Sometimes Nursing Breaks Your Heart

As an E.R. nurse I have seem it all. Stuff you would never expect or imagine. On my last shift I had a young woman with a torn anus, requiring surgical removal of an object and repair and stitches. The surgeon on call treated it like a n episiotomy, except from the anus. Embarrassed and in pain and discomfort I delivered her to her mother who took her home with instructions for caring of the wound. Her face of utter anguish tore at my heart strings, poor girl her relationship with her mother changed forever.