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

and a mortgage and sixteen years of a career I had built one shift at a time, and the idea of sitting in the break room explaining that a patient was making me feel like a sixteen-year-old in a bathroom stall seemed impossible to do without something being lost in the translation.

So I kept it to myself, and I counted down to her discharge date, and continue reading …