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I was a nurse by profession and
as part of my work, I lived
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very close to death, with patients
who unexpectedly died, with those who were
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very serious. When that happened,
I had the feeling that death was passing
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by me because an unexpected cold swept
through my body. On one occasion a
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man came complaining of a very severe
pain in the stomach. After the doctor
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checked it and gave the treatment to
follow, the pain did not decrease.
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I went to the doctor to tell
him that the patient was still complaining of
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pain, so he increased the dose. I didn' t know what happened,
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but soon the man began to vomit
blood and convulse. A few minutes
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later, he was left without life. When the on- call doctor checked
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him, he didn' t understand
what had happened. Like the rest of
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the hospital staff, everything was so
fast that it didn' t give a
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chance to react on behalf of the
man. As part of my job,
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it was up to me to amortize
a patient when I died. It was
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the first time I had done it
with a person I had cared for with
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the respect I deserved. I prayed
silently. I asked him permission to change
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his clothes and clean them calmly.
I was undressing him to clean him of
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his own blood. I took off
the serum and put a little patch on
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it to keep blood from coming out. After two years of working at the
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private hospital, I had the opportunity
to go to work at Lyms. The
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job was completely different compared to the
private hospital I was working at. The
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influx of patients was high. I
didn' t have a chance to take
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care of them. There were times
when, in the least unexpected cases,
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when a woman or a man had
left surgery well and waited for her discharge,
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they died suddenly. It was part
of my job to be close to
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death. Death has always been linked
to the cold, that coldness that reaches
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a lifeless body. In the same
way, while I was working, I
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felt a slight cold wind that made
me turn around to see where it came
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from. Usually, the windows of
the hospital were closed, especially during the
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winter and rainy season, because,
as I was on the eighth floor,
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the air gusts were very strong almost
always closed. Feeling the cold wind within
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a few seconds died. A patient
was as if death passed through one side
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of me and walked slowly towards his
next victim. In the beginning I was
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filled with chills just thinking that I
sensed her in her step. There was
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a time when a patient called me
because I was cold. I understood that
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I was sorry because we were going
through one of the coldest winters. I
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went to the linen room and brought
him a green blanket. I put it
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on him, but he kept saying
he was so cold. He didn'
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t know what to do anymore,
because his temperature began to decrease considerably.
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I never thought it was his near
death, because he had a serious illness,
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but he was controlled. I already
had her discharge ready for the next
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day. The moment I felt the
same gust of cold wind, I couldn
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' t believe it. I told
myself that it was not possible if that
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man was stable, but within a
few seconds he went into cardiac arrest.
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I immediately pressed the emergency button quickly. The emergency cart' s here.
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The doctor put the defribilizer on several
occasions, but the patient did not react.
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The doctor gave the time of death
at three o' clock in the
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morning. That was the crucial moment
when I convinced myself that I could perceive
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death. It was so close to
me that I felt it. Soon after
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I was in that hospital. The
head nurse sent for me and told me
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there was a vacant position at the
medical center. It was my chance to
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get up a little bit. The
head nurse, seeing my enthusiasm, told
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me there was only one problem.
The apartment I had been assigned to in
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the medical center was the 11th floor
within the medical staff. It was well
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known that in that particular area of
the hospital the terminally ill persons they named
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evicted were placed. Very few of
them had the chance to get out alive.
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Almost everyone for the type of illness
they had and the state they were
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in died in there I didn'
t mind being sent to that floor.
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Not only did Lyms' medical staff
know about that floor of the medical center.
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Social security users were also aware of
this, because on several occasions it
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was my turn to listen when a
doctor told the patient' s relative that
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they were going to move him to
the 11th floor of the medical center.
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The son or daughter broke loose crying
saying that if they sent her father or
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mother to that place it was because
she was already evicted and no longer had
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a fight. When he heard the
family member' s painful remark, it
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was true in that area, specifically
in the medical center, that patients who
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already had a severe diagnosis were transferred
and that only a miracle could save them.
