at least we gave her a shot

The paramedic training me
told me that he thought
the woman knew she was about
to take a turn for the worst
because she was moving her
mouth in a way that seemed
deliberate
like she was trying to tell us something.
I must not know how to look
at it, because all i saw was a jiggly
old lady laying in our truck
hooked up to machines and O2.
a woman bleeding past the tube
inserted into her nose who was searching
for air as cranial hemorrhaging choked
the oxygen from her brain causing her
to posture and possibly die while
I still felt good about giving the woman some
kind of shot by getting her to the hospitol
in time for the doctors to do some work.
I wonder if she made it.
I don't think she knew either.