Kathie Reyes
October 2020
Kathie
Reyes
,
RN
LifeFlight
Mercy Health - St. Vincent Medical Center
Kathie holding my dad's hand made the horrible situation better and fulfilled being that support person during this horrible accident.
My father J was involved in a hay baling accident in which he was rushed over to the nearest ER. Upon arriving my father had a heart history that had him on blood thinners already. With the evaluation, the CT scan showed he had a bleed on his kidney and his body was going into shock from the blood loss. The discussion happened in which he needed to be LifefFlighted to a next level hospital in which ended up being OSU Medical Center.
Now as we all know we are living in a COVID world right now and as soon as they said they wanted to LifeFlight him my brother took off to head towards Columbus to be there for him. Little background there are 5 of us children and us 4 girls in the medical field. We lost our mother almost two years ago to pancreatic cancer, so our dad is our one and only. We all took turns being in the room with him before he got transferred and he was awake, in a lot of pain, and scared.
When the LifeFlight team showed up, they transferred him over to the bed for LifeFlight which was not comfortable at all. We all gave him a kiss goodbye and we found out none of us were able to be down at OSU while he was getting evaluated in the ER and their visiting hours were 1 person from 1400 to 1900 which was horrible with there being 5 children. The LifeFlight nurse was Kathie Reyes and she went above and beyond this scary time.
I spoke to her before they took off and asked her to take good care of my dad, that she was playing the double duty of a nurse and loved one for my dad since none of us were able to be there with him. She looked at me and shook her head yes and said, "Okay." She calmly talked to my dad as they whisked him away to the helipad. It wasn't until the next day when I was able to do go down to visit him he started crying when he saw me.
After hugging and talking he said, "I want to recognize the nurse in the helicopter with me." He started crying and said, "she held my hand during the flight." In the end, during these troubled times with the pandemic going on right now, Kathie holding my dad's hand made the horrible situation better and fulfilled being that support person during this horrible accident. We just want to say thank you for everything and it made us feel so much better knowing he had great care.
Now as we all know we are living in a COVID world right now and as soon as they said they wanted to LifeFlight him my brother took off to head towards Columbus to be there for him. Little background there are 5 of us children and us 4 girls in the medical field. We lost our mother almost two years ago to pancreatic cancer, so our dad is our one and only. We all took turns being in the room with him before he got transferred and he was awake, in a lot of pain, and scared.
When the LifeFlight team showed up, they transferred him over to the bed for LifeFlight which was not comfortable at all. We all gave him a kiss goodbye and we found out none of us were able to be down at OSU while he was getting evaluated in the ER and their visiting hours were 1 person from 1400 to 1900 which was horrible with there being 5 children. The LifeFlight nurse was Kathie Reyes and she went above and beyond this scary time.
I spoke to her before they took off and asked her to take good care of my dad, that she was playing the double duty of a nurse and loved one for my dad since none of us were able to be there with him. She looked at me and shook her head yes and said, "Okay." She calmly talked to my dad as they whisked him away to the helipad. It wasn't until the next day when I was able to do go down to visit him he started crying when he saw me.
After hugging and talking he said, "I want to recognize the nurse in the helicopter with me." He started crying and said, "she held my hand during the flight." In the end, during these troubled times with the pandemic going on right now, Kathie holding my dad's hand made the horrible situation better and fulfilled being that support person during this horrible accident. We just want to say thank you for everything and it made us feel so much better knowing he had great care.