Volunteering Day One

I was really nervous to volunteer at the hospital today. I wasn't really sure what to expect even though I knew what I was going to be doing. It's easy to give someone a hand massage, but it is not so easy to give a hand massage to a person that has just come out of cardiac surgery. I've seen people that have just come out of surgery before. My grandma laid in those exact beds just one year ago after her heart surgery. Somehow today was different. Young people, old people, black people, white people. Being in the hospital really makes everyone the same. Everyone had the same wires and tubes connected to them. Everyone had the same stack of machines flanking each side of their bed. Two nurses in each room to keep constant watch. It really made you recognize the personality differences between the patients.