tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64488032987826588632024-03-12T16:30:55.950-07:00What would Flo do?What Would Flo Do: An American nurse's triumphs and tribulations in Dhaka, Bangladesh.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18183177570970479285noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448803298782658863.post-87516234666043295802013-10-04T05:26:00.000-07:002013-10-04T05:26:33.513-07:00New pictures from trip #2!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18183177570970479285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448803298782658863.post-49963194629821619432013-10-03T08:36:00.002-07:002013-10-03T08:36:42.052-07:00Back in Bangladesh!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">After an abrupt departure from Bangladesh in May due to
concern for safety<span> </span>amongst the growing
political riots and heightened tension, I have returned back to the “desh” for 10
days with additional Mass General staff to assist in the continued education
and guidance of the nurses who will be working on the new Bone Marrow
Transplant unit. It’s been 5 months away, but, <span> </span>with my old Bangla friends and DMCH <span> </span>nurses back at my side, part of me forgets
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) <span> </span>is scheduled to open on the 23<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">rd</span></sup> of
this month, and while the diligent volunteers from MGH (on the ground, and back
in Boston) seem to be fixing a problem at every turn, four new challenges seem
to appear in its place. Because BMT is one most complicated oncology procedures
performed due to the isolation, precautions and strict scheduling required for
a patient to thrive, it feels like a bold contradiction to build one in
Bangladesh, a country lacking in such basic medical resources. I told one
colleague today that every time I think about the work to be done, I am left
with a head filled with doubt but a heart full of hope. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Everybody keeps asking how it feels to be back in Bangladesh
on a personal level and it hasn’t been an answer I could sum up in a few
sentences, so for those of you who want to know my honest answers enough to
read my blog, <span> </span>here are my extended thoughts
to the Yes’s and No’s, I so routinely deliver to your questions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i><span> </span>Are you scared?</i> To this I have thought,
only that we won’t get the work done, and that I will be the only person in the
history of global health who ever gained weight in a third world country from
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going back to a place you got evacuated from, have you not learned your lesson?</i>To this I usually giggle and assure you I have thought it through but really
want to tell you that “every lesson I have every learned enough to carry to the
present has been built on the grounds of perseverance, finding a window when
the door shuts, never giving up and putting human life above all other worth,
so no I guess I haven’t learned whatever lesson you are referring to”. For the
record, if you’ve asked me that question, I still love you more than words can
say and that I know you have my best interests at heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i>Is it worthwhile to endure
a 24 hour trip each way for only ten days on the ground?</i> I answered a
hesitant yes last night, but I knew I answered correctly at the end of the
hospital shift today. My colleague Meg (who has been a BMT RN at MGH for 20
years) and I returned back to the classroom after being on the floor for
clinical practice, and I was hot, exhausted and really, really sweaty (pictures
to follow) but then I looked at these nurses who are so excited to advance
their education despite lack of pay raise or benefits but just because they
love nursing and so my answer may be a tired, exhausted and sweaty yes, but nonetheless, always a yes.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18183177570970479285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448803298782658863.post-69440442561069720132013-05-10T01:30:00.000-07:002013-05-10T01:30:05.251-07:00International Nurses Day!The Nursing Bridge Program asked Maryanne and I to write an article on what International Nursing Day means to us. Below is what we came up with. Enjoy!...<br />
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Every year on nurses day, we as nurses, take time to reflect on how proud we are to have chosen the nursing field. We reflect on the incredible importance nursing is as a profession. In the United States, nursing routinely tops the Gallop poll of "Most Trusted Profession" with 85% of Americans rating the ethical and honesty standards of a nurses at "very high/ high". These standards continue to amaze us. It's such a unique profession with so many different roles which has a universal acknowledgement for being so "noble."<br /> <br />We have spent countless hours listening to our friends and pondering their stories of nursing across the spectrum. We heard the stories of a neonatal ICU nurse after she described the experiences of helping a mother rock her dying baby for the last time. We have beamed with pride as a friend told us the signs and symptoms she recognized when her patient was having a heart attack, and assisted in getting him immediate and lifesaving treatment. It's not an uncommon site to see a coworker braid a patients hair and massage her hands through a chemotherapy infusion despite her heavy workload because she wanted to calm the patent's nerves. And most recently, we fought back tears as we walked around a crowded unit at Dhaka Medical College Hospital and witnessed the nurses comfort the victims from the recent factory collapse in Savar.