I was the ICU Charge Nurse on 11-7. When multiple multi-traumas came into the ER, I naturally mosey'd down to the department to see what was going on and to lend a hand if I could. A family on their way home from sabbath was walking down a pooly lit street when they were hit by a drunk driver. The mother had her leg separated from the torso at the hip. DOA. The father had a broken arm and head trauma but was GCS15. The kid was OK.
When we were transporting the father over to the units, he kept asking about his wife. To this day, I regret not taking the father into the room where her remains were so he could say farewell to his wife. It was really a horrible tragedy.
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