….Up until that point, the rampant COVID-19 pandemic had been like background noise in the brief stint that was my professional nursing career. I knew it existed. I’d heard it was terrible. But because I’d never personally served amid it, the disease seemed obscure. This mentality coupled with my resolve to be merely task-oriented in my role led me to simply shrug my shoulders when my designated unit for the day was a COVID Intensive Care Unit. I’d planned to go to the floor, keep my head down, and have a laidback day getting to practice my skills without the mental responsibility/pressure of being a “normal” nurse. And that was exactly what I did…for most of the shift. It was somewhat easy to do because after I got past the initial fear of all the lines and tubes cohabiting the beds of the ICU patients, I used them to distract myself from the ailing bodies that lay within….
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