<br /> <br /> Nursing continues to be a profession that while growing and changing, remains to be a necessity for improved outcomes in patient safety. We were chosen by Massachusetts General Hospital through a Global Health Care fellowship to promote, encourage and educate nursing with the eventual goal of opening a Bone Marrow Transplant Unit. While coming here with the primary goal of teaching, we find ourselves learning from the nurses just as much as we hope they learn from us.<br /><br />At a recent class at Dhaka Medical College we asked the nurses what drew them into the nursing profession. Each and every single nurse told us through their native language, "I chose to be a nurse because it is the work of the heart". Fortunately, it was a sentence we could understand without the use of an interpreter. <br /><br />That evening while discussing our newest lesson plans, we discussed how well we were adapting to our roles in Bangladesh. We may have been brought into Dhaka through the nursing AK Khan Healthcare Trust to assist in advancing the nursing medical expertise and instructing clinical skill set, but every student in our classroom already had the nursing "heart", which is the only requirement of the profession that cannot be taughtAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18183177570970479285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448803298782658863.post-15254436104442398372013-05-03T02:20:00.000-07:002013-05-04T04:33:39.316-07:00THANK YOU!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As many of you may already know, last night I had the pleasure of being interviewed by CNN’s Moni Basu. This was an incredible honor, not only because Moni is an astonishing writer (no seriously, check out her personal <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>blog - <a href="http://evilreporterchick.com/">http://evilreporterchick.com/</a>, her stories are unlike anything I’ve ever read), but she made me feel incredibly safe and comfortable during the interview AND grew up in India but is Bangladeshi by birth!!! How cool?</div>
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While I initially submitted the story from my blog (errr….or was forced by Riley Fadden), my hope was that I could have a few Americans wake up to the horrors in South East Asia. Horrors, that I, myself had not known existed until I moved to Dhaka. I would never have imagined that the story would become a cover feature on CNN, although to be honest, I would still have preferred to live in a world where no such story existed. </div>
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Dr. Bimal Dey, who was born in Bangladesh and is now an incredible Oncologist and asset to MGH. Being one of the most intelligent MD’s I have encountered he is also the most down to earth, has an INCREDIBLE respect for nursing, and is always just a phone call away when we need him.</div>
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Anne-Marie Barron who was my favorite professor at Simmons College and who has been my biggest mentor at MGH. She is an incredible, kind and intelligent person who has spent much time in Bangladesh to open a nursing school and help promote nursing. She is also an incredibly calming presence, even just on skype.</div>
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The AK Khan Trust and family, the Nursing Bridge Program, the honorable Health Minister of Bangladesh, The oncologist/hematologist at DMC ( especially Dr. Khan), and supports back at Massachusetts General Hospital including Jason Harlow and Mark Breznia, NP who have all <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>supported us so much, continue to listen to our thoughts and are working tirelessly to see the first BMT center through. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A thousand thanks to you all.</div>
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Maryanne Meadows, my partner in crime and savior in this new and different <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>world. We made a pact to laugh at the end of the day and she has made me keep that promise even on the hardest of days here. Her incredible blog gives much more insight to our journey, check it out- <a href="http://maryannemeadows.blogspot.com/">http://maryannemeadows.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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Photos includes: My new fitted pants, lecturing in the classroom, instructing on the medical ward, meeting with the directors of DMCH Oncology and the nursing bridge trust, the sunset from my deck, the sunrise from my roof, a riveting ride on a rickshaw, my bedtime bug protection, and the escalating riots. </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18183177570970479285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448803298782658863.post-37856212911379899382013-04-28T08:18:00.001-07:002013-04-28T09:01:20.231-07:00Bangladesh Building Collapse<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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When I was 17 my least favorite morning of the week was
Saturday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With an ever-changing extracurricular
activity schedule, Saturday morning was my one set shift at the local dry
cleaners, which dragged me out of bed before 8am, and at that age indicated
