Commentary: Linda Lombardi knew that her former patient had no family or close friends. So she used FaceTime to stay with her during her final hours in a special palliative care ward for COVID-19 patients. 'I just couldn't let her die alone,' she says.
In 2007, psychiatric nurse Linda Lombardi started treating a small, thin, gray-haired woman of nearly 70 who mixed sweetness with stubbornness.
Ann had a difficult life. She had no memory of parents or other relatives. When she was just five years old, Lombardi says, she was left at an institution in western Massachusetts that sounds straight out of Charles Dickens: It was called the Belchertown State School for the Feeble-Minded, and eventually closed afterAnn lived at the school until she was 17; then at the state hospital in Waltham, and later in state-run apartments. She had chronic mental illness and could never work.
"And she looked at me with her eyes wide open, and she said, ‘I want to go home! I want to see the Red Sox.’"Lombardi says."And I couldn't bear to tell her they weren't playing." "No one wants to die alone," he says."People really deserve, in those final precious days of life, as much comfort, as much caring, as much affection as they can possibly get. And if someone is alert enough, aware enough to receive that, then it's so important that you provide it in any way possible.
She has worked in intensive care units and could see that Ann was near the end."And I just couldn't let her die alone," she says."I just couldn't do it." "She just looked peaceful," Lombardi says."And I kept telling her to just be calm and to be at peace. And she was going to a place where she wouldn't be suffering anymore. And it was okay to go whenever she was ready. And…and she just slowly slipped away."
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