La Planchada was not a woman who was crushed, rather it is similar to La Llorona. However, legend says it was a nurse who was attracted to a doctor and he rejected her, or a disgruntled nurse, or a nurse who killed her patient. Many variations of how she was created exist, but one consistent theme is that her ghost appears in many hospitals, though mainly in the metropolitan areas, especially in Mexico City. Many hospitals such as Hospital Juárez claim she appears there in her old 1930s/60s nurse uniform, which is perfectly ironed (hence the name "La Planchada") and heals patients in the emergency sections.
Just as there are claims about how she was turned into a ghost, there are many others in which eyewitnesses claim she appears. Some say she emits a sort of glow. Others say she looks like a normal nurse. Others say she floats, while others say she walks normally, but her steps are never heard. This happens at night and the next morning patients feel better and are taken to another room for further recovery. When asked why they feel better, patients say that "a nurse came in and healed me", but no one in the hospital was either guarding the room or no nurse came at the time the incident happened
They say that one day, a girl named Eulalia joined the nursing staff at the hospital. It was a good-girl, with blond hair, blue eyes and fine features, with a friendly and polite attitude but covered by a slight air of seriousness.
From his early days in the medical facility, Eulalia showed great professionalism and diligence, showing always requests the medical staff and the sick poor, to whom he professed a dedication that sometimes went beyond mere duty. Moreover, Eulalia was always very clean and tidy with neatly pressed white uniform and unblemished, free from the slightest blemish or wrinkle.
As expected, Eulalia rapidly gained appreciation from the doctors, at the same time, thanks to its natural charm, managed to be free to inspire envy in his comrades nursing.
Moreover, the life of Eulalia was really quiet, healthy and easy because all their time is divided between work at the hospital and attention to his small but relatively stable and happy family, consisting of his parents and his two brothers minors, at least with respect to its inner circle. Therefore, the usual day consisted Eulalia work in the hospital, coming home with a smile, eat with everyone, take a nap, wake up and spend your next few hours on housework she shared with her mother, playing with his brothers or reading.
But one day everything changed ...
In fact, one morning the director of the hospital staff called to introduce the new doctor who had just arrived: Dr. Joaquín, smart, handsome, tall, come in "good family", but with an air of arrogance. All other nurses and nurses were almost all but stood Eulalia attending to a patient.
After a few days, Eulalia was not yet crossed a word with Dr. Joaquín, and had only seen from a distance, though his ears had come rumors that portrayed him as a proud guy, like one of those men looking almost all "over the shoulder". That meant that she had no great desire to know, but one day it called to assist with the removal of a bullet in the leg of a patient ...
Despite rumors, say that Dr. Eulalia fell in love when I saw Joaquin closely, to the point that his hands trembled slightly when passing instruments, even to make mistakes when it comes to delivering the right tool
After that first meeting, Eulalia began to fall passionately Dr. Joaquín, despite telling him that did not suit him, the guy was an egomaniac and flirted with one and another nurse. However she continued in their quest, saying that her companions were exaggerating or simply justifying Joaquín could not doubt when such and such criticisms were hovering over him. Thus, after a few months she got her purpose and Dr. Joaquín gave in to its charms, agreeing to be her boyfriend.
For a long time Eulalia the happiest creature in the world felt, and his passion grew like wildfire despite Joaquín seemed to love her with the same intensity and even, according to gossip, flirt with other girls behind her back.
After little more than a year of dating, Eulalia was surprised when one day he proposed marriage Joaquín, to which she agreed with the naive enthusiasm of a teenager in love. However it was necessary to wait for the wedding, since before Joaquín had to go to a 15-day seminar in another city.
Before leaving he asked her ironed and prepare a fine suit, and he should be sleek and elegant in the seminar. Then she agreed and just one day before the trip, he went to pick up the costume and visit her, talking with her and tendidamente goodbye with hugs, kisses and promises of eternal love ...
Just a week after the departure of Joaquin, Eulalia and missed him as if he had been absent several months, so sometimes adopted an attitude of wistful nostalgia.
