Re: i feel a rant coming on... things that p*** me off!
I love reading all of your posts.
I spent 4 years as a RN at a school for special needs kids. I loved every minute of it. I only left because the pay was lousy. My own kids were getting older, and I needed more money.
I loved those kids like they were my own. I heard the phrase about the special place in heaven crap too. I do think not everyone can do the job though. You are either comfortable or you are not.
One of my favorite stories involved a student who pulled her feeding tube button out and handed it to a visitor. She turned 8 shades of green as I put a drinking straw in it to keep the stoma open.
Another time there was a visitor who was touring the building. He was oohing and ahhing and attempting to make friends with all of the kids. Well he got too close to a fairly large, approximately 20 year old, female student. We tried to warn him that she didn't like men and not to get too close. Of course, he thought we didn't know what we were talking about, until she popped him in the nose. I almost wet myself laughing.
Part of the reason I loved that job was because I had a severely brain damaged child who died at 7 weeks of age. He would have attended the school I worked for. He too is the reason I became a nurse. It was like going full circle for me.
please........I don't have her home "to get her money".........I'd rather have nothing & be happy than to have everything & be unhappy........and if she thinks a crappy social security check is alot of money .....all I can say is good luck & more power to ya!!..
my life does not revolve around how much money I can get out of my kid......lol....honestly!!
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