About a week ago, a video broke the internet and was making rounds. I was doom-scrolling when I came across it. It showed an unpaid nurse crying, lamenting how her landlord was disturbing her because she couldn’t renew her rent.

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Before the video even ended, my husband made a comment that left me both disappointed and angry. He said, “You nurses are hypocrites. Why didn’t you demonstrate when the NPP was in power? But now that the NDC is in power, you’re demonstrating just to sabotage them.”

He didn’t stop there. He condemned the strike nurses embarked on months ago and criticised the junior doctors who are planning to strike soon. The way he said it, the tone, the dismissal, and the lack of empathy made me furious. I’m a nurse. Hearing my own husband speak so carelessly about my profession, right in front of me, broke something inside.

During the argument, he said something I can’t even recall clearly, but I responded with the phrase “the chick of it.” Now he’s angry about that and refusing to acknowledge how he disrespected my profession. And that is so not cool.

This is the same profession that pays me. The same job that allows me to contribute 70 per cent of the upkeep in our home. I’m not exaggerating. I work hard, I sacrifice, and I give my all to my patients and to my household.

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I expect this kind of disrespect from strangers online, not from someone who sees the sacrifices I make every day. Not from someone who knows how much I carry at work and at home.

So I’m asking: Am I wrong to feel angry and disappointed? Because right now, I feel unseen. And it hurts.

—Nurse Titi

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