Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Nurses

I have been watching Nurse Jackie on dvd and was wondering about the amount of drugs she takes. First of all it seems like it would knock out a horse and second of all it seems like of course! She needs it to get through a long day of being near death and having to play second fiddle to the doctors (not to mention carrying on an affair and having two divas for best friends). It must be true. I have not spent too much time in hospitals although I’ve been to the emergency room on various occasions. Nurses are the ones you latch on to hoping for some human contact in the sterilized, slow-moving world of the hospital. If they are human and kind and helpful it makes all the difference. You are after all in a world you want to leave the moment you enter. If they are not human though, they can pull you into a downward vortex of pain and misery and horror. And that’s not good.

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