It is always wonderful to be surrounded by brilliant colleagues, a loving family, understanding friends, and complete strangers that become instant connections simply through small but common bonds.

It’s fabulous to be around one of the aforementioned groups, but I have had the great opportunity to be around all of those people for the past two days. It has been – in one word – refreshing.

Amazing, isn’t it, what a simple conversation can do to lift your spirit or a touch can do to change your outlook? I am proud to say most of these people I am talking about are nurses – all around fun, caring people that have provided inherent care to me this weekend simply through relationships.

Shall I say it again? Nurses rock!