Sanctuary Part 2

Previously on Sanctuary.....

For most people a hospital is a scary place, a hostile place. A hospital is a place where bad things happen. Most people would prefer church or school or home. But I grew up here. While my mom was on rounds, I learned to read in the OR gallery and play in the OR, I colored on old OR charts. A hospital was my church, my school, my home. A hospital was my safe place, my sanctuary. I love it here. Correction. Loved it here. Meredith works her way up to where she needed to be doing rounds for that morning. She was walking down the hall and passed a man that looked like a normal visitor. He stopped her asking where he could find Derek Shepard. She told him that he would be in his office.

The man just said, “Thank you,” and kept walking.

Meredith continued doing her rounds not thinking anything of this man but he was just a visitor with a concern wanting to talk and work out with Shepard. She just kept minding her own business and didn’t worry about him at all.

Cristina, on her way up to the floor that she would be working on, met the same guy that Meredith did on the elevator. He then asked Cristina the same question he did Meredith, “Excuse me, where would I be able to find Derek Shepard?”Sloan and Grey took Alex into a room and got supplies to help cover up the wound. They got it covered up and after a while they were all ready to go again. They all walked out of the room. They went to go to the floor where many people were so they could help evacuate them from their rooms and get them to somewhere, where they would be safe. Some of the nurses and doctors that were still in rooms with their patients just hide as well as they could so they could hide from the shooter.

Miranda Bailey and her intern was in a room with a lady. They noticed that the shooter was on the same floor that they were. The intern hid in the bathroom, the patient stayed covered up with the blankets over top of her. Doctor Bailey slid under the patient’s bed. When the shooter came in the room and uncovered the patient, but she acted like she was asleep, so he wouldn’t bother her. The shooter went into the bathroom and found the intern. He pulled him out of the bathroom and shot him. 

Now on Sanctuary.....

Meredith and Cristina were on the same floor as the man was, and they were extremely scared and hid as well as they could in a supply room. The man was looking everywhere on the floor to see if anyone was there, except he didn’t check the supply room that the two were hiding in. The man ended up leaving the floor that they were on and going to the main floor that many people were waiting on to see if their loved ones were okay. Sloan, Little Grey, Lexie, and many other nurses were on this floor helping patients and loved ones. The man ended up shooting a nurse that was standing at the end of the nurses station, and leaving and moving on the the next floor.

The gunman finally got to the floor that he could Dr. Shepard’s office. He still didn’t know the way to his office. He found a long hallway to walk in that he figured may lead him to Shepard’s office. As the gunman approached the hallway, Shepard was walking the opposite direction towards him. The man asked him, if he knew where to find Shepard, Shepard then scarcely told the man that he was Chief Shepard.

The man took his gun out and pointed it at Shepard. Derek was trapped.

Derek Shepard is still trapped by the gunman in one of the biggest, main hallways that the hospital has. Meredith and Cristina were in the hallway across the hospital from where Shepard and the gunman were. The hallways walls were all glass, so Meredith and Cristina could both see shepard being trapped by the gunman in the hallway. Meredith needed to go save him she thought, since she was the one that was carrying their baby. Cristina just kept holding her back.

Finally, one of Shepard’s nurses walked into the hallway that he was being trapped with a gun pointed straight to his head. She needed him in one of the operating rooms. He couldn’t leave the hallway though or the gunman would end up shooting him.

In the hallway that they were standing in. The gunman told Shepard who he was and that his wife was a previous patient at the hospital and that he was looking for Chief Richard Webber. Derek Shepard told the gunman that Chief Webber no longer worked at the hospital. Derek explained to the gunman how he had been Chief of Seattle Grace-Mercy West. The gunman shot Derek Shepard after he told him that he was Chief.

Richard Webber had been outside of the hospital during the shooting. When some of the officers wasn’t looking he decided to sneak into the hospital to save some of his previous employees. Meredith Grey found Derek after he got shot. She was with him every step of the way. She supported him when he was in his time of need. She never left his side. Meredith wasn't going to let him die like this. She knew her life would never be the same.

