But did you die while i was playing cards shirt. The playing cards arrived after an apparent open letter to Walsh circulated on social media. The letter included a photo of Walsh with her mailing address saying “send me a deck of cards!”. “I don’t know any nurses who play cards, Senator Walsh. I know nurses who care for babies who were born with their spines on the outside of their bodies and brains that won’t stop bleeding. And I know nurses who hold infants that can’t stop crying because they were born addicted to heroin and meth amphetamines,” part of the letter said.
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On Tuesday, Walsh said she agreed to shadow a nurse for 12 hours after taking heat for the controversial remark on the Senate floor. The open letter: This is an open letter to Senator Maureen Walsh – Dear Senator Walsh, You said that not all nurses deserve breaks as they just sit around playing cards while on shift anyway. I don’t know any nurses who play cards, Senator Walsh. I know nurses who care for babies who were born with their spines on the outside of their bodies and brains that won’t stop bleeding. And I know nurses who hold infants that can’t stop crying because they were born addicted to heroin and meth amphetamines.
I know nurses who roll those same babies down to the morgue when they finally do stop crying. Do you think that’s where they play cards, Senator Walsh? I know nurses who care for patients that no one else cares about – the homeless, the forgotten and even the psychotic with the same dedication they would show a celebrity… or a Senator. I know nurses who can go all night without food or a bathroom break. And I know nurses with nerve damage and back pain from doing whatever it takes to take care of patients. I know nurses who cry in their cars. Do you think that’s where they play cards, Senator Walsh?
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I know nurses who are hard as steel when delivering life saving treatment to dying patients and softer than a whisper when delivering the news that it didn’t work to the family. Do you think they all play cards together after that, Senator Walsh? I know one nurse who is asleep in the next room right now after her second 12 hour shift of the holiday weekend. She left her shoes outside because she didn’t want to bring all the blood and bile that she walked through last night into our home. I wish she could leave everything else from the hospital outside that easy. She can’t. It stays with her. Sometimes she doesn’t want to talk about it. Sometimes she can’t wait to talk about it.
