My sister was cleaning out the office while I was napping on this lazy Sunday afternoon (typical nurse move on my part) and she found this old pin. I spied it in the trash later and fished it out to snap this picture—still makes me chuckle.
I don’t know who is doing it, but someone keeps putting little things around the unit to cheer it up. I suspect I know who, and this person (when they were on nights) used to be my partner in crime for decorating the ancient X-ray display at our old building with crazy-themed cling film decals at St. Patrick’s Day and hand cut snowflakes during the winter holidays. About a week after this COVID mess started, when the ICU was still in chaos with the “rules” changing every few hours, tiny adorable flowering live plants started showing up at the nurses stations. Some of them have taken a turn for the worse now— I suspect the cyclamen is suffering from too much love and water— but most of them are doing great.
Cue today… a random Friday night shift (and I don’t normally work Fridays) — and I come in to find small armies of decorated ducks carrying small greetings on toothpick flags all around the unit, in groups of threes and fours. Simply adorable, and certainly a sight that made me smile. And that’s always good in the otherwise possibly bleak and sterile environment of the modern ICU.
This is this first post of what I hope will be many, and really just a piece of data to make this website publish. If you’re reading, you’re very early to this party— or a completist. Either way, thank you and welcome!