Kellie Griffin
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ER Nurse, Mom, watercolor painter and student of life. I love to write anecdotes and observations on nursing, motherhood, life and humanity.
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The Trauma After the Trauma
It was my turn on the Trauma rotation in our ER that night. My first patient was from a head-on motor vehicle accident or MVA as we call it. He came in with a serious facial laceration that had hit an artery and with a compound left leg fracture obvious to all by the sideways right angle his lower leg made to the upper.
By Kellie Griffin5 years ago in Journal
On Reading
SNOW was the first word I recall learning to read. I was around three years old in the early 1970’s and had a wonderful contraption called a Fischer Price school desk. It had large cards with holes in them that the chunky, plastic alphabet letters that are still stuck to refrigerators all over America today, nestled into perfectly. Each cutout card spelled a three-to-five letter word and had a simple sentence and picture to match drawn upon the face of the card. The SNOW card was my favorite. Living in southern Louisiana at the time, snow was not something I ever remembered experiencing first-hand. Something about the smiling snowman in his warm scarf and hat looking on as children played with their dog in the falling snow and deep drifts always made me long to play in the snow. I can close my eyes and picture that card with the letters so lovingly placed in the holes. It’s one of my earliest memories and is as clear as the day I first played with the cards.
By Kellie Griffin5 years ago in Families
