apologies for the terrible photo- but here's my little fizzarolli plushie!! this is my first time making a plushie this big and also my first time using a sewing machine so he's a bit wonky in some places but I love him a lot!

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Can you explain a little about each of your OCs fashion taste and maybe add a pic of the epitome of their style? I want to see which one is most like my own fashion preferences (if I wasn't too lazy to dress up lol)

All right, what I’m going to do is the rapid-fire. I’m gonna tell you names and what they dress like, since you were interested in finding out who matched, and then you (or anyone else) can ask further asks about anyone who looks interesting one at a time and I will GUSH

Venley (protag hero): Wears deep blues (but not navy). Likes swishy skirts, flowing sleeves, and layering. So much layering, especially leggings under short skirts.

Sophira (hero): Has a style I like to call The Worst(TM). Wears non-complementary colors. Patchwork sweaters and miniskirts. Loves rainbow tie-dye. Will not take fashion advice from Axeline and this is going to be the death of Axeline

Axeline (hero): Mostly sticks to red palettes with long coats and corset lacing but will try anything once.

Siademina (hero): Likes to pair cute blouses with bouncy short skirts. Tends to wear warmer colors or pastels.

Zefiraduc (hero): Purple and glitzy. She wants to be a famous pop star and dresses like one.

Arain (hero): Blacks and reds. If the outfit can allow her to blend pants with something skirt-ish, like a side panel, it’s an extra bonus. Always wears the fantasy equivalent of a baseball cap to go with it (and has emo bangs AND a huge ponytail).

Ailuen (hero): Mostly dresses in comfy things, tees and jeans, but when she wants to go all-out, she will pick a pink prom dress with ruffles and sparkles. A nice compromise is if she puts a fancy pink blouse over the jeans. During the planned arc where she becomes a Lawful Evil for a while, wears a white military uniform.

Alivain (deuteragonist villain): Mostly likes red, but occasionally blue or purple. Is a villain and dresses like a villain. Outfits are very bright and flamboyant. I’m toying with an “evil circus” aesthetic for the entire team and have written down some of him acting as the ringmaster, so go ahead and add a red ringmaster’s uniform to his most-worn. I also want him to have gloves with little claws built in at one point. Capes. And he wears high heels because he likes to feel tall and glamorous.

Versafina (villain): All black all the time. Lots of leather. Prefers pants vastly over skirts because she’s a dancer/martial artist who needs the mobility; also she just doesn’t like the femme aesthetic so much. Though she does enjoy wearing the highest of high heels specifically because training in them makes her more balanced and agile, and if she takes them off, you are dead where you stand.

Phantasia (villain): White cocktail dresses. Swanky and glamorous. Usually more pencil-skirt style or form-fitting than anything that has ruffle. Slits that show off the leg are a fave style of hers. High heels for her too.

Zangary (villain): I’m not entirely happy with his design, but for now, I have him in kinda generic dark clothes with an ostentatious long lavender jacket and a black wide-brimmed hat.

Dweixyn (villain): Pink minidresses/blouses and skirts. Has a favorite trench coat that has pink lining on the inside and is darker on the outside. Always wears sunglasses, even indoors and at night, for the aesthetic and no other reason. High heels for her too.

Belador/Belladore (villain): They’re kind of a rave-themed villain so I imagine lots of mesh tops and glow sticks.

Yridel (villain): I’m not entirely sure what her style is, but it needs to show off her cybernetic limbs. That is a must.

Sherida (villain): A form-fitting red bodysuit with a black motorcycle helmet that prevents you from seeing her face. Heavy-soled boots. Steal aesthetics from Vanitas Kingdomhearts? Me? Nooooo

Lirian (villain): “Sun” palettes, with pinks and yellows and reds. But also blue sweaters and skirts (dull in hue). I toy with one of her quirks being wearing ballet shoes everywhere she goes but I’m not sure if that’s silly.

Rachneira (villain): Wears lots of black. Not just a Goth but THAT Hot Topic Goth.

Tomagi (villain): Pink sundresses, particularly with gold lining.

Calpurniko (villain): Jumpsuits, overalls, beiges and dull colors, white tees, anything she can get dirty and not cry over.

Diamandian (villain): White lace. He is cis male but comfortable enough with his masculinity that he adores ruffles and lace hems. Has a matching white parasol and a white top hat.

