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Last week I was working at the nurses station when one of my new favorite residents, Jack, rolled up to me in her wheelchair. She has incredibly innocent looking, big bright blue eyes and snow white hair. She seems as if she’d never hurt a fly. But Jack likes to tell stories of fighting her brothers when she was little and likes to threaten to...
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Ken Wilson’s voice is still ingrained in my childhood brain. Now, hearing Sam Rosen’s voice (and oddly enough I’ve come full circle with Joe Micheletti) sounds like angels singing. Hockey has been in my life my whole life. I remember watching St. Louis Blues games with my family every night. My birthday present one year was getting to see Paul Kariya and the Ducks play...
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…..and my husband. He’s my favorite photographer😋

I saw a bathroom call light blinking. I knocked on the door and asked the woman what she needed help with.
She smiled and said, “Can you grab me some toilet paper? It looks like I’m out.”
I reached for the fresh roll on the tank of the toilet and handed it to her.
Sheepishly she smiled and said, “Oh, Honey, I’m so sorry. I
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I used to have a resident that would yell “Nurse! Nurse! Nurse!” approximately 86 times in a 12 hour shift. He would scream it with the same intensity whether he wanted to tell me he was done with breakfast or he had chest pain. Combining that distraction with safety alarms going off from all directions, iv and gtube pumps beeping, and other residents yelling their
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