Scared Off

I was supposed to interview a nurse this evening, but he cancelled a couple hours beforehand. Via e-mail, he explained that he wasn’t comfortable learning to care for someone on a vent without close supervision. Of course, that’s fine. I’d rather have a candidate bow out than try to convince himself that he’s not unnerved. But I’ve never regarded my vent dependency as the most challenging aspect of my care. For the most part, the vent does its thing without much fuss unless a tube disconnects or it malfunctions (which is rare). I’ve hired nurses with no vent experience and many of them are still with me several years later, so a lack of experience doesn’t really concern me. Then again, 25 years of living with a vent has probably made me more than a little blasé about my predicament.