Maraya (villain): Victorian-esque dress...blue?...and a big ol’ black cloak that hides her appearance. Her design is still kinda under construction because I started out going one direction and then made a hard left on her character

Anastasios (villain): Tunics and breeches. Greens and browns.

Kaxhalen (villain): He is an alien warlord so I’m trying to design a silver extraterrestrial battlesuit but not sure how to make it look unique

Osmend Osmodias (villain): Shiny golden suits. Fedora that’s pulled down to cover his eyes.

Orianelle (villain): black leather that shows a lot of skin. Tanks and shorts that bare midriff. Tall black boots with heavy soles.

Siersyrei (villain): Navy blue and that’s about all I know for now, though there are reasons I’d like her to have a skirt with shorts underneath.

Clancette (B-team hero): When in civvies, wears a lot of pink “kawaii” clothing. Jackets over tanks. Lots of pins with the fantasy equivalent of Sanrio characters. Rainbow stockings. As a Magical Girl, is associated with the color pink and element of wind; her outfit has a short and wide ruffly skirt and any way a breeze can be implemented into the design is welcome.

Xar/chelyna (B-team hero): When in civvies, he wears button-down shirts and blue pants. As a Magical Girl, she is associated with blue and water, so skirts that are long and wavy and any ocean motifs. Also enjoys a blue top hat.

Loveleigh (B-team hero): Both civvies and Magical Girl clothing are red/fire-associated. Likes slinky skirts and low-cut blouses.

Fernamele (B-team hero): Both civvies and Magical Girl clothing are yellow/lightning-associated. Another pop star wannabe who dresses in glitz and glitter, with swishy short skirts.

Zelladane (B-team hero): Civvies are sweatshirts, jeans, and heavy rubber boots with a lot of dirt built on them from her gardening. Magical Girl clothing is green/plant-associated, but with pink accents. Any piece that’s green with pink flower decorations on it automatically makes me think of her.

Aoliaoma (B-team hero): Undecided on civvies, but her big character quirk is that she seems perpetually sleepy, so I could see her just forgetting to change out of her full-length pajamas that are probably black satin. As a Magical Girl, her association is black/the void, and she has a short dress meant to look like that of a traditional witch, with a pointed witch’s hat on top.

Ravenille (antihero): Denim jackets and pants. Lots of denim. Silver face piercings and LOTS of them.

Arisia (antihero): I specifically see her in a blue tank top, a brown skirt/shorts and chain mail overlays. Anything with chain mail makes me think of her. Also, tall heeled boots. She might also wear a mask made of chain mail that covers the lower half of her face.

Lunisia (antihero): Pink. Skirts with leggings beneath. Quirky shoes, like black patent-leather with buckles.

Rhodelton (antihero): The ugliest yellow jacket you can imagine over a T-shirt and jeans.

Phaeley (minor character, could be moved to antihero squad): Black tanks and long skirts. Slightly Goth but not that much. Always wears a black newsboy hat.

Sylvisa (minor character, could be moved to antihero squad): Almost exactly Versafina’s style except more masculine. I should probably refine his.

Dashorra (minor character): Anything that’s split right down the middle as black/white is fair game.

Victorique (minor character): Shiny silver dresses with long skirts.

Isisa (minor character): White toga and gold hair ornamentation.

Phil (minor character): Is literally a sentient pile of green slime and never wears clothes, but if he did, it’d be business suits with tacky striped ties.

Tristabelle (minor character): I usually picture her in a dark blue low-cut dress with a loose, flowing skirt, but I feel like it needs refinement.

Madwyn (minor character): I usually picture her in a form-fitting black cocktail dress, but I also feel like this could be more special.

Diceanne (minor character): I usually picture her in a pink bodysuit with gold accents that lacks sleeves or legs, so I kind of want to do something with this and the concept of tackling the issue of revealing clothing and sexism and how much choice is had in the matter so I guess her final outfit will come to me once I’ve got the arc in mind

Beccatrice (minor character): I usually picture her in a white toga, but unless she and Isisa are part of the same order or class or something, I should probably make hers different.

Sharamantha (minor character): Brightly-colored overalls (pink, green, purple) over white tees. Sneakers.

Eudarmence (minor character): Shiny gold gowns. Any shiny gold gown. Also likes shiny gold hair ornamentation. Has to be the shiniest thing in the room.

