wow, thats really cool. are you chinese? do you have some sort of connection? or did you just do these things out of sheer ballerness. either way, thats really sweet.
i got into this job by accident, i didnt have insurance at age 18 so i thought why the hell not, ill be a nurses aide and get insurance. turned out i have a passion for medicine and sick people.
and dude, i have seen more things about the world than you can even imagine. its changed me so much as a person i could barely begin to explain it. i have seen the most disadvantaged fringe of society, people that live in the woods with giant infections, whole limbs in gangrene. i once took care of a homeless man who had diabetes and lost consciousness on cold rock in the sun naked for 8 hours. he had third degree sunburn on his top half, and blackened hypothermia on his back. he died. i have seen people withdraw from heroin, pcp, coke, alcohol, anything and everything. they become possessed, will hurt themselves, gouge holes or scrapes into their wrists and ankles where we have them in restraints. i have done CPR on babies and little kids, seen amputations, open chest and abdominal wounds, brain open to the air, a beating heart exposed by buckshot, spraying blood, people taking gasping last breaths, people who knew they were about to die and said actual "last words". i have had people who had no heartbeat for 45 minutes wake back up and be totally fine, after being pronounced dead (some of you news junkies might remember that, in oregon about a year ago). i have seen terrible mental illness.
so yeah, my life has been changed by this. for the better, i feel like i understand the human condition much more after this job. i get to hurt with my patients, and also revel in a "save" or a full recovery with the patients.
sorry for the novel, kinda got lost in it