jayne joyce-green

I was working as a staff nurse and a patient was approaching a particularly horrible end. She was distressed and vomiting faeces. I decided to pass a tube to relieve her vomiting, washed her and made her comfortable and she passed away peacefully about an hour later with her family present. About 5 or 6 days later my own mother died unexpectedly. I went to register the death and waited outside a number of rooms to go in and give the details. When I was called in the person had to fill in the details in a large ledger one person to each page. When she showed me my mother's page, the details of the lady I had helped were on the opposite side. In other words she and my mothers details lie face to face. I could have been called into any of those rooms. The lady told me they each held their own ledger and there had been no entry made in that ledger till I came with my Mom;s details all those days later. You might imagine there would have been an entry as this was in the city of Birmingham which surely must have many deaths recorded