Remembering a patient

One flight was related by a co-worker. Erin picked up a young boy who had been burned in a kitchen accident. He of course was scared and in pain. On the flight Erin explained what she was doing, told him she knew how much it hurt. Erin related the story of her burns, and showed him her scars. She told him how much better things would be now, how far burn medicine had come since the "old" days. Erin explained the process he would go through during treatment at the hospital. The little boy got to the hospital and treatment began. When the staff told him.....he would say,"yes, Erin told me....., Yes, Erin said.....He still talks about "his Erin". What we do lives on after we have gone...................