But the next morning when I realized a new nurse would be assigned to me, I was terrified once again of losing my lifeline, Indira. That is part of a nurse's job, to nurture and heal the sick. Up to this point, my story may seem rather ordinary to any hospital staff.
Indira also explained to me how she could overlap the medicine so that at any given time I would always have some form of pain relief in my body. She explained to me that if I would allow myself to fall asleep, she would check on me constantly throughout the whole night. Once everyone had left and Indira returned to check on me, I explained my next biggest fear - sleeping and never waking. So I agreed to have her administer the medicine. She explained that the medicine she could give me would alleviate the pain but would not put me to sleep. She instinctively knew exactly why I was so terrified. When she asked, "Why don't you want the medicine?" I replied, "I was afraid of it happening again." Everyone in the room looked dumbfounded, except this nurse. That brought everything in the room to a standstill. I refused it, even though it was creeping back up to a ten. When Indira offered to administer my next round of pain medicine. My current pain medicine from the first hospital was wearing off and my pain level was increasing. The most startling fact came late in the evening when my husband, doctor, and Indira were in the room with me. She took the time to calm me down and reassure me. She also knows me by name!!! When we began to talk, I was surprised and elated to learn that she had read my medical file and knew what had happened to me! My husband was not allowed to travel with me in the ambulance so I arrived alone and in a complete mess. I was brought to my hospital room late in the evening by two paramedics and that is when I first met my night shift nurse, Indira. I was in pain but did not want pain medication for fear of having a negative response to the medicine. John's Hospital, I was terrified, I had undergone an ERCP at Ascension St. Together, they created such an extraordinary caring, supportive team of nurses that I will remember each of them, forever. They cared for me into the New Year 2020. I met all 6 nurses on 6 West just after Christmas 2019.
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