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KICKING AND SHINING
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Hi I'm a lurker. I just want to add my 2 cents.
I am a seasoned critical care nurse. I have been in many situations with crazy patients withdrawing off drugs or having psychotic episodes or what not. Even with training these are very scary and traumatic episodes usually involving at least 6 staff members. (most of the time more) .I have been kicked clear across a room, Ive seen security and other nurses getting punched in the face and never mind the flying spit! We just had a pastor have her face broken up when a distraught family member picked up a chair in rage and threw it at her face. People in these kinds of rages are very very scary. I cant even imagine coming upon a scene like this. He was a crazed angry man. Some of them might have just been frozen in trauma. You cant blame the bystanders. You cant blame human reaction to traumatic events. I am telling you taking down a 250 pound 6 foot drug crazed psycho with 4 nurses a 4 security guards is insane ,traumatic, dangerous and someone always always always gets hurt!!!!! And we are trained staff. I have taken care of prisoners who have had psychotic breaks in prison. They come to us shackled and with 2-3 prison officers. They usually have been taking down by 10 officers in riot gear and peppered sprayed to the point that we as nurses are ill from the spray just listening to heart sounds or putting on blood pressure cuffs or even just walking in the room. My point is these people that are in these crazed states are very very scary . I understand he was killing his child and that enrages me. But honestly I don't think if I was there with an elderly couple and 2- 20 something year old kids all in shock if I would have tried either. I really don't know what I would do.
This is such a sad heartbreaking case. I am sure all of the bystanders are beating them selves with could of ,would of, should of. never mind having this event just play over and over again in there minds. They did what they could with what they had. They called 911, one kid rushed at him. I can just see in my head that kid trying to get at the guy or the baby alone with a nut bag in psychosis. Of course he would fail.The whole situation is just horrible even for us reading about it it is traumatic.
Just adding a little of my experience and perspective here thanks
That's what I'm talking about. Thank you. Therese.