Patience is a Virtue

One day in August while I was in school I suddenly started to feel as though I was going to faint, my heart was racing, and I was pale. Because of this, I had to wait to be brought into the hospital. I had to be patient when I was I was having chest problems and I had to go to the emergency room. When I got there it was overwhelmingly packed full of people, with not one seat left to sit. You’d think that with this place being an emergency room the wait would not be long, but truthfully I think I would’ve been better off making an appointment at my doctor’s office than going to the emergency room at CMMC.

While waiting it felt incessant. As I sat there it felt like it was forever, but at this point, I had only been into triage and had been sitting for over three and a half hours before hearing anything. Once it hit the fourth hour I finally got into another Triage room where they took an EKG scan, then back out to waiting I went. At this point, I was not having any of the symptoms I was having just a little while earlier. I thought I was never going to get out of this place. A little while later I got called into a room and was walked there by a blonde lady who assessed me and later told me that a doctor would be in to make a diagnosis. Of course, the deprivation and lack of doctors and nurses really did not help with the health crisis that Americans are facing in today’s society. We really need more healthcare providers and more Americans that are willing to work.

I personally am not a very patient person when it comes to anything I like to get things over with as quickly as possible and on this day it just was not happening that way. When the doctor came in the first thing he asked was “are you still having your symptoms?” which I thought was crazy for him to ask after the time period I had to tolerate and wait there for. He followed up with “what did it feel like”, “when did this start”, “how does it make you feel” and more. When he was done assessing me he finally told me it could be a cardiac problem or even severe anxiety. Because of this diagnosis, he gave me a medication called Metropolotol and told me to take it when needed, then I left.

I was so relieved to be heading home. After this incident, I learned that Patience is important because sometimes you just have to wait for some situations out for the best. Sometimes there may be things that you don’t necessarily want to do but it’s best to do.

“Safari Park North of Johannesburg – Apr 1992 – Rhino Roadblock – Patience Is a Virtue” by Gareth1953 All Right Now is licensed under CC BY 2.0.