Registered Nurse Dolly Colby Recently Featured on Close Up Radio

SAN CARLOS, CA, UNITED STATES, October 23, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Dolly Colby, RN, BSN was giving birth to her first child when her heart stopped. She hemorrhaged on the operating table and found herself looking down at the scene from somewhere outside. She witnessed the blood, the panic and the doctors working over her. There, she was met by a presence she could not fully explain who gave her a choice: cross over or return and raise her son. Colby chose to return.

Her recovery was brutal. She spent weeks in intensive care, underwent dialysis and was told she might never walk again. Through it all, the nurses who had delivered her baby kept showing up on their own time to hold him and feed him while Colby could not. She says that quiet act of care, offered by strangers with nothing to gain, is what pulled her away from a successful career in account and toward nursing school.

She chose labor and delivery specifically, knowing that it was where she could give the most back to families facing the kind of fear she once felt. Colby went on to spend nearly two decades in that specialty, delivering thousands of babies and training newer nurses along the way.

Roughly 18 years into her labor and delivery career, Colby decided to try something different. She moved into weight loss medicine and medical aesthetics, where she helped patients access compounded GLP-1 medications at a time when the treatments were far less available. Colby says she tested the medication on herself before recommending it to patients and lost 30 pounds, a result that drew steady interest from the community she served.

Later, she trained in bio-identical hormone therapy (HRT), a treatment that uses hormone pellets to help men and women manage the symptoms of low testosterone and menopause. Colby says the therapy changed lives in ways she could never have anticipated. Men who arrived embarrassed about low libido left telling her the treatment had saved their marriages. Women who had struggled with vaginal dryness and low desire reported feeling like themselves again. One patient, in her 80s, newly dating after moving into a retirement community, asked Colby for guidance after years without a libido. Colby said the therapy worked, and the woman’s gratitude has been overwhelming.

Colby says she was drawn to the specialty in part because of her own experience with menopause, when she found few effective options for managing the symptoms and was worried that she was losing her mind. That gap in care is what pushed her to get certified in the HRT in the first place.

Colby eventually returned to full-time hospital nursing when a shift schedule made it impossible to keep up her outside clinical work. She has since completed a master’s degree in biochemistry at Stanford University while continuing to work as a nurse, a decision she says changed how she talks to patients. Colby often compares neurotransmitters to keys and cell receptors to locks, a simple image she uses to help patients without medical training understand how our bodies function.

Now semi-retired, Colby has taken up travel nursing, working short-term contracts of seven to 13 weeks for hospitals outside her home region. She says the arrangement lets her meet new patient populations and learn how different hospitals operate. She is preparing to start an assignment in a more rural community this month. In an unexpected turn, Colby recently underwent her first colonoscopy and left the appointment with two job interviews after the clinic’s staff asked to bring her on board.

Colby’s advice to newer nurses centers on flexibility. She encourages them to think critically rather than simply follow instructions, to ask questions and stay open to unfamiliar opportunities (even when that means stepping outside a rigid, hierarchical training system). She points to her own path, from accounting to labor and delivery to hormone therapy to travel nursing, as proof that a career in medicine rarely moves in a straight line.

Outside the hospital, Colby tends a vegetable and rose garden, which she describes as a grounding, therapeutic connection to the natural world. She says the practice mirrors how she thinks about patient care, where every part of the body relies on every other part to function.

Colby still thinks about the choice she made on that operating table decades ago. She was told to find a way to make a difference in other people’s lives, and she has spent every year since trying to honor that instruction, first in the delivery room, then in weight loss medicine, then in hormone therapy and now on the road as a travel nurse. Whatever carried her back that day, Colby feels she has kept up her end of the bargain.

About Dolly Colby, RN, BSN

Dolly Colby is a registered nurse with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a master’s degree in biochemistry from Stanford University. Over more than two decades in health care, she has worked in labor and delivery, medical weight loss, IV wellness therapy and bio-identical hormone therapy, and she is currently working as a travel nurse. Colby lives in Northern California, where she gardens in her free time.

Close Up Radio recently featured Dolly Colby, RN, BSN, in an interview with Jim Masters on Wednesday October 21st at 2pm Eastern

Listen to the Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-up-radio-spotlights-registered-nurse-dolly-colby/id1785721253?i=1000797532187
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-close-up-radio-242020413/episode/close-up-radio-spotlights-registered-nurse-dolly-colby-348146477
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0qsZ0sEx5W0QVPSctW3L33

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