Canfield Jack - Chicken soup for the nurses soul, second dose : more stories to honor and inspire nurses

CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE NURSES SOUL, SECOND DOSE

CHICKEN SOUP
FOR THE
NURSES SOUL

Second Dose

More Stories to Honor and
Inspire Nurses

Jack Canfield
Mark Victor Hansen
LeAnn Thieman

Health Communications, Inc.
Deerfield Beach, Florida
www.hcibooks.com
www.chickensoup.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Canfield, Jack, 1944
Chicken soup for the nurses soul, second dose / Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, LeAnn Thieman.
p. cm.
eISBN-13: 978-0-7573-9853-7 (ebook) eISBN-10: 0-7573-9853-7 (ebook)

1. NursingAnecdotes. 2. NursesAnecdotes. I. Hansen, Mark Victor. II. Thieman, LeAnn. III. Title.
RT61.C376 2007
610.73dc22

2007025776

2007 John T. Canfield and Hansen and Hansen LLC

All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher.

HCI, its logos and marks are trademarks of Health Communications, Inc.

Cover design by Andrea Perrine Brower
Inside formatting by Dawn Von Strolley Grove

T o all nurses, true angels of mercy.
Thank you for continually easing
the suffering of the world.

Contents

Jeri Darby

Terry Evans

Sharon T. Hinton

Nancy Barnes

Emily Morris

Val Gokenbach

Cyndi S. Schatzman

Kathleen E. Jones

Jude L. Fleming

Patty Smith Hall

Maryjo Faith Morgan

Father Gent Ullrich as told to John Fagley

Jean Kirnak

Miriam Hill

Patrick Mendoza

Harry J. as told to Daniel James

Cindy Hval

Diana M. Amadeo

Barbara Haile

Annisha Asaph

Gail Wenos

Christine Linton

Tori Nichols

Kerrie G. Weitzel

Marlene Caroselli

Ruth Bredbenner

Mary Pennington

Cyndi S. Schatzman

Karen Fisher-Alaniz

Judy Bailey

Brian OMalley

Jean Kirnak

L. Sue Booth

Barbara Bartlein

Karen Rowinsky

Ruth Kephart

Gina Hamor

Sue Henley

Susan Fae Malkin

Vanessa Bruce Ingold

L. Sue Booth

Anna M. DeWitt as told to Twink DeWitt

Helen French as told to LeAnn Thieman

Flo LeClair

Kathy Brown

Joyce Seabolt

David Avrin

Barbara Scales

Peggy Krepp

Ronald P. Culberson

Daniel James

Margaret Hevel

Mary Clare Lockman

Susan Stava

Lillie D. Shockney

L. Sue Booth

Anne Johnson

Carol McAdoo Rehme

Delores Treffer

Carla Tretheway as told to Eva Marie Everson

Kathleen D. Pagana

Beverly Houseman

Cheryl Herndon

Glenna Anderson Muse

Judy Whorton

Margaret Lang with NancyMadson

Patricia J. Gardner

Thea Picklesimer as told to Sandra P. Aldrich

Sue Henley

Sharon Weinland Georges as told to Judith Weinland Justice

Anne Wilson

Kathy B. Dempsey

Thea Picklesimer as told to Sandra P. Aldrich

Tracy Crump

Sylvia Martinez as told to Barbara Cueto

Ivani Greppi

Carol Shenold

Tracy Crump

John as told to Kelly Martindale

Thomas Winkel

Wendy Young

Jessica Kennedy

Susan Lugli

Ellen Javernick

Lola Di Giulio De Maci

Kerry Pardue

James E. Robinson

Frank Serigano

Jacqueline Gray Carrico

Denise A. Dewald

We wish to express our heartfelt gratitude to the following people who helped make this book possible:

Our families, who have been chicken soup for our souls!

Jacks family: Inga, Travis, Riley, Christopher, Oran, and Kyle for all their love and support.

Marks family: Patty, Elisabeth, and Melanie Hansen, for once again sharing and lovingly supporting us in creating yet another book.

LeAnns devoted, loving, supportive family: Mark, Angela, Brian, Dante, Lia, Christie, Dave, Dagny, and Mitch.

Our publisher Peter Vegso, for his vision and commitment to bringing Chicken Soup for the Soul to the world.

Patty Aubery and Russ Kamalski, for being there on every step of the journey, with support, wisdom, and endless creativity.

Dette Corona, coauthor liaison extraordinaire, who, from behind the scenes, brings this and every Chicken Soup book to fruition, with unparalleled grace, expertise, and professionalism.

Patty Hansen, for her thorough and competent handling of the legal and licensing aspects of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books.

Laurie Hartman, for being a great guardian of the Chicken Soup brand.

Veronica Romero, Lisa Williams, Teresa Collett, Robin Yerian, Jesse Ianniello, Lauren Edelstein, Lauren Bray, Patti Clement, Michelle Statti, Debbie Lefever, Connie Simoni, Karen Schoenfeld, Marty Robinson, Patti Coffey, Pat Burns, Kristi Waite, and Blake Arce, who support Jacks and Marks businesses with skill and love.

Meagan Romanello, Noelle Champagne, Jody Emme, Michelle Adams, Dee Dee Romanello, Shanna Vieyra, and Gina Romanello, who support Jacks and Marks businesses with skill and love.

Michele Matriscini, Carol Rosenberg, Andrea Gold, Allison Janse, Katheline St. Fort, our editors at Health Communications, Inc., for their devotion to excellence.

Terry Burke, Tom Sand, Irena Xanthos, Lori Golden, Kelly Johnson Maragni, Christine Zambrano, Jaron Hunter, Patricia McConnell, Kim Weiss, Maria Dinoia, Paola Fernandez-Rana, the marketing, sales, and PR departments at Health Communications, Inc., for doing such an incredible job supporting our books.

Tom Sand, Claude Choquette, and Luc Jutras, who manage year after year to get our books translated into thirty-six languages around the world.

The Art Department at Health Communications, Inc., for their talent, creativity, and unrelenting patience in producing book covers and inside designs that capture the essence of Chicken Soup: Larissa Hise Henoch, Lawna Patterson Oldfield, Andrea Perrine Brower, Anthony Clausi, and Dawn Von Strolley Grove.

All the Chicken Soup for the Soul coauthors, who make it so much of a joy to be part of this Chicken Soup family.

Our glorious panel of readers who helped us make the final selections: Barbara Bartlein, Jill Bolte, Kathy Burghart, Edie Cuttler, Gloria Dahl, Jennifer Dale, Nancy Denke, Teri Detwiler, Berniece Duello, Michele Edlestein, Sally Kelly-Engleman, Terry Evans, Susan Goldberg, Jacqueline Gray Carrico, Laura-Jean Hawley, Karen Kishpaugh, Linda Leary, Mary McMahon, Mary Panosh, Sallie A. Rodman, Brandy Rogers, Christie Rogers, Cheryl Savel, Diane L. Smitty Smith, Betty Stockton, Cary Westerman, and Melissa Williams.

And, most of all, everyone who submitted their heartfelt stories, poems, quotes, and cartoons for possible inclusion in this book. While we were not able to use everything you sent in, we know it all came from your hearts.

Because of the size of this project, we may have left out the names of some people who contributed along the way. If so, we are sorry; please know we appreciate you very much.

A special thanks to Amy Williams, who manages LeAnns speaking business while she writes... and writes... and writes.

To Mark, LeAnns husband and business partner, without whom none of this would have been possible.

And to LeAnns mother, Berniece, who gave LeAnn her nurses heart.