!Covid unit 
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agk's phlog
25 September 2021 @ 22:58 
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written on Galaxy J3 (2016) 
after the baby went to sleep 
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Evy texted me: 

"Pulled to the covid unit. Day shift seems easier. 
It's more rare to be understaffed so the nurses help 
more. Of course I'm used to chronically understaffed 
nights doing the work of 2 techs." 

It's her first shift with a portable battery-powered 
pump under her bra. She donned and doffed PPE, 
bathed, repositioned, and toileted those on ventil-
ators and those on room air, the prisoner shackled 
to his bed and the free, buzzing away soft and rhyth-
mic, breasts domed with hard plastic milk-extractors 
like a dairycow Dolly Parton nurse bot. 

"Good thing I got this pump. The pumping rooms on 
this unit have been converted to a storage room and 
someone's office lol. Rocking the milk in the unit 
fridge." 

Nursing sucks ass. Everything ought to change to 
be less bad. But, eh, I guess we must like sucking 
ass. We'd rather do this than something else.