I am sitting at the Boston Logan International Airport waiting to return home to Austin. I am posting from my iPhone, so please forgive my lack of links throughout the post.

I have spent the last three days at the 36th Annual Oncology Nursing Society Congress, and it has been a wonderful experience. Today has been icing on the proverbial cake. I ran in the ONS Foundation Fun Run for the very first time this morning along with many strangers that weren’t really strangers but rather colleagues. I attended, what I think, to be the best session of the Congress – the Mara M. Flaherty psychosocial cancer care lecture, delivered by the amazing Betty Ferrell, PhD, RN, FAAN. (I am such a fan-girl of hers, and I am kicking myself that I didn’t get a picture with her. You may think that’s odd, but I want to be her – not Oprah or Jennifer Lopez – when I grow up.) And if that wasn’t enough, I presented with a great panel to a wonderfully inquisitive audience about utilizing social media with colleagues and patients. Now here I am, waiting on an on-time flight to be with my family. What a day.

I have so much to share in subsequent posts, but I left Congress with a single thought – we, oncology nurses, are a treasured professional nursing specialty. The breadth of our knowledge, the depth of our compassion, the richness of our experiences, the brilliance of our care – we make a multi-faceted difference for millions of people worldwide.