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Working in healthcare, some days you can get caught up in the fast pace
\nworld of medicine where your days are stressed and non-stop. I remember
\nworking in the Cardiovascular ICU and there were some days that we
\ndidn’t sit down, just going from patient to patient. When your days are
\nlike this you never really get to enjoy your job or, in my case, enjoy
\nthe kids I work with. Anyway, the point to my story is the other day I
\nwas at work and in walks this boy who looks healthy and full of life.
\nIf you didn’t know his story you would think he was a healthy young man.
\n But I remember the day he almost met his maker. It was a while back
\nwhen I was working in the ICU and all of a sudden his heart went into a
\nvery lethal rhythm so we ended up “coding” him (doing CPR) for about 45
\nminutes until we could get his heart back to a normalized rhythm. He
\nhad heart problems all his life and as a kid had many surgeries to
\nrepair them. After he coded, the doctors told his parents that the only
\nway he would walk out of this hospital is to get a new heart. Little
\ndid they know this would mean he would have to stay in the hospital and just wait
\nuntil he got one. As he put it, “I’m just waiting here for someone else
\nto die.” It’s a sad way to look at it, but in reality that was the case.
\n Well, about a month later, he did receive a new heart and did
\nbeautifully. So here he is 5 or 6 months later walking back into the
\nhospital after we was free to live the rest of his life. All this to
\nsay, I guess I would take all the stressful and crazy days if it means
\nthat I get to experience the joy of seeing someone who was on deaths
\ndoor and now full of life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Working in healthcare, some days you can get caught up in the fast pace world of medicine where your days are stressed and non-stop. I remember working in the Cardiovascular ICU and there were some days that we didn’t sit … Continue reading