2007-03-26 18:15:48 · 6 answers · asked by huy v 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Often. Once, a young man who was dying of AIDS had to move back into his parent's home because he had run out of money and there were no more beds at a local hospice for AIDS patients. This was before the AIDS cocktail. His parents were hateful toward him. They wouldn't let his friends visit. They were cold and bitter with him. They were making him as miserable as they could. And, the poor kid was dying. I was his nurse. His pain was worsening. I visited and spoke with the young man alone. He wept and told me about how cold and bitter his parents were toward him, about how they wouldn't let his friends visit. My heart ached for him. Soon, I said, there will be a bed available at the AIDS hospice. But, I lied. He wasn't going to live that long. On my way out, I told his parents that I was confused about why his pain meds weren't working. His mother snarled, "Oh, I know why they aren't working. I'm not giving them to him. He lived in sin and he can just die in pain." I actually swooned on their front porch. That was his own MOTHER. I collected myself, straightened my back, marched past his parents back into the house and to the young man's room and asked him if he would leave right then if there was a bed ready for him at the AIDS hospice. Yes!! I wrapped him up right then and there, scooped his frail little body up in my arms and carried him out of that god forsaken house and packed him in my car, safe and sound, and drove him over to the hospice where they laughed their butts off at me . . .but, godluvem, they had a bed ready for him by the time I had carried him into a room. I had broken every rule in the book and I knew I'd lose my nursing license and my job while I was helping to support both of my kids through college. It didn't matter. I DIDN'T lose my license, and the young man, when he died, was surrounded by all of his beloved friends and he was comfortable and pain-free. That was important enough to me to risk losing my license and job.
2007-03-26 18:40:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what's the question? What about it?
Do I think it's important to take the risk? I sure do.
2007-03-27 01:24:08 · answer #2 · answered by sophieb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This one time, I was trying to get a sandwich and the guy behind the counter was like, "Hey, we don't have sandwiches! Only meatloaf!" And I was all, like, "Don't yell at me, man! I just want a sandwich!" But he started yelling at me again, so I stood up to him and said "Don't you have some tasty bread on which I can place this slice of loaved meat?" And he was all, "Oh, yeah."
And I was like, "Yeah."
2007-03-27 01:24:34 · answer #3 · answered by EzminJ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and I have done many times.
2007-03-27 01:22:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have only done this with small groups of friends or with individuals
2007-03-27 01:23:36 · answer #5 · answered by Nora 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes, I feel more alive when I do that... why not?????
2007-03-27 01:24:25 · answer #6 · answered by Golriz J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