Changing Someones Life (What are your experiences?)

2015-05-31T15:00:26-04:00

I am not trying to brag, but just stating how splendid it is when someone says their life changed for the better due to your actions. Where she saw darkness now she sees light. It fits perfectly with my mantra of leaving the world a better place.

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made May 31 at 2015 3:01 PM

2015-05-31T15:01:06-04:00

Can we use another besides change?lol

Response by CPO Gerald Burns made Nov 22 at 2021 6:11 PM

2021-11-22T18:11:38-05:00

MAJ Ken Landgren, I totally agree with you. An occurrence last fall really made me think about this very subject. It really brings out the fact that we are here to serve the people and we are directed to love your brother as yourself.

I saved a man's life in the course of doing my job, Independent Duty Corpsman, and I still get a Christmas Card and a phone call at least once a year. Several years ago, my call was from his wife, thanking me for all I had done. She realized that she was sitting looking at three children and one grandchild that would have not been there if I had not saved his life. She said that Donnie could not talk right now, he was too choked up. He called a couple days later and we talked for a good while.

The reality of what I had done was never as clear as then. I started medicine as an EMT in 1971 and ended as a Physician Assistant in 2113. I went into medicine for almost 50 years ago, to save lives, but it was never as clear as when his wife said "You changed a lot of lives that day. . ." as she put it that i was meant to be working in medicine. I believe that God had me there at that time for a reason. I am happy every day when i think about treating him and a lot of my patients. I am sure there are other lives I changed but this is the one I will carry forever.

Doc B