You ever have a patient situation hit you hard? It’s happening to me tonight.
We have a patient going down to OR for organ harvesting. The patient had a severe fall with non survivable injuries. The family had the heart, the soul, the strength to say yes to organ donation despite the sudden death of their loved one.
It’s hard to watch. It’s hard to see the children say their last goodbye’s. It’s hard to see their tears. It’s hard to listen to them thanking us profusely when we should be thanking them. It’s hard knowing that this is the last time they will see their loved one, connected to IV’s and intubated. It’s just painful.
I know that this patient will bless someone else’s life. They aren’t dying in vain. I just wish they weren’t dying at all…
Barely Sane Nurse 