ISTORYANG PANG-NARS (POSTED DEC2006)

***I became a member of a group named Filipino Nurses a month ago ( I think) and I posted a message there and a person named "Hollyhock" (she is so nice!) shared this to me. I was touched and upon reading this, I guess nurses are people enough to be called "the next face of life miracles"***

THIS IS THE WAY THE STORY GOES:

When the Lord made nurses….

He was into the sixth day of overtime when an angel appeared and said,
"You’re doing a lot of fiddling on this one." And the Lord said, "Have
you read the specs on this order?"

A nurse has to be able to help an injured person, breathe life into a
dying person, and give comfort to a family that has lost their only
child and not wrinkle her uniform.

They have to be able to lift three times their own weight, work 12 to
16 hours straight without missing any detail, console a grieving mother
as they are doing CPR on a baby they know will never breathe again.

They have to be on top mental condition at all times, running on too
little sleep, black coffee, and half-eaten meals. And they have to have
six pairs of hands.

The angel shook her head slowly and said, "Six pairs of hands…no way".

"It’s not the hands that are causing me the problem", said the Lord. "It’s the two pairs of eyes a nurse has to have."

"That’s on the standard model?" asked the angel.

"Lord", said the angel, touching the sleeve, "rest and work on this tomorrow."

"I can’t", said the Lord. "I already have a model that can talk to a
250 pound grieving family member who’s child has been hit by a drunk
driver…who, by the way, is laying on the next room uninjured, and
feed a family of five on the nurse’s paycheck."

The angel circle the model of the nurse very slowly, "Can it think?" she asked.

"You bet", said the Lord. "It can tell you the symptoms of 100
illnesses, recite drug calculations in its sleep, intubate,
defibrillate, medicate and continue CPR nonstop until help
arrives…and still it keeps a sense of humor.

This nurse also has a phenomenal personal control. They can deal with a
multi-trauma victim, coax a frightened elderly person to unlock their
door, comfort a murder victim’s family, and they read in the daily
paper how nurses are insensitive and uncaring and are only doing their
job."

Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek of the
nurse, " There’s a leak", she pronounced. " I told you that you were
trying to put too much in this model."

"That’s not a leak", said the Lord. "It’s a tear."

"What’s the tear for?" asked the angel.

"It’s for bottled up emotions, for patients they have tried in vain to
save, for commitment to that hope that they will make a difference in a
person’s chance to survive for life."

"You’re a genius", said the angel. The Lord looked somber. "I didn’t put it there", He said."