From a Nurse.

[XacerbatedDem]

36. I agree, nurses are the best.

My mother was a RN, my brother an MD, and I have two sisters and another brother who were nurses, also. I don't know how my mother did it, for she raised a healthy family of twelve kids, all while working a 40-hr work week and even after losing her husband to a wave of hepatitis that sweep through our town when I, next to the youngest, was 5 years old.

She was an amazing woman.

Of course, that doesn't mean life was so great. I remember when I was 10 years old, waking up in the middle of the night with a needle stuck into my bare ass. Mom use to say it was easier than having to chase us down during the day. And you never wanted to complain about indigestion, either, or that night, you'd end up on the bathroom floor for one of her midnight enemas. Needless to say, as kids, we rarely slept easy.

Still, she was a good nurse and a great human being, and colors how I see most every nurse in the profession these days, especially during this pandemic.

I don't know how they do it.