Ilyènne (minor character): Either yellow dresses with loose skirts or this specific pink blouse with a huge ostentatious ribbon on the chest that I got in my mind’s eye once.

Riaudne (plot-device character): Pink-and-silver dresses. She’s royalty, but I want to play with her culture not being Eurocentric, so I want to shake up this design somehow but I’m not yet sure how

Aelistene (plot-device character): Brightly colored minidresses (mint green or deep purple), likes hair ornaments.

Magnus (Lawful Evil villain): All white all the time. Looks very regal - jackets, waistcoats. Very masculine as well.

Janiel and Tjeron are both mooks of the Lawful Evil faction and will eventually renounce their ways, but I have literally never pictured them in anything other than military uniforms that I originally designed as black but now have changed to white for symbolic deconstruction reasons

The following characters are still under construction to where I’m not sure of their fashion style at all: Valencindri (villain sidekick), Dr. Hope Lessness (villain), Mercy Lessness (villain sidekick), Lainnhartt (villain), Soligeo (villain sidekick), Khairic Kajé (antihero), Aerokai (antihero), Tredwulfall (antihero), Burqueley (antihero), Liodax (minor character), Ririko (minor character), Ayali (minor character, possibly antihero), Lilianet (minor character), Spectra (minor character), Prettiza and Kyista (minor characters who have to wear the same outfit), Rewnoki (minor character), Delena (minor character), Jaydrey (minor character), Mejame (minor character), Shananadel (minor character), Veline (Lawful Evil), Keiandra (Lawful Evil), or Oquian (Lawful Evil).

I hope this has helped you figure out whose style you match and also see how many freaking characters I have designed and I don’t intend to stop until I have enough to fill a huge fantasy world but then I’ll probably keep going anyway because my mind is apparently hooked on designing now

‘I just fell in love with it’

“How do I just stand up and walk away and leave him here?” the mother asked emergency department nurse Laurielynn Hinman.

The mother’s teenage son had died after being hit by a vehicle, and she sat at his bedside in the Spectrum Health Ludington Hospital.

Hinman, a young nurse at the time, compassionately said, “I don’t know how you do that, but you don’t have to until you’re ready.”

Decades later, Hinman recalls how that incident helped shape her outlook in providing empathetic care to patients.

“That was so impactful for me,” Hinman said. “Unless you’ve been through it, you don’t have a clue about what people are experiencing. It was a great lesson for me to learn.”

Hinman, along with fellow Ludington Hospital nurses Clara Whitaker and Sally Wright, have all served more than 40 years at the hospital, the bulk of it in the emergency department together.

They all cite a love of helping patients and showing compassion as the driving motivation and source of joy in their nursing careers.

Candy striper to seasoned veteran

Hinman is planning to retire in October after a 45-year career. She’s looking forward to spending time with her grandchildren. No. 4 is on the way.

The Royal Oak, Michigan, native began working in health care as a high school student, serving as a hospital volunteer, or candy striper as they were called at the time for their novelty red-and-white striped aprons.

After high school, Hinman worked as a nurse aide in Florida for a year before returning to Michigan to start her college career. She received her nursing certification from Kirtland Community College in 1975 and began work in the labor and delivery unit of a Detroit-area hospital.

She moved to Ludington in 1979 and began work at the Ludington hospital. She’s worked the past 32 years in the emergency department, while earning an associate degree in nursing from West Shore Community College and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Ferris State University.

Hinman has relished working with patients over the years.

“It’s a great honor that you can be with them during some of the greatest times of their life, and some of the hardest times and that’s an honor that our patients give us that I think sometimes we forget,” Hinman said. “That’s been my biggest joy.”

And in working in a small town, she values providing care for friends and neighbors.

“That’s one of the joys of working in a community like ours; you know your patients and you become a part of their lives,” she said. “It’s a comfort for them. I think there’s a lot of advantages to being in a small community like this.”

A key to providing that comfort, that compassionate care, is to remain empathetic even when part of the job becomes old hat.

“One of the hardest things is that the emergency room is everyday life for us,” she said. “But it’s not for them and we have to remember that.”

“It’s been a very rewarding 45 years,” she said. “I’ve gotten back a whole lot more than I’ve given. I’m very thankful for that.”

