2003-11-06 - 7:09 p.m.

This is a prostetic leg....

it belongs to a homeless man that I helped hose off yesterday at an ER in *******. I literally hosed this man down. He had no fingers. He was in his mid to late 50's. He had graduated with a four year degree in criminal law. He tried to kill himself in the '70s by throwing himself under a train. It was a very unsuccessful suicide attempt.

I helped another nurse take him into a concrete room where paramedics hose off their equipment. He just layed on the hospital bed while we scrubbed him down and tried to remove leaves that were practically imbedded in his skin.

I saw his leg just sitting on this chair in an empty room....it was sad....a lonely little leg that belonged to a lonely little man.

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