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It was true that most of the
sick died, but not just on
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that floor. As a hospital with
regional coverage, there were many hospitalized and,
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as many of them recovered favorably,
others did not. On July 1st,
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I introduced myself to the head nurse
on the 11th floor. It was
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the first time I went to the
medical center as an employee. As I
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left the elevator and entered the floor, it seemed exactly the same as the
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rest of the hospital floors. The
first thing I thought was that a myth
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and a halo of mystery had been
created around the 11th floor. The head
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nurse assigned me the night shift.
I' d be on top of my
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performance. I could change my shift
later. I didn' t have any
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trouble working at night. I'
ve been doing it for several years.
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I was used to it. I
showed up the next day at night.
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My check- in time was at
eight o' clock at night. I
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was walking through a side of the
medical center. On the side of the
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ramp, several patients were accompanied by
a family member. Only the room in
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the back, room 27 remained with
a patient. The other two stretchers were
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vacant and the sick woman had no
companion. I found it strange, but
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I thought someone would come with her
later. At the time I went to
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give him his medication, I read
the metal folder in which the doctor'
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s instructions were in. Most of
the medications were for the pain and so
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that he could sleep. I checked
his vitals. She was unconscious, apparently,
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she didn' t even perceive.
When someone was around, I introduced
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the first medicine with a needle.
I checked that the serum drip was the
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right one. When I raised his
hand to take his blood pressure. She
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held me by my arm. I
thought I woke up, but it was
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only a reflection, because I was
still asleep. I continued with the following
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patients. That' s when I
sensed again that cold wind that crept into
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my bones. I had no doubt
about the presence of death. She was
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walking down the halls to choose the
person to take and so it happened.
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Within seconds I heard the scream of
one of the rooms, an elderly woman
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had just died. Two of the
doctors on duty ran, but I knew
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that woman had died. I knew
it because on this occasion I not only
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felt the cold of death, but
I came to perceive a dark shadow that
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moved right in that room. A
few minutes later, the head nurse told
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me that it was up to me
to make the mortaja to the woman who
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had just died. With the same
respect as ever, I started the whole
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ritual to her. It was necessary
to remove the tube that had been inserted
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into his mouth, as well as
the catheter that he had in his chest.
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It was the first time I had
a little fear because I could see
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a shadow in the corner of the
room. I continued my work and when
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I looked back at that place,
the shadow was gone. I could not
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believe that everything that was said about
that floor was true, but I began
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to doubt it because after 2:
00 in the morning, when I finished
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checking the patients who assigned me,
I went out a little bit into the
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lobby to get some fresh air.
There were chairs in that place to sit
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down. From there you could see
through the crystals, the nurses' headquarters
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and the two nearby corridors. To
her I noticed a sort of steam that
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moved between the two corridors, a
whitish smoke barely perceptible. Besides, I
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didn' t know why the lights
were too low. There was only enough
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light to move between the rooms.
I was going back to continue my work.
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When a companion approached me a little
disgruntled, she told me that she
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hated the night shift and more on
that floor, because she was more gloomy
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than others, since something strange walked
daily in the hallways and it was surely
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she who was responsible for everything.
When I asked her who she was referring
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to, she told me that Mrs
Maria in room twenty- seven. That
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' s why no one came to
look after her, because she was a
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witch. I couldn' t stay
and ask her any more about that lady,
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because another of my colleagues told me
to support her change. To la.
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Mrs Maria had become dirty because she
no longer had control of her sphincters.
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I immediately went to help her.
The woman was still unconscious. Between
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the two of us, we changed
his sheet and his robe. While we
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were doing so, the woman held
my partner' s arm so tightly that
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I couldn' t get her to
let go. My partner was already scared.
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The moment I got her to stop
grabbing her, the patient remained unconscious.
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We got out of the room in
a lot of fear. My partner
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told me she was a very strange
lady. His vital signs indicated that he
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was in a vegetative state, but
suddenly he had reactions like those of a
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moment ago on the floor. No
one liked to take care of her for
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the same reason because something unusual happened
every time at the nurses' station.
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They called her the witch, since
almost no one was going to visit her
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except for a granddaughter, who went
in the afternoons, but only stayed for
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a while. My roommates were right. Every time I walked into room 27
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I felt something strange. I had
a feeling there was someone else inside.
