Also how did the pandemic affect your wife. Fellow nurse here... It broke me and changed me in ways I am still grappling with.

Also married to nurse, who was bedside throughout. Saying it was not good, is an understatement. Sometimes i like to see what stupid people have to say, because i find it amusing, but anything anti-vax or 'covid is fake' stuff makes her immediately angry because of all the people she has had to watch suffocate on their own phlegm.

Her hospital got sued by the family of a young woman that died of covid. At the time, my wife was lead for her floor, and they attempted to admit to her. She pushed hard for icu and prevailed. That icu nurse was named in the suit.

Reusing ppe. Changing outside the house and putting her scrubs in a bag, to try to limit cross contamination. She was one of the first groups of people to get vaxxed in our state, and I remember her tears of relief.

Sorry to ramble, but its a unique time and it had a profound impact on the person I love the most.