My Employee Collapsed At Work — And Her 5-Year-Old Daughter Taught Me A Lesson I’ll Never Forget

Part 2

I stood completely frozen in the middle of that tiny dark silent apartment as the devastating words echoed loudly in my ear.

Megan was staring up at me completely terrified with fresh warm tears spilling heavily over her freezing deeply flushed cheeks.

I forced my shaking voice to remain perfectly flawlessly steady and relentlessly incredibly calm.

I asked the tired administrator what exactly precisely had tragically happened to poor Brenda.

She explained gravely that Brenda had completely suddenly collapsed during her brutal exhausting nursing shift yesterday early morning.

She had been working completely relentlessly while silently suffering from severe dangerous walking pneumonia and extreme massive dehydration.

Brenda had completely entirely lost consciousness on the hard ward floor and remained in highly critical condition for several terrifying agonizing hours.

She was perfectly incredibly stable now but still incredibly incredibly weak and highly deeply distressed about her missing lost daughter.

The administrator said Brenda kept violently frantically trying to rip out her completely essential intravenous lines to go find her little girl.

The frantic hospital staff had repeatedly desperately tried calling the single emergency contact listed on her medical file.

But the useless emergency contact was Nancy who was completely totally unreachable at her highly demanding busy retail job.

I told the exhausted administrator I was personally bringing Brenda’s young daughter to the large hospital right this exact second.

I hung up the phone quickly and knelt down slowly to look Megan directly in her wide fearful wet eyes.

I wiped a stray freezing cold tear from her soft cheek with my incredibly warm gentle thumb.

I told her softly that I had finally successfully found her mother and she was entirely perfectly safe at the hospital.

I explained very gently and carefully that Brenda had gotten very deeply sick while bravely tirelessly helping other severely sick people.

Megan’s tiny face completely absolutely transformed from absolute pure terrifying terror to pure radiant overwhelming beautiful hope.

She clutched her worn stuffed rabbit even tighter and excitedly asked if we could go completely immediately to see her right now.

I promised her fiercely we were leaving this very exact second.

I quickly aggressively booked a completely private expensive luxury car service to pick us up from the front apartment building entrance.

Within ten incredibly short minutes we were sitting comfortably in the incredibly deeply warm back seat of a massive luxury sleek sedan.

Megan pressed her tiny soft face against the freezing cold glass window as we drove safely rapidly through the howling massive blizzard.

She kept asking me quietly over and over if her sweet mommy was really truly entirely going to be okay.

I assured her repeatedly and gently that Brenda just incredibly needed some good quiet rest and very strong helpful medicine.

I felt a profound completely permanent shift happening deeply inside my own hardened cold chest as I watched this incredibly beautifully brave little girl.

I had completely selfishly spent the last fifteen grueling years relentlessly ruthlessly building a massive cold empire of glass and cold steel.

But I had completely and totally forgotten how to actually meaningfully build a warm human deeply connected life.

This tiny freezing vulnerable child was teaching me vastly more about true incredible courage than any massive corporate board meeting ever possibly could.

Have you ever experienced a single incredibly brief moment that entirely completely shattered the rigid massive walls you built carefully around your whole life?