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Incoherent Ramblings After Having Surgery for a Hip Replacement and Removal of Hardware, Followed by a Hip Fracture

September 5, 2022

Your surgical experience will be unique. Therefore, sift through what others tell you about their experiences, salt those accounts away, …

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Grief at Four Years Means a Cookie Sheet in the Bed

August 15, 2022

Every year on the anniversary of my husband’s death, I have dedicated a blog post to that event. Marv passed …

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S is for Saying Farewell to My Nursing Files

April 22, 2021

I stand here by a wall of metal file cabinets—three in a row, four drawers each—a nursing career of memories …

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R is for Review

April 20, 2021

An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge A few months ago, a blogging friend, VJ …

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Once a nurse, always a nurse…

December 6, 2019

Thank you, Joost van Beek and team at Nurse Recruiter, for selecting my blog to be among their top nurse …

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Eighth Blogging Anniversary

March 28, 2018

WordPress notified me today that I started this blog eight years ago. I remember the day precisely. I’d just heard …

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Preparing for Death

August 9, 2017

Morbid, right? In a sense, yes. In another, no. Around twelve years ago, my four older siblings and their spouses …

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Nostalgia for Nursing

February 13, 2017

Oh no. That was bad. After being happily retired from nursing for nearly seventeen years, I had a severe attack …

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The Truth About Nursing on TV Shows

October 14, 2015

When I discovered Call the Midwife on PBS a few years ago, I was thrilled that someone in the media …

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Passing Along Advice to My Younger Nursing Colleagues

August 27, 2015

As I look back over my 40-year nursing career, I sometimes wish I were still in the classroom so I …

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