Some of you who are following me, know this about my career. But for those of you who don't personally know me, I'm a Respiratory Therapist. Every day at work, I work along side many fabulous individuals who have the heart, compassion, and amazing personality it takes to work with the sick. Many of these co-workers of mine are the kindhearted and loving nurses that many people come in contact with in a health care setting...whether you are the patient or the support system for family or friends. I have an insane amount of respect for the nurses I get to work with, and I look forward to the work days I get to share with these incredible women and men. They make what we do on a day to day basis manageable; anything from a shoulder to share our grief with to the laughter we share to bring joy to what is a stressful and at times, incredibly sad job.
This past week's Random Act of Kindness fell on our National Nurse's Week. And what better way to show our love then to include these amazing friends of mine in our project. It wasn't much, but we bought some individual hand sanitizer and peeled off the label to affix it with our own handmade one that said "We love our nurses"! We then attached a little tag that said "Happy Nurses Week". I packed them in Bug's back pack and we went on a little biking excursion to "visit my working friends" (that's what Bug says when he knows I'm on my way to work). We went into our ICU and proceeded to hand out our little gifts to the nurses working that day. Sorry to the nurses we never gave any to. Bug is a very inquisitive almost 5 year old, so I didn't want to spend too much time around the patients as he kept asking why they were sick. So to those who never got our little gift, and to the ones who did: thank you from the bottom of our hearts for doing a job I couldn't do.
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On our outing today, we also brought back our Random Act of Giggles and You Are Beautiful projects. We left jokes on six random cars, and then when we went to pick up some groceries after our nurses delivery, Bug picked out another special lady. He really does enjoy being "the delivery man", and thank you to the wonderful lady he chose today who engaged my child in a 10 minute conversation. You have no idea how much enjoyment he gets out of socializing!
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