The Nightmare Series Case: The Diagnostic Mindfield

The address was one of those addresses that kind of set in the corner of multiple streets.

So this house was facing one street, but the address was to another street, so the entrance into the home.

So we had a hard time getting in.

When we got into the home, it was very much a hoarder situation.

There was a a small pathway that led from our point of entrance to the back bedroom where I found the patient.

The patient was found supine.

Her eyes were closed.

There was copious amounts of feces all over the floor from the bathroom to her bed in the kitchen.

It was evident immediately this patient was sick.

That immediately, I'll tell you, flying for as long as I did, 22 years, you know, I've worked ground throughout that time and definitely worked PRN.

But there's a difference when you're, you know, when I go back to previous 2003 where I was full-time ground and you're running calls every single day and it's what you do, you get used to the stuff like that.

I mean,

as much as you can, right, you get used to it.

And I'll be honest with you.

You know, I've been back working ground PRN for a year.

And I'm still not used to it again.

It's hard to walk in some of these houses like that.

You just don't get that on the flight side.

No, you don't.

But it's also a privilege.

I mean, you're getting to see people in their most vulnerable moments.

Nobody ever plans to get sick or to get hurt.

And sometimes that occurs when your home is not in a state for company.

And this woman, even though The state was poor, and it had been for some time.

And even though she was very sick, she really hated that I saw her home in the state that it was in, especially with the amount of diarrhea that she had had.