Happy International Nurse's Day.
I wouldn't be here without you.
Kisses xxx
when we're sick and everything is going wrong, we realise how much we need them. I've needed lots and lots of support from nurses.
I lived with nurses for the first four months of my life!
Mum had to leave me, overnight, in the care of the nurses... from when I was a week old. That broke her heart, but she knew she was leaving me in good hands.
It was nurses who gave me needles, hiding their faces from me, so I wouldn't blame them.
Nurses sat with Mum and Dad and explained the complicated things the doctors had said, but that Mum and Dad didn't yet understand. They let them cry.
Nurses watched me, monitored me and cared for me.
They shook my chest and tickled me... to keep me breathing.
Nurses held me down, while canulars and needles were put into me.
Nurses got food and drink for Mum, when she wouldn't leave my side.
Nurses have been there for me, a lot, over the last four years.
When I was having chemotherapy treatments, I saw my nurses every week.
We hate it when I'm in hospital. We had the long, tedious hospital stays. Sometimes, we get frustrated and cranky... and sometimes, it's the nurses who cop our frustrations.
But, when it comes to it, its the nurses who look after me.
And we want to say Thank You!
We're proud that so many of my nurses still know me... remember me... care about me... even when they haven't seen me for a while.
Two of my nurses were the first to hold my youngest sister... her first visitors. That's pretty cool.
One of my NICU nurses came to visit me during one hospital stay, in her lunch break, but I was asleep. That was pretty cool.
And then, there's our chocolate and coffee bearing friend, who spends her lunch breaks with us, when we're in Sydney. She was there when the crash carts were rushed in... and she supported Mum and Dad through it.
Some things, you never forget.
Thanks Nurses!
Happy International Nurses Day!