DALLAS — Nurses on Parkland Memorial Hospital’s life-saving front line against COVID-19 have turned a corner on the most grueling medical calamity of the century.
Gone are the hollowed-out eyes and beaten-down expressions I saw during interviews a year ago. Today these same nurses laugh a lot, share personal milestones and delight in no-crisis workdays.
Most telling is this single detail: They talk about the pandemic in past tense. They are moving forward, albeit as very different people.