torture. The shift lasted four hours and always included a bagel brought by a
sympathetic friend and a pile of gossip magazines supplied by my boss to
entertain me while in-between helping customers at the counter. I should also
mention that I received $40 for those “hard” worked Saturdays, totaling $120.00
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On Wednesday, any avid news watcher would be able to tell
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employees who produced garments<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that are
out sourced for the western world. And by this morning, any avid news watcher
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people missing under the debris. With today marking Sunday, the 5<sup>th</sup>
day since the catastrophe, it is well past the estimated 72 hours a human being
can survive without food and water. I mentioned those who would know these
facts would have to be an avid news watcher because it has been my observation
that these stories, even in Dhaka, run second and third to what is happening in
the first or Western World. On Thursday I could tell you more about how much
the Boston Marathon bombers mother shoplifted from a Natick, MA mall then how
many factory workers were still missing from watching the news. </div>
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I was reminded of my job at the local dry cleaners and my
$120.00 a month I then received, as I watched a 17 year old girl interviewed
today after her hand was cut off from the slab of cement it was mangled under to
rescue her from debris. The station called her lucky and I went numb thinking
how at age 17 I would have defined lucky. It would have incorporated more than
a minimum wage of $38.00 a month, it would have indicated that if a building
was deemed unsafe on a Tuesday, I would not have been forced to return on a
Wednesday, and without question it would have included 2 hands.</div>
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Being American I know that I am just as much part of the
problem as the solution. As I walked the hospital corridors down to the ward
filled with women rescued from the collapse today, I realized any of the items
I was clothed in may have come from a similar unsafe factory in Asia, as
Bangladesh reports they release 23% of their garment productions to America
annually. I realized while I was being brought down to comfort them, I just as
much owed them an apology for being part of a world that allows this kind of treatment
and I caught my breathe when my guide was asked to bring us to the unit at another
time <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh
was currently inside visiting.</div>
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As we turned to leave someone asked me, “If you want I can
take you outside to see the piles of bodies that weren’t pronounced dead until
they got to the hospital”, and while I politely declined, I turned in time to
see a lifeless woman my age being wheeled by to join the others. I said a
prayer, not knowing if it was to the god she believed in or the one I had been
raised to believe in, but pictured both fundamentally<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>saying “We hate this too, were working on it,
and so can you”. </div>
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Each day I have spent at Dhaka Medical College Hospital has
ended the same. After finishing our <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>meetings, Maryanne and I are accompanied
outside by members of the trust and I pretend to not notice the vastly growing
crowd that surrounds our small group. Our driver<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pulls up and we are shuffled into a van while
people either bang at the windows or take our picture and we are whisked<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>off into the sunset. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know how it sounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It sounds romantic and glamorous, like, say,
a celebrities blog which accounts her stressful day as she tries to shop
alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it is neither romantic nor
glamorous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The people who surround the
car are not paparazzi, in fact they are living on less than a dollar a day
according to water.org and are suffering from a variety of ailments, some of
which don’t even exist in the western world. And they bang on the windows
because they think the two, western girls inside the comfortable,
air-conditioned<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>van, have the answers on
how to either feed or cure them or maybe even both. </div>
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Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is meant to be a 1,700 bed hospital. I say
meant because it is government run, meaning it is free to those who can’t
afford payment and it turns no one away. According to the hospital’s director,
a daily census may run anywhere from 2,500 to 4,000 patients and due to the
overflowing population in the building, every turn of the head shows patients
sharing beds, lying on the floor or sitting in stairwells mid- treatment. While
patients lying in stairwells defies fall prevention protocol at every turn,
contact precautions are non-existent<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
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falls onto the doctor or nurse, amazingly, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DMCH still manages to get patients better. </div>
