When I Die I'm Going to Heaven 'Cause I've Spent My Time in Hell

A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam

De: Barbara Hesselman Kautz MSN RN

Narrado por: Janet Metzger

When she was 18, she joined the army to finance her nursing education.

With less than six months of nursing experience, she was assigned to the 24th Evacuation Hospital in South Vietnam.

True tales of the war that are by turns horrifying and humorous, told with an eye for detail, by a woman who was in the thick of it.

©2013 Barbara Hesselman Kautz, MSN, RN (P)2019 Tantor

A year of bravery.

This book helps the hearer understand Vietnam nurses suffered as much as the wounded they treated. It is a thorough guide to a nurse's year in Vietnam.

Vietnam nursing

After reading a fictional Vietnam nurses story i decided I needed to read about the real women. this was my second autobiography of a Vietnam nurse. it was excellent.

Loved this

I am a little younger than Barbara and am also an RNMSN. I taught nursing and worked ER . I have a small idea of what she experienced. I had a close friend who was in ADAC. It was horrible too. She passed last year from a bad heart.
You are heroes for sure!
Nancy MSNRN

Compelling narrative of life as a nurse in Viet Nam

This is a story that needs to be told, wars are still being fought and medical treatments necessary but effects on care givers is overlooked.
The narrative seemed bland when describing more intense situations but the anecdotes about life outside of the hospital are priceless.

Engaging setting and story

I enjoyed Hesselman's story and life experience, and especially having insight into the Vietnam War era from one who was in country. I would have given it a higher rating if the narrator chosen had been younger, I felt like I was listening to my grandmother telling a story. It was distracting to have an older woman's voice, however capable, narrating a story about young adults. If the narrator had been livelier and youthful, I think it would have pulled the listener into the story's struggles, pain, parties and drama in a much more engaging manner.

Otherwise, it was a good 6 hours of listening.