Sadddest Call Ever ?????????

[celticcare]

I've only worked christmas as an RN and that is hard seeing people brought in with conditions that they cant spend the holidays with their family or one gentleman I had nursed for a while *as an in and out patient, kindly lovely man* dying like 4 days before christmas. Looking into the cubicle he had been in whilst waiting for a heart transplant, just saddened me working that shift.

Christmas in general is a bit of a downer as my ex (whom I was going to move to aussie with) left me the week before christmas for another guy and left me heartbroken, lost and alone at christmas.

Saddest call ever, whilst I wont go into detail, as basically I saw a lady take her last breathe on me as a young EMT (I was only 20) and holding this womans head on my lap as we ceased CPR and after seeing her husband snapped in two in the drivers seat, hearing the families scream "She's lost her pulse" when I was the first on scene and highest ranking officer until ALS arrived. (and before any of you lecture me on traumatic cardiac arrest, we shocked her 9 times as she was still in coarse V-Fib).

I don't want to go into the debate of CISD, personally I requested to see someone, to this day (five years later) I'm still waiting.

[tom5706]

My worst call was a missing toddler... Although not as an EMT, but as a cop. Missing toddler.. swimming pool in back yard, wasnt maintained.. water dark and brackish. I stripped of my shoes and gun belt and went in.. The rest is obvious...toddler at bottom.. been in water 30 min.

Verry Sad