I never knew it, but my brother with special needs was the reason why I entered nursing
As a registered nurse, the demands on my profession have me in a reflective frame of mind. While I read headlines, listen to my colleagues and practice nursing myself, I am thinking back to why I chose to nurse: My brother Nicky.
My parents worked hard to normalize Nicky’s needs and Sam and I learned how to help. As little ones, we first learned how to pack his wheelchair bag for outings. We knew which toys were allowed for which activities and how many bibs he might need. We learned how to put in and take out his prosthetic eye, how to gently place a mask over his nose and mouth to deliver breathing treatments and how to hook up and disconnect his feeding tube to the bag of liquid nutrition.
I would learn early in my nursing career how much my brother had helped me. To care for someone who communicates differently teaches you to look beyond words when you want to learn about them. I’d enter the hospital rooms and homes of people struggling to communicate. Whether they were dying, spoke a different language or struggling with mental illness, I found myself at ease. I could leave space for the unspoken.
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