The Warm And Cold Embrace Of An Emergency Unit's Couch.

Resuscitation takes place on hospital beds. Treatment regimen are successful on there, healing take place as the patient is happily discharged home. Well, some patient's don't leave happily because of a few factors like finances and medical team behaviours towards patients. This same bed that helps in patient recovery and in delivery of a new born, also aids in the transition from Ill health to being unalived.

Not many people talk about the bright and dark side of a hospital bed. I think I should talk about it today.

The picture you see above is an image of the emergency couch in the hospital I work with. I have used this couch to provide comfort (though not maximum comfort) to the patients I work on before wheeling them to the normal bed, then to the ward for further care. I have also seen a lot of people that could not make it from this couch to the emergency units bed or to the ward for further care. Some do make it to the emergency Unit's bed, but that's their final bustop. It pains me when I lose a patient, but then, knowing that I do everything I could do for that patient makes my conscience to be at rest.
Laying on that bed does not actually mean that somebody is doomed to be unalived. No. As a matter of fact, since I started working in that hospital, I have recorded a total of 2 transition during my shift. The first was a boy whose parents were really broke and couldn't do anything for the child. The second was an elderly man.

On the same couch, I managed a patient that was brought to the unit unconscious. I transferred the patient to a more comfortable bed and managed him all through the night. I was awake. However, when I return the next day, I was told that the man was euthanized by his relatives. All my efforts wasted? I guess not. I tried my best. I kept him alive. Though he was not alert, he was alive. I was sad though, but then, I can't go against the relatives decisions. They have the ultimate say.

I've seen a whole lot in this couch. I can't say it all. I guess writing this is a means of lifting the weight off my chest. I know that I will see more and I'm very ready for it.

With all these things I've witnessed, it made me start thinking... Why brag when we will all leave this earth someday? The man says: Do you know who I am? Do you know what I can do to you to make your life miserable? How dare you? One thing he forgets is that he would one day, be layed to rest. His next if kin or anybody will inherit the riches he brags with while he lays for nature to takes its effects.

I have come to the end of myself to realize that life is nothing. It has meaning though but you have to give it a meaning. However, it's important to be kind. Care for people. Spread love. Show empathy. And spread your goodness. That way, we can begin to make the world a better place. It starts from you and I.

Thank you for reading.

Image is mine