[Enerjan]

I work in L&D, but one of the nurses at our small hospital had been trying to get pregnant. Had endured 6 invitros, paid for by her parents, and had decided to give it up and adopt when her parents talked her into one more try. She got pregnant with twins on try #7, but developed cardiomegaly during the pregnancy, and delivered the twins @ 34wks by C-section. Two, red headed boys, both did well, and left the NICU after a few weeks. But by the end of her pregnancy, her cardiac ejection fraction was only 25%. After the babies 3mo well child visit with their pediatrician, she and her husband went home, put the babies down, and took a nap together. Two hrs later, the husband could not awaken her, and called 911. They brought her to our ER, where they arrived coding her, and continued for several hours. Her cardiologist tried everything, couldn't get her back. When they finally called it, we had to practically shut down the whole hospital, we were all so disraught. I will never forget seeing her husband sitting on the floor holding both the babies, crying, while the code team tried to save her.

[qcumba]

Hi i'm still in training and wil hopefully go into Trauma when I'm finished, but a colleague of mine told me a terrible story the other day, many years ago while working night shift in a trauma unit, a man walked into the unit at about 2am in the morning wearing a large coat, and he appeared to have a large bulge over his abdomen, he was taken to a cubicle by one of the RN's my colleague heard the RN swearing at the patient and went to investigate - the man - who was married to one of the RN's working in one of the other wards - was looking after thier 2 year old daughter and had attempted to have intercourse with her but her pubic bones locked on to him! and in the attempt to get her off him he broke her neck, they had to take him to theatre! so disgusting that anyone could do that to thier baby, and the mother who was a RN couldnt handle it at all and ended up being hospitalized in a psychiatric facility. I was shocked and disgusted when I heard that story.

[kararnmi]

ugh, I didn't even get halfway through the first page and I got weepy. I don't even have PMS! You E.R. nurses have to give yourself big credit, that's some very painful stuff that just scars itself into your soul. All nurses see awful things, DAILY, things that become the norm and desensitize us...this stuff is a whole new level. It really must change you in so many ways. Your really amazing