“The look in your eyes said you were already gone. Your family wept, told us to keep trying. They didn’t want to let you leave. So, we continued on. Medications. Shocks. Pumps. Sweat poured down my face. I tried to hide my tears by staring at my shoelaces. We watched the life leave your body and go to a place none of us know or understand. We tried so hard to save you. We just couldn’t do it that day.”

‘Please quit, that’s enough.’ I leaned over you as we tried to pump life back into your soul again.’: Nurse pens emotional tribute to patients lost, admits she loses ‘a little of myself’ every time

‘These are my people. Willing to cry as we mop up pee, to get blood on the seats, to weave into our heart knowing it will unravel that heart when it goes.’
“These are the people who are brave enough to LOVE.”

This pup is all of us sliding into Friday liiiiike…
NOPE. NOPE. NOPE.