Dear Editor,

Nursing Week and Mother’s Day – More reason to wonder why my daughter and son-in-law cannot afford to buy a good used car?

My daughter and her husband, both nurses in Victoria, should be able to afford to replace their extremely old car that just ‘died’. They both make what many would consider ‘good’ wages, yet with a mortgage, two sons at home, and your everyday expenses they have no money to buy a good second hand car.

My daughter works as a director in nursing on a provincial and federal scale. Her work along with her colleagues, is about bettering all aspects for nurses and nurse practitioners.

They work tirelessly on proposals that when do come through benefit all of us using the health-care system.This is not easy work as you might imagine. People complain about the health-care system and about government officials and many times rightfully so, but hidden behind the scenes, are nurses like my daughter trying to change all the negative to a positive for everyone to benefit from.

My son-in-law works as a community nurse. A job also that deals with the public, all types of health-care issues that come his way, and finding solutions for everyone concerned.

Not an easy task for sure.

I wish I could help them buy that car that they need for work, for work meetings, for taking the kids to activities and school events. They use the transit system as well, but the car is needed for many things. I am a low income senior doing fine yet have no extra money to help them in obtaining a much needed vehicle.

So this is my story, my family’s story that I needed to tell on this upcoming Mother’s Day as well as Nursing Week.

Praise to all the health-care workers and particularly the nurses and nurse practitioners in this celebration of Nurses Week. We all need to remember while we may as ordinary people find the health care system presently lacking, it’s these dedicated souls that won’t give up, and continue on under extremely stressful circumstances in and outside the hospital venue. Think of them this upcoming Nurses Week and say thank you in whatever ways you can.

Without them, where would we be today? I don’t think most of us could survive the circumstances they put up with.

My heartfelt thanks to all health-care workers still hanging in there.

Judith Polston, 91Ô­´´ City

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