Thanks to my friend, Heather, I have decided to give this blogging thing a shot. Yeah, yeah, I know that I have blogged on Myspace for a couple years now, but I felt compelled to come here.

What do I want to blog about? Well, as many of you know from my past blogs on MS, I blog about all sorts of things. Mostly they have been rantings of some sort about things that are going wrong at the moment. However, I believe that I will begin to blog about the better things that happen in life. I’m resorting back to the information that I learned from the book, “The Secret,” and hope that things will continue to move in a positive direction in my life.

Allow me to start today, with my first positive blog. Yesterday at work was a really good day. I have have had some amazing patients over the years, and recently, I have been providing care for one such patient. She is really wonderful. As most of you know, things have been going wrong with some of my coworkers (honestly, I think it’s out of jealousy, because I am such an organized person, I’m not running around all shift like a chicken with its head cut off)… well, this particular patient, earlier in the week, had given me a small gift of a beaded and leather key chain that she had made. She had told me that she does beadwork when she is feeling better. I thought that was a lovely gesture. And I have that key chain on my key ring right now. (I’ll show it to my friends when I see you all next!)

Well, yesterday, I went in to work at 6am (what a different atmosphere at that time of day in comparison to coming in at 2pm!) Anyway… back to my subject. LOL I went in to do my assessment on my patient and she told me she had another gift for me. She gave me a small jar of some hot tea mix that she likes. (It’s tang and tea.) She told me how to prepare it, and I went and made a cup of it… wow! It was delicious!! Rather reminded me of mulled cider, but with a twist.

As a nurse, I’m not allowed to take gifts of any significant monetary value, and through the years I have gotten many small gifts from my patients. It’s on days like yesterday when my hard work and dedication as a nurse is rewarded by such small gestures by my patients, that I am reminded why I became a nurse in the first place.

So what if my coworkers complain about me…. I’m at the hospital to make sure that my patients are well taken care of, and I don’t hear any of THEM complaining about me!

I think for my next post, I may talk about some of my past patients that have touched me and those that I don’t want to forget for whatever reason. I love being a nurse!!