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Jilly_in_VA

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3. I could not

Reply to FarPoint (Reply #2)

Sun Jun 20, 2021, 05:41 PM

Jun 2021

I just couldn't. I've worked a little ER and a lot of ICU, but I couldn't do that. One of my former Swamp Rats (my son's friends who inhabited our basement den when they were teens and up until son got married) is a paramedic with EMS. He has to be one of the mentally strongest people I know.

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