It Really Messed Me Up
I’m a nurse and I was previously working at an assisted living community on the dementia and Alzheimer’s unit. My very favorite patient had been declining pretty steadily, so I was checking on him very frequently.
We would have long chats and joke around with each other, but in the last two weeks of his life, he stopped talking completely. He didn’t really acknowledge conversation directed at him at all. I finished my medication rounds for the evening, so I went to see him before I left.
I told him I was leaving for the night and that I’d see him the following day. As soon as I said that, he immediately looked me in the eyes, smiled sooo genuinely, and calmly said, “You look like an angel”.
I thought it was so sweet, because he had not seemed lucid in several weeks. But then I found out the disturbing truth. He passed the next morning. It really messed with me. Story credit: Reddit / abbztract