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Warpy

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20. Backs are buggers, sorry you had to go through it,

Reply to trumad (Original post)

Wed Sep 16, 2015, 12:12 PM

Sep 2015

and I dread the day mine finally pops for good and I have to go in for surgery. i wrecked it in 25 years of nursing.

So thanks for the props, but please don't call us angels. We're tough, smart people who could have done just about anything and have seen it all. Nurses also have the foulest mouths out there, they outcuss any rock'n'roll roadie I worked with in the 60s-70s.

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Check in to give Props for the profession of Nurses. [View all] trumad Sep 2015 OP

Thank you, nurses shenmue Sep 2015 #1

This former healthcare "suit" knows about nurses. So do most Americans ... Scuba Sep 2015 #2

Yep trumad Sep 2015 #3

I soon will be 64 and except for a tonsillectomy when I was 5 years old, Blus4u Sep 2015 #4

Nurses are fantastic tk2kewl Sep 2015 #5

I've had lots of nurses, and one Army nurse literally saved my life in Vietnam pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #6

Years ago, I spent quite a bit of time in the hospital justhanginon Sep 2015 #7

5 years ago in May Sophiegirl Sep 2015 #8

Nurses rock! And their education is really difficult. HuckleB Sep 2015 #9

One of the toughest jobs out there. tabasco Sep 2015 #10

When I was a young man--- around 19---I wanted to be a Nurse. trumad Sep 2015 #11

The most horrifying/morbidly hilarious OR story in history Prism Sep 2015 #12

Nurses are the best. jalan48 Sep 2015 #13

I beat Peggy to an R on this??? Omaha Steve Sep 2015 #14

Nice work, Quicksdraw! pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #16

angels, indeed. niyad Sep 2015 #15

A good friend of mine is a nurse at a children's hospital. NuclearDem Sep 2015 #17

God Bless Nurses packman Sep 2015 #18

Thank you nurses! n/t geardaddy Sep 2015 #19

Backs are buggers, sorry you had to go through it, Warpy Sep 2015 #20

:-) MuseRider Sep 2015 #28

My best and oldest friend is a nurse. Can't say enough good about her and about the profession. Surya Gayatri Sep 2015 #21

Nurses are awesome. GoneFishin Sep 2015 #22

Just getting ready to go to my nurse practitioner for a checkup rurallib Sep 2015 #23

Noncoms of the medical profession. JayhawkSD Sep 2015 #24

I love nurses, too! pnwmom Sep 2015 #25

I'm a retired nurse angryvet Sep 2015 #26

Thank you for this. :-) MuseRider Sep 2015 #27

My mother was a nurse Jim Lane Sep 2015 #29

nurses rock, I married one nt steve2470 Sep 2015 #30

Major props Cal Carpenter Sep 2015 #31

Grandmother... sheshe2 Sep 2015 #32