Nurse Eric the Hero!

We had a little excitement last night. We got a call from Nurse Eric at 1:30am because the power went out at Peggy's house and he could not get the generator started. I sent my Eric over to the house to help. Magda got up and comforted Peggy while Nurse Eric and Elroy worked on the generator. Well, even with my Eric's help, they could not get it going.

Eric had Peggy on the battery right away when the power went out, so the vent had power, but the real problem was Peggy's bed! Without electricity, her air bed collapses around her! HCA was alerted and Cory was ready to send Peggy to the hospital if we couldn't get the generator going since we really don't know how much time we have on that external battery (should be 4 hours, could be less) and she was really concerned about Peggy being in a lot of pain without her mattress inflated.

So they just waited for hours for the power to come back on. While they were waiting, Nurse Eric got out his tools and started messing with the generator. Now, get this - then he took the spark plug from his car, put it in the generator and got it running! How awesome is that? He's a total MacGyver! They were able to put plug Peg's bed in and get her comfortable. Then, the power came back on finally around 4:30am.

I want to say a big thanks to Denise from HCA, who also ran her inverter over to Peg's house when she found out the generator wasn't working. She wanted to avoid having to send Peggy in to the hospital, so she drove over to the house at 3 in the morning. But by the time she got their, MacGyver Eric had already got the generator running.

Elroy is supposed to be picking up a new spark plug today. I hope Eric plans to install it on his shift tonight since I didn't even know that generators have spark plugs. In fact, I don't think I even know what a spark plug looks like.

Well, that's our hero story of the day! Yay, Eric! We are so impressed and so lucky to have you. Elroy, Magda, and the 2 Erics handled this crisis with such grace and calm. Thanks, guys!