12/01/06 - A good day.
Yesterday the charity hosted an event on the campus of Saint Johns University. This is the third event this semester, and instead of the students being tired of seeing us set our table up and try to sell tee shirts and talk about the sick first responders - they came out in record numbers. This amazes me. It amazes me for several reasons:
1) These student, besides a select few who went to Stuy HS near Ground Zero, or lost someone they knew in the WTC or are sons and daughters of cops and firefighters - have no vested interest in what's happening to the rescue and recovery workers.
2) This is a science heavy school, most of the kids that attend are going to be physicians, PAs, Med tech's, Toxicologists and pharmacists. So the problem that all these people, including myself have been having with the medical community is going to be short lived. This next generation of students that will be treating us will hit their professional schools of choice already with a foundation of what the problem is. From this strong foundation, they can build and become great health care providers.
3) The guys who went to the conference kept up to their word, they worked twice as hard because they had seen first hand the apathy and hopelessness that was all over that conference. And true to form they DID do a much better job. Its probably unfair to these guys to even compare the two events, one was a gathering laying down getting ready to die while the other was a gathering of young people gearing up to begin to fight. (Ill take the second any day)
I felt a bit off for this event though, at one time I staffed an event in NYC solo, sans car. That involved carrying 2 large shirt boxes and all the paperwork needed through several boroughs on the NYC Subway system. Yesterday I couldn't even wheel the 2 boxes from my car to the building and or back. It took help to do it. Plus I attempted to be able to speak to the students personally, but the effort was too much. Shortly after the beginning, I had to tone my efforts down greatly. I also was using my Proventil pump around every 3 hours instead of 4, which didn't escape the notice of one of the guys who is a pharmacy student. But I made it through the day and I am so proud of not only the charity but Saint Johns University on the whole.
1) These student, besides a select few who went to Stuy HS near Ground Zero, or lost someone they knew in the WTC or are sons and daughters of cops and firefighters - have no vested interest in what's happening to the rescue and recovery workers.
2) This is a science heavy school, most of the kids that attend are going to be physicians, PAs, Med tech's, Toxicologists and pharmacists. So the problem that all these people, including myself have been having with the medical community is going to be short lived. This next generation of students that will be treating us will hit their professional schools of choice already with a foundation of what the problem is. From this strong foundation, they can build and become great health care providers.
3) The guys who went to the conference kept up to their word, they worked twice as hard because they had seen first hand the apathy and hopelessness that was all over that conference. And true to form they DID do a much better job. Its probably unfair to these guys to even compare the two events, one was a gathering laying down getting ready to die while the other was a gathering of young people gearing up to begin to fight. (Ill take the second any day)
I felt a bit off for this event though, at one time I staffed an event in NYC solo, sans car. That involved carrying 2 large shirt boxes and all the paperwork needed through several boroughs on the NYC Subway system. Yesterday I couldn't even wheel the 2 boxes from my car to the building and or back. It took help to do it. Plus I attempted to be able to speak to the students personally, but the effort was too much. Shortly after the beginning, I had to tone my efforts down greatly. I also was using my Proventil pump around every 3 hours instead of 4, which didn't escape the notice of one of the guys who is a pharmacy student. But I made it through the day and I am so proud of not only the charity but Saint Johns University on the whole.
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