It fills me with joy. It asks so much, but at the same time is so much fun. Nursing is not fun. But I had been running all my life in search of my happiness, fulfillment of my needs. In nursing school, I stopped running.
Nursing demands a full commitment.
There were so many lessons, like when I had to wash a patient for the first time. This squeamishness might seem unusual to those acquainted with Cecilia's varied and colorful personal history. It was a leap out of the personal into a sort of intimacy that's human. You are a human being, and you can show up for your patient because they are human and they need you. It was not about me anymore.