I donated this painting to the nursing home 7 years ago. it used to hang in my kitchen behind my stained hardwood kitchen table. It matched the color of the tree trunks and rocks. It was a beautiful painting and i loved it dearly, but when i moved to the tiny house it became abundantly …
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A Country Solution
I’m currently covering my coworker’s maternity leave which means i’m seeing her patients and my boss is seeing his and my patients. We are one man down so i cant exactly call in and say i need a day off to go handle a dog thing. I usually order my flea and heart-worm meds from …
My Potato Chip Buddy
Today i walked past a room suddenly disheveled and in the process of packing. My heart dropped through my feet and i stood frozen. Staring at the balled up sheets mounded on the recliner. Staring at the boxes of personal items. Staring at the bare mattress. I felt the lump in my throat and the …
So After 23 Years I Finally Have a Diagnosis
I have Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. I actually initially found the diagnosis myself. I was having a severe flare up and nothing that usually treated the symptoms was working. I sat there at night in the middle of my symptoms thinking; at times the symptoms are worse than others, they’ve been going on for 23 years, my …
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The Small Things in Life
As a person with many food allergies i never get to participate in the company ice cream days or cookouts. well they paid a snow-cone truck to park near the door on the end of one of the halls and they paid for us each to have one snow cone. My coworker asked just to …
How You Know You are Joining Your Patients in the Necessity of New and Exciting Isolation Precautions:
– you wake abruptly from sleep every 8 minutes because you seem to have stopped breathing – your resting heart rate is 114 and climbing. – you feel very hot. Your usual layers of sweaters and jackets worn to combat the facility a/c begin coming off. – the orange in your lunch doesnt taste sweet. …
I Set Myself up for Failure.
This is the moment where i began to see my job as a second home and the group of people i worked with as family. My introverted self began participating in things that took me outside of my comfort zone because people i cared about asked me to and i understood that it would make …
Why Cashew Doesnt Come to Work with me:
Because it is my job to rehabilitate patients when i am on the clock. My company does not pay me to train my dog. For me this is a no brainer. Training a dog is a very focused activity. You have to tune into the way in which your animal is thinking….their motivating factors, their …
What Does it Mean to be EMS?
Our best CNA who takes care of these people like they were his own son points and hits the nurse firmly on the shoulder. We look. What we thought was a benign napping patient enjoying an afternoon snooze in his regular chair under the skylight in the warm sun is now a medical problem. Seemingly …
Weather’s Coming, Weather’s Coming!
i had just gotten back to work in time to work with some of the feeder patients for supper. I had received word that the wire transfer went through and the money i needed to write a check for the rest of the cost of the nissan rogue was sitting in my account. I had …