National Nurses Week runs from May 6 through May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale.
Time for a special thank you to all those very special men and women who held our hands before surgery, hung bags of chemo drugs and watched us to be sure we were OK, told us how to ease nausea and stop diarrhea, and cheered the end of chemo and the beginning of survivorship.
- Thank you to the nurses who were there with our doctors with a hand on our shoulder when the not-so-good test results came back.
- Thank you to the nurses who changed the sheets without complaining when we spilled cranberry juice trying to get yucky bowel preps down and brought warm washclothes for our sticky fingers.
- Thank you to the nurses whose eyes we saw behind surgical masks before we went to sleep and left our lives in their skilled hands.
- Thank you to the research nurses who explained the clinical studies and helped us decide and did all the extra work that led to new and lifesaving treatments.
- Thank you to the hospice nurses who were there at the end of our loved ones lives and who came to their funerals.
Thanks to dozens . . . sometimes hundreds . . . of nurses and nurse aides who were part of our lives with cancer and made the journey easier. We may have forgotten to say thank you before, but we have never forgotten you.
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