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Besides that, something unusual happened to
me with Mrs Maria. While I was
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doing my job, she began to
move her lips as if she wanted to
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talk. I thought it would only
be for a moment, but he kept
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doing it for several minutes until I
heard a murmur. I thought someone else
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had entered the room, but I
didn' t. It was just me
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and the lady. As soon as
I finished giving her her meds, I
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went to the head nurse to tell
her what had happened to Mary. With
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all the calmness of the world,
she told me not to take into account
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any abnormal situation that happened with her. They were used to it. I
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wasn' t so sure it was
such a simple thing. As I attended
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to other patients every time I passed
through his room, I went in for
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a few seconds and felt as if
I were aware of my presence, I
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moved some of the fingers of his
hand into the early morning before going to
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rest a little bit I came to
Mary' s room. I felt the
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feeling of cold. Again I stayed
for a moment waiting for the worst within
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a few minutes. One of the
machines I was connected to began to warn
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that something wasn' t right right
at once. Mary moved in a strange
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and grotesque way. His hands began
to twist, as did his feet.
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Suddenly he opened his eyes. I
had a feeling he was looking at me.
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That was impossible because the lady had
brain death. Then he began to
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move his lips as if he wanted
to tell me something straight away, opened
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his mouth and screamed. It was
a horrible scream that was heard in the
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hallways right away. Several nurses and
the doctor on duty went to see what
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was going on about her and other
colleagues came in. Mary stood still with
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her eyes fixed on me. Then
I saw clearly when he changed the expression.
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It was the crucial moment when her
eyes went out and her skin color
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changed. The death had arrived to
take her The doctor by protocol checked her
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vital signs, but she was already
dead. They all left the room.
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I stayed alone with her to clean
her up and prepare her for her funeral.
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I disconnected it from the appliances,
cleaned it carefully and left it ready.
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I left the room and continued my
activities. The head nurse gave me
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Maria' s granddaughter' s number
to warn her of her death. I
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had a strange feeling. Every time
I went through Mary' s room.
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I found it sad that she was
alone in that place, because the granddaughter
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said she would arrive until the morning. In a moment I passed by I
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was struck by the impression that Mary
moved her head towards me. I had
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left her with her right head,
but now I had her turned around looking
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at me with my eyes open.
I couldn' t handle it, and
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I immediately went to the lobby.
She was very upset. It was the
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first time something like that happened to
me. It was not possible that Mary
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had moved her head a little calmer. I went back to his room.
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Everything was in order. Mary had
her head as she had already left it.
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I didn' t know if it
was true what I was living or
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whether everything was the product of my
nerves Every time I had a chance I
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would go to see her, but
everything went on the same way. I
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was calming down, believing it had
been a misinterpretation of the facts. I
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closed the curtains on the windows.
She didn' t need the moonlight anymore.
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At the time I did, I
heard a voice telling me not to
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do it without turning around I got
icy slow. I turned around to see
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who it was. Inside the room, we were just Mary and I slowly
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moved closer to the door to get
away from the place, but Mary again
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spoke to me, asked me not
to leave and to help her. Now
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I had no doubt that it was
about her. It was Mary who was
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talking. For a moment, it
crossed my mind that she would have been
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able to return to life and that
it was all a mistake of the doctor.
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But I remembered that I had brain
death. It was impossible for him
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to be alive shaking. I walked
slowly out of the room. I didn
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' t want to spend another second
with that living corpse. But I think
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Mary realized my intentions because she told
me not to leave to help her,
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because she felt her hands and feet
frozen. I didn' t know how
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to react. I was more afraid
of that woman. I didn' t
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want to be in that room next
to her, let alone touch some part
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of her body. I was determined
to run away, but something made me
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come back and get close to his
stretcher. She stretched out her hand to
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me when I touched her it was
freezing like ice, just like her limbs,
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I did it quickly and told her
I would be right back. I
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' d go get the doctor to
check on her, because it wasn'
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t common what had just happened.
But she took me by my arm,
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as she did when I was alive, telling me not to, I just
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needed a little warmth from my hands. I kept rubbing his body to reactivate
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the circulation because it was in a
blue hue. The algor mortis that was
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the temperature of a corpse was exactly
the one she had. Little by little
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it decreased. I stayed with her
for a few minutes that became eternal in
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the face of any movement of mine. She was holding my arm so I
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wouldn' t leave her alone all
the time. He asked me to give
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him a massage, but his body
temperature never went up. It stayed that
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way. Mary suddenly began to speak
with such memories of her childhood and of
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her youthful stage. It was very
strange that he told me about events that
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took place a long time ago.
