falling in love

In the months since I have posted I have been busy falling in love with my residents. Do you know how I know I was falling in love? I get so annoyed by them yet I miss them terribly when I'm off. I randomly text someone who has worked or come up with something I know they will want to know about the "outside world"...magazines, pictures of what I've been up to...Talk them down from episodes of bad behavior without getting angry myself and easily forgive them when they mess up.

I fell into this job knowing for certain that I would not be happy here. Mental illness has always been the one area of health care that I have had no desire to take on. But now months later I see my residents more often than I see anybody else and I enjoy having silly names for them and them for me :) I have come to love my job. God has stretched me and chalenged me and I haven't put a rubber glove on in months. I didn't know that you could do that and still be a nurse!

Very soon I will take on a new chapter in my nursing as the manager of this group of "friends". I don't know what this will hold but I am believing God to use me. He has been faithful and I have no doubt that He will continue.