What happens at my work

You know what happens at my work?

People occasionally get feeding tubes in the wrong place, like a lung.

People who can't speak for themselves sometimes have decisions made by someone who was not their first choice.

Mothers and fathers and wives and sons cry, sob these heart-wrenching sobs that permeate to the core of every individual within earshot.

People get out of bed for the first time in months.

Ribs are broken by resuscitative efforts.

Skin splits and peels, gives way to the intolerable tension created by the fluid leaking out of vessels and in between the cells.

Egos sometimes determine the ventilator settings.

We leave exhausted, and we leave some people feeling better.