Poem

Fall

Summer is drowning it’s final breath.

I can smell the Autumn in the breeze.

The smell of pumpkins.

And sunburnt leaves.

The Leaves are red.

The Leaves are green.

They are falling from the tree.

They’re orange.

They’re brown.

They are all kinds of different colors.

Kids running around.

Piling up the leaves.

Jumping into the piles.

And screaming of laughter and joy.

Winter

It happened while we were sleeping.

Snow was falling.

Snow was blowing.

School was cancelled.

And kids were outside playing.

Sledding down big hills.

Building tall snowmen.

Having snowball fights.

And the cold temperatures showing their breath.

Coming inside for hot chocolate.

And keeping warm in front of the fireplace.

Snuggled up with a fuzzy blanket.

And that is why I love winter.

Spring

The long cold winter is melting away.

Through the mist the sun is shining.

Grass is growing.

Birds are chirping.

Butterflies are soaring.

Calves are being born.

Soon the river will be flowing again.

It’s rainy and muddy outside.

The flowers are blooming.

Easter is coming.

Warmer weather coming.

Kids are going outside in jackets and hoodies.

Kids enjoying the Easter candy.

And that’s how you know Spring has come.

Summer

School’s out.

Sun’s out.

The pool is open.

Water is splashing.

People are snorkeling.

The swimming suits are out.

The beach is open.

And people are on vacations.

Softball and baseball are starting.

Skin is getting darker.

Searching for shade.

Night’s get longer.

Flip flops are out.

Kites are flying.

Stars are shining bright in the sky.

And the tanlines will soon fade.

Softball

It’s more than a sport.

It is more like a passion.

Dirt and bruises are in my fashion.

The wind up.

The pitch.

Defense is scrambling for the ball.

Crazy parents are in the stands.

Intense coaches waving their hands.

The swinging of the bat.

The contact of the ball and the bat.

Running the bases.

A ball in my glove.

This is the game that I love.

I Feel Like

I feel like being happy.

I feel like being outdoors.

I feel like playing softball.

I feel like playing volleyball.

I feel like watching TV.

I feel like listening to music.

I feel like being better.

I feel like doing nothing.

I feel like being me.

Family

Family is always there.

They always come around when we need their help.

We fight and argue everyday.

But at the end we are always better.

Because they are our closest friends.

The love we have is mutual.

Even though we never show it.

The ups and downs may come around.

But as family we always get through it.

My family is the world to me.

And they could never be replaced.

They are all I have ever wanted.

Sanctuary

For most people a hospital is a scary place, a hostile place. A hospital is a place where bad things happen. Most people would prefer church or school or home. But I grew up here. While my mom was on rounds, I learned to read in the OR gallery and play in the OR, I colored on old OR charts. A hospital was my church, my school, my home. A hospital was my safe place, my sanctuary. I love it here. Correction. Loved it here.

“No way!” said Cristina Yang shocked.

“Yes way,” said Meredith Grey.

“How are you going to tell him?” questioned Yang.

“I’m not… yet,” Grey said.

“When?”

“I don’t know yet,” Meredith told Cristina.

Meredith told Cristina that she needed to go and do her rounds for the morning.

“I got to go,” Meredith says as running towards the stairs.

“Okay, let me know what he says!” Cristina says as Meredith fades away up the stairs.

Meredith works her way up to where she needed to be doing rounds for that morning. She was walking down the hall and passed a man that looked like a normal visitor. He stopped her asking where he could find Derek Shepard. She told him that he would be in his office.

The man just said, “Thank you,” and kept walking.

Meredith continued doing her rounds not thinking anything of this man but he was just a visitor with a concern wanting to talk and work out with Shepard. She just kept minding her own business and didn’t worry about him at all.

Cristina, on her way up to the floor that she would be working on, met the same guy that Meredith did on the elevator. He then asked Cristina the same question he did Meredith, “Excuse me, where would I be able to find Derek Shepard?”

