Angels That No Longer Wear White

Guest Post By- Dennis Elton Stanley

Do you know there are real live angels here on earth?

We have all heard stories of angels showing up at the scene of a car accident and carrying the injured to safety. Some people say they have experienced an angel coming to them with a message. History books and Bibles are full of stories about angels and the amazing things they do.

But there are people living amongst us that perform these same amazing things each and every day.

Miracle Workers

They are called nurses and if you are lucky enough, you may know one personally. I have worked in a health care facility for 25 years and witnessed the miracles they perform many times.

I used to think of miracles as some grandiose feat of magic, like a mother lifting a car off her child to save or prevent life-changing injury. But when you think about it, anyone saving a life or recovering a patient back to their normal life produces the same result.

And just as the mother lifting a car off her child didn’t do it for money, neither do these nurses do their work for the money. Ask any doctor and he/she will tell you quickly that they can do little without good nurses.

Being a nurse is not a job “it’s a life.” I am blessed to be close with two of these angels, my sister, and my best friend.

There is no telling how many lives have been made whole again or even saved by just these two incredible women. They were born into this world as nurses, never considering any other life. Right out of high school they struggled and worked their way through nursing school. Now, nearing retirement, have remained in the field of nursing their entire lives.

In the past, all nurses wore those white uniforms. In modern times the uniforms have been replaced with more practical scrubs, so they really are the angels that no longer wear white.

Selfless Angels

And school never ends for nurses. In addition to working long hours and always being on call, there is continuing education forever. And how are these heroes sometimes treated?

I have witnessed nurses being cursed, pushed, spit on, punched, vomited on, urinated on, and worse. I know of a nurse being beaten to the brink of death. All these things were being done to a nurse that was simply trying to help them. In larger cities, it sounds even more dangerous for nurses.

Sheila

My best friend Sheila attended Nursing school about 75 miles from her home and her part-time job. The job that paid just enough to get her back and forth to school plus her school expenses for 3 years.

At times she had little or no food. She graduated Nursing school as an RN carrying heavy tuition debt and started her nursing career at $6.25 per hr. .25 cents more than others because she slept very little and earned a BSN.

Sheila says God was with her always and graduating could not have been possible without constant prayer. Sheila has continued working hard and attained many more titles and degrees. Over the years she has served in surgery, OP, and ER. She is a trauma nurse and educator, and these are just the things I know about.

She is very shy to talk about herself. Sheila has done all these things while raising a family, much of the time a single mom. I am truly blessed to call her my best friend.

Little Sister

My sister, because of her current position cannot allow me to use her name or say much of her more recent accomplishments, so I will just call her Sister.

My sister’s story follows a similar path. Right out of high school she worked her own way through college and then graduated nursing school. Sister began nursing as a NICU nurse working in labor and delivery. NICU is where the tiniest and most critical babies go.

I have seen a photo of Sister with a preemie that would fit in a coffee cup. Here’s a quote from my sister: “Many, many times I have swaddled a teeny baby so the mother/father could hold him/her while he or she passed away.”

There is certainly much sadness in healthcare, but temper that quote with another quote from Sister:

“A lot of times, I would be the primary nurse and care for a baby for weeks or even months and then get to experience the joy on the day they finally get to go home. There were hundreds of exciting delivery room times filled with happiness, joy, excitement parents, grandparents, siblings.”

Why do they do it? My logical but simple mind would have said: “they are missing out on their own life.”

I was already making 3 times what these women were making even after they graduated college and began a job; A job I wouldn’t take for any amount of money. But, people of faith know, Angels don’t do anything for money.

Angels do everything for love.

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About Guest Author– Dennis Elton Stanley- He is a 69-year-old widower. Still working full-time as an engineer in healthcare. He competes in long-distance speed walking, hiking, photography, musician, and he loves to write. “I am very busy”– as he says.

• Visit his website- The Daily Sinner– https://thedailysinner.blog/

More From Dennis –

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