Drunk driver forever changes her life
“We were going into Houston for dinner with some good friends. Because we expected to have a drink or two, we asked our daughter to be our Uber driver. She was a college student. She was...
“We were going into Houston for dinner with some good friends. Because we expected to have a drink or two, we asked our daughter to be our Uber driver. She was a college student. She was...
“It was October 3rd of ’98. I was working at Bayer, vacuuming out chemical waste. The hose swept under me. It threw me about 6 feet. I had to get stitches in my head. I had...
“I believe that God sometimes gives us things we need to learn for the future. I had an aunt who had dementia. She was in her 80s. So I learned the symptoms, the behaviors, the medicine...
“I’m an RN. I’ve been in nursing for about a year. And let me tell you, it was a tough year to be a first-time nurse. “I was working on a medical-surgical floor in a smaller...
“I’m 83. Been married four times. Divorced twice. The other two passed with cancer. “I lost my wife, Jewell, on Jan. 19 last year. She was 69. She dealt with that cancer for many years. It...
“I played volleyball in middle school and high school. Then I got a full ride to play at Lee College. It was my first year there, and we were at a tournament in the El Paso...
(1 of 3) “It was a Sunday morning seven years ago. We were getting ready for church. We began going about three weeks earlier. We had both been sober for those three weeks. In fact, Pedro...
“We’ve been seeing a gradual decline in the number of COVID patients. The last time I was at work, we had a few empty beds. That hasn’t been the case in a very long time. I...
“One thing I’ve learned is to never feel like everything is OK. It was March this year when the majority of extra nurses — travelers like me — were sent back home. We all thought COVID...
“I used to be a national sales manager for dehumidification. We dried out large commercial buildings in the U.S. and all over the world. I had to resign because of medical issues: muscular dystrophy. “It’s a...