I took him to the front office where they redirected us to the nurse who was in the first aid office down the corridor. I told her how Mitchell had grazed his knee badly on the ground. The nurse sat him down on the throw away bed sheets on the bed in the first aid room. I left...
–the Shalimar that my boss gave to the nurse that he was having an affair with in 1981; –the Oscar that I chose as my default fragrance in 1985, when I also experienced the liberation of allowing myself to develop a fragrance wardrobe; ...
Jessica, the on-call hospice nurse, tells me over the phone to give him a 0.25 ml oral morphine syringe from his E-kit to see if it helps with his pain, and then another syringe if it does not. I will do that, I say, and I ask her to come to the house anyway, on a ...
Common calls All The Time: “Today I spoke to a nurse and convinced (he/she) that (he/she) has to get off the ‘floor’ because they’re going to receive an injury lifting patients. He/she has to go back to school to get into management or leave the field and find a better job...
“true friends” coax the family into the holiday spirit with a unique take on the 12 days of Christmas. Small, anonymous gifts appear on the family’s doorstep each day, building on the 12 days theme. It is a sweet distraction, a little mystery, and a gentle insistence that kindness ...
“Here I’ll take you to the office”, I said as I got Mitchell, who was bleeding because he had tipped over on the concrete. I took him to the front office where they redirected us to the nurse who was in the first aid office down the corridor. I told her how Mitchell had graze...