Louise Gleason

And so I applied to nursing school because I figured teaching was four years. And it was a full three years. We didn’t have any summers off or anything. You went to school and you worked continuously. And there would be days that you would work all day and then you’d have to go school or you would work all night and then you’d have a full class load during the day. So that was what—it was a very tight schedule for three—three years. And you stayed there, you didn’t—you had a chance to go home, but not frequently. It’s an unbelievable experience because many of us, after our six months, this is the way healthcare was back then, six months after we started, that was your probationary period. Many of the kids in my class, they were put in charge of whole—whole floors at night, eleven to seven. That would never happen now, you know. Can you see like a little 18-year-old having total responsibility for very sick people? That’s what was expected of you.