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It’s been a long day I’m sitting in the recovery room, waiting for a late evening case to start The PACU nurses tend to two patients at opposing sides of the room Familiar cacophony of sounds – monitors softly speaking, informing the staff about their charges Heartbeat, pulse oximeter timbre, quiet respiratory alarm It’s my 7th case, I’m starting to fade The sounds are relaxing, soothing. All is well Suddenly I hear the disconjugate beeps of the two heart monitors Draw together, until For just a few precious seconds These two total strangers Completely unaware of one another Share a pulse – their hearts beating in perfect sync – the two sounds indistinguishable A beautifully symmetrical moment, almost lost In the next second, as if it hadn’t happened, their hearts diverge - once more strangers one to one another unaware of an incredibly intimate moment shared Sitting there, waiting for the case I imagine An instant in the course of history Where, for one fleeting breath, Humanity’s rhythm converged Billions of hearts in time, a nerve impulse propagated across the planet before scattering to the winds A potent event, possibly one of many that even In our modern world, still remains in the mystical
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Dec 2, 2013
Dec 2, 2013 at 12:39 AM UTC
On call, waiting for the last surgery to start
It’s been a long day I’m sitting in the recovery room, waiting for a late evening case to start The PACU nurses tend to two patients at opposing sides of the room Familiar cacophony of sounds – monitors softly speaking, informing the staff about their charges Heartbeat, pulse oximeter timbre, quiet respiratory alarm It’s my 7th case, I’m starting to fade The sounds are relaxing, soothing. All is well Suddenly I hear the disconjugate beeps of the two heart monitors Draw together, until For just a few precious seconds These two total strangers Completely unaware of one another Share a pulse – their hearts beating in perfect sync – the two sounds indistinguishable A beautifully symmetrical moment, almost lost In the next second, as if it hadn’t happened, their hearts diverge - once more strangers one to one another unaware of an incredibly intimate moment shared Sitting there, waiting for the case I imagine An instant in the course of history Where, for one fleeting breath, Humanity’s rhythm converged Billions of hearts in time, a nerve impulse propagated across the planet before scattering to the winds A potent event, possibly one of many that even In our modern world, still remains in the mystical
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Dec 2, 2013
Dec 2, 2013 at 12:39 AM UTC
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