Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
My good friend collapsed from cardiac arrest while in med school, doing cardiology rounds... she survived because she was surrounded by cardiologists in the right hospital wing!
Take good care of yourselves and your students, PPs who were there. That must have been traumatizing. Hugs.
My mom worked at a hospital. One day a doctor on staff collapsed in cardiac arrest. Even in a hospital setting with doctors and equipment, they couldn't save him.
There are sometimes no reasons why. The Hoover staff did the best they could in a horrible situation.
My mom suffered a brain aneurysm in the middle of a lesson while teaching high school almost 30 years ago. Her students--all special ed emotionally disturbed "throwaway kids"--rushed to her aid, buzzed the office, used the phone in the special ed room to call 911, and pretty much saved her life. They visited her in the hospital daily while she was recovering and did chores around our house while she was on leave. I remember the boys mowing our grass. She made it back to work for the last week of school, I believe and for years afterward, we hosted a 4th of July party and they always came. It was sort of a celebration of her surviving, as well as a thank you for what they did, and what they went through together. She's still in touch with several of them.
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