Finding a new chapter when the old one ends without permission
For thirty years, I lived in a world where seconds mattered.
As a paramedic and later a trauma and Army nurse, I ran toward the very situations most people instinctively ran away from. Sirens, flashing lights, chaos, life-and-death decisions, these weren't extraordinary interruptions to my day. They were my day.
I knew who I was in that world. I knew what I was capable of. I knew how to function under pressure, make difficult...