[xyzcf]

I forgot to add something my therapist told me yesterday...she said that the type of therapy/work I was engaged in takes about 1 1/2 to 2 years to integrate. In this type of therapy, you are reorganizing your nervous system, creating new pathways which the body can and will do but it takes TIME (lol, there is that word again).

HeartTattoo, as you know I have and remain working as a volunteer with CASA for children who are in need of an advocate in their lives...I've been doing that for 7 years now and it is really important work to me.

This job, now you will giggle as I do each time I tell someone about it, is at an Adult Day Care center for people mainly with dementia and Alzheimer's...a totally different field for me for my career was mainly in pediatrics and public health....it is 5 minutes from my home and only 2 hours per week which I can fit in to my own schedule...they asked me why I wanted the job, since it was only 2 hours per week and I said that is exactly why!

There may be another contract through the Senior Hub that they are negotiating and which they would like me to participate in, but again, that will just be a couple of hours per month.

The staff are CNA's and nursing assistants so the state law requires, for accreditation, that they have a RN a minimum of 2 hours per week. My role is to provide inservice education to the staff (which fits in perfectly with my previous health promotion background) as well as check physician orders and care plans. Staff as well consult with me concerning participants if they have any concerns.

I am learning a great deal and am appreciated by the staff which makes me feel really good about who xyzcf is..and nursing has always been a huge part of who I am...I left each of my jobs 7 times to move for him...that last job, I really loved and it was not my choice to move away again, that was decided for me...so this "job" gave me back something that was taken away from me...perhaps that is why I am liking it so very much.

Yes nursing can be physically and emotionally challenging. My therapist told me yesterday that she had given a professional development class the previous night for 50 Critical Care nurses, for their own self care....

Good luck in finding work that appeals to you. I agree, bedside nursing is quite exhausting. Have you considered any of the telephone roles that are cropping up for nurses to consult with patients?

[Anjae]

I forgot to add something my therapist told me yesterday...she said that the type of therapy/work I was engaged in takes about 1 1/2 to 2 years to integrate. In this type of therapy, you are reorganizing your nervous system, creating new pathways which the body can and will do but it takes TIME ...

This makes perfect sense from a mind/body/neurological point of view.

I think it is great that you are working as a nurse on an Adult Day Care center for people mainly with dementia and Alzheimer's. It is not easy.

Nursing is never easy. As someone without any health training who spend 8 years looking after an elderly person until death, doing many things nurses do, I know how hard it is.

[Believer]

xyzcf,

Thank you for sharing your update. Your mind/ body therapy sounds really beneficial. I can appreciate the pain of the sudden and without warning divorce aspect causing some regression. I too felt the same and went back for further therapy.

I thinks it terrific that you are working in such a meaningful and valued way for you.  I’m sure feeling so appreciated adds that “extra gift” to your work.

Hugs,
 Believer

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