Hope versus denial.

摘要

Have you ever noticed that when you hold a piece of bubble wrap, you can't help but start popping each cell? There is something gratifying about squeezing the plastic casing until it yields and pops. I have come to think of denial as the bubble wrap patients use to protect something fragile. This imagery comes, in part, from my repeated observation that as nurses, we can't help but pop the bubbles of denial that patients embrace.