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Volume 16, Issue 37, Week of September 18, 2017
A helping hand Saskatoon nurse driven to help in hurricane aftermath
Rocky Bishop helped out in the aftermath of Katrina and is now eyeing Houston and Florida. (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson) Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express askatoon nurse Rocky Bishop remembers lying on his bed after finishing a stint of night shifts. He had the television on and was watching coverage of Hurricane Katrina just after it slammed into New Orleans in late August 2005. “A reporter named Paula Zahn was on CNN interviewing a nurse who was in
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downtown New Orleans,” Bishop said. “And this nurse was explaining how Charity Medical Center was filling up with water and she was working in intensive care. This nurse was crying. “That really got me because most nurses I have worked with have that tough outer shell and they may appear crusty, but that crustiness is sometimes because we deal with a lot and we’re human.” As exhausted as he was, the nurse on
CNN had Bishop’s full attention. “I thought, ‘Man, it must be serious if a nurse cries.’ She was explaining to Paula Zahn the situation they were in. She said they were out of power and the emergency generators were knocked out. “She said they were manually ventilating patients. It takes a lot of rhythm to do one in each hand. When the nurse runs out of energy, so does that patient, right?” Zahn asked the nurse if she wanted to
say anything to viewers. “She said, ‘If anybody is listening we need help . . . we need people to come help us.’” Bishop jumped off the bed and told his wife Brenda he was going. “Brenda thought I was going to go downtown or to Canadian Tire and said, ‘Where are you going?” And I said, ‘I’m going to New Orleans.’ And she said, ‘What?’ (Continued on page 18)