"When all else fails, just say to yourself, YES I CAN!"
Yes I Can by Loretta Scott The true definition of the word “War” per various defining sources is: “A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties.” And a true definition of the word “Nurse” per various defining sources is: “A person educated and trained to care for the sick or disabled.” I chose to become a part of the second definition. My main being in life beside... AmazonBarnes & Noble.comXlibris
Loretta Scott kicks her story into high gear in chapter one - dire trauma of seperation, as she moves from family to Army life in Saudi Arabia. This story is told in intimate day-to-day detail; a diary of people and events, terrors and joys experienced and survived by an Army nurse in Desert Storm. The charm of this book is that you feel very close to its author because she writes in the hurried emotional and sensitive language of a woman as she experienced her events. If you can read this book without (somehow) falling in love with its author, then you are totally insensitive. I read, and I did. You will, too. And Loretta shows her sense of humor (wisdom, too). I am still pondering how a wounded soldier could have chopped a hole in his buttocks by sitting on a bandanna. The idea presented was that al-Qeada terrorists had buried a knife under this bandanna (not an al-Qeada technique - which leans more to the dramatic child strapped in explosives and detonated). As Loretta notes, this was a soldier running away from the war. And the Iraqi (Muslim) soldier who received his “Last Rites” from an Army Chaplain (I doubt that Allah was confused by this). And then we have her fears regarding the contraband Iraqi sand! In the midst of Scud missle threats, fears and momentary joys, Loretta's faith and wisdom shines through, always. A tour-de-force of trials and tribulations, Loretta Scott's “Yes I Can” gives the inspirational vision of how faith will bring you to a happy ending. At the end of "Yes I Can," Loretta finds her happy ending in a soulmate, and you will clench your fists and say, "He'd better be real or I'm comin' for him!" That's how much Loretta Scott involves you in her life and in the moments of "Yes I Can."
