The Nurse Who Dared To Care

I've just had the most amazing phone call from a nurse about ET. This
is really something else.

Heres what she said.

Lessons to be learned, I'd say.

SF

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I had the most amazing experience today. I work in a geriatric ward
and learned EmoTrance because I saw a practitioner for a personal
problem. The next day when I went back to work, something happened
that I believe has changed me forever.
We have this old man, an ex-army colonel. He is 83 years old, doesn't
have any relatives and cranky as hell, dying of cancer, waiting for a
place in a hospice.
That lunchtime when I went to bring him his meal, he was obviously in
severe pain and when I came in he broke down for a moment and made
this tiny gesture with his hand, like he was saying, help me, when he
couldn't say it if you know what I mean. He doesn't say please or
thank you ever, when he's up for it he just barks orders and complains
all the time, nothing is ever good enough and no-one likes him.
As I looked at him there in such pain I really felt the shields I made
around me, thick as a glass wall all around me, more like a tower
really where I was safe inside and I don't know what happened I just
dropped it and let him come to me, let him touch me.
It was the most amazing thing. I went over and took his hand and
looked into his eyes and it was like falling in love with him, with
that old man but it wasn't sad, it wasn't like I had always thought it
would hurt to care for them - it was completely different. He flowed
into me and through. It wasn't sad at all, it was - just amazing,
that's the only word I have. Amazing and energising. He stared up at
me and held my hand tightly and went very quiet, and then he said,
"Thank you."

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Received on Sat Jan 18 2003 - 08:32:23 GMT