This week, we welcome Bonnie Hensley, a 50-year-old registered nurse in the Seattle area joins us. She tells me that she works 56 hours in a 2-week period (3 days one week, 4 the next) in a community hospital operating room.
She’s been an OR nurse (”all I’ve ever done as a nurse,” she says) since 1989.

Can you tell me about when you first started experiencing the pain and what kind of pain it was?
It was about two years ago or so, don’t remember exactly when. I was tired and achy all the time, no matter …read more