Last Monday, the 11th, I took my Grandmother to Southern Pines for her Retired Nurses meeting. She's not too steady on her feet and her hearing loss has made it unsafe for her to drive. My Grandmother was an RN for more years than I can remember and worked pretty much everywhere, she taught, she worked with the pink checkers and finally ended up in detox (working, not in detox). After she retired she wanted a way to keep in touch with those she used to work with and thus created the Retired Nurses of Moore County. It's been over 10 years since she started it. They meet about every 3 months, they talk, they reminisce, give away a little door prize. There was something about seeing all of them in one room together...they are so different, yet so alike. It is obvious to me they are nurses - they have that quality about them. Whether it is their no-nonsense attitude, the sometimes brashness, the fact that not much can surprise them, humbleness, "I just did what needed to be done." Whether RN or LPN they are a sisterhood of nurses.
