Just Another Code

Another tear-jerker, interleukin. Thanks for the messages you convey.

Just beautiful.. thank you.

interleukin, kudos again on another brilliant article! You are such a talented writer, your nursing stories are amazing. Your articles absorb the reader and make you feel like you are right there. I know, everytime I read your articles, it takes me back to a place in time with the many memories I have had with my patients.

Dear Brian,Thank you.I write from the heart and try to transform events which we often --after many years--tend to increasingly treat as mechanical or routine.Because we are under increasing pressure to accomplish more and more in the same period of time, I think many of us are finding it increasingly difficult to still be the "good nurse." But, as long as I am wearing scrubs, I owe it to my patients to imagine and focus on those things that make them uniquely human.

Wow...beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

truly beautiful yet dignified, not maudlin....dankeschoen

This was a very emotional story to me as I just nearly died last October with pneumonia and was on a vent for 9 days. I saw and heard the angels, saw the bright tunnel. My husband didn't leave my side, our love has grown so much since that time and each day since is a gift and I know that. Thank-you, this is a great story.

Wow! You really are a gifted writer. Well done!!!

Thank you kindly.

Such powerful use of language is indeed a gift. The images you evoked are crystal clear, no imagination needed. The day we forget that the patient is somebody's love is the day we should leave this job to those who haven't.

thanks for sharing! dramatic tear jerker!

Your words are incredibly poetic, and in a matter of seconds, I am transformed to a place I have yet to visit. Your words set a scene that is remarkably vivid. You have a gift. Your writing is superb.