Headline: Recovering Nurse

New England: Nurse slowly emerging from a relatively tiresome pit of fatigue and stress, sense of humor intact, Compassion-O-Meter still active. Some R & R is in order, but Nurse will live to fight another day. Respiratory symptoms bothersome but improving. Nurse will care for self and home-life for several days. Stay tuned for further developments in this never-ending and self-centered story.