Nurse = Angel

There was a discussion about nurses in one of the Facebook groups I'm in, so I wanted to share my favorite nurse story with you.

In the Fall of 2007, I came down with pneumonia and had to go to the hospital. I was very sick. I had 105 degrees fever and was packed in ice for 2 days to bring it down. By the third day I was there, I was lonely and dirty and miserable. I had no family or friends here and Dave wasn't able to get to the hospital, so I felt like I was dying alone. That's when a barely 20-year-old angel named Brittany came to my room.

She was a student from the nursing school at the college here in town and she wasn't any bigger than a minute. Cute little thing. She came to my room and asked me how I was feeling. I told her I was feeling awful. Something must have clicked with her, cause she went to work making me feel better.

She got a basin of warm soapy water and gave me sponge bath. She changed my clothes and rubbed my feet with lotion and put warm socks on me. She brushed all the tangles out of my hair and put it up in a ponytail.

Her gentle hands and compassion, along with my feelings of sickness and loneliness made me start to cry. This little snippet of a girl climbed up onto the side of my bed and took this old lady in her arms and held me and stroked my hair while I sobbed.

I truly believe that this little girl helped to save my life. I felt 100% better the next day and went home the day after that.

I hope she never burns out and loses that sweet caring heart that she showed to me on that night. She will always be an angel of mercy to me.