Monthly Archives: September 2010

Seven years

Tomorrow my baby will be eight years old.  It is just so hard to believe.  I have loved every minute of it (I think that is a gift from God, mommy amnesia, so we can forget the bad parts, like labor).  I believe in mommy amnesia.  My own mother says I was a perfect child, and well, I remember getting in trouble plenty, not to mention my horrible stubborn streak and intense need to always be right.  So tomorrow my baby is eight, but today he is seven, going on seventeen.  He is so grown up.  But I still get precious moments where he is still my baby.

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Why I do what I do

I love my job, but honestly there are some days where going into work is difficult.  I think the fact God called me to nursing is a blessing.  I feel that I was led to transplant was destiny.  I have looked several times since completing my Master’s for a new CNS position.  Four things keep me where I am.

  1. My patients
  2. My co-workers
  3. My doctors
  4. The area of science

Today was the Methodist Heart/Lung Support Group Picnic.  I like going to the picnic because we get to see our patients socially, not necessarily professionally.  I have grown quite attached to many of my patients, and I can honestly say I love them.  In school we are taught not to become emotionally involved.  Well I don’t think any of my professors ever worked transplant.  It is impossible to spend this much time with a person and not love them.

Part of the picnic is grouping the patients together and taking their picture according to time since transplant.  When this picture was taken I nearly cried.  I have been with these people since the beginning.  I love them all. 

Barb K., June C., Pat W. (heart), Colleen L., and Phil C.