Angels Beside Us

In my twenty five years of working as a nurse I have evolved in my handling of crisis by watching those patients that truly thrive when being challenged. I have worked in telemetry, or in the critical care setting my whole career. In 2000, I started working in a challenging post intervention step down unit. Working within this patient group teaches you many things about not only the physiology of the human body, but the psychology of how you survive to live, to work, to stand another day. The techniques of survival are as varied as the individuals experiencing the event. I offer this book to nurses and patients in the hope that this will help to guide or at least acknowledge that there is path to the light at the end of our particular tunnel. I write about that which fascinates me, the coincidences of life that become a life changing event without anyone even noticing. A thousand lessons offered every day if we can only open our eyes to the fact that every day we live is our ult