The Times Are A Changin'
I have an announcement to make. After doing the same job since 1993, I quit, no really, I did. I waived the white flag and got a new job. As of July 20, 2015, I will be the Community Liaison for St Peter's Hospital's Cancer Care Center. I have been a Chemotherapy Infusion Nurse forever and up to a few years ago, I loved every minute of my job, but then as life changes, so did I. The irritations of management and, I am sad to admit, the patients, started to eat into my empathy. I felt sucked dry at the end of the day and needed everyone of my days off. The very same patients that I found courageous and remarkable, were kinda on my last nerve. I no longer wanted to hear that they hated needles, didn't want to get on the scale, and checked info on the web and felt it was more reliable than me. But more than anything else, I don't have ONE MORE DEATH TALK left in me. It was time. Twenty three years working giving chemotherapy is enough, I pa...