Jackie Alexander is a registered nurse, trained to respond to emergencies and administer care. In an emergency, she must rely on her gut.

Recently, her instincts told her to administer an enema which would cause a lof of damage. This was a lead enema, a far cry from the normal saline flush up the rectum.

Not something you’d expect from a health practitioner, a woman whose professional oath includes ” abstain[ing] from whatever is deleterious and mischievous”

But it wound up saving a life.

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Jackie Alexander, a registered nurse for over two decades, doesn’t shy away from a challenge, and she certainly didn’t back down when a man followed her into her home and began assaulting her.

The terrifying home invasion began after Alexander took her dog outside her Bargersville, IN home Friday just after midnight. Although her husband was at work