Cristina replied, “On the east wing of the hospital.”

“Do you think you could give me directions?” said the strange man. 

“Um, sure,” said Cristina hesitantly, “You have to follow a couple of long hallways and take many different turns to get there. You have to go through a couple different sets of doors until you get to the long glass hallway. You then follow that hallway and take the other set of doors, right when you walk through those doors his office is to the right.”

“Okay, thank you,” said the man.

“Yep,” Cristina said with a confused look on her face, as the man walked out of the elevator.

Cristina found this man very suspicious and not very trustworthy. She gave him the directions to chief, Derek Shepard’s office because she thought the same thing as Grey did, just that he was a normal everyday visitor, that was completely harmless.

A little bit later that day an intern, Reid was in the supply room getting supplies for one of the patients that she was working with that day. She turned around and there was the man standing with a gun pointed right towards her head. She asked what he was doing in there. He was then asking her the same questions that he did Yang and Grey. Alex Karev, a resident at the hospital walked in the supply room right as the man shot Reid. The man turned around and shot Alex right in the side. Reid was unconscious, but Alex was still conscious and could get out of the supply room on to the elevator to get help. He was found on the elevator by Mark Sloan, the plastic surgeon, and Lexie Grey, a resident.

Sloan and Grey took Alex into a room and got supplies to help cover up the wound. They got it covered up and after a while they were all ready to go again. They all walked out of the room. They went to go to the floor where many people were so they could help evacuate them from their rooms and get them to somewhere, where they would be safe. Some of the nurses and doctors that were still in rooms with their patients just hide as well as they could so they could hide from the shooter.

Miranda Bailey and her intern was in a room with a lady. They noticed that the shooter was on the same floor that they were. The intern hid in the bathroom, the patient stayed covered up with the blankets over top of her. Doctor Bailey slid under the patient’s bed. When the shooter came in the room and uncovered the patient, but she acted like she was asleep, so he wouldn’t bother her. The shooter went into the bathroom and found the intern. He pulled him out of the bathroom and shot him.

Shrieking the intern fell to the floor. Miranda Bailey, was laying under the patient’s bed. The shooter eventually pulled her out from underneath the bed. As the man asked her if she was a surgeon or nurse, crying she lied to him and told him that she was a nurse. He left her alone and left.

Meredith and Cristina were on the same floor as the man was, and they were extremely scared and hid as well as they could in a supply room. The man was looking everywhere on the floor to see if anyone was there, except he didn’t check the supply room where the two were hiding in. The man ended up leaving the floor that they were on and going to the main floor that many people were waiting on to see if their loved ones were okay. Sloan, Little Grey, Lexie, and many other nurses were on this floor helping patients and loved ones. The man ended up shooting a nurse that was standing at the end of the nurses station, and leaving and moving on the the next floor. 

The gunman finally got to the floor that he could Dr. Shepard’s office. He still didn’t know the way to his office. He found a long hallway to walk in that he figured may lead him to Shepard’s office. As the gunman approached the hallway, Shepard was walking the opposite direction towards him. The man asked him, if he knew where to find Shepard, Shepard then scarcely told the man that he was Chief Shepard. 

The man took his gun out and pointed it at Shepard. Derek was trapped.

TO BE CONTINUED…..

Jennie Finch and Cat Osterman

On September 3, 1980 in La Mirada, California, Bev and Doug Finch welcomed a new baby to the world. That day was the day that, Jennie Finch, an olympic gold medalist, Japan Cup MVP, Women’s sports foundation Athlete of the year, and 2009 USA Softball player of the year was born. Jennie is a well known softball player for the Chicago Bandits and the USA Olympic Softball team. Jennie grew up around softball and baseball her whole life and pursued her dreams of being a softball player when she grew up.

