A True Life Hero Ambulance sirens are sounding in all the corridors, people are running from room to room and the waiting room is full of people. This is how Lori Breaux describes a typical night in the emergency room. “I've been doing this for so long that you'd think it would feel natural, but sometimes I just have to stop and take a deep breath and make sure this is all real,” she explains. Going to nursing school she wondered if it was worth all the stress, but the thought that one day she might save people's lives kept her going. Lori began nursing school at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette when she was 18 and graduated when she was 22. “It was very difficult at times, but in the end it was worth it,” he says. She started out working as a home health nurse, but didn't like all the traveling she had to do. Her aunt was a nurse who worked in the emergency room, so she met with her and found out what it was like to work in the emergency room. Three weeks later he found a job in the emergency room at Abbeville General Hospital. Lori's first day working at the hospital was very different from working as a home health nurse. She says: “The pace was much faster and more chaotic than I was used to. I wasn't sure if I liked it, but my aunt made me promise that I would try it for at least a month before deciding whether I wanted to stop or not. After the first month there he had a completely different attitude towards his job. He eventually learned to appreciate the fact that there was no downtime while he worked, but at the end of each day he wanted nothing more than to sit down and relax. Lori says one of her favorite parts of working in the emergency room is all the people she meets and the indescribable joy you feel knowing you're helping make a difference in the world. “Sometimes, when I'm not at work, I'll run into someone I helped in the emergency room and they'll thank me for helping them that time,” he says.