Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "People Keep Catching On Fire And We Don't Know Why" video.

In the early 1970s, the hospital that my mom worked at had a patient suddenly combusted in a hospital bed! Died instantly and burned the bed to dust, but didn't spread. It was weird, and never solved. Scared us to death!
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@Saxxin1 I was at the hospital every day after school, since I walked there from Palo Alto HS to the hospital and my mom got off at 4 pm and we'd go to the store after or go to the mall and then go home. I used to sit in the lobby and do homework till she was ready to go. Neither of us saw the woman, because they'd never let you check out a room that was possibly a crime scene, etc. It would be locked. I did see a photo of the burned up bed, but of course not the woman. Do not disbelieve everything' you come across. It's just as foolish as believing everything you see. I'm just talking about an incident that happened where my mom worked. Why would you find that so incredible? Yes, it's a crazy incident but I saw and heard a lot of crazy stuff that actually happened there. I cannot believe the stuff I used to hear of in the nurses lounge, they'd forget I was there and really spill the gossip, you have no idea!!! Nurses have seen it all!!
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@BrendaPenepent this was in the 1970s. It was in the papers at the time. I think it was definitely in the original Hoover Pavilion (before it all became Standord University Hospital. I was one of the first babies born in the new Stanford Hospital. There was a dangerous pneumonia epidemic with babies, and a story was run about saving newborns, and since I had just been born, a photographer took a photo of me with my dads hand covering me, to show how small newborns were).
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I had a hysterectomy for cervical cancer at 40, I went into instant surgical menopause and spent the next 15 years explaining to people why I was red faced and sweating! I'm 62 now, and no more hot flashes! It's worth it being old to no longer deal with it! I also lost a ton of weight over a couple of years, and that helped too. Don't give up, they stop eventually. It helps a lot if you excercise and eat healthy foods. Boring, I know, but you'll feel much better...
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@martinmorrissey5647 My mom worked in admitting patients into the hospital so she only went into patients room to admit them if it was an emergency or there were things to be signed off on, I dont think she saw any of it, but I did see a photo of the burned out bed in the Palo Alto times. Mom told me it was confounding everyone how it could have happened and they kind of locked down and told everyone to keep quiet, which I think they did, because the whole town was built around Stanford hospital and university so you didn't want to piss them off! Mom said it was spontaneous combustion because the woman went up like a torch and just the bed, it would have spread because it was so hot, but didn't. Stanford did have automatic hallway doors that slammed shut if there was a fire or earthquake. I was there during a small quake once, and all these huge hallway doors started slamming shut. It was creepy! I wish I knew more, it might be on Google, not sure. I'm going to try and find it...
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@2degucitas I think they tried to smoke... EVERYONE was smoking then, and in the hospitals, nervous doctors and patients smoked ALL the time. Even where they weren't allowed. There were enough trash can fires in offices because of tossed cigarette butts to be a daily occurence! People were also smoking pot all the time in the Bay Area, there were endless accounts of pothead security guards, nurses, doctors, getting caught sharing joints...it wasn't the big moral dilemma it is today, people actually made up their own minds back then and weren't always told what to think. It was tried, but there was a brave new world supposedly changing for the better. We never thought that we would ever be a police state!
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@Saffron-sugar I think it's possible that stealing a cigarette lit her up and started the fire, but she basically melted, and it was discovered fast so they didn't know what happened. I saw a show where it was discovered that some people CAN be candles in a way, their fat burns like oil. There was a picture of the bed, it's got to be out there still, if someone googles it, I think it was either in the Palo Alto Examiner newspaper or the Stanford newspapers, there was a building called the Hoover Pavilion, the original hospital bldg. on Stanford ground, and they might have been there as well, and that bldg. was ancient, probably dangerous! Tell me if you find it.
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