She said the people she’s worked with have made the job rewarding.

“Clara, Sally and I should give a shout out to all the people who have helped us through the years, as we couldn’t have done it without all of them.”

Paying it forward

Sally Wright agrees.

“I’m thankful for the mentors that I had,” she said. “For over 40 years I’ve had the opportunity to work with some phenomenal people.”

She called out Linford Davis, MD, as someone who inspired her in her early years as a nurse.

“He had a great influence on me,” she said. “He was always teaching. I loved that, and I was always picking his brain.”

“I credit a lot of what I’ve done and accomplished to people that have paved that way for me and taught me, and it feels like it’s my turn to pass that on to other people.”

Wright grew up locally, just down the road from Ludington in nearby Scottville.

She recently marked 40 years of working at Ludington Hospital.

She attended Spring Arbor College in Jackson after high school and, between her freshman and sophomore year, still felt undecided on her career choice.

While home for the summer, a friend’s mother, who headed the Ludington Hospital emergency department, invited her to work as nurse tech to see if it would be something she’d like.

“I loved it,” Wright said. “I just fell in love with it.”

With renewed focus, she started taking nursing classes, completing prerequisite classes at Spring Arbor before getting her associate degree in nursing from Jackson Community College and a bachelor’s degree in biology from Spring Arbor.

She would work summers and holidays at the hospital. After college, she worked in the critical care unit for a year until a position opened in the emergency department. She’s been in the ED ever since.

“I love the pace of the ED,” she said. “I love the variety of the ED— no two days are ever the same.”

She would add a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Grand Valley State University and a teaching degree from Ferris State University, the latter to fulfill a calling to teach and help other students find their way— just as the hospital leader helped her long ago.

For the past 21 years, she has been teaching for the West Shore Educational Service District while working part time at the hospital.

She teaches allied health for high school students who are considering going into health care. She teaches nurse aide certification, an EKG technician certification program and basic life support.

“I have this combined love of nursing and teaching and it’s been a great career,” Wright said.

“That’s why I’m so passionate about helping students to see if it’s something they want, because somebody gave me a chance,” she said.

As a nurse, Wright believes strongly in being a patient advocate.

“That’s the most rewarding for me,” she said. “When you’re truly there for the patient and the family.”

Wright said she tries to keep the golden rule in mind.

“People need help,” she said. “That’s been my passion—be there for the patient, treat them like I’d want to be treated and treat their family like I’d want my family treated. Sometimes it’s just that little extra, like offering a family member a cup a coffee.”

“Nobody is really at their best when they come to the emergency department,” she said. “They’re scared, and they react out of fear and worry. Think about what they’re going though.”

Wright is considering retiring from teaching in the next couple of years, but said she wants to keep nursing until she “retires, retires.”

Following family footsteps

Clara Whitaker also points to helping patients as the part of her job she’s enjoyed the most.

“You help them feel better, you keep them safe, you see the improvement and you see them feeling better,” she said. “I think that’s the most fulfilling part.”

Whitaker, who is from Ludington, started as a nurse aide at just 16 at the former Baywood Nursing Home as part of a co-op program in high school.

She began working summers and weekends at Ludington Hospital in 1977 as a nurse aide, while getting her nursing degree. She graduated from the Hackley School of Nursing in Muskegon in 1979.

Her mother, Caroline Majewski, also worked as a nurse at Ludington Hospital and she inspired Whitaker to join the ranks. Mom worked nights, daughter days.

“As an aide, I used to take report for my mother in the morning,” Whitaker said laughing.

Whitaker said she knew as a senior in high school that nursing was her calling.

“I figured out that I really enjoyed it,” she said. “I liked helping the patients.”

After graduation, she worked in the surgery department for a year, and then transferred to the ED, where she’s now nursed for the past 43 years.

And she still enjoys it.

“It’s always changing,” she said. “The patients are constantly rotating, and you’re taking care of everything in the realm of medicine. You take care of little minor injuries and very ill people, and every one is a new challenge.”

Whitaker says she plans to retire in the next couple of years.

“It’s hard, it’s fast-paced and you’re on your feet a lot—and I’m getting older,” she said laughing.

“I’ve truly enjoyed it,” she said. “There’s stressful times and there’s times when you think ‘I’m not going back’ but you do, because you do enjoy it.”

