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The Cellfie Show

Diaries of a NYC NICU COVID front lines nurse, Windy BSN RNC-NIC, COVID-19, NYC Experience, Travel Nursing, New Frontiers, Moving across the country during an unknown time, Emotional Journey

The Cellfie Show

Tori Meskin x Sam Manassero

Medicine, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Careers, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Business

4.9553 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

EP #23 Diaries of a NICU COVID front lines nurse, Windy BSN RNC-NIC - NYC perspective in the thick of it! Wendy is a NICU nurse, Travel Nurse, and worked front line during this pandemic in the sickest city in the nation. Love in a Time Corona. Learning to say “YES,” and take journeys as nurse. Exploring new frontiers. Hear her emotional account of being a NICU NYC pandemic RN. The beauty of New York City and its citizens. We dive into her experiences moving across the country, hearing her personal account of New York in its sickest moments. Special Time in history to be a nurse. Hear her positive message to the world about Windy’s experience. Thank you Windy for coming on the show today! Follow her on Instagram @chasingthewindy BOOK REFERRAL Love in a Time of Cholera (Opera’s Book Club List) NURSE HOUSE (Non-Profit) https://pages.nurseshouse.org/apply-for-help (https://pages.nurseshouse.org/apply-for-help) DESENIO: Use code: Cellfie and get 30% off of your prints at https://desenio.com/ (https://desenio.com/) Follow them on Instagram @desenio and find my Desenio masterpiece in my highlights on Instagram @nurse.tori_ BETTERHELP: 10% off your first month when you https://betterhelp.com/cellfie (https://betterhelp.com/cellfie) Take the quiz using the link above to get started! Thank you to BetterHelp for sponsoring this episode! Please subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.tipsfromtori.com/subscribe (https://www.tipsfromtori.com/subscribe) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nurse.tori_/ (@nurse.tori_) https://www.instagram.com/cellfie_podcast/ (@cellfiepodcast) Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/ (https://www.purple-planet.) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

So I'm driving in Manhattan and I'm driving up Manhattan and I'm driving up Fifth Avenue and you've been to New York.

0:28.5

You can't walk down the street without bumping into shoulders with people.

0:32.4

There was no one.

0:33.7

It was like an apocalyptic film.

0:35.5

I have never seen the streets of New York empty,

0:38.1

except for this one guy standing in the middle of the street playing racquetball against one of

0:44.7

the buildings. And it was so eerie because I rolled my window down and you could hear the

0:48.9

racket ball like echoing off the empty buildings around it. Hello, hello, hello. Welcome back to the selfie show,

0:55.8

you guys. That clip was from my guest at the show this week, Wendy Steiner. We're continuing on

1:01.1

with our series of Diary of the Frontline Provider. On this episode, we're going to be talking to

1:07.1

this amazing Nikki nurse, a dear friend of mine, a colleague turned COVID frontline provider.

1:13.1

Today we're going to be deep diving into her journey moving across the country to New York

1:17.9

City during the heat of this pandemic. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Tori

1:23.0

Meskin and I am the founder of the Nurse Tori Selfie show. We are a platform on a mission to make

1:28.5

healthcare hip one selfie at a time. I'm pretty confident that this episode is not going to leave a

1:35.0

dry eye. I just went through and we were editing through the episode and it's weird because

1:41.5

when I was recording it with her, I think I was so concentrated on, you know, what she was saying.

1:46.2

And then I went back and I just let myself really listen to her words.

1:50.1

And I got emotional.

1:52.2

So this is probably one of my longest awaited series of interviews.

1:58.2

I really actually wanted to wait a little while. I would have loved to bring

2:03.4

these to you guys in time while they were working back east during the time of this pandemic.

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