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Show February Page 204 i-ounts V Be Reminded of the ImpJihad thinIthtLife, Evetrin 04/44.4:4 . f14.0+1.4ty4 kL0,141t Okay, so I'm sitting in the ER room at a hospital in Philadelphia. My heart's not felt right for like four days. I know, I know, I should have gone in sooner, but anyway, here I am. This place is packed. I am only one of the two or three Caucasians. If you peeked in through the window, into this waiting room, I swear you'd say we looked like a bowl of goulash; every nationality represented. There's a security guard who's been escorting belligerent people out including a woman who was cussing among other things of which I couldn't understand. One guy's in a wheelchair. His wife tried to run him over. There are homeless people. And some look like there're on a substance or two. One man's made a makeshift bed from several chairs. There's garbage all over the tables in between the chairs. It's pretty nasty in here. Welcome to an inner city ER room. One of the hotel employees, from the hotel I'm staying at, escorted me over here. "You mean you have chest pains and you walked over here?" said this one African American woman who works as a lab tech at another hospital in the city and was in because of an ingrown toe nail. "Yeah, I know." "Do they know you've been having chest pains?" "Yeah, I told them." "They should be out here checking your heart. A man died last month at Frankford Hospital. Same thing. Chest pains. They forgot about him in the waiting room." "In the ER?" "Mmmmhmmm. Get up there." "K, yeah, thanks." I grab my stuff. Head up to the counter. If you have to talk to medical personnel in this ER room you have to talk through a hole through bullet proof glass. "I'm in here because of chest pains," I tell the young man in scrubs behind the glass. "Can someone come check me out?" "We'll get to you." Twenty minutes later no one has come to check on me. "Get up there and tell them again," repeats my new lab tech friend. But the only person up there is the security guard. "What do you need?" he says. "I'm in here for chest pains. I need someone to check my heart." "I'll take care of it." Less than five minutes later I get called up to registration. Meanwhile, The Bachelor's playing on TV. Everyone's watching it. It's blaring from two television sets. For some reason, though, I'm feeling really out of place. Like I want to puke in a bag, a bowl or even a trashcan at the worldliness of this show especially since I'm sitting in a room filled with low income people. Here everyone's watching the razzle and dazzle of this reality television show and they may not even have food to eat. It's like apples watching oranges. I even see people shaking their heads while watching it. Is it because of the shallowness of this show, because these reality stars are only Caucasians or because of all the extravagance? Whatever the reason, I'm sitting low in my chair and working to blend it. I do not want to indicate that I am anyway associated with people on that show. Finally, thank goodness, the show ends. I could not bear to even look at the TV let alone here it. Thirty minutes later I'm checked in the back. Jim and Missy Congratulations to Jim and Missy on your upcoming wedding. Your commitment to each other and to quitting tobacco is an inspiration to us all. Those blue eyes Grandpa gave you sparkle even more now, Jim. And Missy, we didn't think you could be any prettier, but being tobacco-free has brightened your beautiful smile. May you live tobacco-free and in love for the rest of your long lives. For free help quitting tobacco, call 1.888.567 .TRUTH or visit utahquitnet.com . "It's going to be two more hours," the nurse tells me after checking my vitals and doing an EKG. "Really?" I say dumbfounded. "Yeah, you've got six people still ahead of you." And come to find out, more people got ahead of me, and rightly so, that arrived in ambulances. Good thing I brought my laptop, I thought. "Has your blood pressure been this low before?" this nurse asks me. " Yeah, it's been low, but I've always been told that was a good thing." Next thing I know, I'm back in the waiting room. This time I'm sitting next to a Hispanic woman who's a counselor in the Philadelphia School District. She tells me more about the same man my new lab tech friend told me about; the man who died in the ER. "He was Puerto Rican," she says, "and a retired Philadelphia School District counselor." "Did you know him?" "No." "Man, that's horrible." "He was also robbed while sitting there." "No way," I say. "Not only did he die in the ER waiting room, but someone robbed him?" "Yep," she says shaking her head. "He was a good man and heavily involved in the Latino community." "Man, that's awful." "Yes, it is," she says still shaking her head. After a series of tests and a CAT scan, I'm discharged from the ER almost 12 hours later. Yet, I was reminded that night in a Philadelphia ER room of the importance of people regardless of their circumstances. And that even though our circumstances, ethnicity, economic states, etc, might be like apples and oranges, we all still have very basic things in common like the need to be loved, appreciated, treated with respect and dignity, and even receiving small and simple things like a smile, a door held open or the sharing of a snack. The only thing I'll do different, however, if ever I'm in an inner city ER room again, is ask to turn the channel especially if something worldly's on. For information on coaching, consulting, speaking or training contact: Cynthia Kimball Humphreys, Vice President, EverylCounts, LLC, P.O. Box 574, Hatch, UT 84735. Ph: 435.632.1489, Fax: 435.735.4222 or Email: kimball@everyl counts. net. Website: www every1 counts. net. Connect with EverylCounts on Face book, Twitter, Plaxo, and Linkedln. © 2010 EverylCounts, LLC. All rights reserved. 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