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The nurse’s role at the hospital is quite different from
what I am used to, which is what we were brought into assist with via lecture
and one-on-one clinical training. As one DMCH attending physician explained to
me “Your skill set would make you a doctor here, the nurses here act more like
maids.” And with one nurse to a ward that averages 25-30 patients, no skilled
assistance and orders written in English instead of their native Bangla
language, I am concerned with the lack of room for improvement. However, despite
their heavy workload and lack of break (the nurses work up until lecture time
and then get someone to cover their ward for 2-3 hours to hear us present, I am
beyond amazed at their rising English skills, perseverance and optimism as they
come to lecture not only motivated but excited to be selected and trained for
the end result, Bangladesh’s first Bone Marrow Transplant unit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Each day I ride home with DMCH and its many faces of
illness, despair, need and hope in my thoughts long after the vast white
building is out of sight. And while I spend the ride wishing I had the key to
fix the suffering of the Bengali people, I know I do not, I could not. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I repeat a favorite Florence Nightingale
quote of mine “<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>never lose an
opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful
how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself “, and I
hope the small group of nurses suffice.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18183177570970479285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448803298782658863.post-71258643533658321542013-04-21T00:27:00.004-07:002013-04-21T00:31:23.117-07:00Photos of Maryanne and I shopping, touring Dhaka Medical College Hospital, with our 10 nursing students for the Bone Marrow Transplant unit, getting fitted for Sarees and with our helper Shilipi!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18183177570970479285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448803298782658863.post-87529210553613748362013-04-21T00:08:00.003-07:002013-04-25T21:15:36.803-07:00Shilipi<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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We have been away from home for almost a week now, and what
a week to have been gone. According to a Google search, I am approximately
8,653 miles away from Boston. Given the horrific scenes of Monday, followed by
the conclusive events on Friday, my head and heart are still somewhere lost over
the Atlantic. I hope, however, to slowly drift back to the bay of Bengal shores
and the work at hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The directors of the trust have been very gentle with us
these past few days while we recover from jetlag and have not taken us many
places. We are staying on the “Beacon Hill” of Bangladesh known as Baridhara.
Baridhara is the most prestigious neighborhood in the area, complete with a
gate and guards at the main entrance. However despite this, every fifth
building appears to have been demolished by things I have decided not to fully
investigate. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(Dad, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stop googling)</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, while our apartment wouldn’t necessarily
be considered luxury by American standards, it is well above the definition of
luxury to the Bengali people as it consists of 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a full
living room, dining room , kitchen, remote controlled A.C., Wi-Fi and a servant
whom for the remainder of my writing, will be referred to as our helper, Shilipi.</div>
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When I visited Punta Cana last year with my college friends we
bought the elegance upgrade for a small additional cost, and the part I
remember we were most excited about was that the package included a butler at
our beckon call, should we want a bath drawn or a pillow fluffed. So while
fluffed pillows and lavender drawn baths sounds perfect in an informative
booklet, Vladmir met us at the door to our suite upon arrival and then was
never to be summoned again, because it was a lot less work both mentally and
physically to just fluff our own pillows then to sit and watch someone else do
it.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
That brings me back to the absolutely lovely Shilipi who is scheduled
to be with us every day in the morning from 7a-10a and again in the evening from
5p-9p, but who we always let leave a couple hours early. Shilipi cooks us
breakfast and dinner every day, does our grocery shopping and then cleans every
inch of the apartment on a daily basis. I got out of the shower yesterday to
find her folding all the clothes I had ferociously thrown on the floor while
searching for a culturally approved outfit that wouldn’t make me sweat more
than a bikram yoga session. I have since tried to be more mindful of the messes
I leave behind. </div>
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<br /></div>
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While Shilipi is employed by the trust to keep us
“comfortable”, she has probably had as much effect on my mental comfort as she
has had on my physical comfort. Being one of only 5 people that recognizes and
smiles when she sees my face in this new world, she is becoming a fast ally.
