Yesterday, my group had a chance to be given exposure at Medical Intensive Care Unit in a hospital as part of the BSN curriculum.

The moment I stepped in at the ICU ward, I immediately felt the spirit of fear that someone among the patients within the ward might die anytime. This is because almost all of them are getting their life from the respirator attached to their frail body, almost all of them are unconscious anymore.

One patient assigned to me had her 3 daughters and 2 grand daughters as her visitor yesterday, every time I go to my patient and get her vital signs, I would always see her daughters crying and talking with their mother who is lying on the bed, with eyes open yet can’t see nor hear them anymore..it seems that the patient’s body was there yet her presence was not there anymore…

I remember the thoughts about my father seeing that moments of mother and daughters in the hospital yesterday.  Yes, it feels so much pain when you see the one you love almost at the point of giving up life because he/she is already tired to live due to the illness that s/he feels.

I was just reminded that one day, all of us will join God, our Creator, but I  hope that we will be ready when that time comes…we can say to God, “Yes, God, take me I am ready to be with you and I will be happy to be with you.”  I hope that all of us will be with God in eternity…