Tuscaloosa, AL - Ethel Burman shocked her family this week after admitting to them she wasn't really a fighter after all. Despite their insistence over the years, the elderly nursing home patient told her family she's never been a fighter and all their talk about her being a fighter is just made up gibberish in their own minds.
"I just got tired of hearing my kids tell the doctors to do everything because I am a fighter and I snapped. I'm not a fighter. I'm 98 years old. Last week I wrote a thank you card to my poop for being the only thing to show up on my birthday," said Ethel, who has suffered through debilitating illness at the nursing home for years.
Ethel is known hospital wide for her frequent hospital admissions to intervene on any one of her dozens of chronic medical conditions. Ethel is part of a close knit group of frequent flyers being kept alive at all costs by their family's grit and determination. "I've taken care of Ethel for years. Her son always makes us write an order for Wants To Fight. I say to the son 'WTF?' and he nods his head yes," said Angela Hanes, a veteran nurse who has seen it all.
Angela admits the nursing team on pod seven prominently displays a constantly updated list of WTF patients so nurses can mentally prepare for their day of pain. "We have an agreement on the floor that if we are assigned a WTF patient, we don't have take anyone else on that day. They require 1:1 cares all day long," said Angela.
Despite his mother clearly expressing her wishes, Ethel's son spent hours trying to convince hospital staff she didn't know what she was saying. "My mother is crazy. I'm her POA. I know what's best for her," said her son with a straight face and exceptional insight.
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"I just got tired of hearing my kids tell the doctors to do everything because I am a fighter and I snapped. I'm not a fighter. I'm 98 years old. Last week I wrote a thank you card to my poop for being the only thing to show up on my birthday," said Ethel, who has suffered through debilitating illness at the nursing home for years.
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Angela admits the nursing team on pod seven prominently displays a constantly updated list of WTF patients so nurses can mentally prepare for their day of pain. "We have an agreement on the floor that if we are assigned a WTF patient, we don't have take anyone else on that day. They require 1:1 cares all day long," said Angela.
Despite his mother clearly expressing her wishes, Ethel's son spent hours trying to convince hospital staff she didn't know what she was saying. "My mother is crazy. I'm her POA. I know what's best for her," said her son with a straight face and exceptional insight.
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