first instinct

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is to open it, flip to the page that has

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all the answers, and the hum of the air condition

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is louder. Now looking down at the old woman again,

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her eyes are still open, fixated on the area where

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the pen light was shining from. Is not moving. Checking

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her pupils again with a pen light, the vertical track

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from earlier is gone, not tracking vertically or horizontally now,

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eyes still in the same general direction they were. Pupils

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are contracting again when the light hits, this time at

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the exact same rate, both pupils returning to the exact

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same size, like watching two camera apertures sink together. Her

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fingers start back up, moving faster with both sets of

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flexing and twitching in a choppy, glitch like rhythm. Arms

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are motionless at her sides, the wrists turned towards me.

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I take a step back, eyes watching her hands. I

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nearly trip on the chair behind me. She stops everything

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does My phone vibrating cuts to the silence. Natalie, Hey,

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just checking in my bad about today. Can't stop throwing

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up last night and I woke up with like a

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fever of one of the three throat's killing me too.

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How's Crabtree doing? Is she doing okay? No, you're fine.

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It's been all right. She's been very quiet and a

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whole lot of changed since last time had all Oh,

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thank god, good to hear. How's Jake and Allison? Jake

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and Allison, I type it back. They're coping in their

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own way. I think Jake's been glued to the TV

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most of the day. Allison's come up to check a

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few times, but she's been sleeping, so not a whole

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lot of back and forth conversation going on. She mentioned

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any changes before you got there, or was she awake yet,

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just that she's been moving irregularly, muscle spasms, repeated hand motions,

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that sort of thing consistent with lbed symptoms. So far.

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Do you notice anything weird about her breathing yet? Her

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heart rate only slightly When I took vitals earlier, everything

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was pretty normal. Heart rate a bit lower from time

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to time, about as normal as it can be. From

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what's happening. I guess that fits. If you need anything,

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let me know. I'm gonna try and get more sleep,

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but don't feel bad for waking me up if you

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have any questions. Also, be careful when you leave. The

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roads are backed up really bad right now, thanks a lot,

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I will do you know what's happening? Huge pile up

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on I thirty five ambulance just swerved into oncoming traffic

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going like ninety Holy shit, right, I'm wondering if the

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dude had like a medical episode or something Caesar maybe.

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I don't know. I just saw a clip show up

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at my feet and instantly recognize the exit. Anyway, talk

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to you later, Good luck, you got this, text me

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before you leave or call We'll do. Thanks. I put

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my phone down. Nothing, well, not exactly nothing. Her head

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shifted in the direction where I was standing. The time

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is now five fifteen PM. I can see small muscle

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flexes in our cheek, the faint sound from her mouth

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almost too to hear, teeth on teeth, I come to

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think of it, she's the only geriatric I've met that

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actually still has them, has had at this point. The

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specifics betray everything I've ever known. I'm way too restless

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to deal with it right now. Being sedimentary for this

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long as making my legs fall asleep, and I can

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hear the sounds of someone washing dishes and the faint

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beeps of a microwave keep hat downstairs seems weird if

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I don't make an attempt to at least try and

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socialize with them. Downstairs, the man is in front of

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the sink, scraping grease off of a very expensive looking

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cast iron skillet. The woman is on face time with

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someone sitting curling up on the couch, surrounded by empty

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water bottles and crumpled up balls of tissue. I make

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my way into the kitchen. My dad has one just

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like that. I said to the man. Nearly took my

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head off, and I told him I'd put it in

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the dishwasher. Oh I who would be livid? He says,

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half laughing. What's the deal with that? Does it render

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it completely unusable or something? Oh? No, But the way

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cast iron works is you have to season it. So

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it's like you spread a thin layer of oil on

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it and then put it in the oven so it

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forms this like nonstick coating bakes onto the metal, helps

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it not rust and shit. So the soap do? So

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what does soap do? Removes the coating makes it a

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pain in the ass to deal with. Not very versed

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on cookwar, and the subject isn't particularly that interesting, but

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it's a good break from everything happening today. Yeah, that

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makes sense. Yeah, and it usually takes like multiple times

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in the oven before it's done. Right anyway, Right, where's

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your uh? Where's y'all's bathroom? Matt? Keeping a conversation going

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has also not been a strong suit for mine either.

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Through living room. Right as you get to the front

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door on the left, the woman phone in hand is

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now up from the couch, pacing back and forth in

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the living room. I could hear her talking about her mother,

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about how she's been that her favorite hobbies are currently

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sleeping and staring at the wall. Her voice trails off

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as I shut the door. I'm halfway up the stairs,

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getting closer to the door. Hey, you going somewhere again.

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The old woman is standing next to the bed, face

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in the doorway. Gay's fixed in place. You can hear me, right, Mom,

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I'm right here, missus crabtree, what you're doing? Huh? Can

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you tell me what's going on? And now she can't.

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But it helps keep up appearances if I at least

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entertain the idea. She keeps turning her head every time

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I move around. Has it moved a muscle otherwise? Was

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she doing anything like this earlier? Where were you? I

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don't have a response. Will you looking at hey? Mom?

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The old woman's head snaps to look at her daughter,

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tracking her hand movement. Hey, look at me. Okay, you're okay?

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Can you hear me? As soon as the woman's hand

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pulls away from her mother's cheek, the old woman grabs

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her wrist with both hands. Mom, Hey, you're okay. What's

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before she can finish? The old woman's teeth dig into

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her daughter's wrist. She's frantic, swearing at the pain, trying

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to process what's happening. Get her off, Get her off,

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Get her off. I need to call someone now, I

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have to. She won't let go. Right now is when

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i'd have a security guard to flag down a button

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depressed to get immediate help. Allison, just stay right there,

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don't move. I can't backing away now. I hear Jake downstairs,

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still cleaning dishes. The sound of the pots and pans

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clanging must have covered it. I'm calling nine one one.

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You're okay, You're okay, I promise. Just try not to

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move her. She's locked into place. The old woman's grip

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on her wrist is not letting up blood is now

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pooling from the spot she's latched onto. I back away

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into the hallway, phone in hand, typing in the number

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it rings. You've reached emergency services. All operators are currently busy.

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Play stay on the line, and do not hang up.

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