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Caitlyn Blumer’s tattoos honor her daughter, whose birth tree is the willow, and a brain to mark her time in nursing school and work in a neurological ICU. (photo by Susan Kahn)
Marissa Edwards’ tattoo shows the word “hope” with a cancer awareness ribbon to honor her grandmother, who had cancer and motivated Edwards to pursue a nursing career.
The industry is estimated to be worth $1.2 billion in the United States, up 3 percent since 2016, according to IBISWorld, which tracks a variety of industries worldwide.
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The AuthorityTattoo.com website cites a poll from 2019 that revealed 30 percent of all Americans have at least one tattoo, up from 21 percent in 2012.
Tattoos are more popular with younger generations, the website writes, because they were taboo in the 1960s and 1970s when today’s parents/grandparents were coming of age.
The group also tells of a survey of the social media site Instagram that showed rose tattoos are the most featured body art, followed by skulls, pop art, birds and text of names or phrases.
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Becky Hogle, who took part in a COVID vaccine trial, has a tattoo of a COVID-19 virus looking scared as it receives a dose of the vaccine.
Nye was flattered when someone once told her the nurse on her arm resembled Rosie the Riveter, the character designed to recruit female workers during World War II.
Her tattoo shows the COVID-19 virus looking terrified as a vaccine-filled syringe comes toward it on her upper left arm, where she had a scar from the smallpox vaccine many years ago.
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“It’s hard to wrap your head around this when you’re in the midst of it, that this is a historic event, ” Hogle says.
She added the word “hope, ” with the loop in the “h” being a cancer awareness ribbon, to the outside of her foot on World Cancer Day in 2012.
The tattoo honors her grandmother, Delores, who was in treatment for endometrial cancer and was a big motivation for Edwards choosing a nursing career.
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“She passed away later that year as the cancer ultimately advanced to her lungs, but I only remember her walking through each day of her fight with humor in her loud and bright laugh, intention in her presence and love for family and girlfriends, and beauty in both her selfless heart and perfectly placed lipstick, always, ” Edwards says.
“I wanted something pretty and feminine that resembled the medical field. I got this tattoo six years into being in the medical field, and it’s even more of a symbol of pride today in 2021 after everything we've been through as medical professionals these past 18 months.”
Respiratory therapy student Jerica Bonvino of Auburn has a star of life tattoo on the back of her leg, which she got in 2018 to remind her of her time as an emergency medical technician.
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She added this tattoo of lungs in 2020 because she is working toward becoming a respiratory therapist “and the lungs are incredibly fascinating.” She says she has been asked if the lungs really look like they appear in her tattoo. (They do.)
She got the heart and willow tree in 2016 in honor of her daughter “because everything I do is for her, and the willow tree is her birth tree.”
The anatomical brain was added in 2020 to celebrate her accomplishment of getting through nursing school and landing a position in a neuro ICU while working overnights as a single mom.
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An image of a nurse in a traditional nursing cap is one way Caitlin M. Nye shows pride in her personal and professional identity as a nurse. (photo by Robert Mescavage)
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Doctors were left with an ethical dilemma after an unconscious patient was brought into their hospital with a "do not resuscitate" tattoo on his chest.
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The 70-year-old man was taken by paramedics into the emergency room at Miami University Hospital with a high blood-alcohol level and without any identification, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.
Doctors discovered the patient’s tattoo with his signature beneath, but could not find a next of kin or any medical paper work for him.
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