To the Nurses Who Loved My Baby In the NICU
I wish I could remember your face. Your name. Something. But I only had eyes for the tiny baby in…
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I wish I could remember your face. Your name. Something. But I only had eyes for the tiny baby in…
Continue ReadingIf I close my eyes and let myself, I can still see the 11-year-old boy with his pale feet sticking…
Continue ReadingI stood in the medication room with hot stress tears streaming down my face. I had finished receiving the report:…
Continue ReadingA love letter to nurses during the pandemic: Thank you. There will never be adequate words in enough languages to…
Continue ReadingIf pictures are worth a thousand words, this picture would be the one I choose to sum up my experience…
Continue ReadingWith staggering COVID-19 case numbers, hospitals at or near capacity, and death rates climbing, one almost becomes desensitized to the…
Continue ReadingI walk in through the glass double doors and flash my badge to the lady behind the desk. Head down…
Continue ReadingToday was a beautiful day. My intubated patient who has been squeezing my hand for the last several days finally…
Continue ReadingMy heart hurts today. It's officially been three weeks since my husband, who is a nurse in the ICU, has…
Continue ReadingThis is my current situation. Jason and I just had to have a very hard conversation to send Ellie away…
Continue ReadingLife as a nurse is kissing your family goodbye long before the sun rises and hoping you will make it…
Continue Reading“You should rest.” The kind voice came from behind me. “She will be fine, I will call you if anything…
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