As A Nurse I Was Assigned To Treat The Woman Who Made My Teenage Years Miserable

every other patient on the floor.

If another staff member entered the room, she became an entirely different person. Gracious. Warm. Interested in how their day was going. Complimentary about the unit, about the care, about the hospital generally.

The door would close, and she would look at me with the old lazy cruelty turned low, like a pilot light.continue reading …