Heartfelt Nurse Stories: Behind the Scrubs. Story from the ER In nursing, you think you’ve seen it all—until you haven’t. I’ll never forget the day a woman came into the ER with her arm swollen, red, and oozing infection. When we asked what happened, her answer stopped us cold: she had shot up mustard trying to get high. Addiction had driven her so deep into desperation that logic and pain didn’t even register anymore. Despite everything we did—IV antibiotics, wound care, surgery—she ended up lo