[KaraH]

Please know that you save lives. Hospitals are unbearable places. I have been there lots as a physician and as a patient. The first thing I was taught as a new intern is “Hush and listen to the nurses. They know what is going on with the patients and they care more than anybody else.” I have followed that rule for 30+years. As a patient I would far rather have a good nurse than a good anybody else. We don’t do a good job corporately of saying this but you save lives, every single day. Please don’t give up. We need you (signed, your appreciative patient) Kara H

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Name : KaraH, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Lesbian, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Episcopalian, Age : 51, City : Austin, State : TX, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

[KaraH]

Absolutely. If by ourselves we are invisible to homophobic or heterosexist comments like “How come you haven’t married? Where is your husband? How dare you bring children into the world as a single parent? (2 parent family of 18 years) It is tiresome and makes me grumpy with any slight. I am tired of being the token lesbian at work. I am tired of being left out of my family’s extended reunions so “Aunt Judy and Uncle Joe” won’t feel uncomfortable. I want the right to see my spouse in the hospital. My friend wanted the right to be called when her lover was killed in Iraq. The military called her parents instead. They had been a couple for 10 years. I want health insurance without a fight. I want to lead my son’s Cub Scout Den without being undercover. Kara H

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Name : KaraH, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Lesbian, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Episcopalian, Age : 51, City : Austin, State : TX, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

[KaraH]

for the same reason that some men are football players and some are English Professors. Kara H

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Name : KaraH, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Lesbian, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Episcopalian, Age : 51, City : Austin, State : TX, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

[KaraH]

I want the right to inherit or have my partner inherit without two thousand dollars in legal bills to set up a complicated trust so she would inherit. I want to be able to put her on my insurance. I want to not be thrown out of the ICU when her “real family” shows up after a car wreck. That happened to me in Austin TX in 1999. I want our children to have the security of two legal parents. Kara H

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Name : KaraH, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Lesbian, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Episcopalian, Age : 51, City : Austin, State : TX, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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