With a shaky voice. He told me
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things that it was impossible for him
to have lived them at the time.
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I let go of his hand.
It gave me a horrible terror to be
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talking to that living corpse. She
realized everything she smiled with a grotesque grimace.
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He seemed to have forgotten how to
laugh. I couldn' t be
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there any longer. With difficulty,
I managed to get out of her hand
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and ran away while she kept making
fun of me. I didn' t
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go back to the room and I
didn' t say anything. I was
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afraid they' d think I'
d imagined. Everything was the new nurse
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on the 11th floor and I didn' t want to be returned to the
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hospital I was coming from every moment
I was going to look into room 27
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but she was still asleep or dead. I no longer knew what to think
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about it, nor did I dare
enter the room again. The temperature of
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the place was always colder than normal. It was as if death was accompanying
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Mary. I finished my shift and
ran out of the hospital. The next
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night was my break. I didn' t work until the other day.
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Upon returning to my turn, the
first thing I asked was for Mary.
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My partner. She told me that
in the morning she was her granddaughter to
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pick her up. I didn'
t know how to ask her about Maria.
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I just thought I' d tell
her if everything was okay and she
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said yes. I didn' t
want to dig into it anymore. I
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just went to the room, which
was clean, the stretcher with the sheet
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clean and stretched. It was rare
to feel the room temperature different, I
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felt it normal to date. I
don' t know how to interpret that
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event. Sometimes my thought tells me
that everything could have been the product of
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my fears and that maybe I imagined
everything. It' s the first time
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I' ve told about what happened
to me in the hospital, on the
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11th floor From that time on,
I didn' t see the flat the
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same way. I still see in
the hallways a light fog that moves in
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the early morning. I think it' s about souls moving away from their
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bodies, or maybe it' s
the way death takes to get close to
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their next victim. Story written and
adapted by Adriana Cuevas
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I was a nurse by profession and
as part of my work, I lived
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very close to death, with patients
who unexpectedly died, with those who were
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very serious. When that happened,
I had the feeling that death was passing
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by me because an unexpected cold swept
through my body. On one occasion a
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man came complaining of a very severe
pain in the stomach. After the doctor
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checked it and gave the treatment to
follow, the pain did not decrease.
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I went to the doctor to tell
him that the patient was still complaining of
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pain, so he increased the dose. I didn' t know what happened,
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but soon the man began to vomit
blood and convulse. A few minutes
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later, he was left without life. When the on- call doctor checked
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him, he didn' t understand
what had happened. Like the rest of
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the hospital staff, everything was so
fast that it didn' t give a
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chance to react on behalf of the
man. As part of my job,
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it was up to me to amortize
a patient when I died. It was
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the first time I had done it
with a person I had cared for with
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the respect I deserved. I prayed
silently. I asked him permission to change
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his clothes and clean them calmly.
I was undressing him to clean him of
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his own blood. I took off
the serum and put a little patch on
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it to keep blood from coming out. After two years of working at the
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private hospital, I had the opportunity
to go to work at Lyms. The
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job was completely different compared to the
private hospital I was working at. The
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influx of patients was high. I
didn' t have a chance to take
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care of them. There were times
when, in the least unexpected cases,
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when a woman or a man had
left surgery well and waited for her discharge,
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they died suddenly. It was part
of my job to be close to
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death. Death has always been linked
to the cold, that coldness that reaches
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a lifeless body. In the same
way, while I was working, I
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felt a slight cold wind that made
me turn around to see where it came
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from. Usually, the windows of
the hospital were closed, especially during the
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winter and rainy season, because,
as I was on the eighth floor,
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the air gusts were very strong almost
always closed. Feeling the cold wind within
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a few seconds died. A patient
was as if death passed through one side
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of me and walked slowly towards his
next victim. In the beginning I was
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filled with chills just thinking that I
sensed her in her step. There was
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a time when a patient called me
because I was cold. I understood that
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I was sorry because we were going
through one of the coldest winters. I
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went to the linen room and brought
him a green blanket. I put it
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on him, but he kept saying
he was so cold. He didn'
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t know what to do anymore,
because his temperature began to decrease considerably.
