Monday, 18 January 2010

I know

I know what happens to you. I've seen it. I know what you look like when you drive too fast and hit another car, or spin out of control into the central reservation. I know what happens when you get hit by a bottle, or get stabbed in the chest. I've cut you out of car wrecks, watched you fall from a second floor window. I've cannulated you, I've tubed you, I've even opened your chest and held your barely-beating heart in my hand. I've saved your life, and I've watched you die. You are my patients, and while you owe your life to me, I owe mine to you.
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6 comments:

  1. Mrs RRD18 January 2010 at 21:47

    I know how you feel. I know how you suffer when you come home following a particularly traumatic case, a brutally unnecessary death. I know how hard you find the death of a child, a murder victim and how long it takes you to get to sleep when you come home to me. I've held you while you cry & I've celebrated a life saved with you, a triumphant race to the trauma room. I've sat in the car and watched you leap into action as you grab your bag from the boot of the car and join the other crew, your friends, Firefighters, Police Officers, Ambulance Technicians & Paramedics. You are my husband and I am incredibly proud of you and what you do.

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  2. Webby19 January 2010 at 10:12

    Great post and fantastic reply from Mrs RRD

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  3. RapidResponseDoc19 January 2010 at 12:54

    Thank you, Webby. My post was written while I did my late shift at work yesterday, and Mrs RRD's comment was penned before I got home - just shows me she reads what I write, I guess.

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  4. Fee19 January 2010 at 15:25

    The pair of you have got me near to tears, RRD. You, for doing what you do, and Mrs RRD, for being there for you.

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  5. Unknown19 January 2010 at 16:48

    Aww Mrs RRD that's lovely, i am so glad that Mr RDD has a very lovely wife. You both give so freely of yourselves and make a huge difference to so very many people. As someone who was bereaved following a tragic accident you cannot imagine the hope and the comfort of knowing that there are extraordinary lovely people being there for us when an ordinary day becomes extraordinary and we face the unthinkable. I've said it before but its worth saying again Mr RDD and Mrs RDD you are simply the best, there are no words big enough to say it but you are more needed, valued and precious than you could ever know. Thank you, love Lois

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  6. Michael Morse27 January 2010 at 21:54

    Sometimes I wonder why I find these blogs so fascinating, the I read a post like this and the Mrs.'s comment and it all becomes clear.

    Thank you.

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