The trio have seen dramatic changes in nursing over the years.

They said advances in technology and the use of personal protective equipment have been major changes in the profession. It wasn’t until HIV became prevalent that they even wore gloves.

“We didn’t wear gloves to start an IV,” Wright said. “We’d have a trauma and if they were bleeding we’d put our hands in there—the bloodier you got, the more you worked that day,” she said. “We didn’t understand all the bloodborne pathogens that caused disease.”

Hinman said there’s been increased accountability for nurses, too.

“Instead of working for the doctors, now we work with the doctors; it’s more of a team effort,” she said. “We can make more decisions and assessments.”

Whitaker said staying current with advances and changes in medicine is a never-ending challenge.

“There is always so much new—new equipment, new education, new protocols and procedures,” Hinman said. “They come so fast it can be hard to keep up.”

The three nurses have kept up, and developed a special bond through the years.

“Laurie, Sally and I have been down in the ER the entire time together; it’s been great working with them,” Whitaker said. “They’re very dear friends.”

With the end of their respective careers in sight, they each said they’d pick nursing as career all over again.

“It isn’t for everyone, but if you have a passion to help people, it’s a great career,” Wright said. “I wouldn’t consider anything else if I was 19 again.”

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‘I just fell in love with it’

“How do I just stand up and walk away and leave him here?” the mother asked emergency department nurse Laurielynn Hinman.

The mother’s teenage son had died after being hit by a vehicle, and she sat at his bedside in the Spectrum Health Ludington Hospital.

Hinman, a young nurse at the time, compassionately said, “I don’t know how you do that, but you don’t have to until you’re ready.”

Decades later, Hinman recalls how that incident helped shape her outlook in providing empathetic care to patients.

“That was so impactful for me,” Hinman said. “Unless you’ve been through it, you don’t have a clue about what people are experiencing. It was a great lesson for me to learn.”

Hinman, along with fellow Ludington Hospital nurses Clara Whitaker and Sally Wright, have all served more than 40 years at the hospital, the bulk of it in the emergency department together.

They all cite a love of helping patients and showing compassion as the driving motivation and source of joy in their nursing careers.

Candy striper to seasoned veteran

Hinman is planning to retire in October after a 45-year career. She’s looking forward to spending time with her grandchildren. No. 4 is on the way.

The Royal Oak, Michigan, native began working in health care as a high school student, serving as a hospital volunteer, or candy striper as they were called at the time for their novelty red-and-white striped aprons.

After high school, Hinman worked as a nurse aide in Florida for a year before returning to Michigan to start her college career. She received her nursing certification from Kirtland Community College in 1975 and began work in the labor and delivery unit of a Detroit-area hospital.

She moved to Ludington in 1979 and began work at the Ludington hospital. She’s worked the past 32 years in the emergency department, while earning an associate degree in nursing from West Shore Community College and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Ferris State University.

Hinman has relished working with patients over the years.

“It’s a great honor that you can be with them during some of the greatest times of their life, and some of the hardest times and that’s an honor that our patients give us that I think sometimes we forget,” Hinman said. “That’s been my biggest joy.”

And in working in a small town, she values providing care for friends and neighbors.

“That’s one of the joys of working in a community like ours; you know your patients and you become a part of their lives,” she said. “It’s a comfort for them. I think there’s a lot of advantages to being in a small community like this.”

A key to providing that comfort, that compassionate care, is to remain empathetic even when part of the job becomes old hat.

“One of the hardest things is that the emergency room is everyday life for us,” she said. “But it’s not for them and we have to remember that.”

“It’s been a very rewarding 45 years,” she said. “I’ve gotten back a whole lot more than I’ve given. I’m very thankful for that.”

She said the people she’s worked with have made the job rewarding.

“Clara, Sally and I should give a shout out to all the people who have helped us through the years, as we couldn’t have done it without all of them.”

Paying it forward

Sally Wright agrees.

“I’m thankful for the mentors that I had,” she said. “For over 40 years I’ve had the opportunity to work with some phenomenal people.”

She called out Linford Davis, MD, as someone who inspired her in her early years as a nurse.

“He had a great influence on me,” she said. “He was always teaching. I loved that, and I was always picking his brain.”

“I credit a lot of what I’ve done and accomplished to people that have paved that way for me and taught me, and it feels like it’s my turn to pass that on to other people.”

