David was once in a lifetime kind of person and friend. For the past several days I have struggled to find the right words to write here, and it is because no words seem adequate to fully describe the person that David was. He was larger than life, overfilled with love to give, and never lived a day to take life too seriously. David and I were in the same anesthesiology residency together. I still remember during our rotations together at the South Campus when I had an intraoperative code, David was the first one to run into my room to help with my patient. He was calm and collected, as if he had been doing anesthesia for years. He took time to comfort me and understood how difficult the experience had been. He was such a loving and caring person as he reached out to everyone in his life that needed support.
His personality was larger than life. His humor was contagious and he always knew how to turn a negative situation into a positive and even funny one. We often joked about his hugs from behind, but at the end of residency we expected it and were disappointed when David did not give us these hugs when we saw him. I remember on his pediatric rotation how he could make the anxious children, irregardless of their age, laugh and giggle in the preoperative area. He could relate to people of all ages. I often thought that if I were to have surgery, I would want my anesthesiologist to be someone like David, who can make me laugh and feel like he genuinely cared about every single patient that he cared for.
We had so many wonderful memories of David, from call lounge shenanigans, Blue's Traveler's concert, numerous outings on the town, to various trips to Sedona, Vegas and Rhode Island, David was always entertaining everyone and was always the center of the party. He truly lived his life the way he wanted to live it and not how he should live it, and he loved unconditionally. We were all so happy that he found love with Jess and we could all see how much they devoted to each other. I was blessed to have spend a weekend with them in Newport at the start of their love story and it will forever be one of the greatest memories I have of David and Jess.
As there are no words to describe the kind of person David was for everyone, there is also no words sufficient to describe the sadness and pain we feel in his physical absence. My deepest condolences to David's family and Jess for your enormous loss. I feel truly blessed and grateful to have had David in my life and I will remember his smiles, goofiness and kindness always. He lives on in everything beautiful in this world.
