We heard the crash, that sickening sound. I threw on clothes and shoes, my first aid kit, and ran to the corner. The woman in the car hit was sitting by the curb, shaken, sore, slightly abraded. I sat by her, and she asked me to stay. So, I sat on the curb with her, her son arrived, and the EMTs, police. Dylan got her a soda, at my request. I didn't do much, but reassure. So many men around, I think she was glad of a woman beside her. So, I stayed.
The woman who hit her had a U clinic uniform on, she admitted she works in the ER, and was distracted, she was so sorry. I'm glad she admitted as much, but felt she could get her comfort from someone other than me.
A while later, another woman in flip-flops requested help, she'd stepped in a pot hole taking photos, and sliced her foot up. I got her over to the bench, and called the EMT back over. He had the gloves and supplies to deal with it, and I was getting tired of stupid women. She kept saying "I feel like I'm making everything worse!" and I silently agreed that yes, she was.
Poor woman, I suggested she take tylenol and ibuprofin, and maybe a glass of wine this evening. And for the next few days, warned her she would be aching. I hope her son will reinforce this.
I was in several crashes as a kid, it's a sound that rattles my soul.
4 comments:
Hope you get a chance to stop work sometime? But the crash victim must have been so grateful to have you there.
reassurance is an important thing when your body and mind get walloped like that.
but see? when someone is in need, you are there. even stupid people in need.
service.
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It's not work, it's being a good neighbor. I never mind doing that. Or answering questions, translating from medicalese, for friends or family. I'd rather be asked than find out later they did something inadvisable, like having a plastic surgeon fix a broken arm, when I could have sent them to a hand surgeon.
I accepted this as payment for my training, because I can, I must.
Anyway, I'm taking a couple of vacation days, and don't go back to work until Monday!
flask,
The stupid ones got their comfort from other people, I stayed with the middle aged asian woman who got hit. Only left her long enough to get the lookieloo with the lacerated foot to the bench and call the EMT back over...
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