Death by Oxygen
This blog post has nothing to do with Oxygen. This blog is dedicated to my grandfather who passed away a few months back. My first clinical was today & I realized how much my grandfather would had loved to see me in my RT uniform. It symbolizes my profession and what he wanted me to be He passed away around June 2006 at the end of the month. I got a call from the RT program saying if I still wanted to be a Respiratory Therapist. If only I got that call before June 2006 I would had told him the news that I was really going to be in the medical field. The famous quote he had to every single Nurse or RT was this
“Look here..my grandson… he’s going to be a nurse”
That is what he told everyone and at the time I couldn’t say I was since Nursing was waitlisted or it was hard for me to get in. I remember one day he was in the hospital.At first I didn’t know what a RT was and I didn’t know that guy was a RT. It seems that the RT gave him a Small Nebulizer to take his medication. It was a very simple procedure and now that I learned about Nebulizers and Oxygen therapy I realized the man my grandfather was talking to be a Respiratory Therapist. However he told the man I was going to be a Nurse and at the time I had no intent to be a Respiratory Therapist.
My grandfather left a bunch of oxygen equipment and I look back at it now and I’m thinking… Well I know exactly how these things work. He was on oxygen with a Nasal Cannula ( I think 2Lpm) when he passed away. As a grandson and a future RT I start to think about what if I was at this stage 2 years prior to what happened? Maybe I could had saved him some how from that night. I could had gave CPR or give some sort of medication. But this whole thing will cancel out if he didn’t want to be saved and just let loose. Well no regrets since people do past away and they just want to go naturally. Well I can write more and more but I will just be very repetitive. Well RIP grandpa and your grandson will save a life along the line of his career.
IF ONLY YOU SAW ME NOW………