ER. We've had this guy so many times I knew his birthday without looking. Every time it was ETOH, a fall, a lac, sometimes all three. Last time he was here he was really sick and I honestly didn't think we'd see him again.
He walked in tonight through the front door and the triage nurse almost put him in a room out of habit. He said no, he just wanted to show us his chip. One year. He asked for me and the tech by name. The tech had to go stand in the ambulance bay for a minute.
We don't usually get to see the after part. Has anyone else had a frequent flyer come back for a good reason? I need more of these stories this week.
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Post replyDid he say what finally made it stick? Not being nosy, I just never get to ask that question to anyone who actually made it.
Love this for you, truly. But I'll be the one to say it: for every guy with a chip there are ten we never hear about, and some of us have had the opposite call too. Don't let one good night make you feel like you failed the ones who don't walk back in. You didn't.
The tech going to stand in the ambulance bay got me. Same.
Had a regular who came in q-weekend for about two years. Showed up on a Tuesday afternoon in a button-down shirt with his daughter, who he hadn't talked to in a decade, just to introduce her to 'the people who kept me alive long enough to call her.' I think about that guy every time I'm tempted to roll my eyes at a name on the tracking board.