Comments | sa_node: My mother is a nurse

sa_node

My mother is a nurse

Feb 25, 2006 22:55

Joan ( Read more... )

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sa_node February 25 2006, 13:26:41 UTC

And at lunchtime, the smell of of disinfectant and piss and vomit and death is mixed with the smell of over-cooked vegetables.

diverged February 25 2006, 09:59:32 UTC

Pretty hard to avoid disconnecting from a world like this, huh.

Trivia of the Day-- I've been obsessed with the concept of suffering since I was about 12. Physical suffering more than psychological, because while I believe all to be mind in the end, I believe the part of our mind that's our body is more basic and, in most ways, harder to transcend.

I think I've learned some things over the years, but most of life's still a mystery, and I believe some things always will be. I don't know which.

Thanks for sharing this; it's very beautiful.

sa_node February 25 2006, 13:31:04 UTC

Some say a person's mettle is shown in the way they withstand adversary and their humility in success.

diverged February 27 2006, 06:50:28 UTC

I think wisdom is when all (apparent) successes and failures lead you to toward, instead of away from, compassion. I'd say humility stems naturally from that, but it's something I may need to particularly focus upon.

quixote322 February 25 2006, 10:30:10 UTC

wow.

sa_node February 25 2006, 13:32:56 UTC

I hope you said that whilst in Colonial drag.

robin_rule February 25 2006, 13:46:31 UTC

the thing that got me, was that she didn't blink as the techs tried to find a vein. i have that problem too, of collasping veins because of so many heart problems and trying to get into a vein and i always cry out and then apologize. my veins have got as tuff as an old junkie's over the years and i usually can tell the nurse which one will work 'this time', sometims they don't believe me, a mere citizen, instead of keeper of my body and we go through eight or nine sticks trying to find the right one before ending up in the one i mentioned...i'm scared when that one too, loses its easiness to get into to. i fear losing my dignity. joan seems to have bundles of. my husband too, whispers into my ear prayers of nature and family as they poke and poke. i am so sorry for yr joan, because except for the cancer, i know what she feels like. i hold you all in my prayers: it the only hard work i've got left in me...

sa_node February 25 2006, 19:08:24 UTC

The thing that gets me is that Larry will pause outside the curtain to make sure his eyes aren't watering before he pushes them aside to give her a grin. The same grin that swept her off her feet fifty odd years ago?

robin_rule February 25 2006, 23:03:37 UTC

oh my God, the water-works turned on now. what a lovely man. hope yr holding up good. send me yr address. i keep losing important things since the neurontin...
hearts and daffidowndillies, robin

diverged May 26 2006, 13:51:40 UTC

Hey, I was just going through my LJ a bit and I was like "Whatever happened to that sa-node" because you're awesome and stuff. I hope everything's going well for you.