CNA-Rags to CNA-Ritches

You have been given a gift.

There must be something really great for you down the road to do as a nurse.

okay, i'm sitting here with tears in my eyes, this sounds like something from Oprah or the Lifetime Channel. I TOTALLY think you did the right thing, It would have been no different than him leaving the funding to you in a will. If he and his family are happy with the arrangement, then you are good to go. I'm sure as long as your tuition is paid at school they don't really care WHO writes the checks.
I also agree with a previous post, with the gift comes responsibility, do great things and pay it forward. You never know when you may have the opportunity to provide something great to someone else.

I have a friend that was a "sitter" for many years. She sat with this mean as crap old lady. No one else would even consider dealing with her temper and her insults, but my friend would not let her "win". She stuck with it for many years, 3 days a week. She even would go see the lady when she was hospitalized, mainly because the woman was so mean that the nurses didn't like having to care for her so my friend would bathe her and change her bed so the nursing staff could get a reprive from the insults.

WHen the lady died, the family asked her to come to the funeral, she sat in the back of the church and mourned quietly. The next week, she got a call from the the family attorney asking her to come to his office. The lady, in her will, had left my friend a nice sum of savings bonds and a diamond ring.

Doing the right thing and being a good person pays off, sooner or later.

Randy

I am also moved by this story and under those circumstances I would have taken advantage of it as well...it was not selfish. You rendered excellent care, and he had the forsight to see that there was more you can do with the right prudentials. I can imagine him smiling down from heaven, seeing how you are progressing. Take it and run, because more will benefit from you obtaining your nursing license.

Even as a private employee, there are standards and morals that must be followed. It could be construed, that this sickly elderly man, so dependent upon you, was coerced into giving you such a large sum of money - if any family members wanted to contest this, I bet they would win. Since this man was alone with you often, 24/7, you definitely had influence over him. Your conversations about your future where you [didn't really want to say you had financial problems] but ended up telling him - could be viewed as manipulative.

Your title Rags to Riches, I believe is boasting and not in the least humble. If anything, I would be humbled by this mans high regard for you.

I'm not saying anything like this actually happened, but you took a big risk and since you've chosen to accept it, I do hope you will use it wisely.

I'm not giving you my actual opinion, I'm just playing devils advocate as to how it could be construed.

Best wishes.

Like I said, I was just giving you a different perspective of how the situation could possibly be construed. I haven't given you my opinion, and I won't.

I never said you did anything wrong, again, just giving a different viewpoint.

I'm glad the family is behind you on this, or you may have been in for trouble.

I do think, though, that if you believe this was a miracle, entitling your post "Rags to Riches" was a bit over the top. I would be grateful and humbled if I received a miracle.

Best wishes