Before Nurse Janna stepped into my room I had been in a lot of physical and emotional pain. Crying myself to sleep every night, and feeling all hope slip away moment by moment.
I was experiencing very real feelings of fear, anxiety, shame, and self-pity. It was like I was in a rudderless boat on a dark ocean of despair.
When Nurse Janna entered my room with a smile, a certain calmness seemed to follow with her. She seemed to know instinctively how much I was suffering. Not only by looking at my chart. But it was like when she looked into my eyes she saw heartbreak and an abandoned soul.
It was then that her soothing compassionate healing powers seemed to take over. To me, it was like a miracle.
She listened to me when I cried. She listened to me when I complained. She must have felt the agony that I felt concerning my wife, children, extended family, and friends. Her compassion and empathy seemed to magically fill my soul. She instinctively knew that the body could not be fully healed without the soul.
Nurse Janna built me up with mild suggestions and bountiful compassion.
She never made a medical move with hesitation. She displayed confidence in all that she did and somehow that confidence carried over to me.
Over three days and every other time I saw her or ran into her a burst of sunshine touched my heart. I started texting and calling my family more often. I had a rebirth of fight in me. A purpose and a lust for life were born within me. Suddenly I could feel the love and all the prayers that I was blocking from my family and all my loved ones.
I will always remember Nurse Janna and how she managed to pull me out of an abyss and set me on a path of openness. I could feel again. I truly think of her as someone who saved my life through her patience and immense compassion.