Let me talk about a Situational problem that happens in my life when I was a nurse. Being trained in an emergency line, seeing life and death is something common in the hospital. Everyday, an average of 10 people are being rush into the resuscitation room for emergency treatment. Most were fatal and deaths occur in every 8 out of 10 that will come in. In the resuscitation room, you have all the equipment you have and all the doctors and nurses to be there to guild one another. You can be assured to have what you want in the case of a close-to-death person coming in.

One day after I was clubbing off at Boat Quay, I was on the cab travelling along the Pan Island Expressway. To my horror, there is an accident of a motorcycle right in front of my eyes where the cyclist hit into another car in the front, in result of the pillion being flung about 20 meters away. A loud ‘thump’ was heard. I quickly demanded the taxi driver to stop and I quickly rush out of the cab to access the situation. Both the casualty was bleeding. I then called for the ambulance and asked the taxi driver to direct the traffic. It was at that point of time when I felt alone and two person life in my hands.

When I rush to the rider, he had ask me to see the girlfriend instead as he claimed that he was all right and also claimed that it is just a small cut. I then rush to the pillion and to my horror; she was not breathing and had no pulse. I than quickly perform cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to her and his boyfriend was hoping for miracles to happen, shouting her name and hoping that she is able to hear. It was the first time I did CPR crying; maybe it was the emotional point of time where you can see how love is being felt.

20 minutes have pass and all hope is starting to fade off. Hands covered in red blood and eventually, I had stop the resuscitation and started to tear. I than took a cloth for the taxi driver and drape over her face. I apologies to the rider and explain to him that even if she was being save after the standard time frame of 15 minutes, she would be a vegetable and chance of her coming reviving is very slim. I than hug the rider than told him that it wasn’t his fault to cause the accident. It was so painful in me till I tear to see or sometime recalled that situation.