The night before Christmas at Children’s Memorial
Hermann…
'Twas the night before Christmas with the
hospital packed
Cardiology fellows were poised to react
Progress notes were recorded with care
even though other services never looked at them
there
The PICU team briefly headed to bed
expecting new wheezers to land overhead
Cardiology fellows decked out in scrubs
had listened to each of the little lub-dubs
When outside the window there was such a sound
"Must just be one more LifeFlight
inbound"
But update by phone made it quite clear
that Anesthesia and Surgery soon would be here
Across Hermann Park it came lively and quick
a red helicopter with Bill, Mike, and the Brick
More blue babies, new babies, on a LifeFlight
ride
some needing new treatments before never tried
To NICU and PICU new patients were brought
"Let's get them all fixed before viruses are
caught"
On Henry, on Tharak, on Doshis A and Doshi U,
they can help do stuff that's brand-new
On Julie, Ashish, Nazari, and Claudeen
scanning and checking that everything's seen
Doug, Beth, and Rebecca will get it all done
moving cases on just as a new one’s begun
Our attendings, PICU, surgeons and all
helped make this Christmas Eve a memorable on
call
As the excitement calmed down we heard a
prediction
that seemed to us all to be more fact than
fiction
"Merry Christmas to all, we all believe
even
more babies are coming to us New Year's Eve"
