geegee
Newly Enlightened
My wife is hospice nurse, and today was seeing one of her patients, a 91 year old woman. People at her nursing home said that throughout the morning, she had been gagging and had been having a hard time swallowing. My wife thought it was a phlegm problem (yeah, I know, but wait till you get to be 91!), so she looked inside with the Fenix LOP I gave her a few months ago. The problem quickly became apparent.
Lodged in the back of the old girl's throat was her partial denture. As some of you may know, these have hooks on them which keep them in place for the person wearing them, so extracting them from a throat by using your fingers could be very dangerous (and painful). She attempted to at first, but then asked an aid to call 911. Within minutes, four EMT's arrived.
It took all of them to get this done, with my wife holding the woman's hand to keep her calm. One of them told her that there was no way she could have got it done by herself, so calling them was the right course of action. Later, they were interested in seeing her flashlight, which blew them away when they saw the light it emitted. As she said when she called me, "Now, I'm a believer!"
Lodged in the back of the old girl's throat was her partial denture. As some of you may know, these have hooks on them which keep them in place for the person wearing them, so extracting them from a throat by using your fingers could be very dangerous (and painful). She attempted to at first, but then asked an aid to call 911. Within minutes, four EMT's arrived.
It took all of them to get this done, with my wife holding the woman's hand to keep her calm. One of them told her that there was no way she could have got it done by herself, so calling them was the right course of action. Later, they were interested in seeing her flashlight, which blew them away when they saw the light it emitted. As she said when she called me, "Now, I'm a believer!"
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