Kari had a complete crash when she tried to go back to nursing.

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Yeah, I got COVID working in emergency in December of 2020. And was completely off work until the end of January. I did go back to work February, nursing. I did that for about six months, and I just felt that, I just, things weren’t the same. I was tired. I’d come home and sleep, yeah. Just getting through my shifts was very difficult. And so I took a position, a work from home position, just doing interviews and such as a clinical coordinator for a travel nurse firm. And I did that until the end of December of last year. And then I just felt like I’m, I’m not a person that can just sit around and do the same thing day after day and sit in a little square box. That wasn’t me. Nursing is very busy, so I accepted the manager position, thinking that, you know, that busy on the floor would be better. And I did that starting in January of this year. And the stress of that position I’d say, probably April, I started to notice that I was extraordinarily tired, starting to get weird things happening like heart palpitations and things like that. I just kept putting it all off to stress. And the end of May, I got really sick. Literally my system just crashed, and they took me off work. My blood pressure was in the mid 80s. I think it was when I went to, or doctor’s, it was like 84 over 60, I think it was. And so, they took me off work and I’ve been off ever since.

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