 Every day is like a battlefield. You go in, you don't know what you're going to get. You get patients who are fighting you. You get family members calling you, saying, why can't I visit my family? You know, there's all kinds of stress you're dealing with. People did lose their lives. Colleagues, people that I used to work with every single day. And so when people don't take it as serious, it really hurts the people who see people die on a daily basis. The past two years have been incredibly difficult. The first wave, it was terrifying. Pretty much every single day, we would have at least one patient die. I tell people that aren't in the field or may not understand COVID. Honestly, dying from COVID is like being buried alive. These people are completely alone. We are their only lifeline. When they ask you, am I going to die? And you don't want to lie to them, but you also don't want to scare them. And so all you can say is, I'm going to do everything I can to help you. And you're just trying to hold their hand and walk them through it because it is so scary. I don't think I'll forget some of those people's faces for the rest of my life. It's not easy to come into work, risk your life. Even though you may walk out of it nine out of ten times all right, but what if you're that one out of ten? The best you can do is put a smile on your face, do your job, and hope that the next day is better. We had people behind us rattling behind us. We had people banging pots and pans outside. This time around, I do feel frustration at times because I feel like people just, they think they know more than healthcare professionals and they yell at us and scream at us just for recommending treatment. Some of the sentiment that we were once heroes and now we feel like we're against them now. It becomes hard when we get people lashing out at us stating that we're trying to kill their family members. Some people go as far as that. People throw punches at me. I've had people spit at me. I've had people scream at me. More than one occasion, I've had protesters outside of the hospital scream at me for going into work, which makes no sense. If I could talk to the public, I would say to them, be patient. Pray for the nurses who are constantly in there taking care of your family members. When we put rules in place, it's for everyone to be safe. I really wish that the public could see what's really going on with COVID patients because if you saw what these people go through, you'd be first online to get your vaccine. It's horrible. I feel like at the end of the day, as difficult as it is, I am called to be a nurse and it's my duty to come in every day.