Clinging to Life
u/ElCaminoInTheWest: “I work as an ER nurse and I took handover on a patient who had a little dizziness, a little nausea and a swollen abdomen. She was able to talk, nothing seemed too horrific. But she was turning a grim grey colour and breathing quickly. Our average wait time today was two hours. I could have put her back in the queue, but I had a little dark feeling that there was something sinister happening.
So I called our most senior doctor out of a consultation and asked him to see her. She had a burst abdominal aorta. Within five minutes she was barely responding… Within an hour she was on an operating table clinging to life. Because I raised the alarm… that woman is still, somehow, alive.”