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3/4/2017 12:44:36 PM
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Currently laid off from the job die to health reasons but I can start right again as soon that's solved.
Nurse in an elderly home. Specifically: Taking care of the ones who are in the final stages of Alzheimer.
Its a tough job and I've seen many colleagues come and go because the job was too hard mentally and physically.
Can't blame them. The job is hard.
I personally love it and adore the "patients". The love and friendship you get from them is why I love it so much but it can be heartbreaking at the same time. You can't help but grow a certain bond with some of them and when they die one, it really tears you apart. And that, for me, is the hardest part about it.
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No kidding it's a tough field. My wife is in a very similar line of work. Hope whatever ails you can be cleared up. Never enough good workers willing to do what you do.
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Thank you!(: And yeah, hopefully.
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I don't know how you can stand the smell of a nursing home.
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My grandmother (from dad's side) has been in a nursing home ever since I was born because of a drunk car so I'm used to that smell. And we had two cleaning ladies who worked there every day so it smelled more like cleaning products than anything else.
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Hat's off to you ma'am!
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Yeah, I couldn't do that and I applaud your work! That has to be a rollercoaster of emotions. What's the most awesome thing to happen in recent memory there? There's got to be some good memories...
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[quote]Yeah, I couldn't do that and I applaud your work! That has to be a rollercoaster of emotions. What's the most awesome thing to happen in recent memory there? There's got to be some good memories...[/quote] Thank you. And it is, but its all worth it. There didn't happen too many awesome things really. If things already happened, it was more sweet than anything else. But there was this one time where we had an older man that escaped (which is almost impossible. The doors are locked and you only get out or in if you have the code). We looked everywhere but couldn't find him. So we went to another level of the building where his wife was (she was on the floor for the older people who were too weak or sick to take care of themselves) and even there we couldn't find him so we had to call the police. In the evening the police came back and told is that they couldn't find the man so things were getting done to show him on TV as a missing person. A few hours later it turned out that the man escaped to the garden (someone forgot to lock the door), took a few flowers, walked back in through the entrance, took the elevator to his wife's floor, and spend the whole day there to celebrate her birthday. The man couldn't remember anything that happened after his childhood and yet, every year on that date, he remembered marrying his wife and her birthday.
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That is the sweetest thing I've heard this year.
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It was. Since than the man was allowed to spend a whole day with her on her birthday :)
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Thanks for sharing that story.
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You're welcome.
