Billion Dollar Man
I knew she was going to keep an eye on me, and maybe that wasn’t such a bad thing.
It wasn’t long before another patient came in. A middle-aged man, the father of five children, had fallen off a roof. His teary-eyed wife and all five children quietly hovered in the background while we stabilized him. He had cracked ribs and a broken ankle. After hearing he had fallen off three stories and not one, we all agreed he was lucky to have such minor injuries in the first place. The man could have died.
After he had been taken care of and his family had been appeased, I finally took my lunch break. It had been a very busy day, but I preferred it that way. I had always been better at escaping into my