TIME OUT 'Let me tell you about being a nurse'

摘要

"Good thing you got him here! Any longer and we would have had to remove part of his bowel. He has an inguinal hernia... if it had strangulated...." I didn't understand the medical jargon. The physician was explaining my baby's condition, but he might as well have been speaking French.My son Johnny was 7 months old when he began to scream inconsolably despite all my efforts to appease him. I knew something was seriously wrong. I scooped him up and bolted to the nearest ED. The next thing I knew, I was signing papers for emergency surgery.Numbed with fear, I prayed that Johnny would be okay. Faith in God was the only glimmer in my dismal life back then. At age 23,I was struggling to support my three children. My marriage was failing and my husband and I were separated. Again.