Thank you Dan and Elliot for remembering… in 1978, I began my healthcare career at Roosevelt Hospital in NYC. It began most mysteriously, young men dying of a very strange virus. They did not even know what to call it, other than Fever of Unknown Origin, FUO…I remember writing FUO in the diagnosis box so many times, too many times, too m…
Thank you Dan and Elliot for remembering… in 1978, I began my healthcare career at Roosevelt Hospital in NYC. It began most mysteriously, young men dying of a very strange virus. They did not even know what to call it, other than Fever of Unknown Origin, FUO…I remember writing FUO in the diagnosis box so many times, too many times, too many lives lost, much too many. Finally, after all too many years we got a name and along with that the stigma, the death sentence… it was unimaginable. It was heart wrenching when I worked in pediatrics and had children dying of this disease. I just retired recently, ( yes, I started my career with the AIDS epidemic and ended it with the COVID pandemic which ironically started 2020 during The Year of the Nurse) but in my last years as a Registered Nurse with patients with this disease and seeing them with active and beautiful lives, managed with meds, I breath a breath of relief for them. Grateful and thankful that now lives are saved, lives are lived. …. Yes, indeed, I remember all of you.🙏🏼💔❤️💔❣️a must watch movie is “And the Band Played On” it depicts those very early days, an excellent movie!
Similar work frame and same bookends. Unbelievable isn't it to start and end one's career with horrible and fatal diseases. My best nursing school buddy died of AIDS va few years after we graduated. He worked almost to the end caring for others. I couldn't believe it when he died. And then so many more. FUO, what a acronym for "celestial discharge". Thank you for caring for so many, I know how hard it is/was. ❤️
Another outstanding reminder of the disgraceful way our country and the world responded to AIDS is the movie 'PHILADELPHIA' starring Tom Hanks. As a physician during the early onset, I was appalled and ashamed at the way so many of my colleagues treated AIDS patients. Dark days indeed.
Thank you Dan and Elliot for remembering… in 1978, I began my healthcare career at Roosevelt Hospital in NYC. It began most mysteriously, young men dying of a very strange virus. They did not even know what to call it, other than Fever of Unknown Origin, FUO…I remember writing FUO in the diagnosis box so many times, too many times, too many lives lost, much too many. Finally, after all too many years we got a name and along with that the stigma, the death sentence… it was unimaginable. It was heart wrenching when I worked in pediatrics and had children dying of this disease. I just retired recently, ( yes, I started my career with the AIDS epidemic and ended it with the COVID pandemic which ironically started 2020 during The Year of the Nurse) but in my last years as a Registered Nurse with patients with this disease and seeing them with active and beautiful lives, managed with meds, I breath a breath of relief for them. Grateful and thankful that now lives are saved, lives are lived. …. Yes, indeed, I remember all of you.🙏🏼💔❤️💔❣️a must watch movie is “And the Band Played On” it depicts those very early days, an excellent movie!
Similar work frame and same bookends. Unbelievable isn't it to start and end one's career with horrible and fatal diseases. My best nursing school buddy died of AIDS va few years after we graduated. He worked almost to the end caring for others. I couldn't believe it when he died. And then so many more. FUO, what a acronym for "celestial discharge". Thank you for caring for so many, I know how hard it is/was. ❤️
Nurses understand so profoundly… sometimes I believe nurses are angels in disguise…🙏🏼
Another outstanding reminder of the disgraceful way our country and the world responded to AIDS is the movie 'PHILADELPHIA' starring Tom Hanks. As a physician during the early onset, I was appalled and ashamed at the way so many of my colleagues treated AIDS patients. Dark days indeed.
Thank you for your service and care
Nursing was my true call in life and I was honored to care for people who put their life in my hands. It was an honor🙏🏼
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