I am a 36 year old registered nurse.
I have a son with aspergers, tourettes and ocd bad as well as a sleep disorder and asthma.
I take care of him ALL on my own...he is my reason for living.
I have saved lives.....my mothers twice.
I have saved lives in the hospital...went right over the emerg doctors head when I knew a patient was dying and I got him the help he deserved he would have died of an aneurysm...caught him right it time...they finally air ambulanced him after I called every code in the hospital....I knew we needed help.
I have also saved a man on the beach....gave him cpr..he survived was supposed to pick up a human award but I never picked it up...was in the paper and in the news.
I have been on my own since 15...put myself through nursing school all on my own. At that time there were no positions out of the approx 100 students that graduated..I was the youngest in our class and i was one of three to get a job in the niagara area....very hard 14 years ago.

I taught the personal support worker program in edmonton.....I had a REALLY good job.

I was a palliative care nurse....I have watched too many people to count.I mean actual last breathes.then I went into supervision....like 48 PSW's and nurses, other RN's that I was the supervisor to.......why if this is all so positive do i feel so sad......it seems like another lifetime....I was happy then. i need to learn to feel happy with the cards I have been given now thats is pretty tough because things are really awful right now. Focus on the positive...it is hard to grieve this while grieving so many other things like my failing health now......anyway that is me.