I have been quite busy these past few days. I have come back from one trip only to turn around and go on another. I flew on the first trip and drove on the second. I am thankful that I did not follow my dream to be an airline stewardess. I love to travel but I have a hard time getting a good night’s sleep in any other bed than my own. When I got back home I had a couple of easy days with work. That was nice. I could unpack and get the rest of my Christmas decor up. But the last few days have been hectic and I have felt a bit undone.
When life gets hectic I try to focus on the good things that happen during the day. I enjoy my job. I love seeing my patients and providing home health care to them. I also enjoy the times I have to write and work on my novel but my favorite time of the day is when I talk to my daughter. She is going to college right now and is pursuing a degree in Respiratory Therapy. She never did study in high school because her social life was more important. She did not even realize how intelligent she was. I put her through one semester of college when she got out of high school and she decided that college was not for her. She moved out and started working with her boyfriend at that time. They were working for a company which told them that college was a waste of time. They worked for this company for a couple of years then both became disillusioned with the company and moved back in with me.
It was an interesting situation to have both of them living in my house. In six months the relationship between her and her boyfriend dissolved and he moved out. She got a job and started to evaluate her life and she decided she wanted to go back to college. She started to take her prerequisites for a dental hygienist degree but changed her mind and switched to Respiratory Therapy. She is doing so well in college and the program has her going through clinicals right from the start, which I think is brilliant.
There are times when she calls me or talks to me when she gets home and she tells me about her clinicals. To hear her talk about her clinicals is the highlight of my day . She truly loves working in the healthcare field. It is slowly infusing more appreciation into my life for the job that I do also. It is a privilege for me to be able to visit the elderly and other sick people in their homes. I am always amazed at how welcoming my patients are to me. They are all dear sweet souls. My daughter has been favored in her clinicals. She has gotten to see things which others rarely see and she values each and every experience. Hearing her excitement breathes new joy into my heart for the wonderful job that I am able to do every day in home health nursing.