last week our med team had our first casualty - Mr. AR who had lived a good life but was now succumbing to pneumonia and sepsis. When infection spreads thruout ur body it will eventually attack the brain causing delirium which can manifest as personality changes. I watched as AR changed from a cheerful, jovial character into someone who wanted to bite my head off. I could see the hatred in his eyes, like from 'The Exorcist' and the fact that he was having difficulty breathing meant that he sounded like the Beast when he talked (obviously not as hairy and without the teeth). After being violent for 2 days, AR passed away surrounded by his family who chose to remember him as a loving man and not the Beast that he had become.
As for man, his days are like grass,
he flourishes like a flower of the field;
the wind blows over it and it is gone,
and its place remembers it no more.
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