Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir

<p><strong>This book is for everyone, nurse or otherwise, who is furious about how 2020 went down &#8212; and how 2021 is going.</strong></p> <p>In 2020 there were roughly four million nurses in America. Only 2.7 million U.S. soldiers fought in the Vietnam War. Those who came back from Vietnam, having witnessed atrocities&#8212;and in some cases, participated in them&#8212;were changed forever.</p> <p>You can't send four million people into a wartime-equivalent situation without psychological consequences.</p> <p>And yet that's what America has done.</p> <p>Nurses spent a year battling a largely unknown assailant. Running low on gear. Fearing we might bring something deadly home. Getting coughed on by people who pretended that our fights were imaginary, that our struggles&#8212;watching people die, day after day, no matter what we did&#8212;were literally fake.</p> <p>Nurses are scarred.</p> <p>And unless people understand what we went through and commit to never let anyone lie in the future about public health, we will never become whole.</p> <p>Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir is Cassandra Alexander's poignant effort to come to grips with suicidal ideation and PTSD after being a covid nurse in an ICU in 2020. Comprised of original essays and her chronological journals, tweets, and emails as she attempted to save lives, including her own&#8212;this book will let you experience last year from the bedside.</p> <p><strong>Come and understand what it was like.</strong></p>