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But on that day, I was vulnerable and exposed, with hormonally chaotic emotions that no one could comfort. But somehow she knew exactly what to say. She protected me as a patient and cared for me as a mother-who had just lost my child. She respected me both as a physician and the invisible professional boundaries that existed between us. To this day I still believe she was my angel on earth. But more likely as a nurse and a woman, she was empathetic to what I was going through. She helped me in so many ways: medically, physically, emotionally, and psychologically. The Versed and Morphine meds began to wear off and I became more aware of my surroundings and pain (physically and emotionally). I stoically tried to put my so called “MD” badge back on, hoping to show that I was not just a patient. She quickly stated, “You know doctors make the worst patients, right?” I achingly laughed thinking of my mother also a nurse and the “worst” patient I know. I had said these same words to her only a few years before. She said that it was ok to be the patient for a while. I needed that dispensation to say it was ok… ok for me hurt, ok for me to grieve and ok for me to heal. And in her own angelic “nurse-ly” kind of way, she made me laugh through the tears and said that I could ask for more drugs if I would sign off on the order.