Rx: Hugs Q4H prn
Rx: Hugs Q4H prnDudes- how’s it going? I am totally having a blast now here in Cgy…for starters.. I have begun to look for “good” in Cgy.. and although one has to look kinda hard for “good”… it’s there… just hard to see “good” at times
The other day I was at a Home Outfitters store shopping for curtains for my new room…I was just standing in front of a display.. when a lady cross checked and pushed me from behind because she wanted to look at the same “Sale Section” I was. If this was a hockey game she would have been given a 5 minute penalty for that, because I was knocked right over.. she was a big lady at least 200+ lbs.
So instead of getting mad and angry at yet another example of how evil people can be in this city.. I decided to look for “good”… Surely this city has got to have “good” I said to myself.
The next day I was teaching yet another group of nurses at SAIT.. and of course they were just being completely nasty to me…but I was trying my hardest to remain positive… someone asked me a workflow question that I wasn’t too sure about and in the room next door the other trainer ( Rosita _ I love to roll the R when I say her name) used to be a staff nurses at Rockyview General and so I thought maybe she would be able to answer the question…
When I walked into her room.. I was in awe… it was like I was watching a saint in action.. her students were just like mine… but the way Rosita responded to their angry retorts was soo different from my own…the way Rosita walked around the room comforting the students with a hug or touch.. it was like what I would expect Mother Teresa to have been like with the homeless… except Rosita wasn’t comforting people suffering from Leprosy, she was comforting foul mouthed Calgarian nurses.. it was soo amazing to see how Rosita could show such compassion even when her students told her “ to go sit on a monitor and rotate”.. it really said a lot about her as a person…
After class we talked about that and other stuff going on… and I was again in awe…she made a good point… “ we cant control others and how they act… we can only control ourselves”…. She used to be a nurse up in Fort McMurry- which is about 8 hours north of Cgy…the only thing up there is: oil, money, bears and beer
She was telling me about the problem of the Oil Kids and drugs is a big problem… so many of the kids from families of Oil end up heavily in the drugs and have little or no ambition in life… I was then able to put my ex-roomate’s situation into better context for me to understand where he was coming from….
But it isn’t always like that… that same evening I met a guy who’s family made millions in the oil and gas industry… at 21 he has more money than he knows what to do with… but instead of wasting away doing crack or pot and doing nothing with his life… he has decided to put his new found money to a good cause…..after hearing about all the orphaned kids in Africa because of the AIDS crisis… he is opening up a school in Malawi- a small improvised country in Africa for these children. One of the burdens many of these children face is that once their parents and elders die or get sick.. it’s the children who end up fending for the families by working the farms or taking jobs in the cities…and as a result many children get no education because they are forced to work at such early ages.. and since they have no education they are unable to get better jobs- which will result in a nasty cycle of poverty for soo many. So this guy is opening this school which will allow the kids to continue to do what they need to do for their villages/ family and at the same time get an education. He is completely funding this school with the millions in extra cash his parents are giving him…
Don’t worry I haven’t entertained the idea of rushing off to Africa to save the world… but I wanted to share this story… because it really made me believe again.
As for the work front.. Things are improving daily… the physicians continue to love me.. I spend a lot of time in the doctor’s lounges now.. I feel like they have adopted me into their exclusive club…these lounges are amazing.. it feels like an upscale airport lounge… they have everything from leather couches to cigars and big screen tvs…some of the surgeons even have special “hooker” rooms…I haven’t used that and I’m afraid to even ask what they are used for… but I have made use of the free pizza.. if we have the pizza delivered to the lounge we can just charge it to the hospital… we do work hard though… but its nice that I can make use of the doctors lounges… it certainly makes the nurses all jealous..
And the hours I have been putting in have been insane…. Most days I’m at the hospital by 6am and stay till 1030 at night…. So my boss this week.. told me I had to work on a “ special project” at home this Friday… and I was like “Ok sure” and kept asking her what the project was….. I can be a bit dense at times.. and didn’t realize she was giving me the day off with pay… which is nice… so I will probably head back up to the mountains…
Anyways I’m outties…. Gotta help the Psych docs order some Form 1s…. which is kinda scary in a way..its a form that allows a doctor to hold you in a hospital for up to 72 hours to complete a psychiatric assessment even against your will.
Hmmm… there are a few nurses here I would love to sign a Form 1 for… hehehe jk
Oh and for those of you who don’t know
Rx: Hugs Q4H prn = I have prescribed hugs to be given every 4 hours as needed.
posted by matt @ 2:24 PM
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