Where Silence Becomes Ritual

Where Silence Becomes Ritual

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June 2025

Vitals Stable, Nurse Not: ICU Diaries Vol II
Millennial nurse diaries from the blurry edge of professionalism, burnout, and full moon charting chaos.
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Solena
12
My Altars Aren’t Pretty
But they’re the only reason I’m still here.
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Solena
 and 
Margaret Williams, MS, ACC
6
Close Call
about survival, suicidal ideation, the pause that saved you.
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Solena
26
Time of Death: 04:16
about the silence left behind, failed reanimation, and carrying grief out of the room.
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Solena
7
Truth. Out Loud. In My Voice.
I heard what you didn’t say. I speak what your soul burried.
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Solena
Vitals Stable, Nurse Not: ICU Diaries
Millennial nurse diaries from the blurry edge of professionalism, burnout, and full moon charting chaos.
 • 
Solena
8
It Ends With Me
they said
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Solena
13
when they say “just a nurse,” something dies in me
Not just a nurse. The body between them and the end.
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Solena
17
The Ones I Still Wait For
A shared goodbye to the cats who made me feel seen— and whose absence still shapes the way I grieve.
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Solena
7
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