Another day...

Another day in the ICU… Between rounding for 5 hours at a time, learning about fascinating physiology, learning to managing the ventilator, placing in central catheters and arterial lines, lumbar puncture, engaging in discussion about patients with the neurosurgeon/ gastroenterologists/ cardiologist/ nephrologist/ infectious disease specialist, I had another chance to witnessing patients dying today. Timothy, my friend, I really appreciated your comment in my last blog about ‘Death…’ I feel that to do the ministry as our Father called Christ and also us to do is to actually do something that is out of the ordinary. In essence, ‘going against the grain.’ To fight the urge to be the ‘status quo.’ (Btw, I like how you infer ‘status’ as ‘dead’ or ‘no influence’ as if the ‘status quo’ means ‘idle’ and ‘doing nothing’) How do I know that the patient needed to be left ‘alone’ to deal with grief? We assume that. May be we don’t need to expect ourselves to extend comfort and compassion to family at times when no comfort seemed to be enough. However, we need to show people we genuinely care. We also need to show people there is hope.