Wright grew up locally, just down the road from Ludington in nearby Scottville.

She recently marked 40 years of working at Ludington Hospital.

She attended Spring Arbor College in Jackson after high school and, between her freshman and sophomore year, still felt undecided on her career choice.

While home for the summer, a friend’s mother, who headed the Ludington Hospital emergency department, invited her to work as nurse tech to see if it would be something she’d like.

“I loved it,” Wright said. “I just fell in love with it.”

With renewed focus, she started taking nursing classes, completing prerequisite classes at Spring Arbor before getting her associate degree in nursing from Jackson Community College and a bachelor’s degree in biology from Spring Arbor.

She would work summers and holidays at the hospital. After college, she worked in the critical care unit for a year until a position opened in the emergency department. She’s been in the ED ever since.

“I love the pace of the ED,” she said. “I love the variety of the ED— no two days are ever the same.”

She would add a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Grand Valley State University and a teaching degree from Ferris State University, the latter to fulfill a calling to teach and help other students find their way— just as the hospital leader helped her long ago.

For the past 21 years, she has been teaching for the West Shore Educational Service District while working part time at the hospital.

She teaches allied health for high school students who are considering going into health care. She teaches nurse aide certification, an EKG technician certification program and basic life support.

“I have this combined love of nursing and teaching and it’s been a great career,” Wright said.

“That’s why I’m so passionate about helping students to see if it’s something they want, because somebody gave me a chance,” she said.

As a nurse, Wright believes strongly in being a patient advocate.

“That’s the most rewarding for me,” she said. “When you’re truly there for the patient and the family.”

Wright said she tries to keep the golden rule in mind.

“People need help,” she said. “That’s been my passion—be there for the patient, treat them like I’d want to be treated and treat their family like I’d want my family treated. Sometimes it’s just that little extra, like offering a family member a cup a coffee.”

“Nobody is really at their best when they come to the emergency department,” she said. “They’re scared, and they react out of fear and worry. Think about what they’re going though.”

Wright is considering retiring from teaching in the next couple of years, but said she wants to keep nursing until she “retires, retires.”

Following family footsteps

Clara Whitaker also points to helping patients as the part of her job she’s enjoyed the most.

“You help them feel better, you keep them safe, you see the improvement and you see them feeling better,” she said. “I think that’s the most fulfilling part.”

Whitaker, who is from Ludington, started as a nurse aide at just 16 at the former Baywood Nursing Home as part of a co-op program in high school.

She began working summers and weekends at Ludington Hospital in 1977 as a nurse aide, while getting her nursing degree. She graduated from the Hackley School of Nursing in Muskegon in 1979.

Her mother, Caroline Majewski, also worked as a nurse at Ludington Hospital and she inspired Whitaker to join the ranks. Mom worked nights, daughter days.

“As an aide, I used to take report for my mother in the morning,” Whitaker said laughing.

Whitaker said she knew as a senior in high school that nursing was her calling.

“I figured out that I really enjoyed it,” she said. “I liked helping the patients.”

After graduation, she worked in the surgery department for a year, and then transferred to the ED, where she’s now nursed for the past 43 years.

And she still enjoys it.

“It’s always changing,” she said. “The patients are constantly rotating, and you’re taking care of everything in the realm of medicine. You take care of little minor injuries and very ill people, and every one is a new challenge.”

Whitaker says she plans to retire in the next couple of years.

“It’s hard, it’s fast-paced and you’re on your feet a lot—and I’m getting older,” she said laughing.

“I’ve truly enjoyed it,” she said. “There’s stressful times and there’s times when you think ‘I’m not going back’ but you do, because you do enjoy it.”

The trio have seen dramatic changes in nursing over the years.

They said advances in technology and the use of personal protective equipment have been major changes in the profession. It wasn’t until HIV became prevalent that they even wore gloves.

“We didn’t wear gloves to start an IV,” Wright said. “We’d have a trauma and if they were bleeding we’d put our hands in there—the bloodier you got, the more you worked that day,” she said. “We didn’t understand all the bloodborne pathogens that caused disease.”

Hinman said there’s been increased accountability for nurses, too.

“Instead of working for the doctors, now we work with the doctors; it’s more of a team effort,” she said. “We can make more decisions and assessments.”

