I feel so helpless. We have had a lot of young people in the unit lately. People who shouldn't be there. People with young families. People who have a lot of living left to do, but who manage to thwart our best efforts to save them and die anyway.
So helpless . . . . .
Your breathing can be supported. Drugs can support your heart rate and rhythm. More drugs can pretty much normalize your body chemistry. But we are only swatting flies -- treating symptoms. We can't bring back brain function. We can't bring YOU back to your family. Sometimes we can't even figure out why you are sick, or can't stop the progress of your disease.
God knows, and knows how to stop it. But He doesn't always let us in on the secret. We are left with unanswered questions, the humility of our inadequacy, and grieving young families. Sometimes the only thing we learn is that we don't know the answers. How frustrating it is to be so helpless!
I guess that's why He's the Almighty God, and we're not.
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Yet He watches over us, helps us to help them, and laughs at our wisdom. But still he loves us and gives us courage to do the right thing.
You never know how much you, as a loving nurse, give to these people, even when they still act like pigs. And you don't know how much you, as a loving co-worker, give to us, even when we act like pigs.
Go forth and love......
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