It's been too long.

I don't even know where to begin. My past few months have brought huge amounts of change and growth. I moved from my home town, the church I had belonged to for over 20 years and made a HUGE career change. Through that process I have learned to protect yet open my heart in a brand new way.

My new nursing job doesn't typically require those rubber gloves I'm so very used to sporting and has stretches and challenges me every single day. Instead of diagnoses such as pneumonia, CHF, pacreatitis, and RSV I'm hearing schizophrenia, bi-polar affective disorder, borderline personality disorder and impulse control on a daily basis. I go from being the favorite nurse to the evil one in a matter of seconds and that's just the response of any given resident on any given day. I have around 56 residents all in differing stages of recovery.

My real joy comes when I put on my youth leader cap. The youth sponsor role has drastically changed from what I have known in the past 12 years but that's for the good.

I will strive to share stories on here...I was reminded of a couple amazing nursing encounters just this morning.