Shoutout to u/emergencyfwb for letting me take her real life and turn it into a series!
Chapter 1.
On a good day, being a nurse was extremely hard work. With any job, you had people treat you amazing and you had people treat you like you were trash; it was both rewarding and exhausting, often times in the same day. But with COVID here, working in a high-volume hospital meant we worked a ton of long hours, saw a lot of patients and ended up emotionally and mentally devoid of any life at the end of each shift. For every positive outcome and “win” we had, we had an equally unexpected and disappointing outcome.
I became a nurse in my early twenties, fresh out of nursing school, working at the hospital in my small home-town. I stayed there a handful of years before I became bored, having watched enough medical dramas on TV to know that there were indeed more exciting hospitals out there. I yearned to have my long-studied skills put to the test in a capacity exceeding taking temperatures in kids butts and looking at rashes on old people. I wanted more.