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I never thought it was his near
death, because he had a serious illness,
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but he was controlled. I already
had her discharge ready for the next
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day. The moment I felt the
same gust of cold wind, I couldn
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' t believe it. I told
myself that it was not possible if that
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man was stable, but within a
few seconds he went into cardiac arrest.
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I immediately pressed the emergency button quickly. The emergency cart' s here.
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The doctor put the defribilizer on several
occasions, but the patient did not react.
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The doctor gave the time of death
at three o' clock in the
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morning. That was the crucial moment
when I convinced myself that I could perceive
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death. It was so close to
me that I felt it. Soon after
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I was in that hospital. The
head nurse sent for me and told me
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there was a vacant position at the
medical center. It was my chance to
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get up a little bit. The
head nurse, seeing my enthusiasm, told
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me there was only one problem.
The apartment I had been assigned to in
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the medical center was the 11th floor
within the medical staff. It was well
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known that in that particular area of
the hospital the terminally ill persons they named
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evicted were placed. Very few of
them had the chance to get out alive.
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Almost everyone for the type of illness
they had and the state they were
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in died in there I didn'
t mind being sent to that floor.
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Not only did Lyms' medical staff
know about that floor of the medical center.
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Social security users were also aware of
this, because on several occasions it
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was my turn to listen when a
doctor told the patient' s relative that
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they were going to move him to
the 11th floor of the medical center.
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The son or daughter broke loose crying
saying that if they sent her father or
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mother to that place it was because
she was already evicted and no longer had
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a fight. When he heard the
family member' s painful remark, it
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was true in that area, specifically
in the medical center, that patients who
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already had a severe diagnosis were transferred
and that only a miracle could save them.
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It was true that most of the
sick died, but not just on
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that floor. As a hospital with
regional coverage, there were many hospitalized and,
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as many of them recovered favorably,
others did not. On July 1st,
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I introduced myself to the head nurse
on the 11th floor. It was
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the first time I went to the
medical center as an employee. As I
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left the elevator and entered the floor, it seemed exactly the same as the
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rest of the hospital floors. The
first thing I thought was that a myth
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and a halo of mystery had been
created around the 11th floor. The head
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nurse assigned me the night shift.
I' d be on top of my
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performance. I could change my shift
later. I didn' t have any
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trouble working at night. I'
ve been doing it for several years.
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I was used to it. I
showed up the next day at night.
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My check- in time was at
eight o' clock at night. I
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was walking through a side of the
medical center. On the side of the
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ramp, several patients were accompanied by
a family member. Only the room in
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the back, room 27 remained with
a patient. The other two stretchers were
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vacant and the sick woman had no
companion. I found it strange, but
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I thought someone would come with her
later. At the time I went to
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give him his medication, I read
the metal folder in which the doctor'
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s instructions were in. Most of
the medications were for the pain and so
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that he could sleep. I checked
his vitals. She was unconscious, apparently,
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she didn' t even perceive.
When someone was around, I introduced
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the first medicine with a needle.
I checked that the serum drip was the
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right one. When I raised his
hand to take his blood pressure. She
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held me by my arm. I
thought I woke up, but it was
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only a reflection, because I was
still asleep. I continued with the following
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patients. That' s when I
sensed again that cold wind that crept into
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my bones. I had no doubt
about the presence of death. She was
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walking down the halls to choose the
person to take and so it happened.
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Within seconds I heard the scream of
one of the rooms, an elderly woman
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had just died. Two of the
doctors on duty ran, but I knew
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that woman had died. I knew
it because on this occasion I not only
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felt the cold of death, but
I came to perceive a dark shadow that
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moved right in that room. A
few minutes later, the head nurse told
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me that it was up to me
to make the mortaja to the woman who
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had just died. With the same
respect as ever, I started the whole
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ritual to her. It was necessary
to remove the tube that had been inserted
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into his mouth, as well as
the catheter that he had in his chest.
