Me taking a job seven or so hours from my home town was hard and doing it by myself was another thing. So the last month in my home town was really difficult, but I set my mind on leaving and wasn’t going to back down. It’s probably the Aries in me but once I… Continue reading Healing, Part 3
Tag: Mental Health
Healing Part 2
Well starting to heal myself I needed to realize that some of the things that happened to me were my fault. I didn’t want to project my wounds onto anyone else. So, I started meditating and going within to figure out why I had self sabotage so much in my life. I starting reading books,… Continue reading Healing Part 2
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Healing Part 1
A friend told me that they wished I would express more about my healing journey. I haven’t felt that I have healed completely, but I thought I would share the start of my healing journey. So healing for me started around four years ago. To give you a little bit about my history with healing,… Continue reading Healing Part 1
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Love
Reading a book someone gave me some time ago called, A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson. It talks about love. It also puts into perspective how religion works in her perspective. I agree with most of what this author writes about. “God is love and anything that isn’t love is an illusion.” She says… Continue reading Love
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Thanks To Everyone
I just wanted to thank everyone for the prayers and support while I have been under the weather. Every like and comment has been a blessing. I am back at work now, but still fighting some lingering symptoms. I think the everlasting headache is the most annoying. Someone told me that that never goes away.… Continue reading Thanks To Everyone
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Change In The Air
I have been on a healing journey for probably around a year or maybe a bit longer. I realized that a lot of the things that has happened to me in my past was mostly of my own doing. Probably karma. I have learned that because I was hanging on to all the trauma that… Continue reading Change In The Air
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Maintenance
So before Covid I worked on an Alzheimer’s unit that was a locked. I took care of a man that apparently worked as a maintenance man at an apartment complex. He had Alzheimer’s and he was probably in the later stages of the disease. He could walk , talk and looked what is concerned “normal”… Continue reading Maintenance
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Confession
Confession. I really started this blog for I guess selfish reasons. I started it to really let my personal situations get out of my head. More like a journal to my life experiences. After all the people I have lost over the last four years I needed a release from all the sadness that I… Continue reading Confession
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Not Giving a Fuck
Is the skill of not caring an art? It must be. To lay next to someone crying and know you’re the reason why they are crying and fall asleep peacefully it must be an art. I can’t do it. I sometimes wish I could. It sometimes sucks to feel every emotion of a person when… Continue reading Not Giving a Fuck
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Anniversary
Today my blog is celebrating its first anniversary. Thanks for tuning in, reading up, and listening. It’s been a quite a ride, I know. This blog has been a way to vent, exchange, and get awareness out about health care workers, patients that aren’t seen, and families that weren’t heard before and after Covid. We’re… Continue reading Anniversary
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Dialysis Day
On a regular dialysis day, things were suppose to go this bad, but they did.
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Break
The building that I was working in was probably 40 years old, hanging on by a thread and with duct tape and some superglue. A stiff wind would have blown it over, I’m sure my relationships were also hanging on by a thread by the end of the first year after covid started. I was… Continue reading Break
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Gun Control
So I was working in long term care after covid started and received a patient that was almost the same age as myself. She had no kids but was married to a much older man. I did not care too much for her husband. He was an older southern white man. And let everyone know… Continue reading Gun Control
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Long Rant
Okay this post maybe just a long rant but here it goes. Is dating like a boxing match? I’m starting to think so. When you first meet you kinda shake hands, then you put your defenses up. Who can outplay the other. I mean I don’t want to play games, I just want someone to… Continue reading Long Rant
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Bad Energy
Working for six months on a cardiac floor and it was my first time working in a hospital. Being a newbie hospital nurse and having a charge that refused to help and she slept most of the time. The unit was on the fourth floor and we only used the front part of that floor… Continue reading Bad Energy
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I CANNOT Do My Job Without CNAs
I have lost 3 CNAs in the past 4 months. It’s been a hard few months. Bailey has been a CNA as long as I have been a nurse. As you may know CNA’s don’t make a lot of money, this one is a work horse and such a sweet person. She is only in… Continue reading I CANNOT Do My Job Without CNAs
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When You Become The Patient
Roles Reversed By Patty D. Someone asked me this week, “why are you so positive and have good vibes all the time?” I said, “maybe it’s because nothing is promised and it can be all taken away.” I’m not sure if I have shared this before and I can only tell you how it was… Continue reading When You Become The Patient
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Pictures
I just wanted to share some pictures that I have taken over the last month. Just some sunsets and scenes that I captured. Hope you will enjoy. Lunch Breaks Dinner at Dusk Dusk Drifting Breaks Post Night time snack Windmills ALL NAMED ON THIS PAGE OR ANY PAGE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT-NURSE-PATTY.COM OR CALLMENURSEPATTY.HOM.BLOG HAVE… Continue reading Pictures
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It’s Official, I’m A Travel Nurse
Ladies and gentlemen it’s official, I’m a travel nurse. Starting April 19, one day after my birthday, I’ll be on the road headed to my first destination as a travel nurse. Kinda of nervous, scared, and a whole lot of other emotions. The strangest is sadness, I feel sorta sad, I know I shouldn’t… Continue reading It’s Official, I’m A Travel Nurse
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How I Transformed My SUV Into A Mini Camper
When I was younger we would go camping for entire summers. Me and my brother knew every bike trail in the state parks that we would visit. I have very fond memories of those summers. So I decided that one of my goals is to visit every state park in Texas. Texas has 89… Continue reading How I Transformed My SUV Into A Mini Camper
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Crowds Are Not an Option
. So I don’t do crowd. Crowds are not an option for me. I’ll explain why this is, I have witnessed some strange things while being in a large crowd. Let me give an example. Myself, my daughter, who was 11 at that time, and a friend went to a Major League Baseball game and… Continue reading Crowds Are Not an Option
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To Loss
Some of us become adults, within our closest relationships. It’s soft tension bent our attitudes, they framed our values. No one knows the weight of our love, until it’s release. Then tomorrow the sun rises and then sets, and then tomorrow and then tomorrow. Day by day you still go on, but it’s a different… Continue reading To Loss
