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SINGAPORE – A nurse who could not get home in time to be with her father as he drew his last breath vowed afterwards not to let her patients die alone, if she could help it.
She said: “I want to be there when there’s another person needing my help. If I wasn’t able to witness your last breath, I want to witness other people’s last breath, then I can tell you, I was with someone.” Ms Lacdaying Cherrie vowed to not let her patients die alone, after she could not be by her father’s bedside when he died. ST PHOTO: HESTER TANWhen a resident she had grown close to died by her side, Ms Lacdaying cried in the toilet and needed counselling afterwards. Her nurse manager reminded her she needed to maintain a calm presence with the home’s residents.
But her nurse manager later reassured her it was just a bad day, and that she had done her job by keeping both residents safe.‘It’s difficult not to get too close’: Hospice nurses describe emotional toll of caring for the dying She recounted caring for a jovial 76-year-old woman, who was often breathless from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She would joke with Ms Lim and tell her she had missed her when she came to visit. But one day, the woman’s granddaughter called Ms Lim to say she had killed herself.
“I regret that I didn’t know how to help. Even now when I think about her, I feel sorry. But I think that she gave me the determination and the courage that if I know how to take care of her, maybe she will not feel so lonely and having someone to talk to can ease some of her pain.”
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