Althea McLeish

Last week was memorable for me. I celebrated 2 years of blogging consistently…….. that in itself is a major accomplishment. I’ve been known to lose my way sometimes (mostly in a…

Majority of my nursing career, so far, had very little to do with drug addiction and homelessness, but this is now a regular encounter for me in my current position.…

One morning last week, I walked into my 77-year-old patient’s room at around 530am and said….. Mr. D., I have some medicine for you. He said brightly, Oh great! Maybe when I…

A few weeks ago, after working three 12-hour night shifts back-to-back, I went home, went to sleep and woke up to a beautiful message from my daughter, Tanya. Her attempt at…