Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Thank the nurse that’s nursing you For saving your life. For saving your life. For saving your life. That’s the end of “Thank the Nu...

I returned home yesterday, Oct. 4. It was day 25 of my stay at Advent Health Daytona Beach. The fresh air was bracing, although the temp was...

On the one side, you have Trump and his narcissistic minions. On the other, you have nurses. I align myself with nurses. They are on the...

Homebound. For a week. Only ventured outside to drive to credit union drive-up and library book drop-off. Never left the car. Never interact...

The five-year-old boy from New Hampshire didn't talk much. He held up his right hand as the nurse dressed his wounds and I stood by to a...

The certified nursing assistant (CNA) named Ashley pulls me out of my chair and leads me to the walker so I can get to the handicapped acces...

A question for my writer friends: Do odd things happen to you, or are you the odd thing? The answer is important. The world is odd, fil...

The Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Telemetry Lab staffer called me Friday. She wanted to know how I was doing. I said "fine" but...

From  National Women's History Museum #OnThisDay   in 1901, the United States Army Nurse Corps was established by Congress as a perm...

I spent the past couple months immersed in World War I. My first task was to reformat my paternal grandmother's World War I diary for ...

Florence Green (a.k.a Mudder) celebrated her 26th birthday in France in 1918. Normally, being in your twenties in France and celebrating a...

December 26  Happier today than I have been for some time, got a letter from Peany and such a sweet one too, also one from E with a handker...

November 16, 1918  Got up at 6am breakfast in our room, got a taxi and made our train 6K, arrived at Chaumont 3pm. Found on arriving, P had...

On Oct. 24, 1918, nurse Florence Green ("Mudder" to her grandchildren) received orders to go to Evac 8 on the Meuse-Argonne fron...