Originally Posted by
juicefree20
Just finishing recuperating from yesterday, having spent an entire half of a day [[4 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.) in the emergency room with my mother, who turned out to be just fine.
I imagine that the stay would've been much shorter had we not had the misfortune of arriving not very long before a shift change. Worse than that, shortly after the shift change, they had to move my mother from the room because they had an emergency coming in...a baby who was in full cardiac arrest.
As we were moving from the room, I went to get a chair & as I did, the stretcher came in & I caught a glimpse of the baby & the EMT doing compressions on the baby's chest. Seeing any child in such a condition is horrible, but I immediately thought of my own grandson & prayed like hell that that baby would pull through.
They took my mother for an x-ray & when we came back, she was placed in a room a little distance away until they finished with the baby & nearly an hour later, they were still working on that baby. Shortly afterward, a few of the doctors exited the room & as I watched about 5 police officers standing nearby, I got the feeling that that baby didn't make it. When I looked at the nurses station in the next wing & saw a chaplain, I knew that that poor baby didn't make it. I watched them wheel the baby out & shortly afterward, the mother let out a cry & tried to run into the room in which her baby had just died. Someone, I imagine he was the father of the baby caught her as she tried to leap into that room.
Now I don't know what the officers were there to investigate, I don't know the circumstances which led to the baby [[who was a girl who was a month-old) being in that state. But what I do know is this...
There are some things which we can't prevent, things which we have no control of. I also know that there are some things which we CAN control & that's how we choose to live our lives.
I say all of this to say that on any given day, you never know what kind of a day any one of us may have had. And as with many things, often it's the little things that count. And as ridiculous as this may sound to some of the more cynical of us, yesterday was one of those days when little things meant a lot. At least it did to me.
After the day that I had, I was exhausted & was going to post a few things but was just too tired. Nevertheless, it was nice to come here & see you guys in the Motown section posting some positive thoughts about whomever & it was nice to see the efforts made as regards respecting one another & the various threads.
As I said, all of that may seem like such a little thing to most, but yesterday, it was right on time!
It's not very often these days when we hear nice things said about this section so, I just wanted to say this to you all.
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