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Life on the Line

My grandmother, , put everything on the line for her job, including her life. She worked for the Leet Psychiatric Clinic in , and flew to various locations with Dr. Leet , a psychiatrist, to help patients. Dr. Leet had a contract with the United Mine Workers Psychiatric clinic and needed to check up on patients in many locations. To get to these locations, Dr. Leet flew my grandmother on a small plane. As a traveling social worker, Lovins experienced one devastating plane ride to the Mine Workers Psychiatric Clinic. Little did she know, her brush with death would inspire a disabled mine worker to live his life with a purpose.

The spring night, in 1960, was foggy, and conditions were getting worse. All of a sudden, the plane started to wobble, and gusts of wind came hurling from the east. Swaying side to side like a ship, the plane was off balance. Stooping lower, the plane dropped. Dr. Leet grasped the gasoline tank switch, but could not get it to connect to the auxiliary tank. He pumped the gismo, and gas started running smoothly again. The plane was back on track to Middlesboro, or was thought to be.

When everything seemed to be alright, matters got worse. Beep beep. The radio station reported, “Middlesboro airport is closed due to fierce cross currents.” “We are going to have to land somewhere soon before we run out of gas,” said . With this in mind, Dr. Leet spotted a farmer’s field in which he could land. Ms. Lovins couldn’t stop thinking about getting to her destination, the Psychiatric Clinic, where she could help all the patients live better lives. She was the best known social worker in , known to have an outstanding influence on mentally depressed patients. Thud, screech! The plane hit telephone wires, flipped over and then landed in the farmer’s field. Thirty minutes later, a rescue plane came zooming overhead and landed next to the wreckage. doctors rushed over to the small plane which had imprisoned Ms. Lovins and Dr. Leet.

Both Ms. Lovins and Dr. Leet were unconscious. One of the doctors vigorously tore open a packet of smelling salt, and put it under Ms. Lovin’s nose. Still in a daze, Ms. Lovins began to wake up. The doctor carried her to his plane and ran back over to Dr. Leet. “I think this one is going to need to go to the critical care unit ASAP,” said one of the accompanying rescuers. Opening a stretcher, the doctor rushed over to Dr. Leet. “One, two, three, go,” said all the rescuers while lifting Dr. Leet onto the stretcher. Frantically, the squad carried Dr. Leet onto the plane and off to the clinic they went.

Arriving at the clinic, Dr. Leet was rushed to the Emergency Room. As Ms. Lovins started to regain consciousness, she checked up on Dr. Leet. “He is going to be fine. It’s amazing he survived with only a broken arm,” said a nurse. Relieved and uninjured, Ms. Lovins remembers what she had come to the clinic to do. “I’m on a mission to help the disabled miners who are suffering,” thought Ms. Lovins. As Ms. Lovins is about to step onto an elevator to the third floor, where the miner’s rooms are located, she notices a man with a pained expression. Approaching the man, she sees his mangled leg, and smells the scent of someone about to give up on life. Noticing a photo of his family in his hand, Ms. Lovins asks him about them. The crippled man replies, “This is my family, but I’m ashamed that they will not like me anymore because I’m useless now.”

Not willing to accept this answer, Ms. Lovins tells the crippled miner that everyone lives for a purpose. “I put my life on the line today to help save others. Somehow, I survived and have come here to fulfill my purpose for living,” said Ms. Lovins. With a new outlook on life, the crippled miner shot Ms. Lovins a gleaming smile. “You know what, you are right! My life has a purpose and I still have time to live it,” exclaimed the miner. The miner rushes to his room and calls his family. After speaking to his family, the miner once again approaches Ms. Lovins. “I just wanted…wanted you to know that your brush with death today…. well, has given me the courage to reunite with my family, and to use my experience as a motivation for others.”

was willing to do her job no matter what disaster might come along with it. She almost came face to face with death, but it did not faze her. Using what she learned from her experience on the plane ride, she was able to encourage and reunite the family of a mine worker. Lovins never regretted putting her life on the line for others.