Ghosts of Patients Past

I retired after 26+ years as a nurse. Sometimes the enormity of that still hits me square in the face. All. The. Patients. I touched in My Life. And All. The. Patients. who touched me. A lot of them are gone. The number one rule in healthcare has always been this — you can’t save everyone. And I didn’t. I couldn’t. I did what I could, with what I had, where ever I was. Then I let it go. I’ll admit there were some I pulled healing energy out of the air for. My favorite was a fellow biker chick named C.C. who had come for her breast cancer surgery. We compared notes on motorcycles and rock music as she drifted off to sleep. The surgeons told me a few months later that she was healing and doing very well. <a href="https://annlitts.medium.com/ghosts-of-patients-past-a8708fd23f39">Click Here</a>