As A Nurse I Was Assigned To Treat The Woman Who Made My Teenage Years Miserable

I told myself this while standing very still in the middle of a busy med-surg floor, nurses and aides and transport moving around me with the organized efficiency of a morning shift getting underway, and I stood there and told myself it was definitely not her.

Then I walked in, because I have been a nurse for sixteen years and standing in the hallway continue reading …