Thoughts about bleeding to death. [View All]

[Horse with no Name]

As a nurse, I have been involved in major traumas.
I remember one in particular. A young woman was involved in a motor vehicle accident.
Her sports car went under the back of an 18-wheeler. It took the top of her head off, as well as many other injuries...but that was the most spectacular.
She came in with large bore IV's...we literally were squeezing the blood in by hand while it was running out holes everywhere else. We were literally ankle deep in it. She was losing it so fast that we couldn't keep up with the volume.
After slamming in 15+ units of blood...and still not able to get a viable blood count, we had to let her go.
All of the blood in the world couldn't replace what was lost.
We tried, but there was literally nothing we could do.
This is how I feel about Iraq. It is analogous to a country bleeding to death and our troops are the transfusion.
However, we simply cannot transfuse fast enough, because when we stop one bleeder, there are 20 to take it's place.
It's time to pronounce the patient Mr. Bush.
Our resources can be conserved to utilize when it can make a difference.
Now, it simply does not.