Beautiful

The weather today was just gorgeous! I wanted to spend all day outside, but, alas I had to work. Work wasn't terrible at all surprisingly! I had great patients, fun coworkers, and then I got to go home early! As I was rounding on my patients while introducing them to their next nurse, I had two encounters that remind me why I do what I do. In the first room, my patient shook my hand and told me that I was an absolute peach, and then I was so wonderful to him and was so caring. This made me feel great! And then in the second room, the patient was sleeping but his wife was there. I told her I got to go home early and that this was the new nurse taking over. She, too, shook my hand and told me how wonderful I had been to her and her husband. Then she said that a handshake wasn't enough and came around the bed and gave me a hug. She gave me a tight squeeze and called me an angel. Moments like that just reaffirm that I'm doing what I am meant to do. I never forget those moments because they are what keep me going on the difficult days.