[texasflower]

I responded to the scene of an elderly woman who had suffered a severe stroke while visiting her daughter for the holidays.

She was unresponsive on scene, but I talked to her anyway. I spent only about 20 with this woman from the time I arrived on scene, to the time I turned her over to the care of the hospital. She was not even responsive to pain during the entire time I was with her.

I never saw her again, until almost 2 years later.

She was with her daughter in a grocery store that I happened to be at. She approached me after she heard me talking to my toddler. I was not in uniform.

She came up to me and said, "You are the paramedic that took me to the hospital after my stroke. I would know your voice anywhere, you sounded to me like an angel".

I had never seen this woman or her daughter prior to her stroke and had not seen her since. She had recovered somewhat and moved back to New York. She had just come back to visit her daughter again.

What you said is so true. People can hear and remember. If this woman remembered me two years later, having never seen me at all, Terri most assuredly knows her mother.

[LauraJean]

It is a lovely posting it. I am planning to show this to my son over the weekend. He just started his paramedic training. Thank you again.

[nicmarlo]

wow! thanks for your post. how incredible, yet not (as the woman you tended wasn't dead, of course she could hear you); thanks again for sharing.