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Nurse retires after HOW MANY YEARS!?
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Show her some love in the comments 🎉🫶👏 My wife wrote these beautiful, raw, and honest words below:
Here’s the TRUTH.
When your mom is a nurse she doesn’t belong to you.
Great nurses, like really committed nurses, give their entire beings to their jobs. Their patience, their energy, their nurturing, their minds, bodies and souls.
When you share your mother with patients… each patient absorbs some of their mothering. The twelve hour grind pulls from the core of their being and a human only has so much to give.
Patients have had my mom every other holiday, weekends, summers, spring breaks, birthdays, etc etc for 44 years. There aren’t lunch breaks, sick days or ice days. Great nurses don’t leave space for excuses. They show up to mother their patients and WORK.
When a Ponzi scheme hit my family hard… my mom worked 4, often 5, 12 hour shifts a week to support a family of 6. She would pluck every overtime opportunity that presented itself. I tried to fill the maternal void at home… but a home only has one real mother.
I tried to give her a relaxing homecoming. I’d rub her feet and tell her stories until she melted into her sheets. I’d put the kids to bed after dinner and homework while trying to keep the house clean. I did so much laundry I refuse to do it now.
After so much time passes… the identity of the mother becomes that of being a nurse. It’s so intertwined they aren’t sure if they could be one without being the other.
After 44 years of committed service and working through all the obstacles of life, including cancer… she’s closing a very important chapter that she’s truly devoted her entire life to.
Selflessly, I’m thankful that everyone she has serviced was lucky enough to have her skill, heart, and attention.
Selfishly, I’m thankful she’s done and she can splurge all of her mothering on us.
💛💛 The Future is Bright 💛💛
P.S. Be appreciative and kind to your nurses!!! You are borrowing them from the people who love them most.
#nurses #nursing #nurselife #retirement
Here’s the TRUTH.
When your mom is a nurse she doesn’t belong to you.
Great nurses, like really committed nurses, give their entire beings to their jobs. Their patience, their energy, their nurturing, their minds, bodies and souls.
When you share your mother with patients… each patient absorbs some of their mothering. The twelve hour grind pulls from the core of their being and a human only has so much to give.
Patients have had my mom every other holiday, weekends, summers, spring breaks, birthdays, etc etc for 44 years. There aren’t lunch breaks, sick days or ice days. Great nurses don’t leave space for excuses. They show up to mother their patients and WORK.
When a Ponzi scheme hit my family hard… my mom worked 4, often 5, 12 hour shifts a week to support a family of 6. She would pluck every overtime opportunity that presented itself. I tried to fill the maternal void at home… but a home only has one real mother.
I tried to give her a relaxing homecoming. I’d rub her feet and tell her stories until she melted into her sheets. I’d put the kids to bed after dinner and homework while trying to keep the house clean. I did so much laundry I refuse to do it now.
After so much time passes… the identity of the mother becomes that of being a nurse. It’s so intertwined they aren’t sure if they could be one without being the other.
After 44 years of committed service and working through all the obstacles of life, including cancer… she’s closing a very important chapter that she’s truly devoted her entire life to.
Selflessly, I’m thankful that everyone she has serviced was lucky enough to have her skill, heart, and attention.
Selfishly, I’m thankful she’s done and she can splurge all of her mothering on us.
💛💛 The Future is Bright 💛💛
P.S. Be appreciative and kind to your nurses!!! You are borrowing them from the people who love them most.
#nurses #nursing #nurselife #retirement
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