Spending the Night in the ER
April 3rd, 2009. Filed under: Finance & Fitness Fridays.I spent the night in the ER. Well, okay. I only spent three hours, but you know ER’s. The wait can take forever and then the doc blows you off if you don’t have something interesting. Wondering how I know? I was an ER nurse for years. Rarely did one of our docs do that, but I’ve not always been that lucky as a patient.
Last night’s stay in the ER went by much too quickly. I was in Chicago with some of my old friends, the doctors and nurses of County General. They made me feel right at home. I was there when this ER opened up and last night witnessed it’s demise. My heart is heavy. So many of my friends came back to spend a little more time with me. It was so good to see them. I was glad to meet up with the daughter of one of my doctor friends who died of a brain tumor. She told us that she was in pre-med and set to follow in her dad’s footsteps.
Fifteen years of ER. I drifted away as the characters drifted away. I don’t watch much television, but occasionally I would happen to turn on the TV and there it was. That happened last week, and it alerted me to the fact that last night would be the ending of this series. The nurse in me morns this lose. We nurses have a problem watching medical shows. We notice every little mistake in procedure or pronunciation. This series had it all down pat. I was never distracted from the action by these goofs. I never saw any. What I did see was what I experienced as part of a real ER. Life, death and drama. The patients, the doctors, the nurses and all the staff. These shows were like stepping into a real ER.
I’ll miss all the folks from ER. I did get the one hour reprise and two hour finale taped. And I’m already looking for the reruns. I can live it all again right from the beginning. All fifteen seasons. Meet you in the waiting room.