WEBVTT NOTE language:en-US NOTE Confidence: 0.8533059358596802 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:15.362 To walk out and see like everything that I built, NOTE Confidence: 0.8533059358596802 00:00:15.422 --> 00:00:19.110 everything that I accomplished here, to be destroyed, it was, NOTE Confidence: 0.8533059358596802 00:00:19.171 --> 00:00:20.320 it was devastating. NOTE Confidence: 0.9349250793457031 00:00:21.520 --> 00:00:21.960 Preparing. NOTE Confidence: 0.9715547561645508 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:22.640 For hurricane. NOTE Confidence: 0.9570934176445007 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:25.531 Michael was a very short event for a lot of NOTE Confidence: 0.9570934176445007 00:00:25.598 --> 00:00:25.800 us. NOTE Confidence: 0.9466577172279358 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:29.082 So I was prepared not to have a home to NOTE Confidence: 0.9466577172279358 00:00:29.145 --> 00:00:31.775 go back to, but I was not prepared what we NOTE Confidence: 0.9466577172279358 00:00:31.837 --> 00:00:32.840 had happened to. NOTE Confidence: 0.8207127451896667 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:36.368 Us the storm lasted, I would say probably like an NOTE Confidence: 0.8207127451896667 00:00:36.438 --> 00:00:38.479 hour and a half to two hours. NOTE Confidence: 0.9105339646339417 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:51.182 The fire started at Dog Creek and went NI actually NOTE Confidence: 0.9105339646339417 00:00:51.274 --> 00:00:54.880 come to town for dialysis that morning. NOTE Confidence: 0.8349099159240723 00:00:55.760 --> 00:00:57.954 Found that when I got here there was Fire Dog NOTE Confidence: 0.8349099159240723 00:00:58.003 --> 00:00:59.319 Creek and it was spreading. NOTE Confidence: 0.884003221988678 00:01:00.800 --> 00:01:06.318 There were dead trees, burnt trees, charred ground, nothing in NOTE Confidence: 0.884003221988678 00:01:06.407 --> 00:01:07.119 between. NOTE Confidence: 0.9145001173019409 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:11.523 Everything else was bald and stark, and that added to NOTE Confidence: 0.9145001173019409 00:01:11.606 --> 00:01:13.599 the eerie sense of loss. NOTE Confidence: 0.9043049812316895 00:01:19.080 --> 00:01:22.250 We made a decision to go to Bay Medical Center, NOTE Confidence: 0.9043049812316895 00:01:22.317 --> 00:01:25.758 which is our largest hospital here to shelter and I NOTE Confidence: 0.9043049812316895 00:01:25.825 --> 00:01:29.805 ended up being the only kidney doctoral nephrologist in the NOTE Confidence: 0.9043049812316895 00:01:29.872 --> 00:01:30.480 hospital. NOTE Confidence: 0.8283945918083191 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:32.200 The trees were down at the facility. NOTE Confidence: 0.9325162172317505 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:34.800 There's no communications at all, so you couldn't call anybody. NOTE Confidence: 0.8759249448776245 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:38.308 Within a few hours of the storm passing, patients started NOTE Confidence: 0.8759249448776245 00:01:38.356 --> 00:01:40.767 coming into the ER Anybody who showed up would get NOTE Confidence: 0.8759249448776245 00:01:40.815 --> 00:01:43.660 dialysis, and we had several dialysis patients who walked a NOTE Confidence: 0.8759249448776245 00:01:43.709 --> 00:01:45.927 mile or two to they didn't really know what to NOTE Confidence: 0.8759249448776245 00:01:45.975 --> 00:01:46.120 do. NOTE Confidence: 0.8964590430259705 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:50.352 We had to be sure that those patients who were NOTE Confidence: 0.8964590430259705 00:01:50.421 --> 00:01:54.533 furthest away were getting here, making sure about all their NOTE Confidence: 0.8964590430259705 00:01:54.602 --> 00:01:58.440 transportation and staff too, that they were able to get NOTE Confidence: 0.8964590430259705 00:01:58.508 --> 00:01:59.399 here as well. NOTE Confidence: 0.5847697854042053 00:01:59.480 --> 00:01:59.600 We. NOTE Confidence: 0.8745395541191101 00:01:59.600 --> 00:02:02.282 Just kept the patients in the safest location and we NOTE Confidence: 0.8745395541191101 00:02:02.333 --> 00:02:03.520 just all work together. NOTE Confidence: 0.8605480790138245 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:11.040 When they say Devita is a village, it's a family. NOTE Confidence: 0.9548981785774231 00:02:11.040 --> 00:02:12.560 It is truly a family. NOTE Confidence: 0.8676860332489014 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:17.809 The staff, the the nurses, the janitors, the transport staff, NOTE Confidence: 0.8676860332489014 00:02:17.887 --> 00:02:22.152 it was absolutely amazing of how everybody kind of kept NOTE Confidence: 0.8676860332489014 00:02:22.229 --> 00:02:23.160 it together. NOTE Confidence: 0.848959743976593 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:26.695 I just love what DaVita did at that point because NOTE Confidence: 0.848959743976593 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:30.151 once they realized that it was a major disaster here, NOTE Confidence: 0.848959743976593 00:02:30.215 --> 00:02:34.055 they had already start contacting teammates to come into the NOTE Confidence: 0.848959743976593 00:02:34.119 --> 00:02:34.439 area. NOTE Confidence: 0.6922098398208618 00:02:34.760 --> 00:02:38.447 Describing and Davita's responsive and my first thought is just NOTE Confidence: 0.6922098398208618 00:02:38.506 --> 00:02:39.560 it was incredible. NOTE Confidence: 0.9532428979873657 00:02:40.040 --> 00:02:42.251 I was very impressed at how they were there for NOTE Confidence: 0.9532428979873657 00:02:42.298 --> 00:02:42.440 us. NOTE Confidence: 0.8885360956192017 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:45.814 They're a great group of people and they really care NOTE Confidence: 0.8885360956192017 00:02:45.874 --> 00:02:47.600 about the patients, about us. NOTE Confidence: 0.9350395202636719 00:02:48.040 --> 00:02:51.197 And it reminded me that every person is important, no NOTE Confidence: 0.9350395202636719 00:02:51.257 --> 00:02:53.640 matter what walk of life they come from. NOTE Confidence: 0.9178905487060547 00:02:53.720 --> 00:02:57.800 No matter what you have and have not, you're important. NOTE Confidence: 0.8585121631622314 00:02:58.040 --> 00:02:59.120 You're valuable. NOTE Confidence: 0.9679052829742432 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:02.580 And we need to treat people with that compassion that NOTE Confidence: 0.9679052829742432 00:03:02.640 --> 00:03:03.960 we desire from others.