Jim Bakker Show - Personal Story of Life Without Power
Aired: 2015-09-14
Duration: 02:44


=== Water Crisis in Nursing Homes (02:14) ===

[00:00:00]  And so you've warned the nation.
[00:00:04]  What was it like to speak to the government?
[00:00:08]  Frustrating.
[00:00:12]  Let me share.
[00:00:14]  You mentioned the hospital.
[00:00:16]  Yes.
[00:00:17]  A lot of what I put into the book are basic things and autobiographical.
[00:00:25]  As I started working on this book, my father a proud veteran of World War II, gave six years of his life to this country.
[00:00:33]  He was a cavalry trooper, an actual mounted cavalry trooper.
[00:00:37]  Dad was fighting out the last weeks of his life, and he was going out like the sergeant that he was.
[00:00:43]  Terrible storm came up and blew out the power grid of Black Mountain.
[00:00:48]  I got a call from the nursing home that they needed help.
[00:00:52]  I drove up there through this driving, terrible storm.
[00:00:56]  They had no water.
[00:00:57]  They had no water.
[00:00:59]  And I went and I got 25 gallons of water from an emergency supply depot, which became difficult because they were passing out one-gallon containers.
[00:01:09]  And some people might, you know, Black Mountain is a peaceful little town, but people were getting upset already.
[00:01:13]  It's like, why are you getting 25 gallons of water?
[00:01:17]  But the part in the book that you reference is in the novel, the main character goes in to get his father-in-law out of the nursing home four or five days into the crisis.
[00:01:30]  And the horror of what has happened.
[00:01:32]  Think about a nursing home where there's no water, there's no sanitation, there's no refrigeration, the medical supply system has dropped down so that people, if you are familiar with nursing homes, a lot of medications are delivered there only on a daily basis.
[00:01:47]  So if the grid goes down two or three days later, your grandfather, who is in the final stages of fighting cancer, no longer has pain medication.
[00:01:58]  I get called in to the nursing home.

=== Sitting And Watching Him Die (00:43) ===

[00:02:01]  My father is on oxygen, respirator, and I am watching the emergency lights, and I turn to the nurse and I asked her, what happens if the emergency lighting system goes off?
[00:02:13]  What about oxygen for my father?
[00:02:15]  They said, well, we have some pressurized oxygen bottles.
[00:02:18]  I said, suppose it goes for a day or two.
[00:02:21]  Then what?
[00:02:24]  Have this squeeze ball that you put over his face.
[00:02:30]  Then I asked, you mean I will sit here and keep pushing air into my father until I become so exhausted I have to stop and sit back and watch him die.