
This heart is failing.
Your Left sided Bloody Back up
Is Drowning me.
This pressure.
This Left Atrial pressure
This increase in Pulmonary venous pressure
This increased hydrostatic pressure
You are forcing this fluid out of my pulmonary capillaries
Into my interstitial spaces
and Alveoli.
Your fluid and my air
Are bubbling together
And we become together
A pink frothy mess.
I drown in your pink sea.
Sudden, Acute, Flash, Pulmonary Edema.
Categories: Lungs · My Poetry
Blue
That feeling that something was missed.
And that person will replay in the mind the events.
She was afraid.
Her nurse told her that everything was going to be fine.
OK
Everything was not fine.
Not OK.
Nothing was fine.
And that new nurse was suddenly turned into
A liar that day.
Categories: My Poetry · Nursing
Is it possible to look into someones eyes
And know what they are thinking?
Did you ever look into someones eyes
And feel what they are feeling?
Did you ever look into someones face
And see the years, as pain etched like a rock
Sandblasted for years
With fine black sand?
Is it possible to just know.
To just know someone without ever knowing them?
Before.
There are some people
Who answer others questions before the questions are asked
Those who see into someones face and just know what they want,
need.
It is almost like a chemical reaction.
It is chemical affinity.
And when this happens.
When emotional oxygen binding to heme is decreased.
One will wonder what you are.
Are you carbon monoxide
Or Carbon Dioxide
Starving the tissues.
There are increased levels of ATP degradation.
No that is not what is happening.
It is the opposite.
The affinity for your oxygen is to high. (more…)
Categories: Lungs · My Poetry · Nursing