The Conflict Of Caring

Growing up in a small town in northern Kentucky, I always loved writing. Many short stories and poems sat quietly in my notebooks at home while life proceeded in an unpredictable way. After my husband was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and had a heart transplant, I went to nursing school to be able to help support my family. The basis of my writing then became clinical situations and research papers while my creative side waited patiently again. After a breast cancer diagnosis, I began to understand all the different perspectives of healthcare situations and how they can affect how we heal; the human side of healthcare so to speak. My desire to write along with the experiences I had faced from all sides of the bed rail then merged together and became a manuscript, "The Conflict of Caring." I currently work as a manager of a cardiovascular step-down unit in a community hospital and have two sons and one granddaughter. I enjoy gardening and exercising but my favorite thing to do is to share my story with others. When we work together to understand the perspective of others, we can begin to heal our healthcare system from the inside out.