I didn’t expect so much emotion to surface while preparing for this upcoming presentation. I keep weeping through my run-throughs because I can still barely believe this all happened, and it’s so hard to give words to the real things.

I’m revisiting our year of health crises (which, let’s be honest, continues to reverberate into today in so many ways), to reflect on how this has transformed my perspective as a bedside nurse.

I could give a tidy, brief synopsis of what we experienced physiologically, and then neatly bullet-point the predictable lessons. “I’m more empathetic now.”

But this is the tidy story that keeps us all detached, safer, a little less human and more about function and logistics.

So I’ve been looking to bring my listeners into the real mess, the ache, the grit, the things that I held in the middle of the night when we were in crisis.

Because this is where my patients and their families find themselves. This is where I meet them as their nurse.

One hour isn’t enough to tell this story but I’m going to try my best.

Wednesday July 15 from 5-6pm PST. 💗 If you can’t join in person, you can join us via Zoom at this link.