Random thoughts on an icy afternoon

•  When I was a kid I picked up a book called Nurse and after looking at the blurbs and a few pages I put it right back on the bookstore's shelf. It was feminist and dreary and nothing for a 10 or 11 year old to be reading. The main thing I took from it was that nurses hate doctors and patients. I never really thought about that book again until Covid and whenever I read particularly vicious things from nurses on social media. At some point while the eyes of the great were elsewhere, the nursing and teaching job outlook changed and we got some really scary people in charge of the kids and the sick.  The elders in my family from my early childhood to my college years were always afraid to go to the hospital because they thought they'd be neglected or given a little push towards the morgue.  I thought that was silly but knew enough to keep my mouth shut. Turns out, Great Auntie may have been on to something.  My apologies...

• As I've said before, a lot of the Catholic e-girls need to get off social media. They're just making young Catholic women look silly, terminally immature and self absorbed. This young lady apparently suffers from anxiety so the backlash to her musings can't be good for her. 

 

• I just learned that a member of a Catholic discussion forum that I used to read has died. She was a devout woman but also, due to the scandals in the Church,  one of the unhappiest and untrusting people I've ever come across. May she rest in peace.