Confessions of a human nurse
I'm coming home Tell the world I'm coming home Let the rain wash away all the pain of yesterday I know my kingdom awaits and they'd forgiven my mistakes ("Coming Home" Skylar Grey) In the chair across from me… sits a woman who works hard every day. Loves her kids. Wants the best for them. Can't seem to win for losing no matter how hard she tries, but keeps trying for the kids' sake. She just can't take this last straw…. That could be me. In the chair across from me… sits a woman whose mind and body won't do what she wants. She struggles every day, disoriented and fighting to make sense of the world that looks down on her for not being able to "keep up" or "get over it." She's tried, but this is too much… That could be me. In the chair across from me…a girl is doubled over with sobs. She's the good kid. The one who doesn't make mistakes, who was going to get through college and start a career. She's smart, always did the right thing. Golden child. Teacher's pet. Nerd. She's going places, just not this one… That could be me. In the chair across from me… sits a couple. She's can barely get the words out between tears, but keeps trying to apologize that it ever happened. That they are here at all. They tried not to, she did everything recommended because they'd agreed this was a bad time for another kid… That could be me. In the chair across from me… sits a young couple, just beginning to see a life together. She's messed up, wild eyed at the news, scared, angry, desperate to escape. He reaches out, helpless, trying to help, trying to find her a way out that doesn't cost him his child even as he cries for the loss he knows is certain. She shoves him away… That could be me. In the chair across from me… sits a woman who can't look me in the eye. Ashamed to even be here, ashamed to be "one of those woman." The ones who couldn't stay out of trouble, even when she tried. The one now struggling to come to grips with this new reality before the judgement of her society comes to bear. If only she could just make it all go away… That could be me.
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