One Nurse's Snapshot From Covid

I keep having the thought I should write something about Covid. I mean, I’m a critical care nurse. I’m a writer. Shouldn’t I write something about my experience at the bedside this past year during Covid?

But whenever I’ve had this thought, another voice in my head (it’s okay to have multiple voices in your head, right?) quickly answers with a resounding “No! Are you nuts? Nobody wants to read about Covid. You don’t want to read about Covid. Why on earth would you write about Covid? Besides, you know you can’t describe it all in a single blog post.”

Sometimes the hostile little voice in my head is right. Trying to describe my hospital experience this past year in one blog post would be like trying to describe my past sixteen years as a nurse in one sentence. I can’t.