Mass Cal

Dreams of what could happen on this deployment came to fruition last night. What I have been trained over and over to do became necessary yesterday. Thinking about it all night... there are things I wish I had done differently, done better, and there were things I rocked. What I can proudly say is that I was loud enough for the doctor to hear me in his haze "I'm calling a surgeon, this patient needs to go to surgery NOW". I knew he was bleeding into his abdomen and we didn't have much time. He finally looked up and heard me, and it turned out he was minutes from death. I followed the patient into surgery and gave him over 10,000 mls of blood, and he lived.

I will never forget today.