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A few weeks ago while in HIOT THerapy I lost it and walked out of the room. None of the staff came to see if I was ok. A brother vet came out to check on me and we walked the halls of the hospital and talked. I ended up back in the pysch ward that day, he came and visited me while I was in there.
The other day at the hospital I was standing looking at some hats they had for sale and I feel a tap on my shoulder, I turn around and the guy says remember me I said hell yes (He was in the pysch ward both times I was in there, I think he tried to commit suicide) Anyway he said get me to a doctor. He was all wet, he looked like someone had punched him in the eye, he had sticks and brush sticking out of his clothes. I asked him what happened he told me he had jumped out of his wifes car and somehow went into the huron river. He said he had spent the last three hours hiding in someones back yard.
I walked him to the emergency room and told the nurse I had been on 8west (pysch ward) with this patient recentlly and then told the nurse what he told me, they immediatley took him, and I said I would be back to check on him. By the time I had finished all my business in the hospital I went back to the ER and they told me he had been admitted. I went up to the pysch ward and checked on him, This ment the world to him.
It struck me afterwards that it was a vet who helped me and I was a vet helping this guy, not the hospital staff and that all we (vets) can depend on is each other, so next time you see a brother vet and he is down say high to him, it could mean allot to him even the difference between life and death.
Back to the brother who helped me, we have a bond stronger than any I have had in a long time. I will never forget him and he will never forget me. And when he graduates from HIOT I will be there with a gift for him.
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