April 7, 2021
Cindy’s Blog: You Are Enough
In our pandemic-stressed world, the story of my dearest high school friend — who lives in Ireland — could have happened anywhere.
Her husband recently suffered an at-home cardiac arrest. After heroic efforts saved his life, he was supposed to spend a handful more days in the hospital recuperating from compression-induced thoracic trauma, stent placement, and aspiration pneumonia, but COVID numbers were increasing. Instead, he was transported home in the evening to a non-medically trained, wholly unprepared wife with a dozen unfilled prescriptions and only one post-hospital instruction: call your primary care doctor in the morning. To say she was terrified doesn’t begin to describe it.
I say this could have happened anywhere, but that’s not true. I know it would not have happened here. Not in CentraCare. Not in Carris.
I see you — how you talk with patients and families even in these worst of times. I see you share your knowledge and your love. I see your compassion, your heart, and the pain of knowing that you alone cannot stop this virus from wreaking its havoc on our people and our communities. So, in your bleakest hour when you’re doing everything you can to serve our people yet still feel like you’re not doing enough, please know that you are. You are enough. You are doing your best. We can see the light. Please hang on.
Thank you for this. It’s good for us to keep perspective and see things from outside our own version of normal. I’m reminded of the quote from Sierra Boggess: “You are enough. You are so enough. It’s unbelievable how enough you are!”
Thanks for sharing Cindy! Yes, life can change at any moment, and lifting one another up is part of who we are and what we do. 🙂
Thanks, Cindy, for this beautifully crafted message.
Wow. I am humbled. Thank you again, Cindy, for sharing your stories and generous spirit to help keep us moving forward together. Working from home is not easy. I can’t imagine the challenges our patient care staff deal with every day in covid and non-covid care these days. One person at a time, one day at a time, one moment at a time.