tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283131.post8906102713673885472..comments2024-03-12T19:34:23.734-04:00Comments on Everyday with dan...: Just thinking...danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10088260285661911833noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283131.post-78360599946848976302008-12-03T08:10:00.000-05:002008-12-03T08:10:00.000-05:00Jim,People like your wife are a true Godsend. It i...Jim,<BR/>People like your wife are a true Godsend. It is a special thing they have, and I am really glad for those like her.danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088260285661911833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283131.post-71704058607920699352008-12-02T16:57:00.000-05:002008-12-02T16:57:00.000-05:00Les has worked in long term care (first as a CNA, ...Les has worked in long term care (first as a CNA, then as a LPN) for 17 years now. When she finishes her RN degree a year from now she will probably leave for some other type of practice. But in the mean time I've always said her work IS mission because she is really lovely at it, smiling and laughing and bubbling and loving all her patients day in and day out, no matter what their infirmities. She is the hands and face and loving voice of God to them, I think.<BR/><BR/>Her younger brother Matt tells a story of going to visit her at work years ago and getting all freaked out by the people drooling and the smell of urine and all the normal nursing home stuff and here came Les happily singing down the hall. For some reason the things that get to you, and him (and ME!) about nursing homes just don't bother her at all. Nurses are WAY matter of fact about bodily functions. Matt said he frankly couldn't handle it, and was amazed at how good she was at not just "dealing with it", but really not even noticing, just happily caring for people. This man is a captain in the MO National Guard and a veteran of the first Gulf war plus Afghanistan!<BR/><BR/>Sadly, what will drive her out is all the bureaucracy, cost cutting and profit scraping and BS that pervades that whole industry. Too bad. She's good at what she does, and not many people are willing to do it, nor do it well.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, long story to say, "I understand".Jim Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02634460171128306060noreply@blogger.com