Hospital Love Stories ! ! !

Cute_CNA, CNA · Dec 19, 2005

Just pointing out CC, that we can have "feelings" and [i']not [/i]have to act on them.
Staying friendly and professional is something I think we've gotta get used to practicing... 'cause inevitably, in the course of our careers, we're bound to run into someone that tickles our fancy a certain way.
Pondering potential consequences might also be effective mental exercise.

Absolutely. An affair is a bad thing for ALL parties involved. I think the bad outweighs the good. And the good seems to be a very fleeting, temporary thing which leads to life-long hurt and pain.

naz · Dec 28, 2005

This is fun reading for the most part. If we're honest with ourselves we'll all admit that at some time or another we've been attracted to someone at work. Some of us just act on our feelings and others don't. It doesn't always work out, but we should never stop trying....who knows when we'll get lucky.

Jen2 · Dec 29, 2005

Here's mine:

At the most miserable point in my life I decided to go to nursing school. I had been datingthe same jerk for 4 years. He was a teacher and as about as childish as his students. When he and I first started dating, I was a MA and wanted to go to nursing school then and he adviced me against it becasue he thought it would be bad for our realationship if I went back to college. Only being 20 years old at the time I listened to him. Then one day I woke up and found myself to weigh 200 pounds (I am 5.5), miserable, and still making $8.00 an hour. I decided that this was it. I was finally going to go to nursing school whether he liked it or not. He hated the idea and when the weekends came I had to study, because I was still working full time also. Well, Mr. Teacher was ready to go out and party all weekend long and often made comments to me such as , "Why do you have to study so hard to change a bedpan." I had had enough. I ended up getting rid of him, my crappy office job, and about 75 pounds.

I got a job in a hospital as a phlebotomist. It was my first official day on morning rounds and I saw this male nurse and felt like I had just been hit by a Mack Truck. Love at first sight? I dont' know I just know that I have never felt that way about someone I never even spoke to before. I had zero self esteem from the ex constantly putting me down and I thought there is no way in a million years this guy would ever be interested in me. Every time I saw him I just shyly said, "Hi" and went about my business. Just about every single female in the hospital attempted throwing themselves at him and he never responded. There was even rumors that he might be gay, because he would never go out with anyone, not would he asked anyone out. After about two years of our"Hi's" to each other I went into a combative patients room one day and needed someone to help me hold his arm down, and it just so happens that he was this patients nurse. He held the arm for me as I drew the blood and when I walked out in the hall he said, "Hey are you dating anyone." I told him no and he asked me out. I about fell over. We had the greatest first date you could ever imagine.

The two of us never told anyone at work we were dating. No one even knew. When I asked him why in the world he would ask me out when he had people thrwing themselves at him he simply stated that he was 29 years old and looking form someone to be a wife and a mother not a one night stand. It was my shyness and the fact that I was not throwing my self at him that made him take notice.

His support through my final years of nursing school was invaluable to me. We are now both RN's. I work in the ED and he's a floor nurse at the same hospital. We never even cross paths at work unless I am taking a patient up to his unit and even then we treat each other as we would treat any other nurse. We just got engaged this past fall and are planning our wedding now. I am the happiest and luckiest woman alive to have found my true soul mate. I cannot express what it means to me to be able to talk to him when I get home and have him truly understand how my day just was. So , we make it work and we keep it professional. Sure now everyone knows that we are engaged and getting married, but it does not affect work at all because we are on different units doing different kinds of nursing, and we are mature, prfessional, and respect each other for our differences. Oh and now after three years of dating and becomming engaged he confided in me that when he was holding the patients arm for me all those years ago he was also looking down my scrub top. Too bad I had an undershirt on he he!

Corvette Guy · Dec 29, 2005

Jen2,

:yelclap: Thanks for sharing your beautiful hospital love story.

Havin' A Party!, ASN, RN · Dec 29, 2005

Wow, Jen!

What a fab story! Loved it!

Glimmer · Dec 29, 2005

Awwwww.... I love reading these stories even though some have tried to ruin the thread.

No amazing hospital love stories for me... although I have heard a couple from friends and know more than a few couples that are both RNs or an RN and MD (including a female MD and male RN...) I think as long as both parties can stay professional at work then there isnt a problem... They say you cant look or plan for love because it finds you, and apparently that can be anywhere... :loveya:

:redpinkhe Alnee :redpinkhe

Jen2 · Dec 29, 2005

Your welcome. I love him so much and I think that we are proof that it can happen naturally and two can be professional about it. When we met. I was just getting out of a five year relationship with a comlete jerk, working and going to school full time, and I didn't think I was ever worthy enough for someone like him. I also assumed that since everyone was always flirting with him he was a big player. Turns out he's a nice religious guy that what waiting for a nice girl. He always said how he hated that everyone was always trowing themselves at him, becasue he felt that if they were doing it to him, they were doing it to everyone else and thats not what he was looking for. I guess what I am trying to say is that if love is going to happen it will. If I'd have ran across him in the supermarket, I think the outcome would have still been the same. I found him at a very low point in my life when the last thing I wanted or needed was another relationship. I am glad I gave it a chance.

Bipley · Dec 29, 2005

Awwwww.... I love reading these stories even though some have tried to ruin the thread.
No amazing hospital love stories for me... although I have heard a couple from friends and know more than a few couples that are both RNs or an RN and MD (including a female MD and male RN...) I think as long as both parties can stay professional at work then there isnt a problem... They say you cant look or plan for love because it finds you, and apparently that can be anywhere... :loveya:
:redpinkhe Alnee :redpinkhe

I thought mine was a big 'ol a-hole. Not a doubt in my mind. I also thought he was totally worthless as an MD. I box of hair could have done a better job than he. 'Course, then I heard the other 75% of the story.

That was 17 years ago, almost 18. I can assure you, I had NO attraction to him in the least. I thought his value was less than a boogar. Today he is the light of my life.

Lesson here... don't be fooled by first impressions and DON'T let first impression ruin everything. There is always another side to the story.

Cute_CNA, CNA · Dec 29, 2005

That was 17 years ago, almost 18. I can assure you, I had NO attraction to him in the least. I thought his value was less than a boogar. Today he is the light of my life.

:chuckle Gosh, I've always considered first impressions to be fairly accurate.

Good for you, though.

MNlpn · Dec 29, 2005

I hope it was another co-worker and not one of the patients:nono:

RN30241 · Jan 6, 2006

My husband and I married in June 2005. He is an R.T (x-ray tech), that my sister used to work with years ago. We happened to meet up with him a few years ago duing a trip to the E.D. with our father who was ill with cancer. When I transfered to the E.D. the following year, he and I struck up a friendship that eventually led to that momentous first date. Three years later we recanted our "I'LL NEVER EVER MARRY AGAIN" vows for wedding vows with our mutual co-workers cheering us on. Losing my dad to cancer was the most horrible and helpless feeling in the world; However, the silver lining in the end was that it led me to the one person who was able to make me feel whole again.:kiss

Havin' A Party!, ASN, RN · Jan 6, 2006

RN30... -- Nice!

Thanks for sharing.