Whitaker said staying current with advances and changes in medicine is a never-ending challenge.

“There is always so much new—new equipment, new education, new protocols and procedures,” Hinman said. “They come so fast it can be hard to keep up.”

The three nurses have kept up, and developed a special bond through the years.

“Laurie, Sally and I have been down in the ER the entire time together; it’s been great working with them,” Whitaker said. “They’re very dear friends.”

With the end of their respective careers in sight, they each said they’d pick nursing as career all over again.

“It isn’t for everyone, but if you have a passion to help people, it’s a great career,” Wright said. “I wouldn’t consider anything else if I was 19 again.”

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“How do I just stand up and walk away and leave him here?” the mother asked emergency department nurse Laurielynn Hinman.

The mother’s teenage son had died after being hit by a vehicle, and she sat at his bedside in the Spectrum Health Ludington Hospital.

Hinman, a young nurse at the time, compassionately said, “I don’t know how you do that, but you don’t have to until you’re ready.”

Decades later, Hinman recalls how that incident helped shape her outlook in providing empathetic care to patients.

“That was so impactful for me,” Hinman said. “Unless you’ve been through it, you don’t have a clue about what people are experiencing. It was a great lesson for me to learn.”

Hinman, along with fellow Ludington Hospital nurses Clara Whitaker and Sally Wright, have all served more than 40 years at the hospital, the bulk of it in the emergency department together.

They all cite a love of helping patients and showing compassion as the driving motivation and source of joy in their nursing careers.

Candy striper to seasoned veteran

Hinman is planning to retire in October after a 45-year career. She’s looking forward to spending time with her grandchildren. No. 4 is on the way.

The Royal Oak, Michigan, native began working in health care as a high school student, serving as a hospital volunteer, or candy striper as they were called at the time for their novelty red-and-white striped aprons.

After high school, Hinman worked as a nurse aide in Florida for a year before returning to Michigan to start her college career. She received her nursing certification from Kirtland Community College in 1975 and began work in the labor and delivery unit of a Detroit-area hospital.

She moved to Ludington in 1979 and began work at the Ludington hospital. She’s worked the past 32 years in the emergency department, while earning an associate degree in nursing from West Shore Community College and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Ferris State University.

Hinman has relished working with patients over the years.

“It’s a great honor that you can be with them during some of the greatest times of their life, and some of the hardest times and that’s an honor that our patients give us that I think sometimes we forget,” Hinman said. “That’s been my biggest joy.”

And in working in a small town, she values providing care for friends and neighbors.

“That’s one of the joys of working in a community like ours; you know your patients and you become a part of their lives,” she said. “It’s a comfort for them. I think there’s a lot of advantages to being in a small community like this.”

A key to providing that comfort, that compassionate care, is to remain empathetic even when part of the job becomes old hat.

“One of the hardest things is that the emergency room is everyday life for us,” she said. “But it’s not for them and we have to remember that.”

“It’s been a very rewarding 45 years,” she said. “I’ve gotten back a whole lot more than I’ve given. I’m very thankful for that.”

She said the people she’s worked with have made the job rewarding.

“Clara, Sally and I should give a shout out to all the people who have helped us through the years, as we couldn’t have done it without all of them.”

Paying it forward

Sally Wright agrees.

“I’m thankful for the mentors that I had,” she said. “For over 40 years I’ve had the opportunity to work with some phenomenal people.”

She called out Linford Davis, MD, as someone who inspired her in her early years as a nurse.

“He had a great influence on me,” she said. “He was always teaching. I loved that, and I was always picking his brain.”

“I credit a lot of what I’ve done and accomplished to people that have paved that way for me and taught me, and it feels like it’s my turn to pass that on to other people.”

Wright grew up locally, just down the road from Ludington in nearby Scottville.

She recently marked 40 years of working at Ludington Hospital.

She attended Spring Arbor College in Jackson after high school and, between her freshman and sophomore year, still felt undecided on her career choice.

While home for the summer, a friend’s mother, who headed the Ludington Hospital emergency department, invited her to work as nurse tech to see if it would be something she’d like.

“I loved it,” Wright said. “I just fell in love with it.”

With renewed focus, she started taking nursing classes, completing prerequisite classes at Spring Arbor before getting her associate degree in nursing from Jackson Community College and a bachelor’s degree in biology from Spring Arbor.

