As with every stop along the way of the tour, you get a chance at a free digital copy of The Ones Who Stayed With Me just be leaving a comment. So, please don’t leave without saying ‘hello’.
Giveaway
Leave a comment for a chance to win a free digital copy of The Ones Who Stayed With Me By Nurse Sammy One entry per stop.
Winners are chosen in a random drawing.
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About Nurse Sammy
Nurse Sammy has spent her life walking the quiet edges of human suffering and human grace. Long before she ever wore scrubs, she learned how to read a room by the way someone breathed and how to steady a shaking hand. How to listen to the stories people only tell when they think it might be their last night to say them. Nursing wasn’t a career she chose; it was the language her heart was already speaking.
She has worked in places where life is beginning, and in places where life is ending; in rooms lit by hope, and in rooms where grief hangs heavy in the doorway. Rehab centers, memory care halls, pediatric units, assisted living, private homes, wherever someone needed gentleness, she went. She became the one who held vigil, the one who noticed the quiet details, the one who stayed.
Her personal life has carried its own ache, abuse survived, love lost, a marriage that bruised the soul, another built from healing, and a grief that still hums beneath her ribs. She writes from the tender, broken places, from the nights she rebuilt herself alone, from the mornings she rose anyway. Her words are shaped by both the wounds and the resilience that followed.
The Ones Who Stayed With Me is her first published work, a collection of truths disguised as stories, honoring the people who left fingerprints on her life in ways they never saw. Her writing is soft but unflinching, honest but merciful, threaded with the belief that even in darkness, someone is always holding a light.
Nurse Sammy lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she continues to care, to witness, to learn, and to turn the hardest parts of her journey into something that might help someone else breathe a little easier.
Chapter Excerpt Reading of “Is It B.M. or Chocolate Pudding?”, by Nurse Sammy
About The Ones Who Stayed With Me
Chronicles of the journey into the medical field as a young nurse and beyond, told with raw sensitivity and compassion. The Ones Who Stayed with Me offers small glimpses into the world of an L.P.N. put in difficult, often touching or humorous, situations—and Nurse Sammy’s courage, vulnerability, and insight are a gift to us all. In these pages, Nurse Sammy tells her story and that of those she met along the way.
Purchase Link: https://books2read.com/OnesWhoStayed
Wrap up
That’s all for today’s stop. I do hope you enjoyed our interview and have a better idea of the amazing young woman who shares her story with raw honesty in The Ones Who Stayed With Me. Join us tomorrow, over at Undawnted, which you’ll be able to find through the link, which will be there once it posts. You can’t comment there, but if you want to get into the giveaway for that stop, Kaye Lynne Booth will reblog it on “Writing to be Read”, and you can leave your comments on that post here.
Tour Schedule
Mon. 12 – Poetry by Mich, Hotel by Masticadores & Masticadores Phillipines
Tues. 13 – Roberta Writes
Wed. 14 – Undawnted
Thurs. 15 – Book Places
Fri. 16 – Writing to be Read
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Our nurses don’t get the credit they richly deserve. It is a difficult job that requires a lot professionalism, skill, calm, and an ability to deal with challenging patients.
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Hi Pete, I know. I’ve only been a caregiver but that was an awful lot to deal with. Nursing is a lot more.
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A relative messaged me about her caring for her mother and I replied ‘what’s BM?’ Those of us not full time carers are not au fait with the shorthand. Carers and nurses are saints and hopefully they have many positive experiences as well.
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Hi Janet, I couldn’t agree with you more. Thanks for visiting.
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The photo of Sammy surprised me. It so wasn’t what I expected. She sounds a remarkable lady and one you would want to spend your final hours with xx
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HI Jo, I must admit that the photograph surprised me too. She sounds like a wonderful nurse. I think my ideas about what nurses look like hark back to Florence Nightingale (grin!)
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She actually looks a lot like my next door neighbour, who is a lovely woman. Not a nurse but she held a towel to my head when I fell downstairs and needed stitches xx
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Nurses have a difficult job. I couldn’t do it. My son-in-law is a nurse, currently working part-time in psychiatric wards in a city hospital while he finishes his graduate degree. Nurse Sammy sounds like a caring, compassionate person–just who someone would want if to care for them.
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Hi Merril, I agree that Nurse Sammy sounds like the idea nurse. All the best to you SIL with the completion of his training.
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Thank you, Robbie. He hopes to have his own practice in the future.
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Oh wow, that was an amazing excerpt. After only recently losing my elderly mother, it was a little traumatic for me … and so, so realistic.
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Oh, this is my kind of book. I hold nurses in very high regard. I could never do what they do!
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Nurses are very special people. Nurse Sammy sounds to be exceptional even amongst those wonderful people.
The book sounds great.
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I liked hearing this excerpt. I so glad they were able to be compassionate and later found the humor in a tough job.
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No one can tell a story of a life- quite like the person who has lived many.
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These sound like difficult stories. Thank you for sharing the book.
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Nurse Sammy and her book seem full of life and compassion.
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It’s wonderful that you hosted Nurse Sammy on her blog tour, Roberta. Her book sounds fascinating to me.
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Congratulations to Nurse Sammy on her first book! Sharing to help spread the word.
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