
Nancy Crowe
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Nancy Crowe
@nmcrowe1
✝️, Native of the Free State of FL, 🇺🇸, RN, former Navy Nurse, member of the Gator Nation🐊, Am Yisrael Chai.



This is rip tide and drowning awareness month. (I made that up.) Drowning doesn’t look like anything, the kid plops in and sinks. Hire a lifeguard if you’re having a party. Most drownings are when a parent is present. Everyone assumes someone is keeping an eye out. No one is.










🙏🙏 A doctor broke down after losing a patient. Some labeled it unprofessional. Thousands saw it as the purest form of humanity. Outside a hospital in Southern California, a paramedic quietly captured a moment most people never witness. An ER doctor, crouched against a wall, overwhelmed with grief after losing a 19-year-old patient. With permission, a colleague shared the image. Within hours, it spread everywhere. Minutes later, that same doctor wiped their tears and walked back in to save the next life. The photo hit hard because it revealed what is usually hidden. Doctors are taught to stay steady in chaos, but no one teaches them how to carry the weight of loss. One physician was once reported for "unprofessional conduct" simply for crying. Her supervisor told her that unless she was the one dying, tears had no place in the hospital. Another doctor put it into words: "Every patient we lose doesn't leave... it stays, like a scar that never fades." This image keeps resurfacing, again and again, because it reminds people of something important. Behind every calm face in a hospital is a human being who feels every loss. In a profession built on saving lives, the ones they couldn't save are the ones they never forget 🙏








