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Nevertheless, She Persisted
Posted on February 5, 2018 Leave a Comment
Many years ago, there was a blonde nurse who was a member at the pool club in my town. She used to arrive in the late summer mornings to relax by her cabana before work. Around 2 p.m., she would change into her smart uniform in that cabana, like a superhero in a phone booth, […]
A Christmas Story
Posted on December 27, 2017 Leave a Comment
While Black Bart was getting his you were getting yours – sodium bicarb calcium gluconate D50 – not with a Red Ryder BB gun, but a triple lumen CVC, ‘as beautiful, as coolly deadly-looking a piece of weaponry as I’d ever laid eyes on.’ Bullets to save, not slay – Mannitol 3% sodium Zosyn. Your […]
A Nurse’s Introduction
Posted on July 25, 2017 1 Comment
There are telltale signs we will meet again – the crumbling dryness of your feet, the purplish opalescence of your shins, the belly – taut with distension, and the hint of yellow in your eyes, from which, even as you’re joking now, a few feet away from me in the grocery store, jovial crinkles surrounding […]
Lioness
Posted on August 20, 2014 1 Comment
The prospect of jury duty is not as offensive to me as it is to many people. While it is, unquestionably, a nuisance to interrupt a busy work week with two uselessly hanging, disjointed days, translated into hesitantly accepted free time – since it is nearly impossible to conduct any meaningful work in a jury […]
End of Shift
Posted on August 7, 2014 Leave a Comment
Inflated insensitivity clocks out at 7:30, hoisting its Michael Kors bags on twin, still-painless hips, and smoothly bouncing past a faded blonde, head in her hands, crouched on the curb and muttering prayers to her feet, because death – even when anticipated – is vulgar and unexpected, isn’t it? They cross the driveway to the […]
Between Sainthood and Resentment is….Reality
Posted on March 2, 2014 1 Comment
When I was young and healthy and had no idea what it meant to be old or unhealthy – let alone young and unhealthy – I decided to become a nurse. I had no particular affinity for the sick, and probably could have gone as far as to say I disliked sick people, although I […]
A Girl by the Bridge 
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