Today I love my job!

Everyone has times that they are so ready for a vacation or just don't want to go to work. At times we find ourselves asking ourselves if its time to move to something new. Then we have those days where we remember why we do what we do, we see the purpose God had behind opening the doors to what career we have chosen. For me one of those days was today...I have them every once in a while...nothing special really happened today, just another day at work. I always try to do my best to treat each patient as if they were my child, and each family as if they were my family. I try to put myself into their shoes, to understand their frustrations, their sadness, happiness, blow ups, even their neglecting their own child. Some things I can't understand though I will always try to do my best not to judge though sometimes it comes very easily. We have had a lot of loss in my unit this year and it continues to come, this is a sad atmosphere to spend on a daily basis but there is always that glimmer of hope, that one child that makes great strides and then the child that takes all the resources we have and makes baby steps and then sometimes steps backwards. My job is kind of like a marriage, you take the good with the bad sometimes... I hope i remember days like these when i'm going through some of the bad...