Jennie Finch was the youngest of her two brothers. Family is who she gives most credit to for her success, and something that is very important to her. Jennie’s mom was a die hard Dodgers fan, her father worked with her on softball skills over the years to build her into a better player, and her brothers both also loved to play baseball. Her family has made a very big impact on her softball career and has been there for her through every step of the way.

Starting to play softball at age five, Jennie was being taught by her father to pitch by the age of eight. He was her first pitching coach, and as her coach, he was doing anything and everything to be able to help her get all of the practice she could get in. He did absolutely everything her could to help her progress and succeed. Helping her get in the practice that she needed, he made his own batting cage in their backyard, and would sit back there with her for hours while she threw to him. He also made a pitch-back. It was made out of a trampoline for her to pitch into in the evening and when he wasn’t there to catch for her. He eventually became her personal coach.

Jennie was playing for a 10u team at the age of eight and was gone almost every weekend to a different field playing with her all-star traveling team. Jennie was very competitive and the more competitive the playing environment was, the more Jennie was wanting and thriving to play. She hated to lose and did everything she possibly could to prevent that from happening. At age twelve, she was playing for a 12u team that she led to win the American Softball Association title in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  Every summer, Jennie took her skill levels and made an impact on the national tournaments.

From the start of Jennie’s pitching career it was obvious that she lived a competitive environment, and so was her natural athletic ability. Her hand-eye coordination was great, and she was bigger and faster than most of her teammates. She had a cannon for an arm, and that strength helped her speed and power of her pitches. 

Jennie Finch was known as a very famous pitcher through college, and when she started playing for the United States Olympic team. She played for the University of Arizona from her Freshman to Senior year. She was then in National Pro Fastpitch playing and pitching for the Chicago Bandits. She has been on the US Olympic team since 2006. Finch has been named for many awards throughout her career and overall has had a very successful career. 

Jennie is married to Casey Daigle a major league baseball pitcher. He proposed to her on the University of Arizona’s softball field. He took her to the mound blindfolded. 

He said, “You have been the queen of the diamond for four years. Now I want you to be the queen of my heart.” 

They have two sons and a daughter together; their oldest son, Ace Shane, was born on May 4, 2006, and their youngest, Diesel Dean, was born on June 19, 2011. Their daughter, Paisley Faye, was born on January 12, 2013. On July 20, 2010, she announced that she would be retiring to focus more on her family. She was the most famous softball pitcher of her era.

On April 16, 1983, Gary and Laura Osterman gave birth to a beautiful brown eyed, brown haired baby girl named, Cat Osterman, not knowing that she would grow up to be the wonderful athlete that she is.

Cat started playing softball in first grade, but quit to play basketball and soccer. She started softball again in fifth grade, and that’s when she found the love of the game. She was the backup pitcher on her little league team. Over the years, Cat has set many records. In her high school softball career, she broke school records for strikeouts. During all of Cat’s years playing,  she made a lot of progress and is now a very successful pitcher. 

On Cat’s last ride,  she quoted, “I’ve laced up my cleats for the last time, and of course, it’s now that I wish for just one more day. Not every ending can be storybook, and in this case it’s not. I say ‘it’s ok’ because the last 2 nights I left everything I have on that field in Hoover, and the game unfolded how the softball Gods wanted it to. Twenty-one years ago, I asked for a pitching lesson for my 11th birthday; no one would have imagined where it would lead. Thank you to my parents & family for the amazing support on this journey, to my amazing teammates on every team along the way, to my coaches… Especially Ken Eriksen who helped mold a skinny little 18 year old, Bobby Smith, who taught me to spin the ball the way I do, and to Coach Clark for giving me an opportunity. Thank you USA Softball for a great 10 year run with 2 Olympics. To Don and USSSA Florida Pride, thank you for an incredible 6 years of being a professional!”

Jennie Finch and Cat Osterman have both been very successful with their careers. Before they were on the Olympic team together, they played against each other and were opponents in the National Pro Softball League. They have both been big influences on young softball players and teaching them to never give up on doing something they love. They are now both retired from their softball careers to spend more time with their families and friends.

