One of my very favorite nurses had her last day in the ER yesterday. She has three beautiful boys at home and the hospital schedule was one she was ready to leave behind. I certainly cannot blame her. There are times I wonder myself how people sustain the necessary energy over the years and decades. There are times I wonder how people sustain the necessary energy over the course of a shift.
I feel enormously lucky to have worked with her. She kept me in line.
Hopefully she'll condescend to let her older, wiser boys play with Miss Em someday. I'm sure they would teach her many things, just as their mother did for me.
Advanced Maneuvers /ædˈvæns məˈno͞ovərs/: Performing a complicated task with not only competence but finesse, i.e. changing a diaper and imitating barnyard animal noises simultaneously... Thoughts on being a mother, wife, and pediatrician and on living with my parents all over again.
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