My patient

During the last hour before I came off from my work yesterday, the surgeon V came to see my patient S. Surgeon V got the MRI blood vessels imagine of my patient S's leg. He inspected my pt's leg and wound. Then, he started to shake his head and talked soft voice to me and my team leader. S sensed that it must be something not good. Then, the surgeon V showed S the MRI image and told him what happened to his leg. V told S that all the 3 main veins were blocked that causing no blood circulation to help the healing of S's foot. Then, surgeon V said that the solution may be to do another bypass or to do the above knew amputation. V told S that he would like to talk to his family before making any decision then he left S.

As a nurse of my patient, I felt really sorry for him. For sure, it is a really bad news for him to face. I stayed with him and talked to him. He started to cry...He made some phone calls and tried to arrange his son to come to see the surgeon V. Then, he sat down again, kept watching the MRI image and cried...For sure, he couldn't accept it even though he said that fact is fact.

I prayed that he would able to have a good rest last nite and I prayed that they would come up the best solution to treat the problem today. May God give me wisdom and comfort hands to encourage and to comfort him.