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My job really is fun most of the time. My patients can say the funniest things sometimes. The other night a patient on our floor was walking around the hallways at 4am because he couldn’t sleep. I asked if he was tired. His answer? “About as tired as you are tall.” (For those of you who don’t know, I’m only 4′ 10″.) My reply was to laugh and say “Then you must not be very tired.” As I walked around the corner the charge nurse for the shift was laughing and said that little interaction was one of the funniest things she’d heard in a while.
And a question to throw out there… I recently read an article addressing this question and was wondering what you guys thought… Are gift cards a good idea or a cop out? Personally, I like them for those hard to buy for people who you just can’t figure out the right gift to give. But I can see the argument that they’re cop out and taking the easy way out. Yes, I’m sitting right there on the middle of the fence. lol
The holiday season is almost here again. Thanksgiving here in the U.S. is in just two weeks. I’ve been away from my family living a few thousand miles away for the past few years. This will be my first holiday season with them in three years. To say I’m looking forward to that is an understatement of epic proportions. Thanksgiving morning my sister and her family and I are leaving town to go visit her husband’s parents who live an hour away. Her in-laws are fabulous, sweet people and I always enjoy spending time with them, so I was thrilled to be invited to join them for the holiday. I’m settled in here back in Oregon and work is going better than I could hope for. Staffing is great, I work with some really professional and caring nursing staff, and the new job is challenging enough to keep me on my toes. I’m just in a good place right now so I feel like I just have so much to be thankful for. Then shortly after Thanksgiving is Christmas… my very favorite holiday! To spend it with my family this year is just going to make it extra special. So that’s my happy rambling for now… :)
