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Rehab Workers are on the Front Lines, Too

Like everyone else on the front lines during these bizarre times, we all go through daily scares and tensions, but it’s a bit of a different ballgame when you’re dealing with mental illness. Most of our patients are clinically paranoid, delusional, depressed, suicidal, hostile, etc. as it is, but COVID-19 has been heightening these for […]

Endless Stories We Tell

The summer closes as Covid cases skyrocket. Interviews with exhausted healthcare workers again dominate our media. But now, vying for the attention of our capricious conscience is Afghanistan. Like the virus we tried to convince ourselves we conquered, this country we deemed our enemy will not be vanquished. The images of the desperate flooding the […]

The Question of a Funeral

Kristen dies suddenly on a Sunday night. We hear about it on Monday when her younger sister Jeannie comes in for dialysis, but Kristen doesn’t. Kristen was eight-years-old and shared a genetic defect with Jeannie. Both girls require dialysis and need kidney transplants. Transplants are costly, even with insurance, so their parents held a fundraising […]

One More Scoop: Increased Demands on Nursing During a Pandemic

      Nursing is defined by providing care for the sick, further defined by Florence Nightingale as utilizing our environment to provide care for the sick to aid in their recovery.  Even back in 1856, Nightingale saw the connections between environment and health, health and community, community and environment: “The health of the unity […]

Blessings and Burdens: Living a Life Entwined with Death

      The negotiations and renegotiations had begun. Ultimately, I landed on a single ask, “as long as they are healthy…” Though what I really meant, but could not say was, “as long as they are alive… as long as we are alive.” In reality, I wanted more than that, I wanted a birth […]