Where were u 9/11/01?

[k_cole21]

They only reason I'm starting this thread is b/c where I was on this date will forever be memoriable to my nursing career. Just 1 or 2 phrases to tell where u were at the time of the attacks....

I was in Fall semester Nursing School, senior year....1st days on the floor of our Psyc Rotation....all the TVs on the unit were on. It was a very interesting place to be during such a time.

[Southern Belle RN]

I was at my very first clinical day while in school. All the floor nurses were standing around the tv in the lobby & all of us students were trying to do pt. care & then sneak in to watch the news....

Belle

[3months]

I was in China, was at work. It's evening in China. A colleague called me and asked me turn on the TV. I thought she was crazy, but i saw the most crazy and terrible thing on TV that night. Couldn't imagin that 5 years later, I came here in NYC, I went to the Ground Zero...

[Fairemaid]

I was sitting on the floor, sewing wedding dresses for my children, because though my husband and I had been together for 20 years already, we had picked Sept. 22, 2001 as our wedding day. My sister was on a cruise ship crossing the Atlantic and DH's families all lived in other states. My best friend called me to put the TV on, and I sat there in shock and horror and stunned disbelief. I was not sure if any of our out-of-town guests would be able to actually get here for the wedding. I was not a nurse at that time, I worked as an EMT basic and had not even thought about nursing as a career. If I had not had all the wedding preparations to worry about, I think I would have been overwhelmed. Luckily all of our guests finally showed up safely, and the wedding went off with only a few hitches and hopefully our family and friends found the day to be an escape from the ugly reality forced upon us.

My heart goes out to all the families left behind:scrying:

Rebecca

[Cattitude]

I've never seen this thread before. Well... I was at a Dr's appt. and I came out after into the waiting room and a whole lot of people were crowded around the TV. I couldn't believe it.

I raced home listening to the radio the entire time. Saw plenty of firetrucks from my area heading into Manhattan. I stayed glued to the TV all day.

The next day I had to go into the city for an important appt. It was like a ghost town, weird. No cars allowed beyond the Bronx border. Everyone just looked so depressed and shocked. The smell in the air was so sharp. I can still remember it. I still remember the hundreds of pictures posted everywhere for months and months of relatives looking for their missing loved ones. So sad....

My hospital actually had us on standby, they thought we would be getting an overflow of victims from the closer city hospitals, yea right.

One of my coworkers Mother was in the N. Tower, she made it out.

[Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP]

I was a newbie nurse doing my internship at my first job post nursing sch. During that particular week I was on a medical floor, which I loathed. On top of that, it was just a bad day to start off...I was late giving one of my meds, I completely forgot insulin for a lady who was in with DKA (NOT SMART), just one of them days. Then we (preceptor & I) hear this news & think someone's playing a real bad joke on us. We go in an empty pt room with the TV on, some nurses and some nursing student and watch the second plane hit. It still didn't register, and besides I had meds to give & dressings to change.

Hearing about the Pentagon & Flight 93 just made me angry enough to want to get through the day. I do remember thinking, "What if they hit our hospital?" (we're not anywhere close to NYC, PA, or DC). It wasn't until I got home & listened to President Bush's speech on the radio that night (I worked 7a-7p) that I lost it.

My husband is a Mexican immigrant (we weren't married yet then) and 9/11 was one of the few times I have ever seen him cry, including the birth of our son. We sat & watched footage of people throwing themselves out of buildings & just wept. Very sad day. So many lives lost.

[GingerSue]

I was in Toronto

working on my thesis

and I remember the sadness of hearing about the people who were trapped

and phoning their families or friends to tell them where they were

[suzeeq]

We'd just arrived in Brighton UK for the NCLEX prep course. We had two American friends with us. We saw it unfold on the television in the hotel reception.

[TDub, MSN, EdD]

I was sleeping in and my mother called. She works at the Fed Center in Battle Creek. I groggily mumbled hello and she said really fast, "I'm ok, they're evacuating the building, I love you." and hung up. I had no idea what was going on. I went to my fave chat group to find out and talked most of the day on the computer. I think I'm the only person in America who has not seen pictures of the whole plane crashing, tower in flames, people jumping to their deaths thing. I refuse.

[Cmariehart]

I had the day off of work. I woke up and turned on the tv. I sat there flipping through the channels at first I thought the cable company went crazy. So I called my mom at work (she works for a newpaper) and asked what had happened and she told me about the attacks. I flipped the tv back on and starred at it in disbelief. I don't even know how long I stood there for ... I live in Central NY

[mtwife]

I was working, in room 6214 taking care of my dying patient. I watched the coverage with my patients wife. . . he died that day and still think of how she dealt with such sadness and tragedy. Later that morning, I walked to the nurses station in tears and encouraged everyone there (doctors, secretaries, therapists) to pray, pray, pray because our nation was attacked!! Was scheduled to fly to visit Grandma the next day, but flights were cancelled, so my precious little brother drove 5 hours to pick me up and take me to our parents so we could all be together.