Day by day I walk into the same hospital at the same time, and I do what I do best, save lives. Today I felt like something was going to be different, life-changing difference. Being a surgeon is a lot of pressure, and it if takes tolls for me I don’t understand. I walk in the front door to go sign in, and I see despair, desperation, and heartbreak everywhere.
I get my charts and check up on my patients, and see something different and very odd. [It’s a little girl named Mia Brown, and she has a brain tumor that every surgeon she has been to as labeled it inoperable]. So I go check up on her last, she and her mom are sitting there, and I can see the sadness and fear in their faces and I want to break down with them, but I can’t. …show more content…
I stand outside the operating room, and I stand there to pray, breathe, and hope for the best. Throughout the surgery Mia has to be awake so we can see if her brain is properly working or not, and I may be a grown man but it frightens me. I walk into the operating room, look around the room to make sure everything is perfect because Mia deserve nothing less. [Halfway through the surgery Mia becomes unresponsive for about 5 minutes, and during that 5 minutes was the hardest fight of my life.] When, everyone told me to stop and that she is gone, I did what all I could because it wasn’t time for Mia to go I wasn’t going to let that happen. After Mia became responsive I finished the operation and got out 100% of the …show more content…
[I see Stacey holding Mia’s hand, crying, and a miracle happens. Mia’s eyes start to flutter open, and I bust out crying.] Stacey looks up at her, but reality sunk in and we realized Mia couldn’t talk. [I walk in her room and kneel beside her and just hold her hand, and the next thing I heard was thank you]. I look up at Mia with a tear running down my face, and I see the sweetest smile you could imagine.
[After a couple of long hard road of physical therapy and speech for Mia. She is almost a hundred percent better.] I have truly found a family. Tonight I am taking Mia and her mother, Stacey out to dinner. Iam going to ask Stacey to take my hand in marriage, and this experience showed me that some things may come to you broken and damage, but never turns it away because it can always be fixed. I love Stacey and Mia more than anything, and without them I don’t know where I would be because even though I saved them, they saved me, and I will always be grateful for