Personal Narrative: The Great Oxford Black Out !

Here it is, the last days of April, and the town of Oxford, Mississippi, that I am currently working in as a pediatrician, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi, has witnessed The Great Oxford Blackout, due to a violent storm passing through, causing the loss of electricity.
Day 0:
Oh no!! As I was making my last rounds to check on my patients before my shift was over, suddenly, the electricity went out. We thought maybe it was just a power line down in the area or something of that sort, but as the desk-representatives began to call around on their half charged cellular devices to see what the problem was, we came to learn that the whole town of Oxford was experiencing a black out. “What a night this is going to be”, I thought. Thank God for generators!
Day 1:
Well, today is the first full day that the hospital has been without electricity. However, with the use of generators, the hospital is still up and functioning. Two of the pediatric surgery operations are still going on in their last hours, and hopefully the generators will last long enough to complete them. I am not dog-tired but I am not the energizer bunny either. All of my patients and their families are still
One of our patients were in need of an emergency blood transfusion, but soon as we were about to do this transfer, we realized that the blood storage cooler did not keep the blood at the temperature needed for the efficiency of the blood transfusion. Sadly, we encountered another tragic loss. The mother screaming in great sorrow to the top of her lungs, “Oh God no, not my only baby.” I understand how she felt, because a two years ago I lost my baby girl in a terrible car accident with her babysitter. A thought that will never stop replaying in my head. We are all just praying that we receive great news that the electricity will be restored soon, and we all can go back to living our normal