Name: COVID-19: A Nurse Self-Quarantines To Keep Her Family Safe | TIME
Uploaded: 2021-06-03T13:42:24.000Z
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To-infinitive

At 27 I went back to school to be a nurse,

and you see things from a different picture  when you're older.

You know that there's a risk, you're confident,

you can handle the concept of death and dying.

But how do you prepare yourself for a pandemic?

I used to, you know, pick up food for my kids,

go to the grocery store, and now it's like I come straight home

and I treat myself like I am contaminated.

Get out of your COVID clothes, put them in the wash as fast as you can.

I no longer wear a wedding ring because I'm trying to not have anything get up underneath it.

I'm not wearing jewelry.  I'm trying to keep my hair short.

If you cry you just let the tears roll  and you don't touch your face.

A few days ago, I spiked a temperature, I got scared,

I tested negative, but I let my mind  kinda go to dark places.

I sat there and thought about,  maybe I need to work on my will.

I'm actually preparing myself to  self-quarantine from my family.

And I've never been away from my children.

I never imagined that a pandemic would be the reason

But my children didn't sign up to get sick.

Feeling like you are a danger to your own family.

For the first time, I feel really weak and very vulnerable.

It's like they say, you've gotta put  the oxygen on your face

And you just want to make sure that  you're doing the right things for people.

Last night I was trying to explain to a  three-year-old what coronavirus is,

and I was like, you know there's a big germ  that's out there that's hurting a lot of people.

And I wanna, you know, snuggle with you  more than anything in the world right now

When this is over, I just hope that they know  that I was doing the best that I could.

What kinda keeps me going is knowing  that I have purpose.

I feel empowered being around my colleagues.

New Orleanians are very tenacious people.

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COVID-19: A Nurse Self-Quarantines To Keep Her Family Safe | TIME

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