The Bell Ringer
It was a sunny, cold afternoon and I was at the grocery store to pick up a few things for dinner. A woman volunteer in a wheelchair sat at the entrance to the store ringing her Salvation Army bell as a blur of humanity passed before her eyes. A handful of coins plinked in her bucket. The bell rang again. At the end of my workday, I breezed through Safeway and quickly found a roasted…
The Praying Nurse
Jayne came to work despite the nagging pain in her hip, back, and neck. Nursing is her job. She loves what she does, even if the physical demands cause chronic pain. We picked up our patient at a nursing home. She was a few days post-operative for abdominal surgery. After spending less than 24 hours at the nursing home, she developed an abscess to her abdominal wall and needed to go back to the hospital….