RING

One night late I received the worst of calls a patient post heart surgery had a cardiac arrest, as I flew out the door - no socks, half awake,and desperately worried about my patient I tried to wake up. I live 6 miles from the hospital and we have no residents just great nurses, who by the way in my world were Doctors with different initials after their name. You wonder if the Doctor speeds , oh yeah and red lights we are all color blind to those. I arrive in the darkness and do my best superman impersonation trying as hard as I might to undress and put on surgeons scrubs as my nurses bring the patient to the elevator. I take off my wedding ring and clothes and meet them there as the doors close .I open up my patient right there and start cardiac massage and proceed to the operating room where a team of  people as bleary eyed as I jump to their tasks, over the next 30 minutes we bring this person back to life.  As any surgeon knows if the kidneys are working so is the brain but thats another story! I thank my folks and go out to speak to a family who are dazed and scared and whose eyes hinge on your every word and tell them Dad is ok!  Talk about highs and lows I sit down to take a few minutes to rest only to realize I have lost my wedding ring, it doesn't seem very important next to a human life.My quick hunt is useless and as I come off the elevator a wonderful policeman looks at me and says is this ring yours Doc? I found it in the crack at the bottom of the elevator door! I thanked the lovely lady and as I headed home my thoughts came full circle so to speak, as I crawled into bed my wife asked if everything was fine for the person I went to help and there and than I realized what that ring represents, LIFE!  TIP OF THE DAY: Secret to any success , marry your best friend!