Every time I am in a hospital,
and specially experiencing the process of a hospital with someone I love...
I am in awe of the nurses.
Every time...
From seeing the nurses take care of my sisters when I was a boy, to seeing the nurses take care of my father as early as 20 years ago... to this week...
NURSES are SPECIAL PEOPLE.
PERIOD.
I admire their sense of care.
I admire their dedication.
I admire their humility.
I admire their perseverance.
I envy, a little, the satisfaction they must feel... doing right and good in the world.
NURSES are SPECIAL PEOPLE.
To spend a career, helping people who are sick, with their most basic needs.
To go in day in and day out, knowing that the sick people never stop coming.
To bring your energy everyday to help make people better.
It is a noble calling, and the vast majority that I seem to meet, seem genuine in their concern.
What can I learn from these wonderful people?
How can I build more of what they do into my life?
Can I, in some way, help people get better everyday?
Getting a little geeky on you perhaps here - but in addition to their noble calling and gracious hearts, I love their operational preciseness - the systemic and procedural nature of what they do and how they do it, the real consequences of their ability to follow the right instructions and not make mistakes all intertwined with the humanness required of their calling... of their every day.
I have a deep respect for nurses, a deep appreciation for what they do, a great admiration for their dedication and purpose...
So many people I love who have gone through such difficult times, and I have missed the vast majority of them in the hospital. But, ALWAYS, there were multiple nurses there with them doing what they do... in the most challenging of times.
Such wonderful unsung heroes... that remind me their is so much love and good in the world. And, so much more potential for all of us...
I am in awe of the nurses...
and so deeply grateful for them...
And, a little envious of the wonderful satisfaction they must feel every day, when they can drive home knowing they helped ease pain, they gave hope, they comforted, they shared sadness and fear, they had a real hand in making people better... and they shared intimately in that process...
day in and day out...
always when we absolutely need them most.
To all the nurses out there,
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU...
for WHAT YOU DO...
for HOW YOU DO IT...
And, simply...
for BEING who you are... for all of us.
in harmony,
Nestor