Item
Dawn’s Daughters
Title (Dublin Core)
Dawn’s Daughters
Description (Dublin Core)
Personal account of a nurse
I am a nurse who told both my daughters to not become nurses. But like their mama, they chose their calling, ignoring me. One works currently strictly with Covid19 patients. The other does not know if her patients have the virus. I am working from home so anxious about my daughters that I cannot sleep. I hope they physically survive the pandemic but I also hope it does not destroy their spirits. So much work with such severe patients. Patients very sick and dying alone. Both my girls with so much empathy, with such awful outcomes. One lives with me and fears bringing the virus home. Her rituals after work to get clean drain us both. My daughters see people suffering while the outside world does not really believe how bad it is for random people with Covid 19. I feel every moment like their is an open hole in my body that pain rushes through while my heart beats anxiously. Why didn’t I tell them horrible stories so they would seek different professions? They asked me, if I had the choice to do it again would I still go into nursing. I could not lie. I said yes.
Date (Dublin Core)
April 30, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Dawn JonesBaer
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Dawn JonesBaer
Type (Dublin Core)
text story
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Healthcare
English
Home & Family Life
English
Emotion
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
nurse
daughter
healthcare worker
fear
spirit
patient
profession
Collection (Dublin Core)
Healthcare
Survivor Stories
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
05/01/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
05/03/2020
11/27/2020
11/16/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
04/30/2020
Accrual Method (Dublin Core)
2972