“What’s one of the craziest things that’s happened to you in your time here?”
“Never been robbed, never been broken into. Most of the crazy things have been me intervening when someone needs healthcare. Either they’ve fallen down, or been stabbed or shot. Golden Gate park, I was riding bikes with my son, he was probably 7 years old, I see this guy on the ground in front of the hall of flowers holding his arms up in the air. I know exactly what’s going on so I go over and say, ‘Your shoulder is dislocated, I’m an orthopedic nurse, I can put this back in.’ So I take my boot off, put the heel of my foot into his armpit, pull it out straight and turn. Boom, it’s back in. For the next week wherever I was in neighborhood, I couldn’t buy a beer.”
“Why’s that?”
“The guy had come to neighborhood and told them he was covering all beers for Chuck the nurse. Taa daaa.”
“What goes around comes around huh? Pay it forward.”
“Pay it forward. Do what you can day to day.”