This Nurse Mom
CUSSING, CAFFEINE & COVID19
Being a nurse always comes with stories. So does motherhood. Both are hard and beautiful. Add in grad school and a pandemic, and I needed an outlet - thus my book was born. Clearly I am garbage at keeping up with this blog, but it is here and I am doing my best. I write when the world gets too noisy. Welcome.
Jack, in my head I am considering you already dead. . .
Everybody Just Breathe is a harrowing, generous, and often irreverent memoir chronicling the longest shift of one nurse’s life. It is a testament to patients, and a love letter of camaraderie to fellow COVID nurses. It is also an uproarious depiction of motherhood locked down.
The startling debut reads like dispatches from the front; Amanda Peterson is a crucial voice with a plea to a nation that was fatigued by pandemic: Everybody Just Breathe. Now 5 years later, it reminds us of the historic period in time and the incredible impact it had on healthcare workers everywhere.
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THE FACE BEHIND THE MASK
Hi. I am Amanda. I am a loud, crazy wife and mother of two goofy children.
I have been a nurse since 2006, an ICU nurse since 2008, and now a pulmonary critical care nurse practitioner since 2022. In March of 2020, I volunteered to work in COVID ICU; every patient, every day, with the same diagnosis. And life officially got weird.
Two years spent in and out of that unit, surrounded by COVID patients. So I wrote, to keep from losing my shit. Five years later, and that time of life seems like both yesterday and not even real - like some fever-dream we all imagined.
We struggled and swore and survived. It taught me to appreciate the joy of normal. It taught me to ignore the noise of the world and to remember what matters. It strengthened my faith and my family.
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I have gotten to speak at 3M to help create protocols for future pandemic planning. I have spoken to nursing and medical students about the importance of resilience and what to do when you inevitably have a bad shift. I am working on my next project - a children's book that talks about feelings and how good it feels to share them. And I keep helping people breathe.
This Nurse Mom
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