He's a super-nice guy, former navy, and really, really accomplished. They ran a couple of tests, and it's…I have pancreatic cancer."īrian is a professor at one of the colleges. "I was holding a lot of fluid in my stomach, and I wanted to see what's what. "I came into the hospital tonight because I'm not feeling well," Brian explains as the nurse and I get him settled. There's no way I can do this for a career, I think as a nurse delivers a new patient to one of the open rooms on our floor. They have to be rational, steady, fully in control of their emotions. When someone dies, it really affects me, and it really affects the other nurses too because, deep down, like me, they're nurturers. It comes in waves, and lately we've had a lot. They have more heart than they let on.Īnd then there's death. A lot of the nurses here share that trait. I'm highly sensitive to what other people are thinking and feeling. I admire their composure, because I'm an empath. The nurses here run around at a hundred miles a minute, all the while projecting to everyone that they are cool, calm, and collected. The hospital job is important because it's a front-row seat to the reality of nursing. I'm struggling with the dual responsibilities of attending class during the day and working as a nursing assistant at night. My interest in becoming a professional caregiver sparked, I toyed with the idea of becoming a doctor-until I shadowed one and found out how little time doctors spend with patients.Īnd I want the human interactions, so I chose nursing.īut nursing school, I'm finding, is hard. Growing up, I watched my mother take good care of my extended family, especially my grandmother. Angela is a traveling nurse and currently lives in California. After graduating from nursing school, she did an externship at a cardiovascular ICU. Angela was born in New York City and grew up in Virginia Beach.
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