168: Julie is a hospice nurse
What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.
Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is a little different from the norm. |
| 0:09.0 | This episode is a little different from the norm. |
| 0:13.0 | Usually we talk to someone who's experienced something really unusual, |
| 0:18.0 | but every once in a while I like to have a guest on who has an unusual job, a job that I find really interesting and have lots of questions |
| 0:26.3 | about. |
| 0:27.9 | So that's what we're doing here today. |
| 0:29.4 | My guest is Julie, and she works as a hospice nurse. She's been doing this for many years so she |
| 0:36.2 | has lots of information and lots of stories. Every one of us is unique as an |
| 0:42.2 | individual but we all have something in common. |
| 0:45.2 | We are all going to die eventually. |
| 0:48.2 | And in some cases, we might get a medical diagnosis that says we have a certain number of weeks or months left before that happens. |
| 0:57.3 | Of course it's usually just a rough guess and not always accurate. |
| 1:01.1 | But still, it's a sobering thing to have a medical professional tell you that there are no more treatment options and you're probably approaching the end of your life. |
| 1:12.0 | That's often when hospice care enters the picture. So Julie told me all about that and what she does as a hospice nurse. |
| 1:21.8 | And there was something I also found very interesting that Julie told me about herself. |
| 1:28.0 | She has a very specific fear. |
| 1:30.9 | And it's not one that I would have guessed based on the type of work she does. |
| 1:35.0 | Julie has a fear of dead people. |
| 1:40.0 | Real people in unreal situations. |
| 1:45.0 | There is a girl hanging by her broken leg from the telephone wire. |
| 1:52.0 | And I called 911 and I said, I found a baby. |
| 1:55.4 | I turned around. |
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