I am a male nurse of just over a year and I have a wonderful, amazing, awesome son named Ben who is my life. My absolute world. He does everything with me and we are inseparable. I work a night shift that is a cadre shift. I work 7p-7a Sat-Mon and pick up OT when I can. I came from a factory and took an educational buyout, and went to school full time and got my BSN and I haven't looked back. My son has only known me as being in school and being a nurse. He has never known me to do anything else really.
So I ask my son yesterday, "Ben, What do you want to be when you grow up? A Doctor right?" My son looks at me and says, "No! I want to be a nurse dad." I ask him, "Why do you want to be a nurse?" He tells me, "So I can go to work with you and see you all the time dad, plus I want to help people like you do."
My little boy made me cry right there. It wasn't the fact that he wanted to be a nurse, it was that he wanted to work and be with me and he has a sense of caring. I tell you, that just made my day and I wanted to share it.
