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you are trying to go on, but several times she has
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tried to complete a sentence and you are interrupting her. Go ahead.
A.
I lost track.
BY MR. MCGARRY:
 
Q.
The fingernails.
A.
She was like what I saw about her
behavior, how she was behaving?
Q.
Yes.
A.
Extremely violent, like bent on -- she seemed
like determined to do harm to herself and us and the
physical objects in the room. Right before I arrived, everything but the beds and a dresser had been moved
out of the area, a mirror taken off the back of the
wall, which was already broken, the chandelier was taken down, because there was a period of time she would fall, and she could get her arms around (indicating) anything breakable, anything sharp. Anything that could be used to hurt someone or herself
was taken out; no cords, no cable, no electrical equipment, nothing.
Q.
All right. Did you have any conversations
with the other care-givers that were there that first day you were there that made you think this was the type of behavior that had gone on the previous week she

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