I am grateful that I get to be inconvenienced

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 I was on board a train going to London when tragedy struck. The guard put out the announcement that noone wants to hear. "If there is anyone with advanced medical training on board. I mean a doctor or a nurse please come to carriage 7 immediately". The tone of voice shows all passengers on board that this is no ordinary call. This is an emergency. This guard needs help and needs it now. 

I do not have any training beyond basic parent level  first aid and so it was a waiting game for me. I sat in a full train carriage looking nervously down out of the window waiting to see anything that could give us news of what was occurring. Humans as a species are quite morbid and have a need to know what is going on. Staff members running to gather equipment and make decisions on what was best to do while they themselves were waiting for news and then the paramedics appear running down the platform. 

I found out later on that there was nothing to be done. A suspected heart attack on a man in his 70s was just too much for the guard, passengers who were helping and the passenger sadly passed away. Due to this becoming a fatality the police were called and there are processes to follow, meaning the train could not move until it was cleared by them and the coroner. 

Meanwhile I was being entertained by a beautiful baby and his mum and I thought to myself that I am lucky. 

I am lucky that I get to be inconvenienced by something. I had my journey disrupted and my plans are delayed. But so what? I am alive, I have my health. I will forget the events of this day unless I am on the train going through Winchester again. 

That passenger didn't get on a train ready to die. That guard didn't expect this when she signed in for work, she will have to repeat everything she did to the police, her bosses, her family and support network if she has one. Those paramedics, passengers and police have now to deal with the stress of what they have seen, the procedure of it all, the paperwork that is involved in a death. The family of the passenger now no longer have their loved on and all I get is inconvenience of having to wait 2 extra hours to go about my plans for this day. 

How lucky am I? Take the time to appreciate when you do have during a period of inconvenience. You are lucky to get that opportunity.

Until next time

Xx



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