Prayers for the paramedics who try to save lives in some of the worst situations.
Bless you for your compassion and thinking of the paramedics.
This reminds me of a story told by a close relative who was a first responder at a similar case thirty some years ago, and while he is a mentally strong person and very together, haunts him and his good heart to this day.
A 13-year-old intellectually disabled (at that time called “mentally retarded”) girl who did not understand she was pregnant was in distress with what she thought were “tummy troubles” and went to the toilet. She miscarried at about the same stage as the woman in the article. She was being raised by her grandparents, who also had no idea she was pregnant (chubby girl). Hearing her cries for help, they found her in the bathroom freaking out and the lifeless miscarried baby in the toilet, and called 911.
The first responders found the grieving grandparents in tears and the distraught girl begging them to “help it” and “make it okay” and asking them how it got there (as if it were a half dead kitten she found on the sidewalk). The wheelchair-bound grandfather kept sobbing into his hands “that poor little festus” (of course he meant “fetus”). The grandparents were poor and uneducated, but were decent Christian people trying to do their best by the poor child. The whole scene broke the hearts of all the first responders.
The good good news: the first responders all chipped in to help the grandparents give the poor babe a decent funeral, which they all attended.
The cops who responded tracked down the thugs who gang raped the child and put them away. They had lured the girl off her school bus with lies and had their way with her. The grandparents had called the cops when she did not get off at her regular stop where they were waiting for her that day, so that gave them some clues. The girl had been found hours later by a kindly neighbor several blocks away, hysterical and incoherent. Apparently, she was never able to articulate what had happened to her at the time.
Yes, we have good paramedics and cops with good hearts who pay the price with scars on those good hearts, and they deserve our heartfelt prayers. I hope everyone who read your post bowed his head and prayed.