George and Martha..One Nurse's recounting of a fetal demise...

Yep, I saw that Deb...I was actually kind of flattered when you said you read it before..Then I wondered if I had somehow plagerized someone else...Like I said in the essay, I have been sick lately, and to be perfectly stereotypical, I AM blonde....
I just didn't read far enough...Silly goose!

Thanks all , but I have to say with the posts I read here, I feel the same feelings you all describe when I know what you have written is from the heart and your own experiences...I guess I just some how "see" a way to make my story affect the reader. I don't know how or why I do, but I see much of that in the posts I read here..You guys probably don't even realize how much YOU affect people with what you write and all you do...Sometimes it is mostly about describing how you felt when you went into a room, how you had "a feeling" something was about to happen, or something was wrong." I can't explain it. In my case, it just comes....I guess I was born to be a conduit for nurses or for people who sometimes don't feel that anyone could possibly understand what they are going through. But, I think we all do that as nurses, every day. Once, I was challenged by an instructor to actually write down all that I did for one patient in one shift. If you really did that, you would write a book just for that one person for that one shift. Nurses don't realize how important and imperative they are...I want others to see that...