Memory of those who died in Orlando

50 people died, 53 were injured on the night of June 12 to 13 at the Pulse gay club in Orlando, Florida. They became victims of the 29-year-old Omar Matina, who had fired them, who declared his involvement in radical Islamism (in fact, unproven). According to new information , Omar, perhaps, was gay himself. This massacre has become the most massive murder in the United States over the past 25 years.

Yesterday, a surgeon of the regional medical center, where the victims were brought at night and in the early morning, Joshua Corses placed a picture of bloodied sneakers on his facebook, which were on it on this night of hard work.

These are sneakers in which I worked on Saturday night. They are completely new, they are less than a week. When I came to work this morning, I saw them in the corner of the Officer next to a bunch of dirty clothes.

I completely forgot about them and remembered only now. These sneakers absorbed the blood of 54 innocent people. I don’t know which of them was heterosexual, which of them was gay, who was black or Latin American. But I know for sure that they were brought to us by a wave after a wave - suffering, screaming and dying. And doctors, nurses, orderlies, police officers, the guys from the ambulance performed a superhuman feat of compassion and love.

This blood, which rained from wounds of patients and saturated my clothes and shoes, will remain on me forever. In these Red Rorshahov patterns, I will always see their faces and faces of those who gave them all themselves in those black hours.

I have a lot of work ahead. Part of this work will never end in me. And while I am doing this work, I will wear these sneakers. And only when the last patient leaves our hospital, I will take them off and leave them in my office. I want them to be in front of my eyes at the beginning of every working day. Because on June 12, when the worst in a man raised his ugly head, I saw how the best in man was beating with him. I want this night to stay with me forever.

Joshua Corsa, doctor of medicine, paramedic,
Surgery resident
Regional medical center Orlando