those friends you study nursing with

hi and happy birthday

i met my best friend in the whole wide world in college

we are total opposites but clicked

i love her like a sister

now we live far apart but when we get together it is like time never passed

she is quality people

i am surely blessed to have her im my life

Happy birthday! (What a not-nice, I-use-no-expletives-here-but-only-because-of-the-TOS, guy).

I've just been to a barbie with a bunch of friends I trained with - 17 years on, many of us have stopped nursing, and we're still great friends. There's something about that foxhole experience...

One of my friends was talking about her worst shift and started with "So I had X [long-term patient with a painful family, on the most notorious ward in the hospital]" and we all groaned in chorus, before chiming in with our own X stories.

It's good to know that this bond hasn't been lost in the transition out of hospital training :)

And that is what these young nurses lack today, solid friendships that are formed during training schools and that last for a lifetime.

I agree, my best friends are those I trained with.

i have to confess, i thought i would lose out on that bonding, having gone through the uni system.... but theses girls are my world.

from what i can tell, its not as solid is it would have been if it was all done in nurses colleges, but its there. we've been through eachothers breakups, engagements, breakup of engagments, pregnancies, miscarriages, hitting the single scene together.

ive never felt so close to anyone. boyfriends dont 'get' me as well as these girls.

plus its only been 2 years post graduation, so there still many more years to come to build on our friendship.

I shared an appartment with two other nursing students, both of whom I love very much and we still get together all the time. One of the was a true blonde (inside and out). We could be sitting there and be talking about one thing all afternoon and in the middle of a conversation she would lift her head and go "HUUNNH, what are you talking about" like she had just walked in. We still laugh about that all the time. Wished our schedules were not so different, making it very hard to get together.