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Just shooting the poop with Lori |
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He travels the world on the backs of others Insignificant in his stature and size His journey carries no mission Randomly roaming at the will of his host Sated enough to never question his trek Life is an open adventure without worry If the excitement of his dusty trail dulls Another bus awaits to grant passage With a furry friend to carry him home Ah the wonderful life of a flea |
| I will be working tomorrow night and working holidays always temporarily bums me out when I have to leave the family while they enjoy their food coma But I am thankful for my coworkers who are committed to providing excellent care as they miss their families. I am thankful for a husband who will cook a turkey before I leave so I can feed my belly. And I am very thankful for all of the family and friends staying safe at home this Turkey Day. May God bless you and keep you all safe. Cheers and love peeps, here's to hoping this madness ends soon. |
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| I have been writing down my childhood memories of growing up in E. St. Louis. It has been great fun revisiting my thoughts and dreams from that era. It has put me in contact with many people that grew up there as well and share similar memories. It does a body good to have people tell you that your story resonated with them. So here sits my Thanksgiving Day thankfulness. I am thankful for the people that shared a place and time of importance to me, childhood. |
| Gearing up for the insanity once more. This has been the roughest year of my nursing career. The news stations keep telling people that the hospitals are full, with no more room at the Inn. They need to clarify! There is no more staff to care for these people! I can pop anyone into a makeshift room but I can't guarantee that someone will be back to tend to their needs. I had a man screaming at me the other night because he waited an hour before he got his soda. What I couldn't tell him was that we were in the middle of a Medical emergency for over 2 hours and that the person ended up passing. It has been many years since I was a new young nurse wanting to cry over the bad days we experience. I have toughened up and shed my tears on people I encounter, not tasks.or stress But for the first time in a long time I had to leave this soda seeking jerk's room before I cried my eyes out. Some years ago we began marketing the hospitals as comfortable homes away from home, or hotels with room service. I can even remember a campaign that was pushed that if you complained because your needs weren't met within 5 minutes, you got coupon for a free meal in the cafeteria. Nurses called it bitching for a burger with even the nicest of patients complaining to get free meals for their visitors. The program ended within a month because the hospital couldn't keep up with demand. It could be argued that improvement was needed on the front lines with regard to answering call lights or doing what the patient wanted, but I was the one that had to deal many of those complaints. There were a few genuine concerns, but for the most part they were things like (I didn't like my nurse in ED, My lunch was late yesterday, Why can't I have 5 visitors after 10 p.m.?, I didn't get my bath today because I said no when they asked, they microwaved my food and it was too hot to eat,and my tv went down in the storm) By word of mouth this insane program spread with people showing up on the floor asking for their free meal. Fast forward to 2020, the year of COVID, the cafeteria and the coffee shop closes at two in the afternoon. Food stored on the floors is the bare minimum, you will be lucky to get peanut butter and grahm crackers. So you better eat what they send you when they send it. Night Nurses are also out of luck when it comes to buying a hot meal. Visitors are limited to the dying patients and even then only one is allowed. So please, if you see a garbed up visitor do not complain because they were allowed visitors. They were there to say goodbye to a loved one that spent their last days alone. We are not allowed to microwave food from the outside, so eat it cold or when you get it. No, you do not get a huge plastic cup with the hospital logo. We can only bring throw away cups to your room. And please remember, that while you spent 10 minutes chewing me out for that late soda, I could have been medically caring for someone in dire need. You are welcome for the soda and I promise to do my best to meet all of your needs. And there is no tip necessary, as I rethink my choice of careers. It was said a long time ago, that patience is a virtue and in the coming days we will need more and more of this virtue. Please pray for healthcare workers everywhere as they navigate through the tumultuous COVID infested waters. |
| . “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” ― Plato “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” ― Leo Tolstoy Two quotes about the impact of music in our lives.If you have ever been called back in time by a song, then you know the explosion of love and bursting of emotion it can bring to the heart.Music can rock you world without you even being aware of its importance. The simple lyrics of a tune may not strike your memory until years later. It could be a song that your parent sang, or a tune about a first love. It could be a tune that you heard on the radio at a sad point in your life, but the power that it holds is beyond amazing. It has the ability to capture a moment in time and hold it in a special bubble for you to relive the memory. Music is majestic. |
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| Leaves, are at the moment the bane of my existence. I have an entire yard full of the brown and crinkly suckers. Now, we have lived here for 30 years and the trees are gorgeous in full bloom but whoever planted these gumball bearing vermin was not right in the head. In our younger days, we spent every weekend of October and November cleaning up the yard but we wised up. The leaves will continue to fall whether we clean or not. Sounds like a good motto about life, but I digress. So here I sit with an entire yard full of leaves telling myself that i have the strength and energy to do the work myself, but that is very unlikely at this stage of the game. Work has me exhausted and darn it I am getting old. I hate to admit that fact. Paying someone to do it is an option but it makes me feel very lazy. I've never done that before and will just have to convince myself that any time saved is a blessing at this point. Wish me luck. |
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| The world is very confusing these days. We argue over even whether to argue. We need some serious fixing in our heads. It saddens me to see the hatred spread on social media. I am just glad that I am not so wrapped up in the politics that I am so depressed by the loss and unable to get out of bed as some people suggest that they are or so thrilled by the victory that I must continue to bash all others of opposing viewpoints. There are so many more important matters at hand. Let's get to fixing the problems we face, together. |
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