National Nurses Week - May 6-12, 2009

Working with a nursing teaching staff, I have come to appreciate the intellect and role of the nurse much more than before. Before, well before and still now, I just held them in awe and am forever grateful to those nurses who encourged me when my little premee was hooked up to a bunch of machines and lying silent, waiting for the day I could hold him and then, finally, take him home. Without those nurses, it would have been so much harder to bear. I also revere the hospice nurses who took care of my mother and my father at the last. I don't know how you can do it day after day, but I'm glad you do. Thank you nurses for all of your dedication and self-sacrifice.