A sad day for me
I have had another crap day at my day job.
I love doing my daily posts, but today, i just feel too sad so i might just have a quick debrief here, and then log off.
My work as a community nurse involves visiting the homes of clients to care for their wounds, or catheters, or hygiene etc. Some of these clients I have been seeing once or twice per week for the last 4 years of working for this company.
So it is only natural that you form a great rapport with these regular clients, some you would even call your friends.
These are people that are bed-bound and love for me to regale them with my tales of my escapades and I delight in telling them about my weekends spent wakeboarding or motorbike riding or just going to the beach. They have been living a little through me.
Today I lost not one, but two of my favourite clients.
One had been a quadriplegic for 40 years!! And the other was a 'broken down old cowboy' (his words) and they were both the loveliest fellas you ever would meet.
I have been nursing for about 12 years or so, and have seen more dead bodies than I can count but none have affected me quite as much as these 2.
Maybe it was the cumulative effect. Maybe it was my job dissatisfaction of late. I don't know.
Whatever the reason, I had a couple of glasses of wine tonight for these 2 lovely guys.
RIP Dan and Allen. May you finally have relief from your daily struggles.
Cheers, Kris
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As a nurses' aide I can totally empathize with your sad day. I dont know you well enough to know if you are religous, but try to have Faith in these sad times. I am sure your Old cowboy is finally now riding into the sunset on a horse waiting to take him to a better place. Also the quadrapelegic is now able to walk and is dancing his way back to Creator. They will go in a good way as thanks to you for the care you took for them. I am sure in your experience this is a part of the job that is hardest to take. So today take care of yourself. And pray with gratitude that you made a difference in what life they had left.
Hope this helps. Miigwetch~Thank you for sharing.
You do a wonderful job and the fact that you were able to bring joy into these patients lives with your stories is really good. They are in a better place now and maybe the quadriplegic gentleman is wakeboarding.
Ha, that is great. Thanks for that. i could picture him now. It's so sad that they were prisoners of their own bodies but now I am happy they are free.
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They will miss you too, I am sure you made a difference in their lifes.