Category: My COVID-19 Journal
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The red headed step children
As the dust settles and I am finally able to come up for fresh air, I have been reflecting on the past months of 2020. I am so proud of my PICU crew in ways that no one can understand. It has always been the PICU staff that seems to be forgotten, yet expected so […]
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Before you pass judgment
So I finally had a few days off where I could breathe, and catch up on sleep. Honestly I didn’t think about anything, I just needed few days of “non-deep thinking”. (Which is a pretty big deal for me) So first order of business, I went and got a pedicure. Now before you pass judgement […]
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Because of you
I think about how tired I am and how much my body aches. But then I am reminded of the reward, the lives that are touched, the souls that have second chances, the ones that are healed, and the ones that change my life, and then the ones that have become my friends, the friends […]
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A note from your broken critical care nurse
The protests in Michigan were to the most part peaceful. They want haircuts and manicures. That’s not wrong to want those things. I believe we have the right to bear arms, however I disagree with the protesters showing up armed to a government building. But there was minimal violence, no one died, no one was […]
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Wait where am I again
Physically I am here in “Coronaville” fighting this nemesis called COVID19, mentally I am lying on a beach drinking my 6th mojito while perfecting this Asian glow, emotionally I’m pretty sure that is Cessna giving me a massage … oh wait it’s Bora Bora 🏝 ❤️
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This is how it ends
I have a head full of white hair and split ends. A face covered with tiny bumps and dark circles that match my dark brown eyes, and cheeks the size of Texas. Today I threw some eye liner on, put some earrings on these large ear lobes and curled my hair for the first time […]
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Nurses’ week 2020
I didn’t get to celebrate Nurses’ Week. I don’t think many of us nurses did, I know us critical care nurses barely knew it was Nurses’ Week. I really don’t know what was going on outside the walls of my world this week. It was brutal. This week was affirmation of how amazing my team […]
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My Mommy and Me, her favorite middle child
I’m feeling extra sentimental these days, considering these crazy circumstances. My mom is extraordinary. She raised me to be fearless and to love fearlessly. Loving deeply, is really the only way to truly love. And to say, “I’m not afraid” at whatever life throws at me but to face everything with a positive outlook, to […]
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Fresh air does a soul good
Fresh air does a soul some good. I went for a run today, it was refreshing to get back into it and have some aspect of my routine back. the crisp spring air brings clarity and creation is new life that brings hope.
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We all saw her standing
I’m not sure if the birds chirped that morning. I was sleeping. Who heard them? Who knows their song? They carried it till evening. And through the night a whisper was heard, when it was, there she stood. There was no where to sit. The room was loud. She was the only one speaking. Her […]
Her Name Means Wild 