By Theresa Brown
In a publication as eye-opening because it is riveting, practising nurse and manhattan occasions columnist Theresa Brown invitations us to adventure not only an afternoon within the lifetime of a nurse yet all of the lifestyles that occurs in precisely sooner or later on a hospital's melanoma ward. within the span of twelve hours, lives will be misplaced, life-altering remedy judgements made, and desires fulfilled or irrevocably stolen. on a daily basis, Theresa Brown holds those lives in her palms. in this day there are four.
There is Mr. Hampton, a sufferer with lymphoma to whom Brown is charged with administering a strong drug that can remedy him—or kill him; Sheila, who could have been dangerously misdiagnosed; Candace, a returning sufferer who arrives (perhaps advisedly) together with her personal disinfectant wipes, detoxification rituals, and calls for; and Dorothy, who after six weeks within the clinic may perhaps eventually move domestic. Prioritizing and ministering to their wishes takes the type of ability, sensitivity, and, sure, humor that allow a nurse to be a patient's such a lot ardent suggest in a scientific procedure marked by way of heartbreaking disorder in addition to remarkable success.
In Theresa Brown's expert hands—as either a devoted nurse and an insightful chronicler of events—we are given an extraordinary view into the person struggles in addition to the bigger truths approximately medication during this nation. by way of shift's finish, we've witnessed anything profound approximately wish and therapeutic and humanity.
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While my sister and I sat at the table in gloomy silence. More than once she put water on to boil and forgot about it, burning the pot so that for days the kitchen stank. We ate cold hard baked potatoes and tasteless Green Giant vegetables out of cans. Even TV dinners arrived on the table half-cooked. Once in a while my mother would be overcome with remorse and something like shame for how she was acting. Then we might have lamb chops, or real homemade mashed potatoes. “Don’t run off to watch TV until you finish all your food,” she’d tell us, proud of herself.
She told me she had been against my father (her younger brother) marrying my mother. ” said Frances, a little warily, not wanting to speak ill of the dead. ” “All right, Michael,” said Frances, holding up her forefinger, giving me to understand it was my own fault for asking. ’ So, being the oldest, I was sent to Brooklyn to see this ‘wonderful’ girl. I get to the house in East New York, the lights are on all over the block, but your mother’s house is dark. I knock—no answer. I knock again and still nobody comes to the door.
There were times I’d find myself having a hard time breathing when I watched the coffin disappear into the earth and the dirt pile up on it. Whatever the cemetery represented, it was peaceful, and given the special circumstances of my house—the knife-sharp tension, screaming fits, and arguments—I would escape into the backyard, crawl past the bushes, and wriggle through a hole in the chain-link fence. I’d walk a few yards in, sit on the uncut grass, pull up a long piece, carefully remove the hard yellow outer part, and suck on the sweet green stalk inside.
