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[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

Wow! Really? I had no idea you weren’t a people person, CG. You seem outgoing and really friendly on here.

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I am friendly, Phrozen. That’s part of the problem, according to my staff. My coworkers tell me I’m the problem because I’m so friendly to our customers. They told me a lot of times our customers like to schedule their appointments with me the most because of my friendly, “bubbly” personality. They told me not to be so nice all the time.

On here is different. There’s no one actually talking and I can turn GC on or off, unlike people in real life lol

Originally Posted by andthen

Love me Australian Cattle Dog mixes my parents have one. She's sweet but very sassy.

I do get where you are coming from Cheerful Greek. People just sort of wear me out. Its funny when I was a kid I thought I wanted to be a vet but then when you have to deal with sick and animals that are dying, I knew I couldn't handle that. It would just make me entirely too sad. Which I give major kudos to anyone who enters that field as a whole.

Instead I ended up becoming a nurse. I figured most not all people make their own choices that might lead to poor outcomes. Although I decided while in nursing school being a pediatric nurse wasn't my bag either. I used to joke my favorite patients were the sedated ones. :-)

But my least favorite part as a nurse was the dying. I took care of many a hospice patient, and those deaths you knew were coming at some point. Others, it was a recently diagnosed illness. Strangely when you see people that close to death I think the death process itself is easier on the person who is dying, versus the loved ones left behind. It also made me realize too to be very clear in communicating my wishes should something happen to me and I can't make decisions for myself.

But aside from the sadness and empathy, I worked overnights, I swear people would always die between 2:30-3:30 am. We did hourly rounds when I would see a patient who had passed the first couple of times I'd call in another nurse just to make sure I'm not hearing a heartbeat. One time we were super short staffed so I had to basically get the body in a bag. I swear I was so paranoid that the person was just going to pop up! Had to end on a bit of levity.

Thank you for posting this, andthen. I had no idea you’re a nurse. That’s an amazing field to be in. I know it’s really hard but at the same time I’ll bet it’s very rewarding. Nurses go through a lot. I’m just like wow @ you placing a deceased person in a bag. I couldn’t. I just couldn’t do that. That’s too much.

Did you work as a nurse during Covid? What was that like?