Pure Love

While I do not miss the 4am wakeups to haul some banker out of Jackson Hole to foreclose on a property across the state, I do miss the air ambulance flying. One of my flight nurse friends posted this on his facebook page today:

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"If you were to ask me what was the most memorable experience I've had as a nurse I would say it was the day I went toe to toe with a neonate a few hours old, just as we climbed out of the clouds... Pure love."

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There was another kind of pure love on these flights. We lost some patients. Giving everything you have while a stranger dies is as pure as it gets.