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Till the death tear us apart

"Why you sad? Is one of your patient dead?" That's the first question came from Mak Tiri when I told her I'm sad. Yeah, by now I know what type of nurse I am. Baper, they said. Acronyms of 'bawa perasaan', mean I let my feeling take over in many situations, mostly. Its hard for me to moving on in patient's death, especially if I know we can do more to save them. This morning, I once again, lost my patient. This time it was a granny with HAP Post Resection Tumor, she has a Diabetes Type II too, a typical complicated case. With a slim chance to win. She never open her eyes spontaneously, and her breathing frequency is always high since she brought in. The others nurses and doctors already pessimistic about her condition. And last night, her condition finally deteriorated. Firstly, her blood pressure decrease till 79 at sistole, then we gave her dopamine in syringe pump. It help, at least for few first hour. But then she started to have bradicardy and in no ...