About Warrior Nurse: PTSD ad 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.
She co-created Recognition/Friendship Day in Seattle, Washington on Veterans Day, 1985. Against all odds, including threats by Vietnam veterans, Sarah helped bring together American Vietnam veterans and Vietnamese veterans for the first time since the Vietnam War. Sarah worked in partnership with Thu-Van Nguyen, a Vietnamese hospital worker, to create this special day. Men who formerly hated each other cried, exchanged hugs, and told their stories. All of the local newspapers, radio and television stations were present in the Veterans Hall at Seattle Center along with over 275 attendees. In a letter to Senator Daniel J. Evans the Post Adjutant of the American Legion said, “What these two ladies have accomplished on November 11, 1985 deserves the gratitude of all who served in our armed forces from 1961-1975.”
She is a relentless and passionate voice for justice and healing and has published the following Op Eds: “Sexual Abuse in the Military Needs to be Brought to Light,” published July 12, 2012 in The Seattle Times. “Sex Crimes Continue to Plague the U.S. Military,” Truthout January 15, 2013, “Our Military Fighting to Keep Its Culture of Abuse,” February 24, 2014, “Military and Congressional Leadership Failure,” March 19, 2014, “Domestic Violence Center Stage” September 22, 2014 Truthout. More information available under media at http://womenunderfire.net Sarah was featured on over 18 radio shows and did the Veteran’s Hour TV program in 2014.
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I used to row and was a coxswain for a rowing club. Now I walk, play drums with veteran musical groups, and go cross country skiing. I also am a third degree black belt in Japanese Aikido. I was part of the Puget Sound Rhythm Section African Drum Ensemble for over ten years.
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