She would work summers and holidays at the hospital. After college, she worked in the critical care unit for a year until a position opened in the emergency department. She’s been in the ED ever since.

“I love the pace of the ED,” she said. “I love the variety of the ED— no two days are ever the same.”

She would add a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Grand Valley State University and a teaching degree from Ferris State University, the latter to fulfill a calling to teach and help other students find their way— just as the hospital leader helped her long ago.

For the past 21 years, she has been teaching for the West Shore Educational Service District while working part time at the hospital.

She teaches allied health for high school students who are considering going into health care. She teaches nurse aide certification, an EKG technician certification program and basic life support.

“I have this combined love of nursing and teaching and it’s been a great career,” Wright said.

“That’s why I’m so passionate about helping students to see if it’s something they want, because somebody gave me a chance,” she said.

As a nurse, Wright believes strongly in being a patient advocate.

“That’s the most rewarding for me,” she said. “When you’re truly there for the patient and the family.”

Wright said she tries to keep the golden rule in mind.

“People need help,” she said. “That’s been my passion—be there for the patient, treat them like I’d want to be treated and treat their family like I’d want my family treated. Sometimes it’s just that little extra, like offering a family member a cup a coffee.”

“Nobody is really at their best when they come to the emergency department,” she said. “They’re scared, and they react out of fear and worry. Think about what they’re going though.”

Wright is considering retiring from teaching in the next couple of years, but said she wants to keep nursing until she “retires, retires.”

Following family footsteps

Clara Whitaker also points to helping patients as the part of her job she’s enjoyed the most.

“You help them feel better, you keep them safe, you see the improvement and you see them feeling better,” she said. “I think that’s the most fulfilling part.”

Whitaker, who is from Ludington, started as a nurse aide at just 16 at the former Baywood Nursing Home as part of a co-op program in high school.

She began working summers and weekends at Ludington Hospital in 1977 as a nurse aide, while getting her nursing degree. She graduated from the Hackley School of Nursing in Muskegon in 1979.

Her mother, Caroline Majewski, also worked as a nurse at Ludington Hospital and she inspired Whitaker to join the ranks. Mom worked nights, daughter days.

“As an aide, I used to take report for my mother in the morning,” Whitaker said laughing.

Whitaker said she knew as a senior in high school that nursing was her calling.

“I figured out that I really enjoyed it,” she said. “I liked helping the patients.”

After graduation, she worked in the surgery department for a year, and then transferred to the ED, where she’s now nursed for the past 43 years.

And she still enjoys it.

“It’s always changing,” she said. “The patients are constantly rotating, and you’re taking care of everything in the realm of medicine. You take care of little minor injuries and very ill people, and every one is a new challenge.”

Whitaker says she plans to retire in the next couple of years.

“It’s hard, it’s fast-paced and you’re on your feet a lot—and I’m getting older,” she said laughing.

“I’ve truly enjoyed it,” she said. “There’s stressful times and there’s times when you think ‘I’m not going back’ but you do, because you do enjoy it.”

The trio have seen dramatic changes in nursing over the years.

They said advances in technology and the use of personal protective equipment have been major changes in the profession. It wasn’t until HIV became prevalent that they even wore gloves.

“We didn’t wear gloves to start an IV,” Wright said. “We’d have a trauma and if they were bleeding we’d put our hands in there—the bloodier you got, the more you worked that day,” she said. “We didn’t understand all the bloodborne pathogens that caused disease.”

Hinman said there’s been increased accountability for nurses, too.

“Instead of working for the doctors, now we work with the doctors; it’s more of a team effort,” she said. “We can make more decisions and assessments.”

Whitaker said staying current with advances and changes in medicine is a never-ending challenge.

“There is always so much new—new equipment, new education, new protocols and procedures,” Hinman said. “They come so fast it can be hard to keep up.”

The three nurses have kept up, and developed a special bond through the years.

“Laurie, Sally and I have been down in the ER the entire time together; it’s been great working with them,” Whitaker said. “They’re very dear friends.”

With the end of their respective careers in sight, they each said they’d pick nursing as career all over again.

“It isn’t for everyone, but if you have a passion to help people, it’s a great career,” Wright said. “I wouldn’t consider anything else if I was 19 again.”

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