Monday, January 1, 2018

We May Be Hazardous to Your Health

"I'm going to have to be the mean nurse and ask some of you to go," the very sweet nurse in my cousin's ICU room told us this afternoon. She looked meaningfully at me, Heidi, and my Aunt Harriett, who were having a very animated conversation indeed. "His blood pressure is up and it's just too stimulating in here."

"That's okay," I hugged my aunt. "We have to run anyway." And to the nurse I said, "No worries! Believe it or not, everywhere we go they tell us we're too stimulating!"

"Yeah," Heidi added, "it must be because we're teachers. Stimulating is our job!"

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