This week I have learned (6/20, a day late)

Oh! One more thing!

I learned blueberry plants get sweet berries after waiting for a few years. We have 4 blueberry bushes that have put out sour, terrible fruit. But this year the berries are giant and amazing!!!

Okay, this one really will be the last.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150611082124.htm

I've learned that I am the only person on my husband's side of the family that can keep eating dinner as my very animated 23 year old nephew talked to me about his anal fissure.

I'm just commenting to make sure this gets bookmarked because sometimes just selecting it to do so doesn't work.

I learned that pushing out a frank breech 9# baby in only 30 minutes makes it hard to walk for a few days.....

This happened tonight-I can find a vein on one of society's own "fluffier people's and get a forearm IV at the same time-SCORE!

I learned how truly freeing it is to get a schedule that works for you, and to leave a job you're ambivalent about to get into something you love.

I'm leaving a full time, 80 hour position for something 64 hours and less pay, but it's in an area I couldn't love more. And because it's both 8's and 12's, it leaves me time for per diem or agency work.

I'm so incredibly excited, and I feel like I've been freed of a weight I didn't know I was carrying.

I've also learned to always be patient with people, because you don't know their story. I was out with my boyfriend's friend and a few people he knows, and one of his friends was talking to me about nursing and asking a lot of ignorant questions, but I could tell he just didn't know any better so I educated him. I had said something about him to my boyfriend, and he informed me that that was the friend who just got out of rehab and had been a heroin addict. Once he said that, it all made sense and I was very glad that I was nice and not snarky with him.

I have learned that even a graphic discussion of FMT cannot put me off a free lunch.

I've learned that no matter how hard you try, you are nothing but a body and that as a person you don't matter. Whether you are the best nurse or the worst, you are a number.

"Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn"

I've learned that no matter how hard you try, you are nothing but a body and that as a person you don't matter. Whether you are the best nurse or the worst, you are a number.

"Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn"

I've felt that way. It's actually why I quit my job after 22 years. And yea, there were people who looked at me as "well, we have Far, we can keep her there, she's worked 22 years here, she's not leaving..." and I did.

But there's also those people who know what I did there, who miss me desperately, and to whom I will never be a number.

Unfortunately, they have about as much say as I did.

I'm sorry.

same here

1: There is a difference between 108 degrees and 112 degrees.

2: I can physically say the words, "it's only 110 degrees today!" and not be sarcastic.

3: Be eager to try to draw the patients that are hard sticks, and missing doesn't mean you'll be a terrible nurse. Practice, practice, practice!!