prayers & bttt Dr.
I have such great respect for all you medical folks, doctors and nurses and vital support staff and also the 1st responders at such a time as this. Many will be working very long hours and without much sleep over the next few days and many not getting back home for days, if they have a home to go back to or without serious damage. Same with the utility workers, some who will come in from out of state and who will be working many long hours restoring power after the storm has passed.
FWIW my mother was in ICU and in very critical condition at Johns Hopkins Bayview hospital in Baltimore during the blizzard of ’96. January 7th was her birthday and despite the blizzard, I was not going to not be there with her. My husband and I dug out his 4-wheel drive truck and got to the hospital the day before, before it got too bad. We stayed at the hospital for the next two days.
My husband volunteered to go out in the middle of the blizzard to pick up doctors and nurses and other vital hospital workers so they could come into work, and also took a few home over the next two days, some of whom had been working some 36 hours straight or more, only catching a bit of sleep on cots when they could.
And I was so grateful for them. Imagine having a loved one in an ICU or a loved one needing life saving surgery and no one showed up for work.
My job? I can call out if the weather gets really bad and not come to work as what I do for a living doesn’t mean life or death. Yes. Processing PR is important but not life or death.
Thank you. Stay safe and check in when you can.