And while we are not at the level where I would ask her to play with my hair or discuss boys , she will sit on my bed while I skype and has already met
the majority of my friends and family. It occurred to me how ironic it is that the
only word I know in bangla is “dhanyabada”, which happens to translate to the
only word she knows in English…thank you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Shilipi and I walk around continually
thanking each other, which seems like a pretty good definition of friendship to
me. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18183177570970479285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448803298782658863.post-69238380832165500052013-04-17T00:08:00.001-07:002013-04-18T03:51:15.662-07:00Safe in Dhaka but thinking of Boston...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here and safe in Dhaka, Bangladesh! With the warmth of the people and the
clean and “homey” apartment my initial transition has been great, or at least
from the external views. Internally has been a bit more difficult than I would
have hoped but that has nothing to do with the culture shock I was forewarned
about. Let me explain.<br />
<br />
When I first read the headline "Deadly explosion at Boston Marathon
finish line" I was suspended 50,000 feet in the air and somewhere over Africa.
I had just woken up from my very comfortable seat (no sarcasm, air emirates is
like a tropical vacation compared to any other airbus I've ever been on), and
re-read the brief BBC headline three times before reminding myself to breathe.
This year, like past years, I had organized a volunteer nurse team for the
finish line, better known as the "sweep team" as we triage patients
between medical tents; When I found out <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the conflicting date of my flight to Dhaka, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cajoled one of my co-workers to taking over
the "captain" role of our volunteer team. So, because there was no
other information, my thoughts jumped to worst possible scenario, which was my
coworkers and dear friends whom I had encourage to volunteer alongside me were
injured or worse, and I was comfortably suspended 50,000 feet somewhere above
Africa.<br />
<br />
The panic set in and I woke Maryanne up and we both purchased internet
access to check in on everyone and I am still counting my lucky stars that my
Boston "loves" while mentally bruised, heartbroken and angry, were
safe and sound. But, it has been and continues to be, rather difficult
filtering the news from over 8,000 miles away.<br />
<br />
Again today, I woke up heartbroken and angry that anyone could hurt my home
on easily one of it's favorite holidays. By lunch time, the ache turned to
guilt that I wasn't there to help at the marathon as initially planned, but
mixed with extreme pride that my friends, fellow nurses and amazing hospital
institution jumped into action and saved the day as best they could. And by
dinner time I have read so many facebook statuses that I almost forget I am
over 8,000 miles away and not sitting in Boston, drinking Dunkin Donuts and
about to go for a jog on the Charles.<br />
<br />
But I am not in Boston and I was lucky enough to be given an opportunity to
represent MGH Nursing in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Perhaps, had my emotions not been
clouded, I would have processed how truly strange it was to wake up on the last
plane ride with people in the surrounding rows taking photos of the two white
girls sleeping (I can only imagine how beautifully my 3 chins and drool
captured on a flip phone camera). Or how awkward <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">it was </span>to stand and smile at the maid who unbeknown
to us was waiting to be verbally released from her morning duties after she
made Maryanne and I breakfast, and then cleaned our bedrooms while we ate. But
instead I feel more like I am in a daze, with a dash of excitement as I look at
myself in the mirror, draped in clothes a Boston girl wouldn’t usually chose. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
So I remember that while it's hard to not be home coping with friends and
family or working alongside coworkers, I get to show a very different part of
the world what Boston and its idea of nursing is all about, and I would never
let my city down.<br />
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