It’s been a while since my last post but I’ve been saving up and meticulously planning for a solid drop when the time felt right. I’ve been working perdiem in an emergency room as a nurse apprentice outside a city on the west coast while finishing my RN which I will soon complete and then…
Category: nursing student
Happy Emergency Nurses Week
Every day I get to go to work, I act as though I don’t deserve to be there. I feel like an imposter. I feel like I’m on the verge of ruining everything and getting fired. But I’ve found out, as a baby nurse, this feeling is expected. What fears that once ate me alive…
So I Did a Beauty Pageant
“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson That summer, I took up a job in medical records in my dad’s office where I spent the day in a basement inputting patient’s labs and health history forms. It was a grueling…
Dimestore Cowgirl
Shortly after I was fit for my prosthetic, my mom insisted I participate in the local beauty pageant. Barf. I was drugged up and missing a hand but sure. Why not? At that time I wore my prosthetic daily and was getting used to being stared at by people wherever I went. I stopped caring…
One Handed BAB 