With the bad comes the good!
So I've had one of those moments I just HAD to post about.
It's no secret that I hate my job for a variety of reasons, but it has it's moments.
A team of EMT's brought us a new patient. When they came in down the hall from where I generally am posted, one of them waved to me. I couldn't recognize him from where I was sitting, though. After the patient got settled, he came to say hi, and it turns out (with no small amount of irony) that he had been one of our patients when I had just started on this gig.
He was one of my most memorable, too, because he reminded me a heck of a lot of myself at that age. He was a good kid trying to make it through a tough school. He was generally a bully target, and he had a hard time dealing with it. My heart went out to the kid, because I had been through the same thing.
So there he was, past all of that and successful. It was an absolute joy to see. It was a full circle kind of a thing, and one of those small reminders that as monotonous and hellish as my job can seem, we are doing a modicum of good out there. Moments like these are why I got into this field in the first place. I just wish moments like this weren't so rare, but it makes them all the more of a treasure when they do happen.
It's no secret that I hate my job for a variety of reasons, but it has it's moments.
A team of EMT's brought us a new patient. When they came in down the hall from where I generally am posted, one of them waved to me. I couldn't recognize him from where I was sitting, though. After the patient got settled, he came to say hi, and it turns out (with no small amount of irony) that he had been one of our patients when I had just started on this gig.
He was one of my most memorable, too, because he reminded me a heck of a lot of myself at that age. He was a good kid trying to make it through a tough school. He was generally a bully target, and he had a hard time dealing with it. My heart went out to the kid, because I had been through the same thing.
So there he was, past all of that and successful. It was an absolute joy to see. It was a full circle kind of a thing, and one of those small reminders that as monotonous and hellish as my job can seem, we are doing a modicum of good out there. Moments like these are why I got into this field in the first place. I just wish moments like this weren't so rare, but it makes them all the more of a treasure when they do happen.