Catching up again!!

I thought last year past quickly but this year has to be the fastest.... so again i haven't kept my promise but i do promise you i am working at it.

For a month i have only had one day a week off work...that's a lot of long and tiring hours.
Most of nursing now is dealing with dissatisfaction brought about by the media it makes our job very tiring especially when you are doing your best to please.

So i was really uplifted [especially at this time of year] to receive the above certificate [that goes through a process before you receive one].....an anonymous person completes a form for the person they think deserve it. it then goes to a panel of chief nurses before it is awarded. I think normally ...so i am told it usually takes a few nominations.

Then on Friday i was called to our reception desk where a patient i had nursed presented me with the beautiful bouquet of flowers and a lovely card and message.


Yesterday was the 11Th anniversary of Jades passing. I worked in the morning and then we had a barbecue in the afternoon. I didn't take any photo's but these are of the aftermath...i think we did well there were 14 of us my boys their partners, Karl Vin's grandson, my granddaughters and Harry Ellis of course Jayne i also had a lovely unexpected sup rise visit from Trudy's eldest Danny. Trudy and Nichola were unable to make it but would have loved to.

My day had a strange start yesterday ...i set off to the cemetery to take Jades flowers.
That was 6am the atmosphere was the same because it had been early Sunday morning when we lost Jade....then realised my journey to work followed the route taken to get Jade to the hospital....i thought i was very brave ....but to top it all i had to go with a young boy i was caring for to B ward where Jade spent frequent amounts of time and the staff became good friends.....I think i did well and am patting myself on the back.


Thought for today:-

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared with what lies within us."

Ralph Waldo Emerson. Poet