Read more
At the 12th Evacuation Hospital Cu Chi, Vietnam, Sarah Blum is an operating room nurse during the fighting in the iron triangle in 1967. Mass casualties with severely wounded soldiers show up for Sarah, her fellow nurses, and the surgeons to treat in the midst of mortar attacks, monsoons, and exploding artillery.
Her story is intertwined with Johnny, hit by American artillery, and Jim, a baseball pitcher with multiple wounds including to his pitching hand. It encompasses her terror on the tarmac at Bien Hoa air base on the day she leaves, culture shock, emerging PTSD symptoms, assaults by protestors, being head nurse of the orthopedic ward at Madigan General Hospital, and her growing awareness of the effects of the war on her and her fellow soldiers.
Through it all, she learns the essentials to healing PTSD and shares some tools and adjuncts to therapy that ensure anyone with PTSD has the best healing outcome.
People and veterans with PTSD need to know someone has been through it and come out whole on the other side. They need to believe they can heal and be better than they are when in the throes of their symptoms. They need hope and guidance.
Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing gives them both.
About the author
Sarah L. Blum is a decorated nurse Vietnam veteran who earned the Army Commendation Medal serving as an operating room nurse during the height of the fighting in 1967. She received her Bachelor's Degree from Seattle University and her Master's from U. W. At age 80, Sarah retired after more than 34 years healing trauma. Between 2006 and 2012, Sarah interviewed over 58 women veterans and is the author of Women Under Fire: Abuse in the Military about the culture of abuse toward women in the U.S. Military. Warrior Nurse, Healer: PTSD and Healing is her second book. Sarah has a third degree black belt in Aikido, was a rower and coxswain for a rowing club, and loves playing African drums.
