I interviewed for my first job after college from a hospital bed. I had just given birth.

I was feverish from an infection, traumatized from being separated from my baby, who was in the NICU and unable to breastfeed her.

After becoming pregnant during my senior year of nursing school, I set up an interview at a local hospital as close to my graduation date as possible.

I honestly can't tell you how the manager found out I was there or if she had asked me if it was OK to stop in.

I attempted to chuckle alongside her, but at only a few days postpartum and while having complications from giving birth, I have to admit, I felt anything but jovial.

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