Staying in scrubs for 18 hours, managing angry patients, itchy faces from day shifts merging into night shifts - that is what a day in the life of a nurse in a COVID ward looks like. But if the coronavirus pandemic has taught us something it is this - that the nurses all over the globe have been COVID heroes day in and day out. In a challenging time such as this there are so many roadblocks that nurses manoeuver every day. Here is one such account of Riya Gill, a nursing officer posted in PGI, Chandigarh.