Type 1 Diabetes

It was a typical day for me in early March of this year. We were on our way home from the city and stopped at a gas station to get water. In a very short amount of time I had my 28 oz. bottle of water gone. My mom was surprised, and I told her that I just couldn’t get enough to drink and was getting up to go the the bathroom around 3-4 times a night and many times during the day. After I told her that, she started to wonder if I was diabetic. In that moment so many questions were going through my mind, and I didn’t know how to feel. Questions about my personal life were running through my mind, and I was wondering how much it would effect my everyday life at home and school.

I started researching about what Type 1 diabetes was on our way home that day. I was reading articles about it and looking at the symptoms to see if any of them matched how I was feeling. The only ones that matched my symptoms at the time were excessive thirst and urination. We didn’t think it was true that I would be diabetic, but the next day my mom talked to a nurse practitioner about my symptoms and asked for her advice. She recommended to go see a doctor as soon as we could.

I went to the doctor the next day; we spent almost all day there as they did many tests on me to see if they could figure out what was going on and why. I was drinking so much water and going to the bathroom so much. They were almost positive that I was diabetic because I had sugar in my urine. They sent all of my test results from that day to Children’s Hospital in Omaha because they wanted to get a second opinion on it.  We went to Children’s Hospital the next day and had blood drawn and more tests done. Later that afternoon they contacted my mom at work, and I was diagnosed with AutoImmune Type 1 Diabetes.

That day, she came home from work, and she was in tears. I didn’t know what was wrong at first. I went up to her and gave her a hug and asked her what was wrong and if she would be okay. That was when she not only told me that I was diagnosed as a diabetic, but she also found out that my sister was going to have to have surgery on the cyst that she had on her arm. After she had the surgery the cyst could possibly grow back anywhere on her body and be cancerous. That day was not the best for my family. Many tears had been shed, but we all got through it.

The day after I was diagnosed, we went to Children’s Hospital again and talked to a nurse, dietician, and social worker that would help us with everything that we needed to know. That day I learned to check my own blood sugar, but I still wasn’t comfortable with giving myself a shot. I had to take 4 shots a day at the beginning, and the longer I had it the lower my blood sugars were getting. I am now down to only taking one shot a day, and that is before I go to bed. I still have to check my blood sugars before every meal and at bedtime.

After a week or so after being diagnosed, I was used to counting my carbs and knowing how much I needed to be eating, or if I was eating too much of something. I was a little confused, but it was easy to catch on to. During the day for each meal they wanted me eating 70 carbs. We didn’t think that it was very much when they told us. When we counted the carbs for my first meal, we found out it is very hard to even get up to 70 carbohydrates. Most of the time I would not get up to seventy even. I would get less than that. It was very hard to get up to seventy. For each meal I would be taking my insulin. Before I was able to take insulin, I had to divide that by 20 and that would give me the amount of insulin that I was to be taking with that meal. I caught on to doing all the math for it very quickly.

I was very scared to go back to school. I was extremely nervous that I would be judged for something I couldn’t help. I talked to my mom, Mrs. Merkel, Mrs. Peterson, Mrs. Svendsen, and Mrs. Phillips the day I went back to school. They explained to my mom and me that if I was ever made fun of for something like that to contact them. I have only ever been made fun of once for it. It hasn’t happened since that time either.

When I first found out, I thought that I was going to have to change completely and stop doing certain things and eating my favorite foods. I was scared that my friends would treat me different, and that I would get made fun of.

When I went back to school after finding this out, I was very nervous about what people would think of me. If I would be treated differently, or if everything was going to be the same. It took awhile for it to sink in, but I finally realized that if they are true friends, they wouldn’t judge me or treat me differently. I started to realize that it got easier to tell people because they wouldn’t treat me any different than they did before.

I realized after the first few weeks that nobody was going to treat me different and that I wouldn’t be made fun of for something that I had no control over. After I got that through my head, I was happy. It has been less than a year since I was diagnosed, and I am still living very happily.