~It's not that your parents love their grandkids more. It's that their grandkids remind them of you as a child. And its like getting to love that version of you all over again ~ Tiktok 2024
Little update for my work family... (past and new).
Sadly I will no longer be the thorn in your side on the ward. ?While I am healing nicely (except for today- today is not a healing nicely day) and after yet another doctors review I/we (husband) along with my doctor - think it will be for the best that I not return as a HCA.
I have struggled so much over the last week with coming to this decision but honestly I'm just not confident that I would be able to give my role 100% and I could not live with myself if I injured a patient. ?It now appears I have made the right decision after getting out of bed this morning and standing on the TV remote, sealed the deal. While I re-adjust the ice pack once again on this stupid foot of mine please know that I am grateful to each and everyone of you who have taught me along the way.
It takes a special bunch of people to do what you do and still be able to smile when you enter the next room. I have worked with some of the loveliest families in our little community and I have worked with some of the grumpiest and dysfunctional families but I feel blessed and honored to have known you all - in many cases under the saddest of circumstances.
Through this amazing role I have grown as a person. I have loved my (at times) thankless job. I have been pooed on, peed on, had vomit expelled in my direction, been screamed at, pushed, pulled, punched and pinched, but with all that comes so much more. I have had some of the sincerest of conversations. I have had the best hugs on an otherwise not so good day. I have observed the blank stares when loved ones are no longer recognized. I have listened to stories of days gone by. I have tried to comfort families who are experiencing pain of loss. I have cared for someone who turned 103 and I, yes little ole me, has had the absolute honor to hold the hands of some of the most loving gentle and (not so gentle) souls as they take their final breath. ?My heart has broken with every set of wings given out. In most cases I have been strong but there have been times when I haven't. I have learnt something from every situation I have been faced with, good or bad as there is a life lesson in everything - learn from it!