Meanwhile, just after a week accomplished since the last day I saw Joaquin, a nurse approached her when she was alone, he declared his love and asked her to please accompany him to a party as her dance partner, but she He refused and told him that if anything did not remember that Dr. Joaquin and she had a relationship ... Amazed and slightly injured, the nurse looked at her and told her she did not understand how come nobody told him that Joaquín resigned in the hospital and was a honeymoon trip with his new wife ...
The words of the nurse had left completely frost Eulalia, with that mixture of pain and consternation that someone feels when unexpectedly you learn that your mother or someone very dear is dead, but with the huge big difference in the look of Eulalia beating disappointment. That's why she was unable to say anything and just hung his head and left, walking with the faint hope that this was an invention of the nurse to take her. But the next morning he went and found in the records, and effectively Joaquín had resigned, so it was logical to assume that the honeymoon was true, as said many more people besides the nurse ...
Since its heartbreak, Eulalia never again be the same. I've never had a boyfriend before, and had only liked one other boy during adolescence, with Joaquín who really knew what love was. She felt that her heart was shattered a vase on the barren soil of life, and apparently even she wanted to pick up the pieces and put it back together, and that allowed the bitterness out gradually seizing it, until it becomes a cold, silent and be dark, in a woman who did not return to be linked to any man because he abandoned the idea that all "are equal" and a nurse who conducted her work with the soul powdered by boredom and listlessness, neglecting the sick to the point that some died for their negligence in forgetting them medication, although it was not fired because, peers and superiors appreciated and thought that sooner or later would be the working girl and dedicated to patients always had been.
Years passed and one day the disease and fell on her, transforming her into a patient's hospital where for decades he was indifferent to the discomfort of patients so poorly attended. She was now abandoned. However, in the depths of solitude, reflection will soften the heart and, before dying, regretted having been so bad nurse, died unable to forgive herself, and longing to somehow amend their mistakes past ...
After the death of Eulalia, the hospital began to emerge testimonies of people being served by a friendly nurse who apparently did not belong to the hospital staff. Was it La Planchada. A perfectly pressed young girl with impeccable clothes, as wearing Eulalia's life. Normally the evidence was confusing because I used to care for the sick in their sleep, they were sedated or were very serious.
Once, one of the nurses working night fell asleep in his turn. Their negligence could have cost him a patient needed a major medication for treating heavy infection was life-threatening life. Man, semiconscious, watched as a nurse, which could not recognize because he had the face and slightly blurry as blurred, supplied him with the necessary antibiotic and as she tucked, gave him a pat on the hair. A couple of hours later, the nurse who had fallen asleep on his shift and woke with a start, remembering how important it was to supply the medication to the Lord, ran to her room, fearing the worst. Upon arriving there we found that the antibiotic drip mixed with serum, was perfectly placed and the dose was correct. Still scared, asked the patient who had put medication. The answer chilled her: "His blond companion, having the gown without a wrinkle."
This was one of the hundreds of times that La Planchada answered someone who needed medical help or had been neglected by the other nurses. Few people remember it because it always serves serious or when people are half asleep; no one can remember his face clearly because, almost always been allowed to see, what's done with his lopsided face or back. But all accounts agree on the same thing, in the glitter of their appearance and in the perfect way that your clothes are ironed and in his friendly and professional treatment. Some of the staff of the hospital, also say they have seen for a few fractions of a second to enter or leave a patient's room and even have been awakened by the spirit of Eulalia as they slept in their turns, touching their shoulder and checking the awakening they were alone and that the hospital corridors were deserted. Although they never saw it as a threat, and helping the sick when they were neglected, which thanks to the many testimonies of patients who claim to have received this or that medication in the absence of medical staff knew.
Whatever the origin, the ghost is associated with hospitals, where it can be seen walking the halls at night and checking on patients. The ghost is alternatively described as floating or walking, but always silent, and in some accounts it glows. Sometimes it appears as a normal nurse, a full human manifestation, and other times it is an evil looking creature. The uniform it wears is usually out of date.
Despite the possible horrific appearance of this ghost, it often times heals patients it visits in the night, curing them of disease or healing wounds and then moving them to other rooms to recover. The patients usually describe a nurse who appeared in the room and somehow made them feel better.
Hospital Juarez, being one of the possible origins for the ghost, is known for appearances of La Planchada. It is said that the ghost returns to the room where she died and heals whoever is inside
