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When the Lord made Nurses.
He was into his sixth day of over time when an angel appeared and
said,
"You're doing alot of fiddling around on this one."
And the Lord said. "Have you
seen the specs on this order?"
A Nurse has to be able to help an injured person, breathe life
into a dying person, , and give comfort to a family that has lost their only child and not wrinkle their
uniform."
"They have to be able to lift three times their own weight, work 12 to 16 hours straight
without missing a detail, console a grieving mother as they are doing CPR on a baby they know will never
breath again.
They have to be in top mental condition at all times, running on too-little sleep,
black coffee and half-eaten meals.
And they have to have six pairs of hands."
The angel
shook her head slowly and said, "Six pairs of hands..... no way."
"It's not the hands that are
causing me problems," said the Lord.
"It's the two pairs of eyes a nurse has to have."
"That's
on the standard model?" asked the angel.
The Lord nodded.
"One pair that does quick glances
while making note of any physical changes,. And another pair of eyes that can look reassuringly at a
bleeding patient and say, "You'll be alright ma'am, when they know it isn't so."
"lord," said
the angel, touching his sleeve, "rest and work on this tomorrow."
"I can't," said the Lord, "I
already have a model that can talk to a 250 pound grieving family member whose child has been hit by
a drunk driver.......who, by the way, is laying in the next room uninjured, and feed a family of five
on a nurse's paycheck."
The angel circled the model of the nurse very slowly, "Can it think?"
she asked.
"You bet," said the Lord. "It can tell you the symptoms of 100 illnesses; recite
drug calculations in it's sleep; intubate, defibrillate, medicate, and continue CPR nonstop until help
arrives......... and still keep it's sense of humor.
This nurse also has phenomenal personal control.
They can deal with a multi-victim trauma, coax a frightened elderly person to unlock their door,
comfort a muder victim's family, and then read in the daily paper how nurses are insensitive and uncaring
and are only doing their job."
Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek
of the nurse, "There's a leak," she pronounced. "I told you that you were trying to put too much into
that model."
"That's not a leak," said the Lord, "It's a tear."
"What's the tear for?"
asked the angel.
"It's for bottled-up emotions, for patients they have tried in vain to save,
for commitment to hope that they will make a difference in a person's life."
"You're a genius,"
said the angel.
The Lord looked somber.
"I didn't put it there." he said.
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