An Interview of Carol by Scrubs • April 27, 2012
Some young girls grow up with visions of becoming the next Florence Nightingale but you had an actual vision of Florence Nightingale that prompted you to go into nursing. Tell me about that. I was just 21,with two little kids and a husband with a drinking problem. We had just moved to Pennsylvania and he took off with the car that had the diapers and food in it. I didn’t even have a telephone. That’s the night I saw the vision of Florence Nightingale—which of course I didn’t know was a vision.
And you didn’t know it was Florence Nightingale, either?
No clue at all. There was this woman with ringlets, her hair pulled up on her head, she had a ratty cape on and she was holding this strange lamp, checking out the baseboard and I kept saying, “excuse me ma’am, excuse me,” then I poked myself to see if I was awake. The next morning, I found a phone and I called my father and said, “I want to come home I’ve decided I want to be nurse.”
You’ve written a lot about heeding your intuition, has yours always been strong?
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