We all have those bad calls and sometimes it helps to talk about them to others. Or so I have been told. So here it goes. Last sunday I rolled up to the scene of a MVA. I got out and had my worst dreams realized. The first patient I saw was on lying in the grass after being thrown with a second patient standing next to him crying. I immediatly recognized the guy on the ground as my freind Dan, and the girl standing as Jessica. I ordered my crew to begin assesment and vitals on them, and then package them up for transport. I then walked down the embankment to the smoking wreckage, knowing I wouldn't find anyone alive. Sure enough there were two charred bodies, unrecongnizeable and covered with melted interrior plastic. I went back to my freind jessica and asked who they were, and found out they were also freinds of mine. After transporting my two patients I returned to standby while the firefighters spent 2 hours trying to take out the bodies peice bye piece. I guess the only good news is that two of them lived. The crash was estimated at 90 mph, and hit a tree dead center. The whole town has been devestated by this, and I havn't slept or ate will in days. I did find some comfort in my bible though when asking the typical "why do bad things
"Ecclesiastes 9
1 So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God's hands, but no man knows whether love or hate awaits him. 2 All share a common destiny-the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, [1] the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.
As it is with the good man,
so with the sinner;
as it is with those who take oaths,
so with those who are afraid to take them. "11 I have seen something else under the sun:
The race is not to the swift
or the battle to the strong,
nor does food come to the wise
or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all.
12 Moreover, no man knows when his hour will come:
As fish are caught in a cruel net,
or birds are taken in a snare,
so men are trapped by evil times
that fall unexpectedly upon them. "
Well this has turned into a long one. Thank you for your time in reading it. I hope sharing it gives me some relief and also helps anyone else who has been through something similar not feel quite as alone.
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"Ecclesiastes 9
1 So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God's hands, but no man knows whether love or hate awaits him. 2 All share a common destiny-the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, [1] the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.
As it is with the good man,
so with the sinner;
as it is with those who take oaths,
so with those who are afraid to take them. "11 I have seen something else under the sun:
The race is not to the swift
or the battle to the strong,
nor does food come to the wise
or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all.
12 Moreover, no man knows when his hour will come:
As fish are caught in a cruel net,
or birds are taken in a snare,
so men are trapped by evil times
that fall unexpectedly upon them. "
Well this has turned into a long one. Thank you for your time in reading it. I hope sharing it gives me some relief and also helps anyone else who has been through something similar not feel quite as alone.
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/Stories/0,...2213364,00.html
