About Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing:
My personal story of being an operating room nurse at the 12th Evacuation Hospital Cu Chi, Vietnam during the fighting in the iron triangle January 1967, as mass casualties with severely wounded soldiers show up to heal during mortar attacks, monsoons, and artillery going off. Meet Johnny, hit by American Artillery, and Jim, a baseball pitcher with multiple wounds including to his pitching hand, who found me in 2014.
Experience with me my terror on the tarmac at Bien Hoa airbase on the day I left, culture shock, emerging PTSD symptoms, assaults by protestors, being head nurse of the orthopedic ward at Madigan General Hospital, and my growing awareness of the effects of the war, on me and my brother soldiers.
Learn what takes place in the brain and body with PTSD and discover the essentials to healing it. Explore some tools and adjuncts to therapy that ensure anyone with PTSD has the best healing outcome.
People and veterans with PTSD need to know someone who has been through it and come out whole on the other side. They need to believe they can heal and be better than they are when in the throes of their symptoms. They need hope and guidance. Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing gives them both.
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Author Bio:
Sarah L. Blum is a decorated nurse Vietnam veteran, with over 34 years experience healing trauma when working as a nurse psychotherapist. She is the author of Women Under Fire: Abuse in the Military, and her newest book-Warrior Nurse, Healer: PTSD and Healing will be released March 6, 2025.
Sarah earned the Army Commendation Medal serving as an operating room nurse at the 12th Evacuation Hospital Cu Chi, Vietnam during the height of the fighting in 1967. She was awarded the Certificate of Achievement for exemplary service as head nurse of the orthopedic ward at Madigan Army Hospital in 1968, where she was also the assistant director of nursing on evening and night shift in 1970.
Sarah is now 85 years young and still goes cross country skiing, walks the White River Trail, and is an avid African Drummer. She studied Japanese Aikido for over twenty years and achieved the level of third degree black belt.
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