"I smile. 'Do you remember me?' I ask.
'I'm not sure,' she admits. There's that the same Jamaican accent. 'What's your name?'
'Susannah Cahalan.'
Her eyes widen. 'Oh, yes, I remember you. I do remember you.' She smiles. I'm sure it's you, but you look so different. You look all better.'
Before I know it, we're embracing. The scent of her body is like Purell. Images flood through my mind's eye: my father feeding me oatmeal, my mom wringing her hands and looking nervously out of the window, Stephen arriving with that leather briefcase. I should be crying, but I smile instead.
The purple lady kisses me softly on the cheek."
Cahalan's heartfelt account of the last interaction with this nurse who cared for her during her stay in the hospital suggests the special role that 'The Purple Lady" played in Cahalan's life. Though she never learns The Purple Lady's name, Cahalan's specific reference to her as The Purple Lady comes across as somewhat more endearing. The Purple Lady is also the last person that Cahalan gives thanks to in the Acknowledgements of her book.
As a pre-nursing major about to spend the next two years of my life in nursing school, as well as a Christian, I often think about the role that my faith will play in my future profession. I have often heard arguments about the role of religion in healthcare and how many believe that one's religious faith should not play a role in how they care for the health of their patients. Nursing is a profession that is so obviously characterized by caring- caring for patients, their families, and all others that nurses come in contact with. But, as a Christian whose idea of caring is shaped wholly by my religious faith and belief in God's love for his creation, how do I apply my view of caring to a setting characterized by a more secular idea of how to care for others in our postmodern world?
Because I was born into a Christian family and raised in the Church, my faith and religion have always been the most important shaping aspects of my life. Therefore, I do not believe in separating my faith from the shaping of my opinions and beliefs, as well as my daily interactions with other people. In studying Christ as the second mountain peak, we see Christ as a countercultural healer. Jesus's acts of healing often stood in direct opposition to the laws of his time. For example, Mark describes Jesus' healing of a man at the synagogue on the Sabbath. To those who were there trying to find a reason to accuse Jesus, he asks, "Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save a life or to kill?" (Mark 3:4). After this, Jesus proceeds to heal the man. As Christians, we are called to live lives that emulate Jesus and his love for his people. Jesus' willingness to love and to heal despite what what culturally accepted during his life stands as an example to me of the role of faith in my caring for my future patients. Despite the cultural evolutions of modernism and postmodernism, God's command is still the same- to love one another. In nursing, Christians nurses serve as representatives of God's love for His people. For Christian nurses, nursing is a ministry. Nursing gives Christian nurses the opportunity to share and spread the message of God's mercy and grace through our caring in words and in deeds. For this reason, I hope to effectively love like Christ loves through my caring. Whether through prayer, Biblical encouragement, or simply through my words and actions, I hope to fulfill the purpose to which I believe the Lord has called me. I hope to live my life and do my job in such a way that those around me might know the love of the God that I serve through my love for others.
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