What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?
I have an old t-shirt from the hospital that I went to nursing school at. It is soft and cozy and has become my favorite shirt to wear to bed.
The irony of this is that I have only recently learned the hospital and school of nursing buildings that I attended nursing school at were demolished almost 10 years ago! When you are young, you think everything will remain the same after you leave a place but it never does. You think you can always go back, but you can’t. I knew that after graduation my school was to merge with a nursing school down the street to form a large college of nursing.
This May marked the 30th anniversary of my graduation from nursing school. Naturally when I received an email from the new school about their homecoming this fall I took a stroll down memory lane and started googling the buildings and that’s when I saw it. I found some nice pictures of the whole medical complex the way it was when I was there and even showed my kids.
The letters on my t-shirt are starting to fade but my memories of that time period of my life in that hospital and school of nursing never will.
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