Lisa Sander

But when you actually take step forwards, like, you know, at 50, it kind of gives you a clarity of like, you're not going to be in trouble with anybody.

You're your own boss.

You know, what really changed me was COVID.

As a nurse, I can't tell you how many people that our team did CPR on, watch die daily, and changing what we did every day as science changed everything.

It was go in, you would work 16 hours.

It wasn't about the money anymore.

It was about that patients needed nurses at their side.

Besides our own nurses calling in sick due to getting COVID or their family members dying from COVID.

So we worked short a lot at the hospital I work at and many other hospitals.

All the nurses that we'd raise our hand with, they'd be like, we're eight nurses short tonight.

Who's going to stay?

And we would all grab each other's hand and be like, we're all going to stay.

We're going to do this together.

And it wasn't about the money.

It was about saving lives.

It was scary.

I would change in the garage and my former spouse at the time would have a robe waiting for me.

And I would put my clothes in a bag and get in a robe and then go upstairs, shower, put my clothes in the wash right away.

Yeah, it was very scary.

And it was exhausting.