Lemonada.

So you have somebody who goes from on the verge of dying, pale, slow pulse, very low

auction level, completely unresponsive, to very much awake and alive.

And you kind of have this assumption that when somebody has an experience like that, they

would be really thankful for being alive, but it doesn't happen like that.

This is last day, a new podcast from Lemonada Media about the things that are killing us.

And I'm your host, Stephanie Widdle's Wax.

Sometimes we'll go for the same patient three or four or five times a day.

It's frustrating for our crew that times because they go and they grab them, they do everything

they can for them, they wake them back up, they get into the hospital and then they walk

back out.

We're trying to understand the why and the how of America's most massive epidemics by

zooming in on one person's story.

More specifically, their last day.

This body was pushed up against the doors like when you get in, so it's really, really

hard.

And then I got in and I saw him.

That's why you just called 911.

Could you tell he was dead?

Yeah, but I was still hoping that maybe he wasn't.

Then we rewind the tape.

We look at all the circumstances that brought them to their last day.

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