Rental: Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing
Wed, May 27
|Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum
presentation and conversation with Author Sarah L. Blum
Time & Location
May 27, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT
Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, 93 Pike St #307, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
About the Event
Thanks to Sarah's generosity and her lifelong commitment to ensuring PTSD survivors get the support they deserve, this program is free and open to all. No RSVP required
At the 12th Evacuation Hospital Cu Chi, Vietnam, Sarah Blum is an operating room nurse during the fighting in the iron triangle in 1967. Mass casualties with severely wounded soldiers show up for Sarah, her fellow nurses, and the surgeons to treat in the midst of mortar attacks, monsoons, and exploding artillery. Her story is intertwined with Johnny, hit by American artillery, and Jim, a baseball pitcher with multiple wounds including to his pitching hand. It encompasses her terror on the tarmac at Bien Hoa air base on the day she leaves, culture shock, emerging PTSD symptoms, assaults by protestors, being head nurse of the orthopedic ward at Madigan General Hospital, and her growing awareness of the effects of the war on…