• sartalon@lemmy.world
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    I am happy for him. It’s not often you get a chance to make a difference like that.

    These last two and the next few days will be the sacrifice he doesn’t know he is making until 10-20 years from now.

    Your rescues will fade in time, but you can never forget your recoveries.

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        2 days ago

        My guess would be mental health.

        Your rescues will fade in time, but you can never forget your recoveries. [emphasis mine]

        “Recoveries” likely means finding the people who didn’t survive.

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          Unfortunately, this is very true. I’ve been out longer than I was in, and I remember the losses not the wins.

          Edit: the one ‘win’ I remember, we got a letter from a lady 2 years after the event. She wrote to us to thank us for getting daughter to the trauma center alive…so that the doctors could harvest her organs, and mom was able to hear her daughter’s heart beating in someone else’s chest a year later.