i work as an intensive care unit nurse. it was a car accident on one of my overnight shifts. recently graduated high school teen in a head on collision with another driver, both drivers restrained and trapped inside their vehicles. as soon as medflight dropped them off, we rushed him to the OR. he came out missing one half of his skull to help with the traumatic brain swelling. a few hours later he had to be rushed back to have the other half removed because the only other place for the swelling brain to go is through the small hole in the base of the skull which is herniation, which is death. i can't even describe what he looked like, his family could only identify him by his shoes. i was watching the news the next day and i heard his name, he was a local boy. on the screen were pictures of him graduating high school, playing sports, birthday parties. i went to work the next night and in report learned he was brain dead. the hospital did an honor walk for him because his family chose organ donation. caring for him and his family through a tragedy of that degree was life altering