Hospitals are one of the most dangerous places for me, so full of anaphylactic triggers. When Sarah is on shift I can truly relax, knowing that she's looking out for my safety and wellbeing. Everything from stopping every person before entering my room to making sure I'm not put in harm's way by being triggered-to pre-ordering my pain meds, so I don't have to suffer while waiting for them to come up from the pharmacy. She has made me feel like a human being treated with kindness and compassion, care, and good conversation. Checks on me regularly and truly cares about how I am doing and if I need anything.
I hear her through the door at the shift changes explaining in detail my meds, my needs, what precautions need to bed taken. Sadly the next sift does not always take to hear her instruction on taking to her the compassion and detail to attention that she does. She is truly a compassionate and extraordinary RN that this patient and this hospital is blessed to have her service.
Our intimate, late-night conversations have me feel "seen" and "heard" as a human being. As a former "mysterious illness" person who has frequently been brushed off by medical doctors and caregivers as "anxiety-sticker and all in my head", she has gone to great lengths to care for me as an individual, a human being, showing great compassion and believing me and caring for me-taking great length to be comfortable, even before my extraordinary doctor found my proof of my former mystery illness. Other caregivers have denied me relief because they didn't listen to me listing to my body and did not believe me. Sarah is humble, kind, compassionate, and loving.