Gray, gray, gray, blustery, windy, gray. I almost wish for snow to fall. At least it would be some white to relieve the gray of this fall. If it's already this wet I can only imagine what winter will be like. I don't remember getting this much rain in Tennessee. I feel like we're all just going to float away to the Pacific Ocean!
I have been helping Dr. John with his patients. It doesn't take education to hold a cone of ether over someone's nose, mop the blood from a wound, or mop Doc's brow when he's performing surgery.
I have to admit, I'm fascinated by modern medicine. The inside of the human body is truly a creation of wonder. If I ever believed in the existence of a God, a Creator, the human body would lend itself to that belief. The amazing processes that must be going on constantly to maintain human life are not, can not be an accident.
Last week Dr. John worked on a beating heart. He showed me how the blood pumps the heart. Amazingly to me, the heart is a muscle, like the ones that help to move our arms, and legs. I never would have understood that before. This man had a heart attack so Dr. John found a section that was damaged and repaired it to the best of his ability. The patient is alive and recuperating so he obviously did something right.
The hard thing about medicine today is that there is no way to look inside the body to determine the problem except by looking at all the symptoms. If the case is life threatening, then Dr. John opens up the body to assess the problem accurately. The situation is dangerous because if there are serious health problems going on, the patient may not survive the shock of the surgery.
Dr. John takes every death of a patient very personally. I worry about him. He doesn't seem to know how to separate himself from his patients. He feels all of their suffering and pain. I wish he had a loving wife to help him cope with the challenging life that he has chosen. He says that he doesn't have time to meet or court a woman. I hope that he doesn't wait too long. Time goes so fast.
Well I have worked for ten hours today and I can't seem to keep my eyes open. This is the end of my journal tonight.
