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  • If you would've asked me like in college

  • what my dream job would've been, it would've been

  • to be a writer for Saturday Night Live.

  • I was always a very artsy, creative kid.

  • At 27 I went back to school to be a nurse,

  • and you see things from a different picture when you're older.

  • You know that there's a risk, you're confident,

  • you can handle the concept of death and dying.

  • But how do you prepare yourself for a pandemic?

  • My family, that's my Achilles Heel.

  • That's the chink in my armor.

  • I used to, you know, pick up food for my kids,

  • go to the grocery store, and now it's like I come straight home

  • and I treat myself like I am contaminated.

  • Get out of your COVID clothes, put them in the wash as fast as you can.

  • I no longer wear a wedding ring because I'm trying to not have anything get up underneath it.

  • I'm not wearing jewelry. I'm trying to keep my hair short.

  • If you cry you just let the tears roll and you don't touch your face.

  • A few days ago, I spiked a temperature, I got scared,

  • and I went and I got tested for COVID.

  • I tested negative, but I let my mind kinda go to dark places.

  • I sat there and thought about, maybe I need to work on my will.

  • I'm actually preparing myself to self-quarantine from my family.

  • And I've never been away from my children.

  • But it's coming, it's inevitable.

  • I never imagined that a pandemic would be the reason

  • why I'm being separated from my kids.

  • You took an oath to take care of people.

  • This is what you signed up to do.

  • But my children didn't sign up to get sick.

  • My husband didn't sign up to get sick.

  • Feeling like you are a danger to your own family.

  • For the first time, I feel really weak and very vulnerable.

  • It's like they say, you've gotta put the oxygen on your face

  • before you can put it on someone else's.

  • And you just want to make sure that you're doing the right things for people.

  • Last night I was trying to explain to a three-year-old what coronavirus is,

  • and I was like, you know there's a big germ that's out there that's hurting a lot of people.

  • And I wanna, you know, snuggle with you more than anything in the world right now

  • but I need to kind of, stay away.

  • When this is over, I just hope that they know that I was doing the best that I could.

  • What kinda keeps me going is knowing that I have purpose.

  • I feel empowered being around my colleagues.

  • I think about the patients that need us.

  • New Orleanians are very tenacious people.

  • We can survive this.

If you would've asked me like in college

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COVID-19: A Nurse Self-Quarantines To Keep Her Family Safe | TIME

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    joey joey に公開 2021 年 06 月 03 日
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