Flood gates

08/10/22 • 18 min

Ariella Teater thought she’d buried herself far enough under her grief until a phone call with her dad opened the door to the painful memories of patients she had loved and lost.

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Ariella Teater thought she’d buried herself far enough under her grief until a phone call with her dad opened the door to the painful memories of patients she had loved and lost.

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A Nurse First - Flood gates

Transcript

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I got a phone call from my dad,

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who at the time was working in Texas.

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At this point, COVID was raging in other parts of the US, but it hadn't really reached St. Louis yet, which is where I am. He was concerned that there was an uptick of cases in the area where he was working and didn't know what to do. Should he come home? Should he ask his management if he could come back? And just in that conversation