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It was the first time I had
a little fear because I could see
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a shadow in the corner of the
room. I continued my work and when
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I looked back at that place,
the shadow was gone. I could not
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believe that everything that was said about
that floor was true, but I began
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to doubt it because after 2:
00 in the morning, when I finished
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checking the patients who assigned me,
I went out a little bit into the
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lobby to get some fresh air.
There were chairs in that place to sit
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down. From there you could see
through the crystals, the nurses' headquarters
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and the two nearby corridors. To
her I noticed a sort of steam that
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moved between the two corridors, a
whitish smoke barely perceptible. Besides, I
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didn' t know why the lights
were too low. There was only enough
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light to move between the rooms.
I was going back to continue my work.
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When a companion approached me a little
disgruntled, she told me that she
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hated the night shift and more on
that floor, because she was more gloomy
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than others, since something strange walked
daily in the hallways and it was surely
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she who was responsible for everything.
When I asked her who she was referring
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to, she told me that Mrs
Maria in room twenty- seven. That
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' s why no one came to
look after her, because she was a
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witch. I couldn' t stay
and ask her any more about that lady,
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because another of my colleagues told me
to support her change. To la.
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Mrs Maria had become dirty because she
no longer had control of her sphincters.
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I immediately went to help her.
The woman was still unconscious. Between
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the two of us, we changed
his sheet and his robe. While we
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were doing so, the woman held
my partner' s arm so tightly that
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I couldn' t get her to
let go. My partner was already scared.
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The moment I got her to stop
grabbing her, the patient remained unconscious.
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We got out of the room in
a lot of fear. My partner
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told me she was a very strange
lady. His vital signs indicated that he
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was in a vegetative state, but
suddenly he had reactions like those of a
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moment ago on the floor. No
one liked to take care of her for
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the same reason because something unusual happened
every time at the nurses' station.
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They called her the witch, since
almost no one was going to visit her
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except for a granddaughter, who went
in the afternoons, but only stayed for
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a while. My roommates were right. Every time I walked into room 27
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I felt something strange. I had
a feeling there was someone else inside.
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Besides that, something unusual happened to
me with Mrs Maria. While I was
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doing my job, she began to
move her lips as if she wanted to
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talk. I thought it would only
be for a moment, but he kept
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doing it for several minutes until I
heard a murmur. I thought someone else
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had entered the room, but I
didn' t. It was just me
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and the lady. As soon as
I finished giving her her meds, I
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went to the head nurse to tell
her what had happened to Mary. With
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all the calmness of the world,
she told me not to take into account
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any abnormal situation that happened with her. They were used to it. I
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wasn' t so sure it was
such a simple thing. As I attended
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to other patients every time I passed
through his room, I went in for
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a few seconds and felt as if
I were aware of my presence, I
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moved some of the fingers of his
hand into the early morning before going to
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rest a little bit I came to
Mary' s room. I felt the
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feeling of cold. Again I stayed
for a moment waiting for the worst within
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a few minutes. One of the
machines I was connected to began to warn
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that something wasn' t right right
at once. Mary moved in a strange
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and grotesque way. His hands began
to twist, as did his feet.
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Suddenly he opened his eyes. I
had a feeling he was looking at me.
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That was impossible because the lady had
brain death. Then he began to
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move his lips as if he wanted
to tell me something straight away, opened
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his mouth and screamed. It was
a horrible scream that was heard in the
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hallways right away. Several nurses and
the doctor on duty went to see what
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was going on about her and other
colleagues came in. Mary stood still with
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her eyes fixed on me. Then
I saw clearly when he changed the expression.
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It was the crucial moment when her
eyes went out and her skin color
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changed. The death had arrived to
take her The doctor by protocol checked her
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vital signs, but she was already
dead. They all left the room.
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I stayed alone with her to clean
her up and prepare her for her funeral.
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I disconnected it from the appliances,
cleaned it carefully and left it ready.
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I left the room and continued my
activities. The head nurse gave me
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Maria' s granddaughter' s number
to warn her of her death. I
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had a strange feeling. Every time
I went through Mary' s room.
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I found it sad that she was
alone in that place, because the granddaughter
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said she would arrive until the morning. In a moment I passed by I
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was struck by the impression that Mary
moved her head towards me. I had
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left her with her right head,
but now I had her turned around looking
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at me with my eyes open.
