Last night, I had dinner with an old friend, Nurse Michele, who had the same employer as Nurse Terese at the time she was launched into fame. Because yesterday was May 6, I wished her a happy Nurses DAY and she corrected me that it’s Nurses WEEK.
I think somewhere along the timeline in history, the same thing happened with motorcycles in Laconia on a Father’s Day weekend.
Much can be said about the institution of nursing and appreciation for nurses, but that’s left to a nurse to take charge of. I am NOT a nurse, and neither is Mrs Howard Pearl, an LNA formerly known as Heather Birch. Did you know that the Damn Emperor nominated her to the Board of Nursing, and she was rubber-stamped in by the executive council?
Political favor? You tell me.
It wasn’t the first time I consulted Meagan, the amazing EC secretary, to get some intel, and she delivered. I was told that the Board has a seat for LNAs. Fair enough, at least as it stands now in its current framework. I knew she was a massage therapist and a good one, but I didn’t know she was a LNA.
I also learned (from someone other than Meagan) that she wants to go to nursing school. I wish her all the best, but I want to recognize some current nurses. Please let it be known that the list is certainly not exhaustive, so hopefully no nurse’s feelings are hurt by not being mentioned. It’s not a list based on professional excellence because I am not qualified to evaluate such things. This is my own personal “naughty and nice” list of nurses that have a minimum level of name recognition in NH. What makes them naughty or nice doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with their job performance AS A NURSE but their good or bad activism, dereliction of duty as a legislator, evil decisions as a bureaucrat, or other qualifying behavior. Let’s wait no further and recognize them.
NICE:
Terese Bastarache, RN, nurse, arrested for saying “amen”
Rep Leah Cushman RN, removed by the Speaker for administering oaths.
Rep Katy Peternel RN, House Education committee member who flushed out RINO Brodie Deshaies in a Wolfeboro primary
Lynn L’Heureux RN, former school candidate and fighter against Mask Madness
Larisa Trexler RN, founder of Health Freedom NH
Candidate Hollie Noveletsky (nurse practitioner hoping to unseat the PappASS)
Hon Linda Camarota RN, nursing teacher and stolen 9/7/21 Bedford special election victim and future constituent of “Councilor Bastarache.”
NAUGHTY:
Lori Shibinette
Peggy Gilmour
Paige Beauchemin
Bobbie Bagley
Rep Sofikitis
Ruth Ward (nurse practitioner and senate sheeple)
And many lobbyists and bureaucrats that I asked Terese to name, but I’m not waiting for her response.
