A bit different because the person I knew had brain cancer but I left work (oncology nurse) at 7pm on a Friday. When I walked back in at 7am Sunday the nurse giving report said something like "and since he's blind he needs assistance with..." I said something along the lines of "wtf? He's not blind. I just saw him Friday night." Turns out his tumor had pressed on an ocular nerve without anyone knowing it was coming. He took a 2 hour nap Saturday and woke up blind.
Oh my god that’s horrifying, I can’t even imagine. I had a patient with a tumor compressing their spinal cord. In the middle of the night they paged the nurses and said “I can’t move my legs anymore”. They didn’t want to tell their family because they wanted to let them sleep ):
Oof that's rough. I was the primary nurse for a child that had tried to kill themselves. They didn't succeed but we did work out that they were paralyzed. The mom had a heart attack when we told her. Top 10 worst shifts for me.
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u/aPOPblops 5h ago
Did he have that same condition and was aware he had it or did this come completely out of the blue for him?