The Nurse Who Turned Her Near-Death Experience Into a Medical Thriller - Exclusive Interview with Jenny White
Jenny White is a retired Registered Nurse living in Southwestern Ontario. She spent over 30 years working in various settings, including hospitals — ICUs, trauma units, surgical floors — as well as Public Health and long-term care homes (nursing homes). She has vast experience in these settings, working as staff and finishing her career as a Director of Care, managing large nursing departments, as well as a Director of Nursing Services for a for-profit organization overseeing seven of their long-term care homes. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master's degree in Healthcare Administration.
After retiring, she discovered that she had a brain tumor wrapped around the carotid artery in her brain, which was life-threatening and required specialized surgery. After her extensive surgery, she was comatose for days, and when she awoke, she found herself tied to the bed, as she had become a disoriented patient, attempting to remove all of the medical tools keeping her alive. Her memories were gone, she did not recognize her husband at the bedside, and she had to relearn how to walk and talk. Over the next year, Jenny had to reinvent herself. Her old hobbies and interests were gone, and she felt vulnerable and lost. That was the turning point: she decided she was interested in writing her story.
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