220502 Sentinel, Kindness of strangers

From October 19 of 2017 until November 6th Annie and I spent countless hours in the waiting room on the 10th floor of Barnes hospital in Saint Louis while Joyce was in critical care on that floor.
The 10th floor was for patients who were in the worst condition and in the greatest danger of dying.
During those hours we met some of the kindest and nicest people we have ever met. The situation was equally heartbreaking for everyone waiting there. Every day some would leave because of the death of the one they were there for, or because their loved one was better and moving to another floor. More new faces would show up within an hour or less. While the waiting was unpleasant we made fast friends there. With the dozens of people there when we were, we only met one obnoxious turd that was an awful woman. She was annoyed she had to be there and cared more about her inconvenience than whomever she was there for. We made and lost friends constantly. We shared food and soft drinks and spoke about the person we were there for and why that person was on the 10th floor. There was so much traffic on the 10th that every elevator had an express button to that floor so we could wisk up there in a few seconds.
I remember one woman in particular, her man was there with a very serious gunshot wound. She was there as long as we were there, the only one there that long. She too had a bullet wound just above her left breast, which she displayed to me. She was a good woman and nice to talk with. One husband and wife we met had the saddest story of all. Their son had some horrific condition, I do not remember what it was, but they had been living out of their car for 4 years at that point, due to their son being constantly moved from one hospital to another across the country. I felt sorry for them because they were a lovely couple who at that point had lost everything they had and were potentially going to lose their only child. I suppose the moral of this story today is this: no matter how bad things may be to you at any time, there is always someone else who is in a worse situation than you are. I hope knowing that is a comfort for you during your next tribulation.