Significant moments are the things that make your life worth living.
They are the things that bring joy or a spring to your step or miss a beat in your heart.
They’re bravery because it’s easy to avoid significant moments.
I walked along the nurses corridor at the practice the other day, it’s designed in a genius way (and not by me) and you can see into every room to make sure everything's ok.
Andy was working on a patient that I’d seen about a year ago who is having over-dentures upper and lower which are proving to be really quite difficult.
This person has had a rough ride throughout their treatment.
I’d seen they were in the waiting room and then walked past and kept walking and I know that they’d seen me and so I turned round and found a mask and went into surgery.
I didn’t want to go in, I wanted to go upstairs and have a coffee and sit down and relax and not make any decisions and really not do anything because I’m tired and it’s hard and too many people want too much.
But I sat down beside this individual and said that I’m so sorry that you've had a rough time through this and you’ve not seen me for a while but I’ve heard all about it and we’re doing everything we can to fix it.
On this occasion the patient was truly delighted and the response from the patient was staggering and it lifted my heart and gave me joy that just a conversation with an individual can make them feel so much better.
Just in that instant I decided to take responsibility for this person.
I’m not always able to do that and not always able to be as brave or as strong as that and I don’t always get the reaction like that when I do it.
But during these difficult times, we should seek out the moments of significance instead of running away and try to be strong enough to take it on the chin when it doesn’t quite work out the way we would like.
Good people, decent people appreciate moments of significance and we should seek them out.
Blog Post Number - 2907
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