Nurse Debbie Noble, right, walked to treat kidney patient Steph Crawford
Posted on 02/13/2009 4:30:34 PM PST by Stoat
Nurse Debbie Noble, right, walked to treat kidney patient Steph Crawford
'The fact is without dialysis I would have died.
Snow nurse walks nine miles to treat patient (From This Is Local London)
The snow lay knee deep across Epsom last week
Debbie said: I was pretty tired after all that walking, but the outcome was very successful. It was definitely worth it. I am used to walking, but I have to say that walking in the snow and ice is much harder than normal - Im still wearing blister plasters.
An angel
Great story!
Nurses rock!
Let me guess.....this nurse is not waiting for her Obama check.
Not to take away from a true hero story (laurels to her) but in the US she would have just stuck her head in the staff lounge and said “who has a snowmobile?” 15 minutes later the story would be over.
If you need to start a sentence with such a comment, the best thing to do....is not say it at all.
these UK stories are so unrelated to anything in the US
spare us PLEASE
I don’t get why this is a story. She just did her job. If she said ‘oh I can’t be arsed walking 9 miles in the snow’ and that kidney patient had died, she would be quite rightly railed against for being negligent and indifferent.
It wasn’t like she went above and beyond like an actual hero. Hell, I’ve walked 30 miles up a mountain wearing a backpack and all the back down again just for a laugh (well, for charity). If I couldn’t have mustered myself to do the same again or less to actually save someone’s life, that would make me someone who was utterly beneath contempt.
Why doesn’t the story applaud her for not stealing her purse and knick-knacks on the way out as well?
Hail the British nurse! There are still some rugged industrial-strength tough ones, in the tradition of the toughest of them all, F. Nightingale. Bless you for posting this story.
This woman functions on a very high spiritual level. God bless her and all the other selfless souls who labor for the well being of others, often with little reward, other than the priceless moments like the one she describes.
My former is a nurse practitioner with 30 years experience in dialysis. We took a young waif into our home for several years and eventually switched him to home dialysis. It was time consuming. Unrewarding, because of the myriad pains it caused to the boy. I could never have done it on my own.
I hear from him now and again. He’s thriving and happy and I have no regrets.
I hear from her as well. She is still devoted to her patients. She even went so far as to donate a kidney of her own. The chap died of a heart attack a few years post-transplant, but his life was better for knowing her.
Just move on and ignore it then..........I don't get why you feel the need to denigrate it.
We never hear these kinds of stories here in the U.S. unless the woman was receiving dialysis as her power was shut off for non-payment of her electric bill.
I agree.. I was thinking couldn’t she have gotten some other kind of transportation.. It’s a shame this makes the news because it’s so rare.. or is it rare? How many people are going out of there way to help others everyday.. I guess this is a tribute to all of them as well.
In Buffalo we call that “light dusting” ad just leave 5 minutes early for work
Thanks for posting such a sweet story....
Blessings on her.
Because you shouldn’t be lauded as a hero for doing the least of what should be expected from any normal, decent person. Its not like she was putting her life on the line or putting more of an effort into something than your average person would.
Unless you are disabled or sick, if you have to walk 9 miles in a bit of snow and get a few blisters to save someone’s life, you do it. If you don’t, you are a complete waste of space. She demonstrated that she is not a waste of space, nothing more, nothing less. It really is what anyone should do...
Indeed she is...she certainly didn't have to do that...she could have called the MedFlight helicopter and it would have cost the British taxpayers many thousands of pounds to do the same job. Her dedication is exemplary and will hopefully serve as an example to others.
Indeed it is and they certainly do...I'm delighted that you enjoyed the story :-)
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