The Ambiguous Odyssey

I remember the very first baby I saw come to life had such a beautiful mother.   Finally, we were upgraded to the labor room! The first week was filled with gauze and linen sheets. It was an eternal process of making beds and folding gauze, and honestly I started to doubt  the day to enter the labor room was ever going to co me and if it was worth all that preparatory work . Everyday, women would come and give birth and there would be other nurses in-training like ourselves that were very “pushy’, so as you could imagine, we were always asked to leave and they would get the chance to watch the gift of life. Next thing we did was go in extra early and build strong relationship with all the people in the labor room. However, we would always arrive 2-3 minutes later than a birth, yet we would get to clean the beautiful newborn and dress them up and our mission was soon to be accomplished! So, the next day we got in, there was such a beautiful woman, painfully l...

July 24th I was moved unfortunately from the ER to the gynecology and obstetrics sections and oh boy was I disappointed. As soon as I set foot there I was given paperwork to fill out and we all know how boring that can be, so I got the worst first impression. The nurse who was in charge of the section Sister Shahinaz was the sweetest, kindest, most giving nurse I came across. She honestly taught me so much and for that I am eternally grateful. I changed sections with a fear of cannulas which she helped me overcome. So, a few days into the section she told me to go get a patient from the OT, I obliged and went. As soon as I arrived, I felt a cool air striking me, and my heart ached when I saw her there lying in fetal position, so vulnerable, so fragile. Almost a dead body on her side, on the cold, unsteady bed and that devil-like surgical nurse standing like a tyrant above her frail torso. Yelling at us to hurry up and transfer her to the other bed to move her b...