I couldn' t handle it, and
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I immediately went to the lobby.
She was very upset. It was the
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first time something like that happened to
me. It was not possible that Mary
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had moved her head a little calmer. I went back to his room.
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Everything was in order. Mary had
her head as she had already left it.
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I didn' t know if it
was true what I was living or
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whether everything was the product of my
nerves Every time I had a chance I
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would go to see her, but
everything went on the same way. I
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was calming down, believing it had
been a misinterpretation of the facts. I
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closed the curtains on the windows.
She didn' t need the moonlight anymore.
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At the time I did, I
heard a voice telling me not to
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do it without turning around I got
icy slow. I turned around to see
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who it was. Inside the room, we were just Mary and I slowly
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moved closer to the door to get
away from the place, but Mary again
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spoke to me, asked me not
to leave and to help her. Now
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I had no doubt that it was
about her. It was Mary who was
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talking. For a moment, it
crossed my mind that she would have been
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able to return to life and that
it was all a mistake of the doctor.
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But I remembered that I had brain
death. It was impossible for him
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to be alive shaking. I walked
slowly out of the room. I didn
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' t want to spend another second
with that living corpse. But I think
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Mary realized my intentions because she told
me not to leave to help her,
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because she felt her hands and feet
frozen. I didn' t know how
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to react. I was more afraid
of that woman. I didn' t
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want to be in that room next
to her, let alone touch some part
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of her body. I was determined
to run away, but something made me
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come back and get close to his
stretcher. She stretched out her hand to
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me when I touched her it was
freezing like ice, just like her limbs,
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I did it quickly and told her
I would be right back. I
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' d go get the doctor to
check on her, because it wasn'
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t common what had just happened.
But she took me by my arm,
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as she did when I was alive, telling me not to, I just
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needed a little warmth from my hands. I kept rubbing his body to reactivate
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the circulation because it was in a
blue hue. The algor mortis that was
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the temperature of a corpse was exactly
the one she had. Little by little
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it decreased. I stayed with her
for a few minutes that became eternal in
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the face of any movement of mine. She was holding my arm so I
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wouldn' t leave her alone all
the time. He asked me to give
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him a massage, but his body
temperature never went up. It stayed that
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way. Mary suddenly began to speak
with such memories of her childhood and of
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her youthful stage. It was very
strange that he told me about events that
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took place a long time ago.
With a shaky voice. He told me
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things that it was impossible for him
to have lived them at the time.
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I let go of his hand.
It gave me a horrible terror to be
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talking to that living corpse. She
realized everything she smiled with a grotesque grimace.
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He seemed to have forgotten how to
laugh. I couldn' t be
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there any longer. With difficulty,
I managed to get out of her hand
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and ran away while she kept making
fun of me. I didn' t
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go back to the room and I
didn' t say anything. I was
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afraid they' d think I'
d imagined. Everything was the new nurse
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on the 11th floor and I didn' t want to be returned to the
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hospital I was coming from every moment
I was going to look into room 27
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but she was still asleep or dead. I no longer knew what to think
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about it, nor did I dare
enter the room again. The temperature of
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the place was always colder than normal. It was as if death was accompanying
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Mary. I finished my shift and
ran out of the hospital. The next
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night was my break. I didn' t work until the other day.
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Upon returning to my turn, the
first thing I asked was for Mary.
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My partner. She told me that
in the morning she was her granddaughter to
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pick her up. I didn'
t know how to ask her about Maria.
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I just thought I' d tell
her if everything was okay and she
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said yes. I didn' t
want to dig into it anymore. I
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just went to the room, which
was clean, the stretcher with the sheet
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clean and stretched. It was rare
to feel the room temperature different, I
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felt it normal to date. I
don' t know how to interpret that
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event. Sometimes my thought tells me
that everything could have been the product of
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my fears and that maybe I imagined
everything. It' s the first time
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I' ve told about what happened
to me in the hospital, on the
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11th floor From that time on,
I didn' t see the flat the
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same way. I still see in
the hallways a light fog that moves in
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the early morning. I think it' s about souls moving away from their
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bodies, or maybe it' s
the way death takes to get close to
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their next victim. Story written and
adapted by Adriana Cuevas








