Author: LauraEhlers
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Cairo (work in progress)
She sat in the rattan chair in the corner of the restaurant bar. Beads of condensation slid down the heavy leaded crystal glass, leaving a tiny puddle of ripples on the mahogany table. This was not the first ring left on the table from an icy beverage. Closer inspection revealed many years of erosion at…
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Nursing Shoes
Nursing Shoes I bought a new pair of nursing shoes the other day. They are the brown slip-on variety that seems to be in vogue if you take fashion advice from a shuttle bus full of middle age women working twelve hour shifts. These shoes are a world different from my first pair of nursing…
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“What is it that you do? “
I have been a Recovery nurse for nine years. (Nine frickin’ years!) I never intended to be a Recovery Room nurse (of course I never really intended to be a nurse so…) I did my two year mandatory sentence on various med-surg floors then at the first opportunity I finagled my way into the OR.…