Tell your story

You never know who might just need to know what you have to share.

I went to work last week and once again received my assignment. This time one of my patients was a lady in her mid 40's who had just been diagnosed with kidney cancer. She had a past history of suicide attempts and wanted a nicotine patch. My assigned task for the night was to keep her comfortable and to get her that patch.

Looking back, I have absolutely no idea how she and I got on the subject of my incredibly large family but we did and we got to laughing over the big Christmases and the cousin stories. She asked what my brothers did for a living, how they are raising their children. Why I am still single. We talked about my family...

She described us as successful. I guess we are, God has been very good to the Hunt family.

My phone rang, telling me that another patient needed me. She took my hand and said, "thank you for sharing your story. I needed to hear that fairy tales do come true."

I don't know how much my telling her story really changed anything, but I do know that I didn't have to give her any pain medicine all night.