I'll try not to bum people out here, but give them a more positive attitude.
Try coming to work for the evening shift at the hospital, and your kids are in the hospital day care for a couple hours until Mom picks them up. You get a call that the Police are bringing in a distraught angry combative 20 year old beautiful blonde to the ER. We tie her down in the ER, The Doc is trying to put a tube down her nose, as she is an overdose. She fights, kicks, swears, and pulls out the tube while the Charcoal is being pumped in to her stomach. I am holding her down, but she gets the tube, pulls it out, and she aspirates, as the charcoal fills her lungs. She is dead in two minutes. Then, I have to go back to my other duties, then eventually go home, and not think of it. Could I have held her better? Where was the other tech? Where was the cop? I had to Go home, and think not of it. Thirty years later, I still see her face.
I get angry that I had to do that, that the Cops had to do that, and the Mortuary had to come and get her.
I recommend we try to see the positive things in our lives. It will end someday.
I have a real hard time feeling sorry for people with self-inflicted problems, like using drugs, when there are plenty of people with problems that they had no control over getting. It's too bad she died, but it was her own stupidity that caused it. You tried to help her, she refused your help, and paid the price, not your fault.















