Thanks everybody for your messages! I do continue to write and sing, and am in recovery now from a nursing-school-induced hypomusicemia.

Joining the navy will have to wait till my next midlife crisis, though.

I love the NICU - the little premies are so fascinating and delicate, and they're so cute with their little tubes. It can be stressful thinking that a mistake on my part could make one of them crash. However, I've never understood the notion that NICU is a very difficult specialty - there are many fields of nursing that sound harder to me, including the most stereotypical job of working on a medical/surgical floor.

Marion