Yesterday I coded someone. It went better than it usually does. He's in the ICU now. He's 8o-plus but tough as nails and we got the pulse back within a couple minutes. He's a really nice guy and he's got a great family: smart, nice, reasonable people who love him to bits -- and that's pretty rare. We'll see what happens.
It's always like a story to me.
Chapter One: he comes to the hospital and gets admitted by my partner; I meet him a few hours later.
Chapter Two: he goes pulseless down in Dialysis -- a "code 500" as they call it at my hospital -- but snaps out of it and goes to the Unit on mechanical ventilation with a not-quite-reliable heartbeat.
That's as far as I've gotten in the plot. I'm hoping for a happy ending.
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