Loving Others – Even When It Hurts

It’s so important to always remember that we must truly love others around us-even when and maybe especially when-our heart feels broken or betrayed. It is not flesh and blood we are wrestling with – it’s that dang devil that wants to destroy and hurt “them” as well as you. I’ve actually heard the voice of Corrie Ten Boom say …

I’m Proud To Be A Nurse

“…they would go from the work of the Father’s creative hands inside of a mother’s womb into the eager reaching fingers of the scribe in the nursing shoes with the RN credentials pinned on her shirt.” My RN career has been invested mostly in babies, pediatrics, and hospice. I had a doc that used to tease me and say that …

A Glimmer of Hope

I know that when we post profile pictures, we want to post a good one. Like probably most of you, I’m a big fan of putting my best face forward. However, I was overcome this week when I looked in the mirror after taking off my PPE (personal protective equipment). It had been a particularly grueling day, and before I …

I see the sky in your eyes…

Nursing Notes From the Navajo Nation On August 1, 2020 I finished my second week on the Navajo reservation and during the night homesickness hit me like a 100 car freight train hauling bananas and circus animals. Wowza my heart is aching. It’s also been a rough week in that I now have been here long enough to see staff dysfunction …

Nursing Notes From the Navajo Nation

On July 18, 2020, I left everything comfortable and safe for a place and a people unknown to me. I seriously doubted my ability to get in my vehicle, start the engine, and back out of my driveway. I’m over fifty. I have some joint problems. My Achilles tendons are damaged, and some days I don’t seem to have enough energy to …

You drive my crazy!

“You drive my crazy!” Colton McCabe, age 3 They say out of the mouths of babes come truth and I’m thinking my little guy got it right. Two important notations here however, one, my little guy is now a college graduate and is three successful semesters away from graduating from law school, and two, he meant to say “me” instead …

What’s the point?

While traveling around a town near me I saw something that struck me as sorta odd. It was a man with a leaf blower, blowing the leaves out of his yard and into the street. Probably millions of people do this everyday and I’m the strange one because I think it is pointless. I mean, if you really want to get rid …